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oc: The Pentagon attack was a frameup by criminal US leadership. This site establishes that a fighter jet hit the Pentagon as Flight 77 flew over.
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw accused of blocking inquiry into
"dodgy dossier" used to justify war.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$3OWU1LEA3KAQDQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQ WIV0?xml=/news/2003/06/28/nstraw28.xml/
Before he ordered U.S. forces to kill and maim tens of thousands of
innocent
Iraqi soldiers and civilians, Bush and Co. repeatedly maintained that
they
had absolute proof that Saddam Hussein still possessed WMDs. "There is
no
doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," ****
Cheney said in August. In January, Ari Fleisher said: "We know for a
fact that there are weapons there." WMDs; not a "WMD program" as they
now refer to it. WMDs--not just indications of possible, or probable,
WMDs. ... During the first days of the war, Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld stared into television cameras, looked right at his employers
(that's you and me), and said that he knew exactly where they were.
"We know where they are," Rumsfeld said. "They are in the area around
Tikrit and Baghdad."
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0627-02.htm
U.S. military commanders have ordered a halt to local elections and
self-rule in provincial cities and towns across Iraq, choosing instead
to install their own handpicked mayors and administrators, many of
whom are former Iraqi military leaders.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42905-2003Jun27.html?
The British Army offered an apparent amnesty yesterday to those
responsible
for the deaths of six Royal Military Police officers in southern Iraq.
Helicopters dropped leaflets on the town of Majar al-Kabir, promising:
"We will not return to punish anyone since these are the methods of
Saddam's regime. Coalition forces are sorry for the loss of the people
of Majar ... we will return to Majar to make good relations with you
and all the people." ... The leaflets were distributed after British
officers had consulted a local civic leader, Abu Hatem Qarim Mahoud.
.... Any suggestion that the killers remain unpunished is likely to
lead to an angry reaction in Britain. The parents of one of the dead
men accused the Army of putting their son and his comrades at risk.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=419688
Cheney, Forgery and the CIA -- Not Business as Usual: As though this
were normal! I mean the repeated visits Vice President **** Cheney
made to the CIA before the war in Iraq. The visits were, in fact,
unprecedented. During my 27-year career at the Central Intelligence
Agency, no vice president ever came to us for a working visit.
http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern06272003.html
Welcome to the Machine -- How the GOP disciplined K Street and made
Bush supreme: ... Like the urban Democratic machines of yore, this
one is built upon patronage, contracts, and one-party rule. But unlike
legendary Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, who rewarded party
functionaries with jobs in the municipal bureaucracy, the GOP is
building its machine outside government, among Washington's thousands
of trade associations and corporate offices, their tens of thousands
of employees, and the hundreds of millions of dollars in political
money at their disposal. ...
It's convened every Tuesday morning by Rick Santorum, the junior
senator from Pennsylvania, in the privacy of a Capitol Hill conference
room, for a handpicked group of two dozen or so Republican lobbyists.
Occasionally, one or two other senators or a representative from the
White House will attend. Democrats are not invited, and neither is the
press. The chief purpose of these gatherings is to discuss
jobs--specifically, the top one or two positions at the biggest and
most important industry trade associations and corporate offices
centered around Washington's K Street, a canyon of nondescript office
buildings a few blocks north of the White House that is to
influence-peddling what Wall Street is to finance. In the past, those
people were about as likely to be Democrats as Republicans, a practice
that ensured K Street firms would have clout no matter which party was
in
power. But beginning with the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994,
and accelerating in 2001, when George W. Bush became president, the
GOP has made a determined effort to undermine the bipartisan
complexion of K Street.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.confessore.html
Leading Iraqis have denounced proposals to deploy Indian peace
keepers in their country, saying Iraqis alone should be responsible
for their security. ... The Iraqi reactions follow continuing
political and military tensions within the country, which has been
occupied by US and British troops and a small Polish contingent since
the end of April.
http://www.rediff.com/us/2003/jun/28iraq.htm
US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is discussing the idea of an
international peacekeeping force which could be dispatched to
maintain order in the world's trouble spots.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,986881,00.html
resistance put up by the Palestinian people themselves, average human
beings stuck in the most terrible position of suffering and despair
but continuing to survive just the same. [Corrie was the peace worker
murdered by the driver of an Israeli bulldozer that was flattening a
Palestinian household, driving right over her and then backing up.]
http://iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0306-2017
The decision of Downing Street's communications director to emerge
from the shadows was taken at the last minute, after he erupted in
fury at the BBC's decision to stand by its controversial story about
the government's use of intelligence on Iraq. ... An interview
request from Channel 4 had been politely turned down earlier in the
day, a point Mr Campbell reiterated in a telephone conversation with
Snow at 6.45pm - just 15 minutes before the programme went on air.
.... "Then suddenly in my earpiece at 7.04pm I was told Alastair
Campbell has entered the building," Snow said last night. "In two
minutes he was sitting in front of me unannounced. He was angry." ...
Scowling and barely able to control his rage, Mr Campbell mixed up his
syntax as he let rip. "This is an attempt by the government to get the
BBC to admit that a fundamental attack upon the integrity of the
government, the prime minister, the intelligence agencies - let alone
the evil spin doctors in the dark who do their dirty works in the
minds of a lot of journalists - let them just accept for once they
have got it wrong."
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,12123,986917,00.html
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the almost daily attacks on U.S.-led
forces in Iraq do not constitute a guerrilla war. ... Mr. Rumsfeld
instead blamed the deadly attacks on remnants and sympathizers of the
ousted Saddam Hussein regime. He also said common criminals are behind
some attacks, noting that Saddam Hussein freed almost 100,000
prisoners before the U.S.-led invasion. .. The Defense Department
says a team of five private experts is headed to Iraq to advise U.S.
administrators on ways to stabilize the country. The team is led by
former President Bill Clinton's deputy defense minister, John Hamre.
http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=5162
British MP George Galloway filed a libel suit Friday "the Queen's
newspaper" that claimed he took money from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi
regime. In April, the Telegraph claimed to have found a memo to Mr.
Hussein from the Iraqi intelligence service saying that Mr. Galloway
had asked an Iraqi agent
for a larger cut of Iraq's exports under the oil-for-food program.
Crime-lab ****ysis of the ink on the pages show the pages, although
variously dated with some dates over two years past, we all written
just three months ago. That and wording and format show they are
forgeries that must have originated within the British intelligence
system itself. Last week, another newspaper, the Boston-based
Christian Science Monitor, a semi-official news organ of the American
ruling elite, acknowledged that do***ents it had used to make similar
allegations were also forgeries. Mr. Galloway plans to sue the Monitor
as well.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030627.wgall0627/BNStory/International/
Blair backs removal of all dictators: Tony Blair has privately told
aides the world's democracies should not hesitate to topple dictators
[they dont like.] ... The suggestion that the US, Britain and other
leading powers should be involved in repeated regime-change goes much
farther than anything the Prime Minister has said in public.
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/5522245
A row between Britain's biggest broadcaster and Prime Minister Tony
Blair over the government's use of intelligence information in making
the case for war in Iraq has turned personal - and nasty.
http://tinyurl.com/fhps
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