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ICH: Poll Shows Iraqis Back Attacks on UK, US Forces, and More News

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From: Information Clearing House
Date: October 23,2005

"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return." : Socrates 469 - 399 BC

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Crime Against Peace: A basic provision of the Charter is that to plan, prepare, initiate or wage a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements, and assurances, or to conspire or participate in a common plan to do so is a crime: Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson
Link Here

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There are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice and truth can regain their authority over the public mind: James Madison. Federalist No. 63.

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"I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.": Simon Hoggart

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"Going to church no more makes you a Christian than sleeping in your garage makes you a car.": Garrison Keiler

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Charge Him or Release Him

"Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." : Henry David Thoreau

Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 3 Years and 168 Days

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Poll shows Iraqis back attacks on UK, US forces :

Eighty-two percent of those polled said they were "strongly opposed" to the presence of the troops.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10720.htm


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U.S. Military Claims To Have Killed 20 "Insurgents" Near Syrian Border:

The U.S. military said soldiers and warplanes killed 20 insurgents and destroyed five "safe houses" in Iraq.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/5150539/detail.html

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Ten Iraqis, including seven members of Iraqi security forces killed:

Ten Iraqis, including seven members of Iraqi security forces, were killed in various insurgent attacks in the country, security sources said. An Iraqi civilian was killed and eleven others wounded in ...Kirkuk
http://tinyurl.com/8jrnk

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Iraqi policeman, kids among latest victims:

A roadside bomb struck a car being driven by a police colonel in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing him and his two sons as well as two young girls nearby,
http://tinyurl.com/e46nz

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Four U.S. Contractors Killed in Iraq :

An angry mob of insurgents attacked a convoy of American contractors last month when they got lost in a town north of Baghdad, killing four and wounding two, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
http://tinyurl.com/7ho89

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Iraqi bomb builders learn fast, exact heavy toll:

More than two years after U.S. leaders dismissed insurgents as "dead-enders," their attacks are more lethal than ever -- and the American military death toll since the March 2003 invasion is approaching 2,000.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21647723.htm

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Grieving Iraq family sees no end to “rivers of blood”:

Mentally ill since childhood, he used to wander the streets of Baghdad alone. One day he chanced on some American soldiers who shot him dead after he took fright at a bullet fired over his head.
http://tinyurl.com/86kdz

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Poll shows Iraqis back attacks on UK, US forces :

Eighty-two percent of those polled said they were "strongly opposed" to the presence of the troops.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10720.htm

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Secret MoD poll: Iraqis support attacks on British troops:

65 per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks and fewer than one per cent think Allied military involvement is helping to improve security in their country.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10721.htm

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Officials: al-Zarqawi has expanded terror network to 40 nations:

U.S. intelligence officials say Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has expanded his terrorism campaign in Iraq to extremists in two dozen terror groups scattered across almost 40 countries, creating a network that rivals Osama bin Laden’s.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10722.htm

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US diplomat points to neocon ideology behind Iraq war:

A veteran US diplomat who served as a government adviser in Iraq says US policy in the country at the initial stage of the occupation was driven by neoconservative ideology rather than careful preparation and clear understanding of issues.
http://tinyurl.com/7lck5

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Judith Miller's Dirty Little Secret:

The neo-con cabal and the Israeli lobby are an instrumental force in framing the foreign policy of the United States towards the Middle East. Other political forces had considerable influence in charting the path to war – including the equally formidable Saudi lobby and the usual suspects in the military industrial complex.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10725.htm

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Leak case returns spotlight to rationale for Iraq war :

The legal and political stakes are of the highest order, but the investigation into the disclosure of a covert CIA officer's identity is also just one skirmish in the continuing battle over the Bush administration's justification for the war in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/ammgr

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Frank Rich : Karl and Scooter's Excellent Adventure :

We don't yet know whether Lewis (Scooter) Libby or Karl Rove has committed a crime, but the more we learn about their desperate efforts to take down a bit player like Joseph Wilson, the more we learn about the real secret they wanted to protect: the "why" of the war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10724.htm

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Prosecutor got OK to expand leak probe in '04:

In a letter dated Feb. 6, 2004, then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey said that he was clarifying, "at your (Fitzgerald's) request," the added authority to investigate and prosecute "crimes committed with intent to interfere with your investigation."
http://tinyurl.com/9xw3l

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Islamists and Mujahedeen Secure Victory in Afghan Vote :

More than a month after the elections, nearly all provisional results have finally been released for Afghanistan's Parliament and provincial assemblies, cementing a victory for Islamic conservatives and the jihad fighters involved in the wars of the past two decades.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/23/news/war.php#

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'We have proof UK bombed us' :

Iran said yesterday it has proof that Britain was involved in a double bomb attack last week that killed six people and injured more than 100 in Ahvaz.
http://tinyurl.com/7fu2b

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Blair’s New Tune on Iran:

British officials used to be certain that a military attack on Iran was out of the question. Now, it seems, they’re not so sure.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10728.htm

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Syria hits out against Hariri murder claims :

In the first official reaction to emerge from Damascus, Syrian foreign ministry adviser Riad Daudi told a press conference his government rejected the report, which was biased and aimed at hurting Syria. He said the conclusions were 'without any foundation'.
Story Here

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Pivotal Witness in Mehlis Report is a Convicted Swindler :

The alleged intelligence agent al-Sadik, 42, on whose testimony a considerable portion of the investigation is based, has been convicted of embezzlement and fraud, among other crimes. Even within the UN Commission investigating the murder of Lebanon’s former Prime Minster Rafik al-Hariri, which presented its report on Thursday, there is doubt of the credibility of the Syrian witness.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10726.htm

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CIA likely to avoid charges in most prisoner deaths:

Despite signs of CIA involvement in at least 4 prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, CIA workers appear likely to escape criminal charges in all but one case.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10727.htm

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Police to probe US ‘torture flights’ landing in Scotland:

SCOTTISH police are to launch an investigation into CIA “torture flights” which fly in and out of Glasgow and Prestwick airports, ferrying kidnapped war on terror suspects around the world.
http://www.sundayherald.com/52461

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'I stand by my words. And even more, I stand by my right to say them...' :

When the acclaimed Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk recalled his country's mass killing of Armenians, he was forced to flee abroad. As he prepares to accept a peace award in Frankfurt, he tells Maureen Freely why he had to break his nation's biggest taboo
Story here

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Bush is nothing if not consummate con man:

The late and wonderfully caustic George Burns used to flick the ash off his cigar and say: "The secret of success in show business is sincerity. Once you learn how to fake that, you've got it made, kid."
http://tinyurl.com/a9x59

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Report: Texas Overpaid Miers in Land Sale :

Texas officials paid Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' family more than $100,000 for a small piece of land in 2000 - 10 times the land's worth - despite the state's objections to the way the price was determined, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported Saturday.
http://tinyurl.com/balj4

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Report: Contractor overcharged U.S. gov't.:

In audits obtained by the Washington Post, federal auditors found Unisys overbilled taxpayers for some 171,000 hours' worth of labor and overtime by charging up to $131 an hour for employees who were paid no more than $46.43 an hour.
http://tinyurl.com/ddvdr

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Vermont GOP candidate gets caught lying through his teeth:

Here's where it gets interesting. Freyne writes "So, Rich Tarrant, the wealthy, wannabe U.S. senator from Vermont, does support a woman's right to choose, right? Wrong." Here's how we know:
http://tinyurl.com/bstch

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Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley

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Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams

posted by Annamarie at 10:05 PM