Monthly Archives: March 2006

Visit BBC brief­ing on the doc­u­men­tary: Insur­gency (Sun 2 Apr, 9:00 pm — 10:00 pm GMT)

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US secret weapon

Or lack of Humvees??

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Two Statements from Amnesty International

We have to mes­sages from Amnesty Inter­na­tional, show us how human blood and rights became the most cheap­est item in Iraq. The first is about peo­ple dis­ap­pear­ing and later their bod­ies found in the garbage. One of the 15 men arrested … Con­tinue read­ing

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Who is stealing Iraq’s money?

Sad to see our peo­ple are dying and suf­fer­ing, until today aver­age Iraqis don’t have a nor­mal access to water and elec­tric­ity while B&C gang (that’s for Bush & Cheney) are mak­ing Mil­lions from Iraq. Still remem­ber this entry? We played foot­ball … Con­tinue read­ing

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He who has seen everything

Archae­ol­o­gists in Iraq believe they may have found the lost tomb of King Gil­gamesh — the sub­ject of the old­est “book” in his­tory. The Epic Of Gil­gamesh — writ­ten by a Mid­dle East­ern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of … Con­tinue read­ing

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What Americans don’t hear about Iraq?

This is one brave Amer­i­can reporter, you don’t usu­ally see on US media. What else you don’t nor­mally hear about Iraq. Poverty chronic in Iraq More than 20% of Iraqis live in abject poverty despite the boost in government’s social secu­rity pro­gram, a … Con­tinue read­ing

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A Déjà vu from the past

They already lost the sup­port of the Sun­nis and grad­u­ally los­ing the sup­port of the Shi­ites. The only peo­ple who sup­port them are a hand­ful of Iraqi-vultures inside the green zone. A Déjà vu or what?, was it the same recipe … Con­tinue read­ing

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It walks like a duck…It talks like a duck

walks

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The future of the Middle-East after oil

Image: Saudi oil pro­duc­tion untill 2055 The graphic above (taken from Wood­Macken­zie) shows the fol­low­ings: 1– In this year and maybe the next year, oil pro­duc­tion reaches it peak and that was con­firmed years ago, this arti­cle pub­lished in 2004 … Con­tinue read­ing

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Imagine this

I think this video goes very good with the arti­cle: Hired guns unac­count­able About 6,000 non-Iraqi secu­rity con­trac­tors are oper­at­ing in Iraq. Dur­ing nine months in 2004-05, con­trac­tors reported fir­ing into 61 civil­ian vehi­cles; no one was ever pros­e­cuted. Secu­rity … Con­tinue read­ing

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