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OR IN ..... LIBERIA !!! ( cheaper )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3138081.stm


DOES HE MEAN THAT ...........................
THE US TROOPS ARE GOING HOME ?

GREAT !

* Ethic *

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The U.S. military in Iraq says two American soldiers have died in
separate incidents south of Baghdad.
Voice of America (Amerika) News

A U.S. Army spokeswomen said a member of the First Marine
Expeditionary Force was killed in an attack near the town of Hilla
Thursday. She said another American soldier from the First Armored
Division in Baghdad also died, but it was not clear if the death was
the result of hostile action.

Sixty-five American troops have been killed in hostile action
[bullshit, it's more than that! -OBK] in Iraq since May 1, when
President Bush announced that major military operations in Iraq was
over.

Thursday, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, General John Abizaid,
said terrorism has emerged as the top security threat in the country.
He said remnants of the Baathist regime, members of an al-Qaida-linked
Iraqi group and foreign fighters all are active and might be
cooperating in some areas.

This week, a truck bomb ripped through the United Nations'
headquarters in Baghdad. A U.N. statement said the attack left at
least 22 people dead and more than 100 others wounded. It said one
person who was believed to have died in the blast was later found
alive.

A previously unknown group, calling itself the Armed Vanguards of
Mohammed's Second Army, claimed responsibility for the attack Tuesday.

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Bu$h, Bliar and Sharon haven't fooled everyone, perhaps there is still
hope for mankind yet...

U.N.: World Won't Back Iraq Resolution
The Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS Aug. 22 — Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Friday
that the U.S. campaign to persuade more countries to send troops to
Iraq will fail unless the United States agrees to a U.N.-authorized
force that shares decision-making with coalition forces.

Secretary of State Colin Powell came to the United Nations on Thursday
to launch the campaign, calling on member states "to do more" to help
Iraq. But he made clear that Washington won't cede any military power
as France and other nations have demanded.

Without U.S. agreement on a broader international role in Iraq,
diplomats said the United States faces an uphill struggle to win
support for a new U.N. resolution in a Security Council still bitterly
divided over Washington's decision to launch a war without U.N.
approval.

But following this week's deadly bombing of the U.N. compound in
Baghdad, which killed over 20 people and injured at least 100, Annan
said there was an urgent need to strengthen U.N. security in Iraq and
around the world "that none of us can ignore."

He said he discussed prospects for a multinational force that would be
responsible, among other things, for U.N. security with Powell on
Thursday, and with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Friday.

Talks with both ministers also focused on internationalizing the
U.S.-British occupation in Iraq, including in the economic, political,
and security areas a proposal supported by the majority of the 191
U.N. member states, which Annan said

Annan reiterated the United Nations could not send a peacekeeping
force to Iraq "but it is not excluded that the council may decide to
transform the operation into a U.N.-mandated multinational force
operating on the ground with other governments coming in."

He stressed that U.N. approval for such a force "would also imply not
just burden-sharing but also sharing decision and responsibility with
the others."

"If that doesn't happen, I think it's going to be very difficult to
get a second resolution that will satisfy everybody," the
secretary-general warned.

France, Russia, India and other countries have ruled out sending
soldiers to Iraq unless a multinational force is authorized by the
United Nations.

Noting the ongoing violence in Iraq, French Foreign Minister Dominique
de Villepin, whose country led the opposition to the war, said in
published interviews that Iraq is in a state of "decomposition" and
the United States has fallen into "a logic of confrontation."

He said the international community shouldn't adjust or enlarge the
U.S.-run coalition force, but instead should "put in place a genuine
international force under the mandate of the United Nations" and he
indicated that France would support such a force.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov discussed Iraq Friday with de
Villepin and German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. They
"re-emphasied the need to look for ways to reach a political
settlement, relying on broad support from the Iraqi population and on
active participation of the United Nations and the international
community, including the Arab countries," according to a Foreign
Ministry statement quoted by the Interfax news agency.

Turkey's top political and military leaders met Friday to consider a
U.S. request to deploy thousands of Turkish soldiers in Iraq a move
that could make the predominantly Muslim country the third-largest
foreign presence after the United States and Britain.

At the end of the 4 1/2-hour meeting, the leaders issued a vague
statement, an apparent move to delay any decision as the United
Nations considers a possible new mandate for troops in Iraq.

Reflecting the uneasiness of being associated with the occupying
powers, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told the newspaper
Milliyet that Turkish soldiers would go to help rebuild their
neighboring country and "definitely will not be occupiers."

At a joint news conference after their meeting, Straw and Annan said
discussions on a possible new mandate in Iraq would be the focus of
upcoming, closed-door council sessions, discussions in capitals, and
input from potential troop contributing countries.

The United States hasn't circulated a draft resolution, but U.S.
Ambassador John Negroponte briefed the council Thursday on key
elements Washington wants in a resolution encouragement for countries
to provide troops, money and help with police training.

While Straw spoke of strengthening the U.N. mandate and the role of
the international community, the United States made no offer to
broaden the U.N. role or relinquish any authority.

"Although people's starting positions may be different, it is possible
to reach a strong consensus," Straw said.

"I think there can be unity in the council," Annan said, "but it is
going to take discussions, it is going to take negotiations, it is
going to take give and take."

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Amerika never fails to overreact to anything that happens. Amerika is
all about attacking the symptoms and never bothering to look at the
cause. I suppose that is because if Amerikans did take a serious look
at themselves, they wouldn't like what they'd find. They'd see they're
not quite the "good guys" and heroes they've been conditioned by
Hollywood and Pentagone propaganda to believe themselves to be. You
see, if they didn't think they were "holier" than everyone else, you
couldn't get them to go Cru$ading around the world. Wake up,
Amerika...

Write a Story, Go to Jail
Kim Zetter

Brian Robertson was just months away from graduation at Moore High
School in Moore, Oklahoma, last year when he found the beginnings of
what he thought was a short story on a school computer. He copied the
file to another computer, added some paragraphs to the initial text
and then promptly got arrested.

story he wrote, titled "Evacuation Orders,"
(http://www.savebrian.org/pdf/story.pdf) described preparations for an
armed invasion of his school that included directions to unnamed
fellow commandos to kill the senior class principal and then plant
plastic explosives around the campus.

After searching Robertson's car and his parents' home, authorities
found no weapons, traces of explosive material or any other evidence
that the **** was planning to attack his school.

But authorities said the story Robertson wrote was sufficient to
charge him under an Oklahoma state statute, which was passed in the
wake of school shootings across the country in the last few years.

The statute, passed in July 2001, makes it illegal for anyone to
"plan, attempt, conspire or endeavor to perform an act of violence
involving or intended to involve serious bodily harm or death of
another person." Robertson, if convicted, faces up to 10 years in
prison.

The case has the American Civil Liberties Union crying foul over
suppression of free expression. Calling the statute vague and "overly
broad," the ACLU says the law "criminalizes free thought and free
expression," essentially making it illegal for anyone to even think
about committing a crime. Robertson, who was charged in April 2002, is
the first person to be tried under the law. His case goes to trial
this week.

Complete article:

http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,60144,00.html

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penny.ian13

Yep... he knew what a mess he was in. "Chilling prediciton?" Gloomy
realisation what a mess he had made?
Speaking out of turn and creating a sensational story for the BBC, which he
knew full well had no solid
foundation. A weak man who knew what a mess he was heading into, and knew
full well he did not have the character to bluff his way through.
Why isn't Blair in jail? Well, you might think it is normal to jump to
conclusions on rumour and innuendo and suspicion... but civilized countries
need
minor details like evidence of some wrong doing. Watching the Hutton enquiry
has been amusing... the media's delight with "sensational" revelations?
Nothing new, and all as was so easily predictable subject to personal
preference and bias. No hard evidence of anything, intellegance is always
about possibility and never any
cerainty. Is this a surprise? Does anybody read history anymore? Apart from
the media and the conspiracy theory nutters, the truth is nobody actually
gives a damn about Hutton.
A weak man, made a mess of his life an his career, killed himself. Too
simply isn't it? Actually he could not a done more to upset this masters in
the MOD or in Downing St. Who benefits from his death? The anti war minoriy
and the conspiracy theortists is who. Maybe they killed him, makes more
sense than anything else I've heard.

Starlight

steven x brown

Very well said. A bit of common sense on this subject at last. I've been
saying all along that he simply couldn't take the pressure and topped
himself. Well, boo-****ing-hoo, people quit jobs every day because of
stress. Some of them even kill themselves - it's nobody's fault but their
own. It's a tough world and if you can't handle a high-pressure job then
you quit (and lose out on the accompanying salary) and take up portrait-
painting or turnip-growing.

--
Steven X Brown
http://www.british-gas-complaints.co.uk/index.htm

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I think it's obvious that Amerika has made things worse for everyone,
especially the Iraqis it was supposedly "liberating". Even if you
believe Bu$h invaded Iraq with good intentions in mind (he did NOT),
it was still a foolish plan devised by egomaniacal corporate morons
blinded by their own greed. The invasion plan had no basis in reality,
the fools believed their own lies...

http://tinyurl.com/kkvu

"We have been in Iraq for 12 years and we have never been attacked,"
Annan said, expressing shock at the apparent suicide bombing Tuesday
afternoon at the C**** Hotel in Baghdad, where the U.N. headquarters
are housed.

Annan appeared to indirectly criticize the United States for having
underestimated the difficulties of pacifying and rebuilding Iraq after
the invasion.

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cigon

I think its obvious that other nations that are not helping are fools.
Its happening or festeing in their back yard and the US has the guts to
at least put a squash to it. The UN has pascify a lot of these
countries and groups and the end result is that the terrorist feel that
they are right. Does anyone think that even if the US did not go into
Iraq these bombings would stop. Hell no it would just continue. What if
the USA change policies and even left the middle EASt, Jihad would not stop.

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Another brilliant move. I guess the U$ was missing the crucial
security leaks needed to completely undermine their own operations in
Iraq. Now they'll have them. "Ex-Iraqi intelligence"? Maybe they
haven't noticed yet, but Saddam is still around and the first thing
he's going to do is send his own loyal agents in there. The only
others will be doing it for $$$, which means they'll make up info just
to keep getting paid. The one honest Iraqi, he'll be shot one the way
home after speaking with the Amerikans...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37331-2003Aug23.html

U.S.-led occupation authorities have begun a covert campaign to
recruit and train agents with the once-dreaded Iraqi intelligence
service to help identify resistance to American forces here after
months of increasingly sophisticated attacks and bombings, according
to U.S. and Iraqi officials.

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You can't beat an AK-47 for dusty urban combat in the middle of hell:

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as01-e.htm

I guess the M-16/4s must be breaking down again, just like in... you
guessed it, Vietnam!

When will Amerika ever learn?

U.S. troops using confiscated Iraqi AK-47s
By Andrew England
Associated Press

BAQOUBA, Iraq (AP) An American soldier stands at the side of an Iraqi
highway, puts his AK-47 on fully automatic and pulls the trigger.

Within seconds the assault rifle has blasted out 30 rounds. Puffs of
dust dance in the air as the bullets smack into the scrubland dirt.
Test fire complete.

U.S. troops in Iraq may not have found weapons of mass destruction,
but they're certainly getting their hands on the country's stock of
Kalashnikovs and, they say, they need them.

The soldiers based around Baqouba are from an armor battalion, which
means they have tanks, Humvees and armored personnel carriers. But
they are short on rifles.

A four-man tank crew is issued two M4 assault rifles and four 9mm
pistols, relying mostly on the tank's firepower for protection.

But now they are engaged in guerrilla warfare, patrolling narrow roads
and goat trails where tanks are less effective. Troops often find
themselves dismounting to patrol in smaller vehicles, making rifles
essential.

''We just do not have enough rifles to equip all of our soldiers. So
in certain cir***stances we allow soldiers to have an AK-47. They have
to demonstrate some proficiency with the weapon ... demonstrate an
ability to use it,'' said Lt. Col. Mark Young, commander of the 3rd
Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 4th Infantry Division.

''Normally an armor battalion is fighting from its tanks. Well, we are
not fighting from our tanks right now,'' Young said. ''We are
certainly capable of performing the missions that we have been
assigned, there's no issue with that, but we do find ourselves
somewhat challenged.''

In Humvees, on tanks but never openly on base U.S. soldiers are
carrying the Cold War-era weapon, first developed in the Soviet Union
but now mass produced around the world.

The AK is favored by many of the world's fighters, from child soldiers
in Africa to rebel movements around the world, because it is light,
durable and known to jam less frequently.

Now U.S. troops who have picked up AKs on raids or confiscated them at
checkpoints are putting the rifles to use and they like what they see.

Some complain that standard U.S. military M16 and M4 rifles jam too
easily in Iraq's dusty environment. Many say the AK has better
''knockdown'' power and can kill with fewer shots.

''The kind of war we are in now ... you want to be able to stop the
enemy quick,'' said Sgt. 1st Class Tracy S. McCarson of Newport News,
Va., an army scout, who carries an AK in his Humvee.

Some troops say the AK is easier to maintain and a better
close-quarters weapon. Also, it has ''some psychological affect on the
enemy when you fire back on them with their own weapons,'' McCarson
said.

Most U.S. soldiers agree the M16 and the M4 a newer, shorter version
of the M16 that has been used by American troops since the 1960s is
better for long distance, precision shooting.

But around Baqouba, troops are finding themselves attacked by
assailants hidden deep in date palm groves. Or they are raiding
houses, taking on enemies at close-quarters.

Two weeks ago, Sgt. Sam Bailey of Cedar Falls, Iowa, was in a Humvee
when a patrol came under rocket-propelled grenade and heavy machine
gun fire. It was dark, the road narrow. On one side, there was a mud
wall and palms trees, on the other a c**** surrounded by tall grass.

Bailey, who couldn't see who was firing, had an AK-47 on his lap and
his M4 up front. The choice was simple.

''I put the AK on auto and started spraying,'' Bailey said.

Some soldiers also say it's easier to get ammo for the AK they can
pick it up on any raid or from any confiscated weapon.

''It's plentiful,'' said Sgt. Eric Harmon, a tanker who has a full
75-round drum, five 30-round magazines, plus 200-300 rounds in boxes
for his AK. He has about 120 rounds for his M16.

Young doesn't carry an AK but has fired one. He's considered banning
his troops from carrying AKs, but hasn't yet because ''if I take the
AK away from some of the soldiers, then they will not have a rifle to
carry with them.''

Staff Sgt. Michael Perez, a tanker, said he would take anything over
his standard issue 9mm pistol when he's out of his tank.

And the AK's durability has impressed him.

''They say you can probably drop this in the water and leave it
overnight, pull it out in the morning, put in a magazine and it will
work,'' Perez said.


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