Monthly Archives: September 2006

Battle in Tikrit

Islam­memo reported that a fierce bat­tle is going on right now between the Iraqi resis­tance and the US occu­pa­tion forces around the US CIA head­quar­ter. The bat­tle pre­ceded by the fall of mor­tar shells and Katyusha rock­ets at the head­quar­ters, … Con­tinue read­ing

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British Document: We have to secure our Oil in Iraq

A British doc­u­ment, dat­ing from the 40’s, released yes­ter­day by the national archives, details of dis­cus­sion between Labor Prime Min­is­ter Clement Attlee and his For­eign Min­is­ter Ernst Bevin in recog­ni­tion of the British b ‘Israel’. The Attlee, who presided over … Con­tinue read­ing

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Ba’ath Party issued a statement warning of any negotiation with the occupation

Al-Hayat pub­lished today a new state­ment by Iraqi Ba’ath Party: The recent period wit­nessed a ten­den­tious sus­pi­cious cam­paign inside and out­side Iraq by dis­trib­ut­ing state­ments on behalf of the resis­tance, the [Ba’ath] party or on behalf of orga­ni­za­tions claim to … Con­tinue read­ing

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Who Runs Iraq?

Reports about the role of Nuri al-Maliki’s press advi­sor Majid Yassin to con­vince him to take the deci­sion to close down Alarabyia satel­lite office in Bagh­dad for one month. Observers ques­tions on the nature of the func­tions car­ried out by Maliki’s … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saddam’s Defense Team Statement

I was about to trans­late Saddam’s defense team last state­ment, but “ Saddam’s trial wouldn’t pass for jus­tice in a dic­ta­tor­ship “You are not a dic­ta­tor. You were never a dic­ta­tor. The peo­ple around a per­son make him a dic­ta­tor. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Evidence of Iran involvement in creating chaos in Iraq

They found a com­plete mod­ern com­mu­ni­ca­tions sys­tem man­u­fac­tur­ing in the Min­istry of Defense of Iran believed to be used as a direct con­tact with the Ira­ni­ans. “Mahdi Army” mem­bers were launch­ing mor­tars on the city before they found them­selves besieged … Con­tinue read­ing

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Deal with Saddam means China could get first foreign contract to develop Iraq oil field

Iraq could hand China the first for­eign con­tract to develop its vast oil resources if Bei­jing agrees to put into effect a deal orig­i­nally signed with Sad­dam Hus­sein, Iraq’s Oil Min­istry said yes­ter­day. While U.S. oil majors, excluded from Iraq … Con­tinue read­ing

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Arabs secret plan of intelligence coordination against Iran regional domination

This is the trans­la­tion of “Elaph“‘s report: Arabs secret plan of intel­li­gence coor­di­na­tion against Iran region dom­i­na­tion. “Elaph” revealed from reli­able sources, in the Gulf-States, Jor­dan and Morocco, that a com­pre­hen­sive Arab intel­li­gence strat­egy is under­way between many Arab states. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Tracking the CIA Torture Flights

One of the frus­trat­ing things is that Europe plays a ter­tiary role in this. Poland and Roma­nia had secret pris­ons, but we are the peo­ple who run them. The Amer­i­can pop­u­lace doesn’t seem con­cerned. The Euro­peans are far more upset … Con­tinue read­ing

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Most Iraqis want U.S. troops to leave immediately

This poll released today by PIPA (Pro­gram on Inter­na­tional Pol­icy Atti­tudes at the Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land). The most impor­tant thing in this poll shows are the fol­low­ing points: Tal­a­bani with his last state­ment doesn’t rep­re­sent Iraqis wishes, he speak­ing for … Con­tinue read­ing

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