Israeli Occupation Violations Continues On Palestine Territories

Israeli Occupation Violations Continues On Palestine Territories

Hiyam Noir , PalestineFreeVoice

 

July 7, 2007

Gaza Strip: Some 24 hours after that the Israeli state terrorists left the Gaza City and the Al Bureij and Al Buston camps, in the middle of Gaza Strip – the towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, in the northern parts, was invaded by Israeli tanks this morning – and Israeli snipers ( death squads thugs ) occupy the rooftops of buildings in the town of Biet Hanoun, targeting and shooting at local citizens.The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)) clashed with the invading Israeli state terrorists and exchanged fire with them. Earlier on Friday evening, the Al Quds Brigade (Islamic Jihad) launched one projectile at Sderot in the northwestern parts of the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian Red Crescent Ambulance Destroyed By Israeli State Terrorists
Ambulance Crew Physically & Verbally Abused Handcuffed and Blindfolded
Photo Fady Adwan PalestineFreeVoice Al Bureij Camp Gaza Strip July 6 2007

Gaza Strip:Early Thursday morning a PRCS ( Palestine Red Crescent Society) ambulance on route to transport a wounded Palestinian from Al Burej area to hospital for care ,was subjected to direct Israeli army gunfire, causing a big damage to its front part. Israeli terrorist thugs stopped the ambulance and demanded the ambulance crew to open the doors and step out.Without any provocation, suddenly a sound bomb was thrown at the crew – then the ambulance emergency medical technician (EMT) and the ambulance driver, was forced to take of their clothes, then they were hand cuffed, eyes blindfolded and then taken to one of the buildings that earlier was occupied now converted to a military observation post.

The EMT and the driver were physically and verbally abused by Israeli thugs, before they were released after four hours.They were forced to leave the occupied building, without their upper part clothes on. The PRCS ambulance crew was transported to hospital by another Palestinian ambulance crew, which arrived to the camp. The Israeli thugs ,”soldiers” refused to return the ambulance to the PRCS crew, and gave later orders to destroy the emergency vehicle,by its tanks and bulldozers. The ambulance and its equipments received completely damage and can not be repaired.

West Bank:On Friday Israeli death squads arrested five Hamas members in the town of Tubas in the northern West Bank.The Israelis invaded in several military vehicles the Tubas city and stormed several buildings before they abducted members of Hamas movement. – Later on the Hamas Movement members where taken to an undisclosed locations.Faze’a Sawafta, one of the prominent Hamas leaders in the area were among those abducted – two brothers, of Faze’ a, Ala’a and Arafat,the cousin Mohammad Sawafta and Ala’a Maslamani was also abducted.

West Bank:On Friday Israeli death Squads abducted the prominent Fateh leader, Ayman Muslih Ad Dik, in the northern West Bank. ten other Palestinians were abducted in the West Bank,also on Friday. Ad Dik’s deputy, Abu Mahmoud, said in a statement that Ad Dik was abducted, after the Israelis besieged a house near Qalqilia. Ad Dik is the leader of the Yasser Arafat group, part of Fatah’s Al Aqsa Brigades.Abu Mahmoud, added “what is going on is a bloody war against us.”Abu Mahmoud vowed to continue resistance against the Israeli’s – “there will be no limits in hitting Israel.”

West Bank: The Israelis bulldozers closed on Saturday, the roads leading to agricultural lands near the town of Deir Al Ghosoun, in the northern parts of Tulkarm. Bulldozers have created large earth mounds, preventing Palestinian citizens from cultivating their lands.The municipal council of Deir Al Ghosoun, Abdulkarim Ghanim said that – “these latest actions by the Israeli occupation forces is a provocation to our village” – the aim to create earth mounds is “to strengthen the siege against our town – to seize more of our Palestinian lands.”

West Bank:For the fifth consecutive day,on Saturday, Israeli state terrorists prevented Palestinian citizens, under the age of 35, from leaving the northern city of Tulkarm.Israeli thugs “soldiers” had erected barriers, especially around roadblocks in the neighbouring villages of Jbara and Annab.The Israeli at the two checkpoints are humiliating the citizens in an intent to delay many, also old or sick people in need to exit for medical treatment.In Nablus at Beit Iba roadblock the Israelis prevented Palestinians to enter if they come from Jenin or Tulkarm. Hundreds of citizens are reported standing in rows. at the barriers for admittance, even after being checked thoroughly.

West Bank:Israeli soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in the Nablus area stopped an ambulance from rescue a man, Zaid Said Sayeh, 25 – which almost drowned in a swimming pool in the Badhan area. During more than 20 minutes, the ambulance driver was attacked and humiliated by the Israelis at the checkpoint, before he was allowed to enter Badhan to rescue the man.On the way back the Israelis showed ignorance and neglect, and delayed the ambulance in which the ambulance driver, Adnan Ghaneimih was traveling, he was stopped again, despite the knowledge that he was transporting a man in critical condition.The Israelis prohibited the ambulance’s passage. The Israelis forced the driver to wait, by doing so delaying medical treatment.The delays were too much for Said,who died shortly after arriving at the hospital.

source: http://palestinefreevoice.blogspot.com/2007/07/israeli-occupation-violations-continues.html

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 7 July 2007

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 7 July 2007

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

Saturday, 7 July 2007

· Two US troops drown in al-Hadithah lake when their boat capsizes.

· Resistance fighters batter US base in Rawah with rockets, mortar shells Saturday evening.

· US admits nine more Americans killed in Iraq Friday.

· US troops gun down woman crossing a street in Baghdad’s al-A‘zamiyah district Friday evening.

· Truck bomber kills over 100 in attack on Shi‘i Turkoman town Saturday morning.

· Britain reports death of Fijian soldier in al-Basrah Saturday.

· London announces death of two British troops in al-Basrah.

Al-Anbar Province.

Al-Hadithah.

Two US troops drown in al-Hadithah lake when their boat capsizes.

In a dispatch posted at 12:16am Baghdad time after midnight Sunday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that two American troops drowned in al-Hadithah lake on the Euphrates River, about 270km northwest of Baghdad.

The AMSI reported sources in the puppet security forces in al-Hadithah as saying on Saturday evening that the two US soldiers were trying to cross from the shore of the lake to an island called Huwayjat an-Nahr in the middle of the lake when their boat capsized, plunging them into the water. The accident occurred near Barwanah, a suburb of al-Hadithah.

After the loss of the men US helicopters were seen hovering above the scene of the accident and many American military patrol boats converged on the area to recover the bodies of the two men.

AMSI noted that the American forces carry out raids on islands in the lake from time to time, trying to catch Resistance fighters who try to cross the river without permits as required by the US military administration. The Americans also carry out raids on the islands to capture people fishing in the lake – something the US has also prohibited except to people issued fishing licenses by the American occupation authorities.

 

Rawah.

Resistance fighters batter US base in Rawah with rockets, mortar shells Saturday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 12:16am Baghdad time after midnight Sunday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the Iraqi Resistance blasted the US military base in Rawah, 315km northwest of Baghdad with a fierce barrage of mortar shells and Katyusha rockets on Saturday evening.

The AMSI reported sources in the puppet security forces in Rawah as saying that the powerful explosions of the shells and rockets could be heard clearly in the city despite the fact that the American base is no less than 10km out of town. Plumes of smoke could be seen rising over the American base after the attack.

 

Baghdad.

Puppet “Interior Ministry” troops abduct two Palestinians from Palestinian residential complex in al-Baladiyat Saturday morning; Saturday afternoon a mortar shell blasts into the same complex.

In a dispatch posted at 10:40pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a mortar shell blasted into a Palestinian housing complex in the al-Baladiyat neighborhood of eastern Baghdad on Saturday afternoon, damaging buildings but inflicting no casualties.

Earlier in the day, puppet “Order Protection Police” had arrested two Palestinian residents in the complex, however.

AMSI reported that puppet “Order Protection Police” under the puppet “Interior Ministry” arrested Faris Muhammad al-Battah and Bashshar ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Hardan in the course of raids the puppet police were carrying out in the al-Baladiyat neighborhood Saturday morning. The puppet police also stole a car from the neighborhood and raided and searched apartments of individuals who had been released from prison as well as the apartments of families of people still being held in US and puppet regime prisons.

Later, at 6pm local time Saturday afternoon, a mortar round blasted into the complex, damaging a residential building.

The Palestinian complex has repeatedly been the target of bombardments, raids, kidnappings and “arrests” by puppet regime forces, in particular the troops of the puppet “Interior Ministry” – most of whom are concurrently members of Shi ‘ sectarian militias, and by the militias themselves. Dozens of Palestinians living in the complex have been abducted, tortured, murdered or arrested. The guard at the al-Quds Mosque, Jamal ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Hardan was killed in the course of a sectarian attack on the al-Baladiyat complex on 14 March this year.

 

Resistance car bomber blasts puppet army checkpoint in Baghdad midday Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 9:24pm Baghdad time Saturday evening, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance car bomber blasted into a checkpoint manned by puppet regime forces on ar-Rabi‘i Street in Baghdad at noon Saturday.

The AMSI reported a puppet regime spokesman as claiming that the car bomb killed five puppet government soldiers and one other person in addition to wounding 18 puppet troops and six other people. Immediately after the attack the source declared, puppet police surrounded the area and prevented anyone from approaching as the casualties were evacuated to hospitals.

 

US admits nine more Americans killed in Iraq Friday.

In a dispatch posted at 7:56pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that in various statements during the day the US had admitted the death of a total of nine more American troops in Baghdad and its environs.

After earlier reports (see below) announcing the deaths of seven American troops, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the US had issued another communiqué later in the day to report that another two more US soldiers had been killed when a bomb went off by a US patrol carrying out raids in southern Baghdad.

Earlier, in a dispatch posted at 6:27pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the US military had admitted that seven more of its military personnel had been killed in incidents in various parts of Iraq, most of them in the vicinity of Baghdad.

The AMSI reported the US communiqué as saying that a bomb exploded by an American patrol in eastern Baghdad on Friday, killing four US troops.

Another bomb exploded by a US patrol in southeastern Baghdad, killing one American soldier and an Iraqi translator on Friday according to the US announcement. Three other US troops were wounded in that bombing.

Two more American troops were killed when a homemade bomb exploded near their patrol in eastern Baghdad on Friday, the American statement announced.

Also on Friday another American soldier was killed in an incident that the American communiqué claimed was unrelated to combat operations.

In addition to the reports of casualties on Friday and Saturday, the US has admitted that on Thursday two US Marines and four other American troops were killed in various incidents in Iraq.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported at 10am Makkah time Saturday morning that an American communiqué had indicated that the two Marines had also been killed somewhere in al-Anbar Province on Thursday.

 

US troops gun down woman crossing a street in Baghdad’s al-A‘zamiyah district Friday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 10:15am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that US occupation forces killed a woman in the walled-off district of al-A‘zamiyah in Baghdad on Friday evening.

The AMSI reported eyewitnesses as saying that the woman was a resident of al-Akhtal Street and that she had asked the Americans permission to cross the road. The US soldiers gave their consent but then opened fire on her when she set off, killing her on the spot.

Mysterious mortar attack kills family of seven Friday.

In a dispatch posted at 10:15am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a mortar shell landed in the Baghdad district of al-Fadl on Friday, killing a family of seven as they slept on the rooftop of their house.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet “Interior Ministry” as saying that two neighbors of the family were wounded in the same attack.

Iraqis have reverted to the ancient custom of spending hot summer nights sleeping on their roofs since the US occupation has resulted in power outages making it impossible to run air conditioners.

 

Salah ad-Din Province.

Ad-Dulu‘iyah.

Resistance bomb kills puppet army major in ad-Dulu‘iyah Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 2:56pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by the passing motorcade of puppet Major ‘Amir Nayif, the commander of the ad-Dulu‘iyah puppet guard force of the puppet Iraqi army. The attack took place in the town of ad-Dulu‘iyah, 90km north of Baghdad Saturday.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the bomb, which had been planted by the side of the road near the ad-Dulu‘iyah fuel station to the north of the city, killed Major Nayif and two of his bodyguards and destroyed the vehicle in which they were riding. Five civilians were also wounded and taken to the city hospital for treatment.

 

Yathrib.

In a dispatch posted at 1:04pm Baghdad time midday Saturday, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that US troops shot and killed two of their Irqi puppet police allies and wounded two more of them in the Yathrib area, 70km north of Baghdad Saturday morning.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet security services as saying that the Americans told the puppet police afterwards that the incident took place by mistake at a checkpoint manned by puppet police in Yathrib.

 

Amirli.

Truck bomber kills over 100 in attack on Shi‘i Turkoman town Saturday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 9:55am Makkah time Saturday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that on Saturday morning a man drove an explosives-packed truck into a popular market in the predominantly Turkoman town of Amirli, 125km north of Baghdad, in Salah ad-Din Province, on the way from Tikrit to Kirkuk.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported Lieutenant Colonel Husayn ‘Ali Rashid, the Deputy Director of the puppet police in the city of Tuz Khurmatu as saying that a bomber driving an explosives-laden truck blew himself up in the market in the town of Amirli.

Captain Nuzad ‘Abdallah reported that the explosion took place Saturday morning and resulted in the collapse of a large number of houses adjoining the market. The blast also caused material damage to shops and stores, ‘Abdallah said, adding that there were still bodies under the rubble.

In a dispatch posted at 6:46pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that 105 people were killed and 250 wounded in the explosion according to hospital sources. Lieutenant Colonel Saman Hamid, the deputy director of the Joint Coordination Office in the Tuz Khurmatu puppet police added that there wree five people missing as a result of the attack, which he said was carried out by an explosives-laden brick truck.

Mafkarat al-Islam quoted Muhammad Rashid, the puppet governor of Tuz Khurmatu as saying that he had received security reports confirming the deaths of 115 people in addition to five people who were missing and body parts of about five individuals. Rashid added that 40 houses, 20 shops, and 10 cars had been completely destroyed in the explosion.

He said that victims had been taken to hospitals in Tuz Khurmatu, Kirkuk, Azadi, and Kafri, due to the difficulty of transporting them to Tikrit, the road to which was not entirely under the control of the puppet regime. Rashid said that the reason that initial reports had listed only 22 dead while later reports were much higher was the fact that many people had been crushed when their houses collapsed, and some of them also caught fire.

An administrative source in Tuz Khurmatu Hospital also reported that the relatives of some of the dead buried their loved ones without informing the puppet police or local puppet administration. Others sent the bodies of their relatives to an-Najaf, as the majority of the residents of the town belonged to the al-Bayyat Turkoman tribe, a tribe that is Shi‘i.

Most of the Iraqi Turkoman population in northern Iraq is Sunni and is frequently aligned with Sunni Arab Iraqis in opposition to efforts by pro-American Kurdish separatists to expand the Kurdish-run enclave.

For its part, in a dispatch posted at 2:52pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported a hospital source as saying that the casualty toll in the Amirli blast then stood at 100 people killed and another 120 wounded.

The AMSI reported a puppet police source as saying earlier in the day that the vehicle bomber was targeting the headquarters of what he called the “Kurdistani Communist Party” in the ash-Shuhada’ neighborhood of the town. AMSI indicated that Amirli is located between Sulayman Bak and Tuz Khurmatu, 90km east of Tikrit.

 

Samarra’.

Resistance bomb kills four puppet “Shock Troops” in Samarra’ midday Friday.

In a dispatch posted at 9:47am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a patrol of puppet “Iraqi Interior Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir)” in Samarra’, 120km north of Baghdad at noon on Friday.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet security forces in Samarra’ as saying that a bomb that had been planted in the al-Bu Rahman area of the city went off by a passing “Shock Troop” patrol, completely destroying one patrol vehicle, killing four of the “Shock Troops,” and wounding three civilians. Buildings in the area were also damaged in the blast.

 

Diyala Province.

Al-Miqdadiyah.

Puppet police patrol attacked in al-Miqdadiyah.

In a dispatch posted at 2:56pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a puppet police patrol on the main road in eastern al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad on Saturday morning.

The AMSI reported a source in the city’s puppet police as saying tat the attack took place near the Sarihah area and left three patrolmen wounded. They were taken to al-Miqdadiyah Hospital for treatment.

 

Al-Jalawla’.

Car bomber blasts market in village near al-Jalawla’.

In a dispatch posted at 2:52pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a car bomb had been driven into a crowd of civilians near the village of Qarah Qush in the vicinity of al-Jalawla’, 120km northeast of Baghdad.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet security forces in al-Jalawla’ as saying that the target of the attack was a group of men returning from a funeral near the village. The source said that the blast resulted in the death of 22 people and the wounding of 17 more. Afterwards, roads to the area were closed by the puppet police.

Earlier in the day, in a dispatch posted at 9:55am Makkah time Saturday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported an official in the puppet police in Khanaqin as saying that a car bomber had detonated his payload inside the market in the village of Ahmad Maris, south of Jalawla’. In addition to killing 17 people and wounding four more by preliminary count, the source said that the blast inflicted material damage on shops and stores.

 

Bomb wounds puppet army troops near Khanaqin Friday.

In a dispatch posted at 9:47am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a bomb exploded by a puppet Iraqi army patrol near Khanaqin on Friday.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet security forces as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of a road leading to Imam Ways exploded, destroying a military vehicle and wounding four puppet Iraqi army troops.

 

Babil Province.

Al-Mahmudiyah.

Twenty-five civilians kidnapped by Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen in al-Mahmudiyah.

In a bulletin posted at 12:19pm Baghdad time midday Saturday, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that Shi‘i sectarian gunmen had set up a checkpoint in the name of the puppet security forces and kidnapped 25 local residents in al-Mahmudiyah, 25km south of Baghdad.

The AMSI reported that the sectarian gunmen claimed to be part of the puppet security forces and set up a checkpoint near the al-‘Askari neighborhood in al-Mahmudiyah. They abducted 25 people at the checkpoint and took them to an unknown destination in the al-‘Askari neighborhood.

AMSI reported that the al-Mahmudiyah area has been the scene of extensive Shi‘i sectarian “cleansing” of Sunnis, with many local people expelled from their homes and killed in an on-going campaign, which, AMSI noted, was being waged by the pro-Iranian Jaysh al-Mahdi sectarian militia with the support of US and puppet Iraqi regime forces.

 

On Thursday the bodies of a man and his two children were found murdered in the al-‘Askari neighborhood.

The drive to expel Sunnis from vast swathes of territory in Baghdad and in the central and southern parts of Iraq is intended to facilitate plans to partition Iraq that have been drawn up by Zionist and American strategists.

 

Al-Hillah.

Bomb targets puppet army patrol midday Friday.

In a dispatch posted at 9:47am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a puppet Iraq army column near the city of al-Hillah, about 100km south of Baghdad, at midday Friday.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet army as saying that a bomb went of by puppet troops on the road between al-Hillah and al-Mahawil. The explosion took place after the puppet soldiers had disarmed two other bombs planted on the same roadway. The source claimed that the blast caused no casualties but did damage a military vehicle.

 

At-Ta’mim Province.

Kirkuk.

Resistance bomb explodes by puppet police station in Kirkuk.

In a dispatch posted at 1:04pm Baghdad time midday Saturday, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a puppet police patrol in the al-Musalla neighborhood of Kirkuk, 255km north of Baghdad on Saturday morning.

A source in the puppet police in Kirkuk told the press that the blast wounded three patrolmen.

 

Al-Qadisiyah Province.

Ad-Diwaniyah.

US, armed groups exchange fire in ad-Diwaniyah.

In a dispatch posted at 12:49pm Baghdad time midday Saturday, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the US-occupied “Camp Echo” near ad-Diwaniyah, 180km south of Baghdad, came under mortar bombardment on Saturday morning.

The AMSI reported a puppet security source as saying that eight mortar shells blasted into the American camp at 5:30am local time Saturday morning. All the shells landed inside the US camp. The source had no information on the nature or extent of US casualties, however.

Meanwhile, eyewitnesses in the neighborhoods of al-Jumhuri, as-Sadr, and al-Wahdah reported that their areas came under violent American artillery barrage after the US Camp Echo was attacked. The American barrage lasted about an hour and inflicted material damage on a number of houses. The attack also panicked many women and children in the area, the witnesses reported.

Fighting also erupted at dawn in the city of ad-Diwaniyah as unknown armed men battled US and puppet army troops in the neighborhood of al-Jumhuri and in the Salim area.

A source told AMSI that the battle – which started about 3:15am Saturday and went on for about an hour, left five local people dead and seven more injured in varying degrees. The source said that light and heavy weapons were used in the engagement.

 

Muthanna Province.

As-Samawah.

Seven killed in turf war in as-Samawah.

In a dispatch posted at 9:47am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported hospital sources as saying that seven people had been killed and another 51 wounded in fighting between the Jaysh al-Mahdi and the puppet Iraqi army in as-Samawah, in southern Iraq on Friday.

With British forces engaged in a gradual withdrawal from southern Iraq, rival Shi‘i sectarian militias and factions – including the Jaysh al-Mahdi, the Badr Brigades, and others – many of them concurrently soldiers in the US-installed regime’s puppet army and security services – are engaged in turf wars in the area seeking to step into the shoes of the departing occupiers.

 

Al-Basrah Province.

Al-Basrah.

Britain reports death of Fijian soldier in al-Basrah Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 2:46pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a British spokesman had announced that an occupation soldier of Fijian nationality working with the British forces at the British base in the Presidential Palaces in al-Basrah had died while doing “non-combat tasks.”

The AMSI reported the British spokesman as saying that the British forces were investigating the case.

 

London announces death of two British troops in al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 2:52pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the British Ministry of Defence had announced that two of its soldiers had been killed in al-Basrah and another three of them wounded in various incidents.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported a homemade bomb had exploded by a British patrol that was driving through a neighborhood in northern al-Basrah shortly after midnight local time. That blast killed one British soldier.

The British statement said that the second British soldier was killed Friday afternoon in the British base in the al-Basrah citadel in “a non-combat incident.”

According to the statement two other British troops were wounded in a small arms attack, one of the men slightly and the other “extremely severely.” A third British soldier was wounded when a homemade bomb went off.

 

Bomb wounds British troops on patrol in al-Basrah Saturday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 2:46pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a bomb had exploded by a British patrol in the al-Ma‘qal area of al-Basrah on Saturday morning.

The AMSI reported a source in the al-Basrah Province puppet police as saying that the bomb had been planted by the side of the road and was intended for a patrol of British occupation troops.

The source said that the blast destroyed two armored vehicles in the patrol, injuring a number of British troops in varying degrees of intensity. Helicopters evacuated them to the field hospital at al-Basrah International Airport. The two wrecked vehicles were hauled away to another destination.

 

British troops reported wounded in attacks in al-Basrah, Friday-Saturday night.

In a dispatch posted at 11:55am Makkah time Saturday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the British army had admitted that a number of its troops had been wounded when they came under attack in al-Basrah during Friday-Saturday night.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported the British army as announcing that a detachment of British troops were carrying out searches during the night when they were attacked by fighters firing rocket-propelled grenades, grenades, and heavy weapons.

The news agency “Aswat al-‘Iraq,” as monitored by Mafkarat al-Islam, reported a British major as saying that British troops conducting searches in al-Basrah came under several attacks in which bombs, RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenades, and light weapons were used. The British spokesman said that fighter planes and helicopter gun ships were used to destroy the bombs that had been planted in their path. He added that a number of people were arrested in the course of the searches in the al-Junhuriyah district of al-Basrah.

There are still about 5,500 British troops in southern Iraq, following the withdrawal of 1,600 in recent months.

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Hillary’s Bizarre History of the Iraq War

Hillary’s Bizarre History of the Iraq War

Blame the Puppet

SAUL LANDAU, CounterPunch

 

July 7, 2007

Hillary Clinton blamed the Iraqi government for failure to make progress. “The American military has succeeded,” she declared to a stunned public. “They got rid of Saddam Hussein, they gave the Iraqis a chance for free and fair elections. It is the Iraqi government which has failed to make the tough decisions that are important for their own people,” she said, unable to finish her sentence because of a chorus of boos. (“Take Back America” conference, June 13, Washington, DC) The other leading candidates (Obama and Edwards) blamed Bush and stood strongly for rapid withdrawal of US troops

Hillary’s casting blame on the Iraqi government showed that she accepted Bush’s extreme twist on reality: that Iraq’s government possesses sovereignty (“supreme and unrestricted power”). In June, Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Baghdad and scolded Iraq’s government for not making more progress. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had done the same as did Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. They castigate the people they fashioned as US puppets. Imagine, a puppet master blaming its creation for disobedience, but refusing to cut the strings!

After Bush installed Iraq’s “Interim Government” in 2004, he arranged for elections. That begat media and political praise: “Bush has brought democracy to Iraq.” But laws of war dictate US, not Iraqi accountability. (Paragraph 366, U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956): Local Governments Under Duress and Puppet Governments)

“The restrictions placed upon the authority of a belligerent government cannot be avoided by a system of using a puppet government, central or local, to carry out acts which would be unlawful if performed directly by the occupant. Acts induced or compelled by the occupant are nonetheless its acts.”

Responsibility for Iraqi police and army members operating as death squads belongs to Washington, not Baghdad–and Hillary knows it.

The Bushies throw blame at their puppet and anyone else they can think of. But their lies now haunt them–phony evidence of weapons of mass destruction and links between Saddam and al-Qaeda, which somehow presumed a threat to US security. Bush lied about “improvement” in Iraq, from “Mission Accomplished” in May 2003 to “we’re making progress in securing parts of Baghdad” in 2007. Most Members of Congress voted for Bush’s authority to make war even though they had the opportunity to inspect the very flimsy evidence behind Bush’s bellicosity. Indeed, Hillary still defends her vote with language that reminds one of her husband’s linguistic twirls trying to explain how he “didn’t have sex with that woman.”

Hillary’s tortured logic has her supporting the troops, anxious to bring them home — but not all of them–and having all Democrats united against Bush. But Hillary has not said: “the war was illegal, immoral and cannot be excused. I was wrong I am ashamed and I want to repent.”

Instead, she blames the puppet for the US failure to resolve the Iraqi bloodshed. Bush’s government in Iraq has less autonomy than the old Soviet bloc states or the Banana Republics of Central America. The US military commands, trains and arms Iraq’s repressive forces and decides what missions they can undertake. Some sovereign!

For Hillary to accuse this hapless creation should raise concerns not only about her morality, but her intelligence. We always assumed she was bright, but did she think she could pawn off this shabby pretext on her own voters?

Or, possibly, Hillary believed the ever truthful Condoleezza Rice (then National Security Adviser) who assured the world that the Iraqi leaders chosen by the Bush Administration “are not America’s puppets. This is a terrific list and really good government, and we’re very pleased with the names that emerged.” (White House Press Briefing June 24, 2004)

Her aides might have slipped her a copy of the report of The UN Assistance Mission in Iraq, (covering the period from the 1 January to 31 March 2007), which stated that “34,452 civilians were killed and more than 36,000 wounded in 2006.” Some non-official monitoring groups considered this estimate on the very low side. Ivana Vuco, a U.N. human rights officer, said government officials had made it clear during discussions that they believed releasing high casualty numbers would make it harder for the government to quell unrest.” (LA Times April 26, 2007, Tina Susman)

Lancet, the British medical journal, counts as many as 655,000+ total deaths (civilian and non-civilian) due to the war. (2006 Lancet survey of mortality, based on surveys and sampling methods up to July 2006. The figure includes death from increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare.)

The UN report said some 3,000 people have been arrested in security sweeps since the Baghdad security plan began in mid-February. It criticized Iraq for failing to guarantee due process rights to the arrested. 37,000 people remain detained in Iraqi and US prisons, many without charge or trial. Some 200 academics were killed since 2003; 12,000 doctors have fled the country. 54% of Iraqis live on less than a US dollar a day and the unemployment rate is near 70%.

Iraq’s courts deliberate for a few minutes at trials involving life imprisonment or the death penalty. Iraq suffers from a “rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis,” the report concluded.

Who broke Iraq? Saddam Hussein or the US military praised by Hillary for toppling Saddam? The US military certainly has attained an impressive kill ratio. Aside from estimates of civilian casualties since March 2003, over 4 million have fled the country. Hillary’s verbal ass kissing of the military doesn’t correspond to its actions as dictated by Rumsfeld, Gates and the White House. After four years of war and occupation, the “Coalition forces” ­read US forces­ has not established peace, law, order, employment, basic services or any form of security. The UN Assistance Mission in Iraq summarized: “The challenge facing the Government of Iraq is not limited to addressing the level of violence in the country, but the longer term maintenance of stability and security in an environment characterized by impunity and a breakdown in law and order. In this context, the intimidation of a large segment of the Iraqi population, among them professional groups and law enforcement personnel, and political interference in the affairs of the judiciary, were rife and in need of urgent attention.” (BBC April 25, 2007)

The horror of the numbers becomes enhanced by the horror of non-learning. During the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early 1970s similar statements flowed from politicians’ mouths, placing blame on US puppet governments of South Vietnam for not making enough progress. When US forces finally withdrew in 1973, the South Vietnamese army outnumbered their northern adversary 3 to 2 and possessed immensely better equipment. The façade quickly fell apart as soon as battle erupted. The puppet army disintegrated.

In Iraq, the US military destroyed Iraq’s government and its national integrity. The US fabricated a government and now places responsibility on that miserable entity for failing to solve problems created by the United States.

The United States lost in Vietnam because it could not defeat a people fighting on their own soil, nor could the US sustain indefinitely ongoing casualties. When this concocted government failed in its elementary duties–as the Iraq government fails — whiners blamed its lack of will and institutionalized corruption. They then turned on the US media and accused it of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

In January 1968, official word in Washington had the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces defeated. In February, jpwever, this powerless enemy launched the Tet offensive. It took 500,000 US soldiers to stop the Viet Minh and Viet Cong from capturing the entire country. Indeed, after Tet, the United States suffered some 25,000 casualties.

In Vietnam, as in Iraq, the United States invaded another country and established its puppet, one incapable of capturing the allegiance of the majority. Why? Imperial control or exporting democracy? Eisenhower noted in his Memoirs. “I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indo-Chinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the fighting, possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader.”

In Iraq, US forces are far worse off than they were after they invaded Iraq. Yet Bush foresees US presence in Iraq for decades. Hillary agrees–leave some troops in bases already built across Iraq. She doesn’t apparently understand that their presence will incite jihadists everywhere. Hillary must had seen a declassified April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate called “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States.” It stated: “The Iraq conflict has become the ’cause celebre’ for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement.” “Go Hillary,” chants bin Laden.

The wily old fiend knows that the US elite want to control Iraq’s oil wealth and thus the military bases. He might indirectly help fund Hillary’s campaign.

Saul Landau writes a regular column for CounterPunch and progresoweekly.com. His new Counterpunch Press book is A BUSH AND BOTOX WORLD. His new film, WE DON’T PLAY GOLF HERE (on globalization in Mexico) is available
through roundworldproductions@gmail.com

source: http://www.counterpunch.org/

Lessons Bush Learned from Hitler

Lessons Bush Learned from Hitler

Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

 

July 7, 2007 Bush learned how to slaughter civilians. In Iraq, US troops, commanded by Herr Bush slaughter some 10,000 Iraqi civilians per month. Bush, in an absurd neocon spin, will most certainly claim that that is proof that his war crime is “winding down”. The US slaughter rate in Iraq had been as high as 30,000 Iraqis per month, 1,000 per day. My source is Michael Schwartz, writing for After Downing Street. Welcome to the Fourth Reich. From the Third Reich, Bush learned how to exploit “terrorism” to consolidate his dictatorship. Bush is on the Hitler end of the political spectrum opposing the very principles of our founding. Everything Bush knows he got by way of his Grandfather’s old trading partner –Adolf Hitler, whose notorious Lesson Number One he summed up himself in one sentence. Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.–Adolf Hitler Bush learned how to rule ruthlessly though he is hated by the people. Hitler never got more than 37 percent of the vote in several elections called over a short period of time ending with the act of terrorism that Hitler would exploit to consolidate his dictatorship. That act was the Reichstag fire, Hitler’s 911. It’s hard to imagine that anyone would dare go back to the well given the press “Reichstag” gets. Clearly, the tactic, having proved successful for Nazis would be tried again. No one every accused Bush of being imaginative. They would simply repeat a tired, old Nazi tactic and expect the people to go along. And, for the most part, the people did precisely that. On February 27, 1937, Hitler was having dinner with Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels when the phone rang to inform the future Fuhrer: “The Reichstag is on fire!” At the scene, Hitler and Goebbels, found Hermann Goering, later Hitler’s air minister, shouting, blaming communists for an act of terrorism. How Hitler became a dictator is reconted in many sources but William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is still among the very best. From Goering’s Reichstag President’s Palace an underground passage, built to carry the central heating system, ran to the Reichstag building. Through this tunnel Karl Ernst, a former hotel bellhop who had become the Berlin S.A. leader, led a small detachment of storm troopers on the night of February 27 to the Reichstag, where they quickly scattered gasoline and self-igniting chemicals and then made their way quickly back to the palace the way they had come. At the same time a half-witted Dutch Communist with a passion for arson, Marinus van der Lubbe, had made his way into the huge, darkened and to him unfamiliar building and set some small fires of his own. This feeble-minded pyromaniac was a godsend to the Nazis. He had been picked up by the S.A. a few days before after having been overheard in a bar boasting that he had attempted to set fire to several public buildings and that he was going to try the Reichstag next. The coincidence that the Nazis had found a demented Communist arsonist who was out to do exactly what they themselves had determined to do seems incredible but is nevertheless supported by the evidence. The idea for the fire almost certainly originated at the top with Goebbels and Goering. Hans Gisevius, an official in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior at the time, testified at Nuremberg that ‘it was Goebbels who first thought of setting the Reichstag on fre,’ and Rudolph Diels, the Gestapo chief, added in an affidavit that ‘Goering knew exactly how the fire was to be started’ and had ordered him ‘to prepare, prior to the fire, a list of people who were to be arrested immediately after it.’ General Franz Halder, Chief of the German General Staff during the early part of World War II, recalled at Nurembrg how on one occasion Goering had boasted of his deed. At a luncheon on the birthday of the Fuehrer in 1942 the conversation turned to the topic of the Reichstag building and its artistic value. I heard with my own ears when Goering interrupted the conversation and shouted: “The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!” With that he slapped his thigh with the flat of his hand. The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich (Touchstone Edition, 1990, p. 192-) Hitler ordered a round up of the usual suspects, in other words, the opposition, consisting largely of communists whom the Nazis could, with but a shred of credibility, blame for an act of bloody terrorism. Nazis knew what GOPPERS know now –that frightened and anxious people will willingly surrender the blessings of liberty. From Hitler’s experience, Bush learned how to use a “Patriot Act” to crack down on dissent. Hitler wasted no time. The very next day, he was in President Hindenburg’s office urging the aging statesman to issue a patriot act, a decree entitled, “For the Protection of the People and the State.” Justified as a “defensive measure against Communist acts of violence endangering the state,” the decree suspended the constitutional guarantees pertaining to civil liberties: Patriot Act vs, German Enabling Act: The Decrees of 1933 (a) The February 28 Decree. One of the most repressive acts of the new Nazi government, this one allowed for the suspension of civil liberties ….The president was persuaded that the state was in danger and, hence, that the emergency measures embodied in the decree were necessary. Even though under Art. 48 of the constitution, the decree would have been withdrawn once the so-called emergency had passed, any hope of this happening was prevented by the establishment of Hitler’s dictatorship following the Enabling Act (see below). It was in fact never withdrawn and remained until the end as an instrument of Nazi terror against ordinary citizens who ran foul of the regime. ARTICLE 1. In virtue of paragraph 2, article 48,* of the German Constitution, the following is decreed as a defensive measure against communist acts of violence , endangering the state: Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Thus, restrictions on personal liberty [114], on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press [118], on the right of assembly and the right of association [124], and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications [117], and warrants for house-searches [115], orders for confiscation as well as restrictions on property [153], are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed. *Article 48 of the German Constitution of August 11, 1919: If public safety and order in Germany are materially disturbed or endangered, the President may take the necessary measures to restore public safety and order, and, if necessary, to intervene with the help of the armed forces. To this end he may temporarily suspend, in whole or in part, the fundamental rights established in Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 ……….. Patriot Act: Section 218 which amends the “probable cause” requirement before conducting secret searches or surveillance to obtain evidence of a crime; Sections 215, 218, 358, and 508 which permit law enforcement authorities to have broad access to sensitive mental health, library, business, financial, and educational records despite the existence of previously adopted state and federal laws which were intended to strengthen the protection of these types of records; Sections 411 and 412 which give the Secretary of State broad powers to designate domestic groups as “terrorist organizations” and the Attorney General power to subject immigrants to indefinite detention or deportation even if no crime has been committed; and Sections 507 and 508 which impose a mandate on state and local public universities who must collect information on students that may be of interest to the Attorney General. Bush learned how to suspend civil liberties after a terrorist attack. It must be noted that Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio is the only candidate for President calling for a repeal of the Patriot Act. Does that tell you what it tells me? Does it mean the Democrats are not up to the challenge of restoring American democracy? The question now is one of some urgency: is it too late to save our nation? Is it too late to stop Bush? Are Americans screwed? Hitler planned to establish a “permanent” majority of elected Nazis in the Reichstag which would become a rubber stamp, passing whatever laws he desired while making it all perfectly legal. Buish’s lesson: make legal all the crimes you want and plan to commit. Hire Alberto Gonzales to be the “enabler”. Karl Rove, more recently, spoke of creating a “permanent Republican majority”. Two weeks after the Reichstag fire, Hitler requested the Reichstag to temporarily delegate its powers to him so that he could adequately deal with the crisis. Hitler denounced his opposition, shouting at them “Germany will be free, but not through you!” Hitler won the vote 441 to 84. It gave him a two-thirds majority needed to suspend the constitution. On March 23, 1933, the “Enabling Act”–a patriot act — made Hitler dictator of Germany. It is not recorded whether he said, as did Bush much later: this would be a whole lot easier if this was a dictatorship …just as long as I’m the dictator! Just as Hitler cut a deal with Thyssen, Krupp, I.G. Farben et al, the DUMB-umvirate of Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld carved up the map of the Middle East with big oil and Halliburton. Just as the Middle East is rich in oil, Poland was rich in coal from which synthetic fuels (to drive the Panzers) could be produced. Bush used Hitler’s play book. And, as it was then, it’s all about energy. The esteemed historian John Keegan has written that Hitler might have won WWII if he had kept Rommel supplied. Rather than invading Russia, Hitler could have ordered Rommel to seize the oil fields of the Middle East. It would have all been over. Save for the “insurgency” that would have opposed Rommel. Bush also learned from his grandfather that there is big money — a killing in fact –in the industrial murder business. Our own Treasury Department is the source for the following information about how US corporations, primarily US Steel, for whom Prescott Bush was banker, helped Hitler arm and wage war on the world while carrying out mass murder throughout Europe. US steel produced the following percentages of war munitions for Hitler and his Nazi war lords: Pig iron 50.8%; Pipe & tubes 45.5%; Universal plate 41.4%; Galvanised sheet 38.5%; Heavy plate 36%; Explosives 35%; Wire 22.1%. George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy. – How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power This is the same firm for whom Prescott Bush acted as banker. In effect, then, Prescott was Hitler’s American banker. Bush also learned how to outsource murder and atrocity in ways that benefit his right wing supporters. It’s called “private enterprise” but in reality it’s a form of socialism, farming out work to partners, robber barons, death merchants and hired murderers like Blackwater, a gang of paid thugs whom National Public Radio charges has strong connections with America’s radical, religious, fascist right wing. NPR: The war in Iraq has been partly outsourced to private military contractors which are performing many of the services that used to be done by the military. My guest, Jeremy Scahill, has written a book about one of those companies, Blackwater, which he describes as “the world’s most mercenary army and the embodiment of the Bush administration policy of privatizing military functions.” The company, which was founded in 1996, made headlines in 2004 when four of its men were ambushed and set on fire by Sunni gunmen in Fallujah. The charred remains of two of the men were hung on a bridge for public display. The families of the four men are suing Blackwater for wrongful death, raising a lot of questions about accountability and oversight when private contractors play a major role in war. Jeremy Scahill is a Polk Award-winning journalist who is a frequent contributor to The Nation and a correspondent for the radio and TV show, “Democracy Now.” Jeremy Scahill — if you wanted to write about a private military contractor, why did you focus on Blackwater? –Blackwater: USA in Fallujah Bush is ideologically allied with Hegel, for whom the “state” is “God”. That notion opposes every “American” value, including that of truly religious folk who find the equation of “God” with the “state” a blasphemous notion. And so it is, not merely of religion but of reason. Bushism is opposite the American ideal espoused by real patriots like Thomas Jefferson whom Bush and Dick Cheney would have called derided as “pro-French”, “helping the terrorists” or other equally stupid nonsense. James Madison who wrote the first draft of our Constitution would have been demonized “quaint” by idiots like Gen. Hayden and Al Gonzales. Bush must surely hate our Declaration of Independence because, in it, Thomas Jefferson sides with the misnamed “insurgency” that is most certainly analogous to Iraqi civilians upon whom the US has waged not a war –but a crime punishable by death under our own federal statutes! It was William Pitt, Earl of Chatham in England who denounced the British position in our war of independence. His words ring so very true today, words that Bush must surely hate: If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never! never! never! –William Pitt the elder, 1st Earl of Chatham, Viscount Pitt of Burton-Pynsent , byname The Great Commoner, 1708-1778 Bush is blinded by raw, ruthless ambition. Like Dick Cheney and the robber barons of privilege, they are blind to obvious analogy. America is not fighting for freedom against terrorism in Iraq. Rather, the opposite. Bush embodies monolithic corporate totalitarianism, the theft of the natural resources of a sovereign nation that had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with 911. The record clearly proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bush’s quarrel with Saddam had to do with the fact that Saddam favored lower prices for oil while Bush, OPEC, and the Saudis in particular favored higher prices. Bush is not fighting for Americans in Iraq. He is fighting to further enrich corporate fascist powers who would enslave you! Bush has more in common with Hitler and Stalin than with Madison or Jefferson. Bush is anti-American. The American republic at the time Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence was the latest development in a liberal trend that had begun with the English Civil War. Certainly, Oliver Cromwell dismissed Parliament in a fit of pique; certainly he arrogated unto himself the powers of an absolute dictator but stopped short of taking the title. He was, he said, a Lord Protector. Charles I was most certainly England’s last absolute despot in the Hegelian sense of the word.

Additional resources:

• Holocaust Survivors Sue Bush Family over Nazi Link
• More Evidence of Bush Administration Treason: The Valerie Wilson Affair Revisited
• Bush – Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951″ – Federal Documents
• The 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism

Discoveries

Liberty Bound

The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror – Narrated by Ed Asner

The Death Squads – Iraqi Ethnic Cleansing

Fats Waller – Honeysuckle Rose

Gypsy Guitar Masters: Stochelo Rosenberg, Mozes Rosenberg, Romane, etc.u

source: http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2007/07/lessons-bush-learned-from-hitler.html

9/11 : George Bush was behind September 11 attacks, says politican

George Bush was behind September 11 attacks, says politican

A SENIOR French politician, now a minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government, suggested last year that US President George W. Bush might have been behind the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to a website.

The http://www.ReOpen911.info website, which promotes September 11 conspiracy theories, has posted a video clip of French Housing Minister Christine Boutin appearing to question that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda group orchestrated the attacks.

Ms Boutin’s office sought to play down the remarks.

Asked in an interview last November, before she became minister, whether she thought Mr Bush might be behind the attacks, Ms Boutin says: “I think it is possible. I think it is possible.”

Ms Boutin backs her assertion by pointing to the large number of people who visit websites that challenge the official line over the September 11 strikes against US cities.

“I know that the websites that speak of this problem are websites that have the highest number of visits … And I tell myself that this expression of the masses and of the people cannot be without any truth.”

Ms Boutin’s office sought to play down the remarks, saying that later in the same interview she says: “I’m not telling you that I adhere to that position.”

This comment does not appear on the video clip on ReOpen911.

Numerous other websites have also posted the clip in recent days and the story has started to seep into the mainstream media.

“Christine Boutin snared by her controversial suggestions about September 11,” Le Monde newspaper said in a headline.

Liberation newspaper quoted Ms Boutin’s spokesman Christian Dupont as saying that she had not wanted to appear pro or anti-Bush at a time when Mr Sarkozy was being branded a “US poodle” after meeting the President in Washington.

“And then she is not the foreign minister,” Mr Dupont added.

France appears to be particularly fertile ground for conspiracy theories.

In 2002, a book that claimed that no airliner hit the US Pentagon in the September 11 attacks topped the French bestseller lists.

However, the French are not alone in their scepticism.

According to a Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll carried out last July, more than one-third of Americans suspect US officials helped in the September 11 attacks or took no action to stop them so the US could later go to war.

The US State Department has rejected these accusations.

Almost 3000 people died when hijackers crashed planes into New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

source: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22036167-23109,00.html

 

Glasgow Terror Bomb : Fake Muslim Terrorist Plot

Reports claim terrorist suspects working for UK police

Saturday, July 07, 2007

It has been claimed in reports today that up to eight people with possible links to al-Qaida are working for UK police forces.

Today’s Daily Mail says MI5 has helped draw up a list of individuals, including officers and civilian staff.

The newspaper says that some may even have visited terror training camps in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

source: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/world/europe/article2742936.ece

Zionist Israel War Crime : Shot while filming a gunbattle

Shot while filming a gunbattle

(02:33) Rough Cut

This video contains graphic images. Viewer discretion advised.

Jul. 5 – A Palestinian camerman is hit by a volley of bullets while filming clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants in Gaza.

The cameraman, Imad Ghanem was filming for Hamas’s al-Aqsa television channel when he was fired upon.

In video filmed by a colleague he can be seen lying on the ground with his camera by his side.

Eyewitnesses said moments before he’d been with a group which included militant gunmen, though he appeared to be unarmed. Ghanem was later treated in hospital where both of his legs were amputated.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said journalists were at risk if they entered a combat zone but soldiers did not deliberately target them.

source: http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=59193

A Message From The “Iraq Resistance” : “We are simple people who chose principles over fear”

A Message From The “Iraq Resistance”

 

Islamic Jihad Army – A message in English

“We are simple people who chose principles over fear.”

Propaganda or disinformation? You decide.

Iraqi Resistance speech on videotape December 13 2004

Rush transcript-

Title:

Communiqué Number 6

The media platoon of the Islamic Jihad Army. On the 27^th of Shawal 1425h. 10 December 2004

People of the world! These words come to you from those who up to the day of the invasion were struggling to survive under the sanctions imposed by the criminal regimes of the U.S. and Britain .

We are simple people who chose principles over fear.

We have suffered crimes and sanctions, which we consider the true weapons of mass destruction.

Years and years of agony and despair, while the condemned UN traded with our oil revenues in the name of world stability and peace.

Over two million innocents died waiting for a light at the end of a tunnel that only ended with the occupation of our country and the theft of our resources.

After the crimes of the administrations of the U.S and Britain in Iraq , we have chosen our future. The future of every resistance struggle ever in the history of man.

It is our duty, as well as our right, to fight back the occupying forces, which their nations will be held morally and economically responsible; for what their elected governments have destroyed and stolen from our land.

We have not crossed the oceans and seas to occupy Britain or the U.S. nor are we responsible for 9/11. These are only a few of the lies that these criminals present to cover their true plans for the control of the energy resources of the world, in face of a growing China and a strong unified Europe . It is Ironic that the Iraqi’s are to bear the full face of this large and growing conflict on behalf of the rest of this sleeping world.

We thank all those, including those of Britain and the U.S. , who took to the streets in protest against this war and against Globalism. We also thank France , Germany and other states for their position, which least to say are considered wise and balanced, til now.

Today, we call on you again.

We do not require arms or fighters, for we have plenty.

We ask you to form a world wide front against war and sanctions. A front that is governed by the wise and knowing. A front that will bring reform and order. New institutions that would replace the now corrupt.

Stop using the U.S. dollar, use the Euro or a basket of currencies. Reduce or halt your consumption of British and U.S. products. Put an end to Zionism before it ends the world. Educate those in doubt of the true nature of this conflict and do not believe their media for their casualties are far higher than they admit.

We only wish we had more cameras to show the world their true defeat.

The enemy is on the run. They are in fear of a resistance movement they can not see nor predict.

We, now choose when, where, and how to strike. And as our ancestors drew the first sparks of civilization, we will redefine the word “conquest.“

Today we write a new chapter in the arts of urban warfare.

Know that by helping the Iraqi people you are helping yourselves, for tomorrow may bring the same destruction to you.

In helping the Iraqi people does not mean dealing for the Americans for a few contracts here and there. You must continue to isolate their strategy.

This conflict is no longer considered a localized war. Nor can the world remain hostage to the never-ending and regenerated fear that the American people suffer from in general.

We will pin them here in Iraq to drain their resources, manpower, and their will to fight. We will make them spend as much as they steal, if not more.

We will disrupt, then halt the flow of our stolen oil, thus, rendering their plans useless.

And the earlier a movement is born, the earlier their fall will be.

And to the American soldiers we say, you can also choose to fight tyranny with us. Lay down your weapons, and seek refuge in our mosques, churches and homes. We will protect you. And we will get you out of Iraq , as we have done with a few others before you.

Go back to your homes, families, and loved ones. This is not your war. Nor are you fighting for a true cause in Iraq .

And to George W. Bush, we say, “You have asked us to ‘Bring it on’, and so have we. Like never expected. Have you another challenge?”

source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7468.htm