Cheney choking , Sharon vegie, USA = Mukhabarat, Falluja resistance, Fake Usama, John Catt, Vines predicts gangs, Augie, Barclay's

I trust and pray that Cheney will suffer a long agonising death by asphyxiation.
I also pray that Sharon will persist paralysed and in agony for many years.
With these two monsters incapacitated the world can breath easy .

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billmon Citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed inviolability of the person. No person may be placed under arrest except by decision of a court or with the sanction of a procurator.
The inviolability of the homes of citizens and privacy of correspondence are protected by law.
Constitution of the USSR December 1936

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riverbend
One thing that struck me about what the witnesses were saying- after the assassination attempt in Dujail, so much of what later unfolded is exactly what is happening now in parts of Iraq. They talked about how a complete orchard was demolished because the Mukhabarat thought people were hiding there and because they thought someone had tried to shoot Saddam from that area. That was like last year when the Americans razed orchards in Diyala because they believed insurgents were hiding there. Then they talked about the mass detentions- men, women and children- and its almost as if they are describing present-day Ramadi or Falloojah. The descriptions of cramped detention spaces, and torture are almost exactly the testimonies of prisoners in Abu Ghraib, etc.
It makes one wonder when Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and the rest will have their day, as the accused, in court

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crooksandliars
americablog
"The Chicago Police Department is warning officers their cell phone records are available to anyone -- for a price. Dozens of online services are selling lists of cell phone calls, raising security concerns among law enforcement and privacy experts. Criminals can use such records to expose a government informant who regularly calls a law enforcement official."

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(5Jan06) suicide blast near the shrine killed 63 people and wounded 120. That day's other suicide attack took place in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, and killed 58.
A U.S. Marine and soldier died in the Ramadi attack, in which the bomber who infiltrated a line of police recruits. Two soldiers were also killed near Baghdad when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb. Two U.S. Marines were killed by separate small arms attacks while conducting combat operations in Fallujah.

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09 January 2006
..Four crew and eight passengers were listed as being on board the UH-60 Black Hawk which crashed on Saturday..
..12km east of the town of Tal Afar..
In Falluja..three marines were killed by small arms attacks on Sunday.
On Saturday, two marines were killed by roadside bombs in separate incidents..

Whats the deal with "small arms" in Fallujah. Dont the grunts wear their body plates? Are the snipers hitting the gaps? Didnt USA crush, pulverise, Phosphorous & Uranium Drench this town? Arent there checkpoints? Ha Ha, eat dirt, marines.

"a people should know when they’re conquered," Gladiator

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8Jan06US troops have raided the headquarters of the Association of Muslim Scholars, which opposes the US occupation of Iraq, and detained five people.

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Fake Bin Laden
the bin Laden confession tape that was “found” in Afghanistan.
valis.gnn
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informationclearinghouse
Eighty-year-old John Catt served with the RAF in the Second World War. Last September, he was stopped by police in Brighton for wearing an "offensive" T-shirt, which suggested that Bush and Blair be tried for war crimes. He was arrested under the Terrorism Act and handcuffed, with his arms held behind his back. The official record of the arrest says the "purpose" of searching him was "terrorism" and the "grounds for intervention" were "carrying placard and T-shirt with anti-Blair info" (sic).

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investment In December, the International Monetary Fund, in exchange for giving a loan of $685 million to the Iraqi government, insisted that the Iraqis lift subsidies on the price of oil and open the economy to more private investment.
As the IMF said in a press release of December 23, the Iraqi government must be committed to “controlling the wage and pensions bill, reducing subsidies on petroleum products, and expanding the participation of the private sector in the domestic market for petroleum products. The impact of the IMF extortion was swift and brutal.

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nytimes
oil is the life blood of Iraq," said General Vines, who commands the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, N.C. "If they don't produce enough income to support their security forces, members of those forces could turn to ulterior purposes and could become militias or armed gangs." thiscantbehappening

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washingtonpost
In our last conversation, Augie complained that the cost in lives to clear insurgents was "less and less worth it," because Marines have to keep coming back to clear the same places. Marine commanders in the field say the same thing. Without sufficient troops, they can't hold the towns. Augie was killed on his fifth mission to clear Haditha.

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smirkingchimp
"The general integrity of Iraqi infrastructure appears to us to be heading backwards rather than forwards," London-based Barclay's Capital said in a report issued last month. (Jim Crane Associated Press)

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oriononline
junk mail as stalker...
Like a persistent suitor—some might say stalker—the company has been pursuing me for years. It started with the occasional flirtatious postcard dropped in my mailbox. But my coy refusals to respond seem to have only inflamed the company's desire, and it has launched an assault: a garish, monthly, multi-page missive bursting with boldface type, capital letters, and italicized imperatives ("Call"). And no matter how much I protest, the love letters just keep coming.

Cheney choking Sharon vegie USA = Mukhabarat Falluja resistance Fake Usama John Catt Vines predicts gangs Augie Barclay's