Planting Propaganda in Iraqi Newspapers Still Ongoing
• Think ProgressOn Sunday’s ABC This Week, Stephen Hadley acknowledged that President Bush has not yet ordered the shut-down of the Pentagon’s propaganda campaign in Iraq.
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WAR: About that War
The U.S. in Iraq: One war, many rationales
• McClatchy NewspapersThe administration may have exaggerated pre-war claims of an Iraqi WMD arsenal, and defenders branding the detractors as historical revisionists. Both sides suggest other factors may have been in the mix.
Europe all atwitter anticipating Secretary Rice's visit
• The Independent"There has been so much smoke on this issue, it's very unlikely that there is not a fire somewhere. I think it's likely they have been tortured."
Hearing Set for Officer Charged in Abuse
• Associated PressCapt. Christopher M. Beiring was the man in charge of jail guards when two prisoners died and countless others were assaulted at a detention center in Afghanistan in 2002.
Democratic Elite Out of Touch with Base on Iraq
• Washington PostAround the country, many grass-roots Democrats are clamoring for a quick withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Democratic politicians are denouncing the Bush administration's war strategy. But among the Democratic foreign-policy elite there are st
The Revolt of the US Generals
• by ALEXANDER COCKBURN (CounterPunch)To use a famous phrase from the Nixon era, a cancer is gnawing at his presidency and that cancer is the war in Iraq. The American people are now 60 per cent against it and 40 per cent think Bush lied to get them to back it.
Private Security Guards in Iraq Operate With Little Supervision
• Los Angeles TimesPrivate security contractors have been involved in scores of shootings in Iraq, but none have been prosecuted despite findings in at least one fatal case that the men had not followed proper procedures,
U.S. Command Declares Global Strike Capability
• Global Security NewswireThe U.S. Strategic Command announced it had achieved an operational capability for rapidly striking targets around the globe using nuclear or conventional weapons, after testing its capacity for nuclear war against a fictional country believed to rep
Unraveling Niger Forgery Documents
• by Justin Raimondo (AntiWar.com)Bush stated that Saddam was trying to procure uranium from "an African nation" as a preliminary step toward creating a nuclear weapon. This falsehood leaps out at one in its brazenness because it was based on a cache of forged documents: no
Army says nearly all insurgents are Iraqis
• Sunday TelegraphIraqis, rather than foreign fighters, now form the vast majority of the insurgents who are waging a ferocious guerrilla war against US forces in Sunni western Iraq, American commanders have revealed.
British General faces cover-up war crimes
• London TimesThe criminal charges levelled against Major-General Peter Wall relate to alleged attempts by senior officers to prevent an investigation into the deaths of a British tank commander and an unarmed Iraqi civilian.
US and Germany conspire to keep citizen's wrongful "rendition" secret
• Washington PostUS Ambassador Coats informed the German minister that the CIA had wrongfully imprisoned one of its citizens, Khaled Masri, for five months, and would soon release him. Request that the German government not disclose what it had been told even if Masr
Powell: It's important to stay the course in Iraq
• Associated PressDespite protests from some students and faculty members, former Secretary of State Colin Powell received a mostly warm reception from about 1,000 Willamette University students who heard him defend the Bush administration's decision to invade Ira
Funds may be lacking for ample Iraqi army
• Washington TimesThe force of 75,000, which is to grow to 135,000, is now marred by members of ethnic militias who have used their police power in some cases to attack other groups. Sunni Muslims in particular have complained that Shi'ite police commando units ar
Saddam's Show Trial Not Going as Choreographed
• ReutersSaddam Hussein has appeared in court for barely six hours so far, but doubts are already being raised about whether his trial is achieving its goals and if there will be enough evidence to convict him.
Europe Knows Its Place
• ReutersAllegations that the US has committed abuses in Europe while waging its "war on terror" will cloud this week's visit by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, but her hosts have little appetite for forcing the issue with Washington.
US Airstrike in Pakistan Town
• NBC NewsThe operational commander of al-Qaida, possibly the No. 3 official in the terrorist organization, was killed by a CIA missile attack on a safehouse in Pakistan.
FBI re-opens Niger Uranium Forgery Documents Case
• Los Angeles TimesThe FBI has reopened an inquiry into how the Bush administration came to rely on forged documents linking Iraq to nuclear weapons materials as part of its justification for the invasion.
Senate misses deadline for progress report on Iraq pre-war intel
• by Larisa Alexandrovna (The Raw Story)Following a surprising move by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D -NV), which shut down the Senate in an effort to force discussion on the inquiry, the Senate leadership established a Nov. 15 deadline for a progress report into pre-war intelligence
US backed Timor invasion
• Agence France-PresseTHE US knew a year in advance of and explicitly approved Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975. The US adopted a "policy of silence" and even suppressed news on East Timor, including reports of Indonesia's massacres of Timores
U.S. Military Admits Planting Stories In Iraqi Press
• Associated PressMilitary officials in Baghdad described a Pentagon program that pays to plant stories in the Iraqi media, part of an effort to "get the truth out" there. "a function of buying advertising and opinion/editorial space, as is customary in
Invasions and threats make for unlikely bed buddies
• ReutersRussia plans to sell more than $1 billion worth of tactical surface-to-air missiles and other defense hardware to Iran.
Man Held Uncharged in Prison for 3 Years Drops Deportation Fight
• Associated Press"The very real risk that he will be detained and tortured remains," his lawyer, Farhad Sethna, said. "However, Ashraf believes that being held for the last three years without his family has been torture enough."
$2,000 bounty for each military recruit signed up
• USA TodayThe Army National Guard, battling a falloff in recruiting, is offering troops a finder's fee for lining up new soldiers. Offers National Guard members $1,000 for enlisting a recruit and another $1,000 when the prospect shows up for basic training
<i>National Strategy for Victory in Iraq</i> comes mainly from polling data
• Editor & PublisherDr. Peter D. Feaver, a Duke University political scientist joined the National Security Council staff as a special adviser in June. “Its [the document] creation and presentation strongly reflected the public opinion research” of Dr. Feaver.
More Taxpayer funded mercenary murders in Iraq uncovered
• Booman TribuneA memo that implicates employees of a second private security company, Triple Canopy, Inc., an American firm operating in Iraq, in the possible homicide of two Iraqi civilians on the road from Ramadi to Amman near the Jordanian border in December, 20
Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces
• Think ProgressI was in that battle from the very beginning to the very end. I was with Iraqi units right there on the front line as they were battling with al Qaeda. They were not leading. They were being led by the U.S. green beret special forces with them.
US Army officer charged in Iraq contract bribe scam
• ReutersWheeler was responsible for developing contract solicitations and ordering contracts for reconstruction efforts for the Coalition Provisional Authority. Accepted money and gifts to rig contract bids and also stealing and laundering funds from the CPA
Pentagon moves ahead in Military Tribuneral of Canadian teenager
• ReutersThe Pentagon said it had formed a military tribunal to hear the war crimes trial of a Canadian citizen jailed at Guantanamo Bay, proceeding even though a judge last month froze a similar case to allow the Supreme Court to decide the legitimacy of su
Who says the Kurds don't have their own country?
• New York TimesA controversial oil exploration deal between Iraq's autonomy-minded Kurds and a Norwegian company got underway this week without the approval of the Iraqi government, raising a potentially explosive issue at a time of heightened ethnic and sectar
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