By Al Kamen
06/18/06 "Washington Post" Hours before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship faced by its Iraqi employees. This cable, marked "sensitive" and obtained by The Washington Post, outlines in spare prose the daily-worsening conditions for those who live outside the heavily guarded international zone: harassment, threats and the employees' constant fears that their neighbors will discover they work for the U.S. government.
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By Dahr Jamail
06/19/06 On Tuesday, June 13th, while Mr. Bush spent a brave five hours in the "green zone" of Baghdad with puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, at least 36 people were killed across Iraq amidst a wave of bombings. 18 of those died in a spasm of bombings in the oil city of Kirkuk in the Kurdish north.
The minute word hit the streets in Baghdad of Bush's visit, over 2,000 supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took to the streets in protest. The protestors chanted "Iraq is for the Iraqis," and Sadr aide Hazem al-Araji publicly condemned the peek-a-boo visit of who he referred to as "the leader of the occupation." |
Reuters
Tuesday 20 June 2006 Thirteen Iraqis, including a child, have been killed in an alleged US air strike on a village north-east of Baquba, while a bomb attack in Baghdad has killed seven people.
Four others who were injured in the strike on two farm houses in the Shaikh Qaddur al-Shahin village early on Tuesday were detained by US forces, Haidar al-Tamimi, an Iraqi journalist, told Aljazeera. Al-Tamimi said US troops were dropped to the ground, after the strike. The troops then opened fire at the targeted houses, he added. Residents also say the injured were arrested. They added that the casualties of the strike were poultry farm workers. |
20/6/2006
UK Independent 1. Iraqi staff in the Public Affairs sector have complained that Islamist and Militia groups have been negatively affecting daily routine. Harassment over proper dress and habits is increasingly persuasive. They also report power cuts and fuel prices have diminished their quality of life.
Women's Rights
2. Two of our three female employees report stepped up harassment beginning in mid-May. One, a Shia who favors Western clothing, was advised by an unknown woman in her Baghdad neighbourhood to wear a veil and not to drive her own car. She said some groups are pushing women to cover even their face, a step not taken in Iran even at its most conservative.
3. Another, a Sunni, said people in her neighbourhood are harassing women and telling them to cover up and stop using cell phones. She said the taxi driver who brings her every day to the green zone has told her he cannot let her ride unless she wears a headcover. A female in the PAS cultural section is now wearing a full abaya after receiving direct threats. [...]
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19/06/2006
Earlier this month the U.S. invaders shot dead two Iraqi women one of them about to give birth.
The American troops opened fire at the car carrying Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, and the mother of two children, claiming that the car entered a prohibited area near an observation post and that the driver refused to stop it despite the visual and auditory. Redam Nisaif Jassim asserted that he did not see any warnings as he sped his sister to the hospital. Jassim and her 57-year-old cousin, Saliha Mohammed Hassan, died instantly. "Shots were fired to disable the vehicle," the U.S. military claimed in a statement e-mailed earlier to The Associated Press. Here we have a totally different account of the incident. Below is an interview with Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist who spent sometime in Iraq. Jamail gives a deeper explanation of the incident, uncovering facts that had been intentionally hidden by the U.S. media. |
Jacob G. Hornberger
20/06/2006 In a short editorial, the Detroit News asked an interesting question: "Some war critics are suggesting Iraq terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi should have been arrested and prosecuted rather than bombed into oblivion. Why expose American troops to the danger of an arrest, when bombs work so well?" Here's one possible answer: In order not to send a five-year-old Iraqi girl into oblivion with the same 500-pound bombs that sent al-Zarqawi into oblivion. |
Last Updated Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:42:22 EDT
CBC News Two soldiers who had been missing in Iraq since Friday have been found dead, a U.S. military spokesman said on Tuesday.
"The bodies were found last night in the vicinity of Yusufiya. Coalition forces have recovered what we believe are the remains of the soldiers," said Maj.-Gen. William Caldwell at a news conference in Baghdad. |
Kurt Nimmo
20/06/2006 Our new Arab Goldstein, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has wasted little time. "The bodies of two U.S. soldiers reported captured last week have been recovered, and an Iraqi official said Tuesday the men were "killed in a barbaric way." The U.S. military said the remains were believed to be those of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore.," reports the Associated Press.
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02:27:40 EDT Jun 20, 2006
CARL FREIRE |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-06-20
WASHINGTON, June 19 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate Democrats proposed on Monday that the United States start pulling out its troops from Iraq this year.
Under the proposal, the United States should begin the phased redeployment or pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2006, and the administration should submit a plan by the end of 2006 for continued phased redeployment from 2007 on. |
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