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A true media commotion arose in the region following the court case the briefcase to a prosecutor chavista deputy 
District Miami, Tom Mulvihill, caratul� bluntly?'s Presidential campaign Cristina Kirchner?. It was inevitable that many 
See the case as a blunt as an element of pressure against the new Argentine president by the internal opposition and 
External to it, precisely because part of a government today faced with its own spies such as George W. Bush, and 
Within days of signing the international treaty against usury is known as Bank of the South. 
A similar case affected in September for pre-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for the briefcase with almost the same amount 
(850,000 dollars) donated to his campaign by the multiple swindler Norman Hsu, it being clear that not only 
Unrest in the CIA against W. By pressures for fabricating reports about weapons of mass destruction to massacre Persians 
Iran, but our men in Langley have declared their own imagination on strike.
Apart from this, every time we know better than the real operation is the garbage that have undertaken since offices 
Virginia seeking embed in Paraguayan politics to guevaristas financed by the CIA that militate our original 
Luguista left. Curiously, in the midst of so much psychosis antichavista owners of the means used to be filled 
Pockets with donations from the National Endowment for Democracy and paid advertising by USAID, have bypassed briefcases 
George W. Bush has been entering covertly in Paraguay, going to end up in the pockets less thought. 
Let's look at some cases. 
For example, $ 45226.96 on behalf of the Plan Threshold recently received the Guevarist House for Youth (NGOs 
It collects for the PMas) labour-imperialist agencies under the control of George W. Bush, supposedly to teach 
To high school students something fundamental? Identify corruption? In Paraguay. Adding money to the 127,000 that 
Previously benefited the IAF. According to data Americans, with the money in ten months, the clientele Guevarist 
Camilo Soares and Rocio Old? Trained? To 50 teachers? Sensitized? 1000 students and clink box (it looks like 
Responsible in documents Sunia Valinotti). A further example of that in our country there are no applications for credit 
Works, but it works invented to request credit.
It added in the same context that the large sums received Local Governance, an NGO whose responsibility are both financiers 
Tekojoja of, or $ 132,700 in 2006 received the Foundation Harlequin Tetro (refuge Organisers 
Demonstrations against the current municipal administration) for goals as related performing arts? Help 
Adolescents in schools to identify, study, discuss and address community priorities?. 
We must add $ 116,300 George W. Bush received in 2006 by the CIDSEP, 95,000 US dollars received by 
Paraguayan Foundation for Cooperation and Development of former Mayor Martin Burt, 94,000 deposited in the name of the 
ADEC, 27,500 donated to the CPES Dominic Rivarola, 164,404 contributed to the EDC, or major donations 
Receive DNIC of Augustine Carrizosa for? Supporting organizations of civil society, the IDEA Patricia Abed, or 
Sensitive environmental Alter Life as Jorge Lara Castro. 
Any opinion or political incursion of these engendros the rule, obviously, is hailed as politically correct 
Stratospheric from the summits of the House of Advertisers of Paraguay and Cerneco whose? Forums for freedom of 
Expression? - Like organized in November 2004 - were always sol�citamente sponsored by USAID. To get an 
Drop idea of the line by CERNECO, just mention that your committee? Proposed code of ethics? Former employees of the integrated 
Stroessner and propagandist alabardero of Videla, Aldo Zucolillo (Rufo Medina and Ilde Silvero), and son-in-law of a general key 
Operation Condor, Carlos Jorge Biederman. It is not difficult to deduce the origin of the exaggerated account of the relatives of the last of the 
Mentioned in Wachovia Bank (Securities), which withdrew the tiny fraction of $ 172,000 on June 25, 2005 
(Check No 1323).
All of this garbage empire in Paraguay, as we know, has great? Prestige? And support of this press 
Pro-imperialist, whose debris and evils Paraguayan society has been dragging since the state department 
Commissioned to Tte. Colonel Robert K. Thierry to train torturers Edgar L. Ynsfr�n towards 1956. A small mistake that 
? Amended? 1987 toward hiring through the CIA agent Leonard Susman, a strong communicators 
Identified with Stroessner for? Fight? Against the dictatorship they banc� their media. 

They protest at US embassy in Argentina's case by case and in Latin America wide protest by all briefcases 
Delivered to the USA, to destroy successful democracies in Latin America and to prevent them from leaving government 
Democratas 

At this point one should be writing good news for 2008, messages of brotherhood and good wishes for the country and people loved. But it is, does not give us the right or Christmas truce, they are as Christians and fill their mouths with the word reconciliation. Pure fallacy. 
On the night of December 23 when leaving the bakery a group of girls offered us T-shirts for sale with Christmas and to help poor children. The stamping is decorated with a garland NO size of the chest. When he arrived home, VTV went bonuses and carols, while Globoterror shot lead in two parallel programmes interviews and reports. When cansaban to do so directly, were connected to a TV argentina which continued the onslaught against our government. They followed the scenario came to the Colombian RCN to finish with CNN. Pure antichavismo frenzied. And VTV, sports programs. 
The comidilla fashion: the briefcase Antonini. This coup opinion can place it perfectly within the ongoing psychological warfare designed and implemented by the CIA and its agents, speak English, Caracas or Buenos Aires. The media siege is part of the tactic to keep the hosts on the defensive Boliviarian on such sensitive issues as corruption, personal insecurity and shortages of consumer goods daily. 
The briefcase Antonini say once and categorically, that Chavez has nothing to do in this matter. I say this with absolute conviction. I appeal to the intelligence of our people. Look at this. If the President would like to give any of its allies on this continent, not to mention eight hundred thousand dollars-that for a presidential campaign in Argentina are almost nothing, say ten million dollars, does not need to send with the first mandadero to appear, even with some of his closest confidence, simply because the President has in his plane and point. Moreover, it can not be checked by customs or immigration authority hands. Let us remember that there is diplomatic immunity, pouches and other privileges of world dignitaries. 
In summary, our Government was not to send money to third parties and much less on private planes. Conclusion: the roll of the briefcase Antonini is otherwise.
For example (here is my vision): everything was planned in Miami for enlodar the presence of Chavez in the Southern Cone and the electoral triumph of Cristina Fernandez. Blow to South American unity. I am convinced that Antonini is a type recruited for some time by the Mafia mayamera. We had everything ready. Prosecutors and judges included. The same fraud that legalized in favor of Bush. Not excluding anything having to do business with corrupt our ranks. Remember that everything is corrupt, firstly, a traitor, because he betrays the trust that society puts in him in custody to deliver public funds. 
The rest neither forgive nor right. While my comrades nationwide spent Christmas mensajitos, antichavismo was striving to make departure date to put Chavez. Corruption and insecurity are the reefs to bite. Its breeding ground is our lack of initiative. Noto some distraction in the Boliviarian forces. The street, social strife and political creativity can not dej�rselas anyone. Less to *****

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	A true media commotion arose in the region following the court case the briefcase to a prosecutor chavista deputy District Miami, Tom Mulvihill, caratul� bluntly?'s Presidential campaign Cristina Kirchner?. It was inevitable that many See the case as a blunt as an element of pressure against the new Argentine president by the internal opposition and External to it, precisely because part of a government today faced with its own spies such as George W. Bush, and Within days of signing the international treaty against usury is known as Bank of the South. A similar case affected in September for pre-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for the briefcase with almost the same amount (850,000 dollars) donated to his campaign by the multiple swindler Norman Hsu, it being clear that not only Unrest in the CIA against W. By pressures for fabricating reports about weapons of mass destruction to massacre Persians Iran, but our men in Langley have declared their own imagination on strike. Apart from this, every time we know better than the real operation is the garbage that have undertaken since offices Virginia seeking embed in Paraguayan politics to guevaristas financed by the CIA that militate our original Luguista left. Curiously, in the midst of so much psychosis antichavista owners of the means used to be filled Pockets with donations from the National Endowment for Democracy and paid advertising by USAID, have bypassed briefcases George W. Bush has been entering covertly in Paraguay, going to end up in the pockets less thought. Let's look at some cases. For example, $ 45226.96 on behalf of the Plan Threshold recently received the Guevarist House for Youth (NGOs It collects for the PMas) labour-imperialist agencies under the control of George W. Bush, supposedly to teach To high school students something fundamental? Identify corruption? In Paraguay. Adding money to the 127,000 that Previously benefited the IAF. According to data Americans, with the money in ten months, the clientele Guevarist Camilo Soares and Rocio Old? Trained? To 50 teachers? Sensitized? 1000 students and clink box (it looks like Responsible in documents Sunia Valinotti). A further example of that in our country there are no applications for credit Works, but it works invented to request credit. It added in the same context that the large sums received Local Governance, an NGO whose responsibility are both financiers Tekojoja of, or $ 132,700 in 2006 received the Foundation Harlequin Tetro (refuge Organisers Demonstrations against the current municipal administration) for goals as related performing arts? Help Adolescents in schools to identify, study, discuss and address community priorities?. We must add $ 116,300 George W. Bush received in 2006 by the CIDSEP, 95,000 US dollars received by Paraguayan Foundation for Cooperation and Development of former Mayor Martin Burt, 94,000 deposited in the name of the ADEC, 27,500 donated to the CPES Dominic Rivarola, 164,404 contributed to the EDC, or major donations Receive DNIC of Augustine Carrizosa for? Supporting organizations of civil society, the IDEA Patricia Abed, or Sensitive environmental Alter Life as Jorge Lara Castro. Any opinion or political incursion of these engendros the rule, obviously, is hailed as politically correct Stratospheric from the summits of the House of Advertisers of Paraguay and Cerneco whose? Forums for freedom of Expression? - Like organized in November 2004 - were always sol�citamente sponsored by USAID. To get an Drop idea of the line by CERNECO, just mention that your committee? Proposed code of ethics? Former employees of the integrated Stroessner and propagandist alabardero of Videla, Aldo Zucolillo (Rufo Medina and Ilde Silvero), and son-in-law of a general key Operation Condor, Carlos Jorge Biederman. It is not difficult to deduce the origin of the exaggerated account of the relatives of the last of the Mentioned in Wachovia Bank (Securities), which withdrew the tiny fraction of $ 172,000 on June 25, 2005 (Check No 1323). All of this garbage empire in Paraguay, as we know, has great? Prestige? And support of this press Pro-imperialist, whose debris and evils Paraguayan society has been dragging since the state department Commissioned to Tte. Colonel Robert K. Thierry to train torturers Edgar L. Ynsfr�n towards 1956. A small mistake that ? Amended? 1987 toward hiring through the CIA agent Leonard Susman, a strong communicators Identified with Stroessner for? Fight? Against the dictatorship they banc� their media. They protest at US embassy in Argentina's case by case and in Latin America wide protest by all briefcases Delivered to the USA, to destroy successful democracies in Latin America and to prevent them from leaving government Democratas At this point one should be writing good news for 2008, messages of brotherhood and good wishes for the country and people loved. But it is, does not give us the right or Christmas truce, they are as Christians and fill their mouths with the word reconciliation. Pure fallacy. On the night of December 23 when leaving the bakery a group of girls offered us T-shirts for sale with Christmas and to help poor children. The stamping is decorated with a garland NO size of the chest. When he arrived home, VTV went bonuses and carols, while Globoterror shot lead in two parallel programmes interviews and reports. When cansaban to do so directly, were connected to a TV argentina which continued the onslaught against our government. They followed the scenario came to the Colombian RCN to finish with CNN. Pure antichavismo frenzied. And VTV, sports programs. The comidilla fashion: the briefcase Antonini. This coup opinion can place it perfectly within the ongoing psychological warfare designed and implemented by the CIA and its agents, speak English, Caracas or Buenos Aires. The media siege is part of the tactic to keep the hosts on the defensive Boliviarian on such sensitive issues as corruption, personal insecurity and shortages of consumer goods daily. The briefcase Antonini say once and categorically, that Chavez has nothing to do in this matter. I say this with absolute conviction. I appeal to the intelligence of our people. Look at this. If the President would like to give any of its allies on this continent, not to mention eight hundred thousand dollars-that for a presidential campaign in Argentina are almost nothing, say ten million dollars, does not need to send with the first mandadero to appear, even with some of his closest confidence, simply because the President has in his plane and point. Moreover, it can not be checked by customs or immigration authority hands. Let us remember that there is diplomatic immunity, pouches and other privileges of world dignitaries. In summary, our Government was not to send money to third parties and much less on private planes. Conclusion: the roll of the briefcase Antonini is otherwise. For example (here is my vision): everything was planned in Miami for enlodar the presence of Chavez in the Southern Cone and the electoral triumph of Cristina Fernandez. Blow to South American unity. I am convinced that Antonini is a type recruited for some time by the Mafia mayamera. We had everything ready. Prosecutors and judges included. The same fraud that legalized in favor of Bush. Not excluding anything having to do business with corrupt our ranks. Remember that everything is corrupt, firstly, a traitor, because he betrays the trust that society puts in him in custody to deliver public funds. The rest neither forgive nor right. While my comrades nationwide spent Christmas mensajitos, antichavismo was striving to make departure date to put Chavez. Corruption and insecurity are the reefs to bite. Its breeding ground is our lack of initiative. Noto some distraction in the Boliviarian forces. The street, social strife and political creativity can not dej�rselas anyone. Less to *****

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	"�Deberemos olvidarnos de Palestina para obtener la aprobaci�n de alguien? Nos escuchar�an si partes de Francia o de EEUU estuvieran ocupadas. Somos respetados a ojos del mundo en tanto que nos respetamos a nosotros mismos, y en primer lugar a nuestros propios derechos". Hoy en d�a, nuestro pueblo �rabe se encuentra bajo el salvaje ataque de fuerzas oscuras. Las l�neas maestras de sus planes se han visto con claridad en Iraq , en lo que est� ocurriendo en Sud�n, en su injerencia en los asuntos de L�bano, en sus amenazas a Siria. Todo esto ocurre en un tiempo condicionado por dos grandes tendencias en el mundo �rabe. Una de ellas jam�s podr� romper la voluntad de los pueblos. La resistencia encuentra siempre un modo de enfrentar al invasor, incluso alcanzando el punto en el que el cuerpo humano se convierte en un arma mortal. La situaci�n de hoy en Palestina no es sino otro punto de enfrentamiento entre ambas tendencias: la de la resistencia y la liberaci�n y la de la rendici�n y la puesta en venta. Este noble pueblo y su gloriosa Intifada, con el heroico movimiento de resistencia a la cabeza, se encuentra bajo un ataque hostil de una clase especial, combinando el enorme palo de la ocupaci�n (con su destrucci�n, masacres, asesinatos, el desarraigo de la gente y el asolamiento de sus tierras, el genocidio de nuestro pueblo y la servidumbre de quienes sobrevivan) con la zanahoria, la insinuaci�n y la declaraci�n de facto de que la paz est� al alcance de la mano y que todo lo que debemos hacer para conseguirla es prepararnos a entrar en el nuevo orden, vestidos apropiadamente en honor a su venerable cultura. Al mismo tiempo, el dinero ha comenzado a llegar, de manera precisa y bien estudiada, aprovech�ndose de las dif�ciles condiciones de vida soportadas por nuestro pueblo, para intentar as� despojarle de su voluntad y determinaci�n, situ�ndole en la encrucijada entre el para�so y el infierno. En esa misma l�nea se han aproximado a nuestra gente con las novedosas ONGs, con sus misteriosas fuentes de financiaci�n, inevitablemente ligadas a programas y posturas que pretenden aplastar toda lucha de liberaci�n, que piden que se abandone el derecho b�sico a la resistencia contra la ocupaci�n, en particular bajo la forma de operaciones de martirologio. Los acuerdos de Oslo sustituyeron la realidad de una revoluci�n por la quimera de un Estado, en un intento por acabar con la primera Intifada, y por ello sufrimos una gran p�rdida por duplicado. Los acuerdos reemplazaron el esl�gan "Revoluci�n hasta la victoria" por una "Autoridad" Palestina que no pose�a ni la tierra, ni el agua ni siquiera el aire. Esto desanim� a la mayor�a de los palestinos, y al mismo tiempo liberaba a la Ocupaci�n de sus responsabilidades hist�ricas, morales y pr�cticas. Se recompens� a los que flaquearon y se convirti� en fugitivos a los revolucionarios. �Y cual ha sido el resultado final? Que cualquiera que se interpusiera en su camino podr�a ser envenenado [1]. �Qu� saldo m�s vergonzoso! Pueblo fiel, no debemos tropezar dos veces en la misma piedra. Hoy, los ingenieros de la cat�strofe nos vigilan de nuevo, y esta vez planean quedarse con el resto de Palestina. Las armas no miden el honor de un hombre, sino su verg�enza. Se debe poner freno al caos. Decir la verdad o quejarse son "provocaciones" a ojos de los sionistas, y est� prohibido hacerlo por una "Orden Presidencial " emitida antes incluso que alguien ocupe el cargo de presidente; nuestra preocupaci�n deber�a ser "comprender el sufrimento de los israel�es", y ese ser� nuestro billete para poder ser admitidos en el club de amigos de Am�rica, la llave de un cofre del tesoro repleto de maravillas prometidas. Resistencia frente al sionismo y al imperialismo Hemos seguido de cerca la historia y experiencia de los pueblos del mundo. Entendemos las dimensiones de los programas del Sionismo y del imperialismo para nuestra tierra. Nos gu�a el ejemplo de nuestros antecesores, quienes nunca aceptaron la humillaci�n, si no que a trav�s de las �pocas ofrecieron voluntariamente sus vidas resistiendo a los opresores, para as� mantener libre y limpio de toda humillaci�n a su pa�s. Podemos ver los brillantes haces luminosos de la victoria, que vienen de manos de los gloriosos h�roes de la triunfante resistencia iraqu�. Nos enorgullecemos de la victoria conseguida tan duramente en el sur de L�bano, el fruto de una lucha que se ha dirigido al agresor en el lenguaje que entiende. De acuerdo con la ley de Dios y la voluntad de Izz ad Din al-Qassam [2], de Mahir al-Burnu, del Guevara de Gaza, de al-Ayyash y de ash-Shiqaqi, y de todos aquellos dispuestos a unirse a la lista de m�rtires, declaramos lo siguiente: - Primero. El trabajo nacional palestino, la conducta de los representantes palestinos, y el rumbo tomado por sus l�deres debe estar basado en la autoridad hist�rica de Palestina, y en la original Carta Nacional Palestina (que fue falseada por el Consejo Nacional cuando se reuni� con el presidente Clinton de EEUU, un acto ilegal, ya que ni el Consejo ni la Autoridad Nacional Palestina tienen autoridad para aprobar resoluciones que afecten al destino de la poblaci�n palestina dispersa por el mundo desde que en 1948 se robara su tierra, y que habiten tanto en la Franja de Gaza, como en Cisjordania, como cualquier otra parte del mundo, sobre todo la poblaci�n de los campos de refugiados, que espera volver a casa), y debe afirmar las dimensiones �rabe e isl�mica de Palestina. - Segundo. La Resistencia es la opci�n para derrotar la Ocupaci�n, aplastarla y obligarla a retirarse, enterrando sus ilusiones para siempre. La resistencia no es una minucia: es un deber sagrado, moral y humano ante el que nos sentimos llamados por Dios y por la historia. En este contexto advertimos sobre las llamadas elecciones palestinas, que ser�n realizadas bajo ocupaci�n, y afirmamos que nuestra prioridad ahora es extender la opci�n de combatir al enemigo., uniendo fuerzas frente a el. Por esto la Intifada sigue siendo el medio disponible para avanzar por el camino de la liberaci�n. Debemos seguir posicion�ndonos y profundizar en contra de los acuerdos de Oslo y sus negociadores. Rechazamos actuar seg�n la l�gica impuesta por el enemigo,, pero esto no significa que vayamos a permanecer en silencio respecto a aquellos que, entre nuestras filas, insisten en seguir cometiendo los mismos errores. Los acuerdos de Oslo han perdido toda credibilidad, incluso a ojos de quienes inicialmente albergaron alguna ilusi�n respecto a los mismos. El objetivo real de los acuerdos Oslo se ha visto claramente, y lo mejor que podr�an hacer quienes los defendieron e impulsaron es disculparse ante nuestro pueblo y retirarse, sin entrar en consideraciones morales por no decir de las po�ticas. - Tercero. El derecho al retorno y las compensaciones no est�n sujetos a negociaci�n ni intercambios, y mucho menos han ser olvidados. �Es acaso razonable pedir que la persona cuya casa ha sido robada, que ha sido desplazada y se ha convertido en un sin techo, deber�a mirar al frente y sonreir porque aquel que le expuls� ha resuelto su propio problema de vivienda? � O deber�a incluso acudir a ayudar de buena voluntad en la remodelaci�n de la casa del invasor para que se encuentre m�s c�modo? El derecho al retorno es una derecho b�sico recogido en la Declaraci�n de Derechos Humanos y sin duda en la historia recogida con anterioridad a la creaci�n del derecho y organismos internacionales. Nuestros padres nunca tiraron las llaves de sus antiguas casas; nos corresponde a nosotros ahora no tirar los derechos de las generaciones venideras. Heredamos esta tierra tal y como heredamos nuestros nombres y caracter�sticas gen�ticas, y su perdida significa la p�rdida de nuestra humanidad, de nuestros estatuto de seres humanos. - Cuarto. Si este fuera un mundo perfecto, no tendr�amos mayor problema en dejar al derecho penal, que dicen internacional, resolver nuestros problemas. Si la voz de los jueces se escuchara, si no fuera abrogada o ignorada; si todo el mundo fuera como Mandela, Gandhi, la Madre Teresa o Jesucristo, nosotros tambi�n pondr�amos la otra mejilla, porque al final del d�a nuestros derechos acabar�an siendo restituidos. Pero eso es s�lo un sue�o, y ya que los asesinos y sus sicarios se sientan en sus tronos, la realidad para nosotros se traduce en recuperar por la espada lo que nos han robado por la espada, ya que lo que ha sido tomado por la fuerza s�lo puede ser devuelto por la fuerza. Hasta que el sue�o de un mundo perfecto pueda ser realidad, depositar nuestra fe en la legalidad internacional es un aut�ntico suicidio para el mas d�bil, pero eso s�, un suicidio en toda legalidad. - Quinto. El rumbo de la llamada sumisi�n "racional" y la conciliaci�n (tal y como las presentan Mahmoud Abbas, Yasir Abd Rabbuh y el resto de la panda de Oslo y Ginebra) no es el elegido por el pueblo palestino. Ellos no tienen el derecho de vender, conceder o ceder nada en el nombre de �ste. Las fuerzas activas en nuestro pueblo resistente deben llegar a un acuerdo para elegir un liderazgo que represente a todos los palestinos, donde quiera que se encuentren; un liderazgo que sostenga algo que es mas grande que el propio liderazgo o cualquiera de nuestras individualidades: la Carta Nacional Palestina y los principios nacionales b�sicos que permanecen sobre todo lo dem�s, al igual que lo hace Palestina. Hasta que llegue ese momento, nuestro portavoz ser� la Resistencia, nuestras declaraciones oficiales ser�n las balas y rocas de la Resistencia; hasta que llegue el momento en el que un portavoz hable empleando su misma l�gica. - Sexto. No es relevante si el lenguaje que empleamos est� de acuerdo o no con el que se usa en sectores que no creen en el car�cter �rabe de Palestina. �Qu� tendr�a de bueno aparentar haber ganado frente al mundo si hemos perdido nuestros propios derechos? Si el camino adecuado fuera insistir en el error com�n a costa de un derecho dif�cil de alcanzar, entonces el Profeta Muhammad no hubiera expandido la religi�n de su Se�or manteniendo el control de la Luna y del Sol con sus manos; entonces Jesucristo no se hubiera rebelado contra los ej�rcitos de la opresi�n y el asesinato sin haber contado con un Katyusha ni un mill�n de hombres detr�s de s�. Su �nica arma era que ten�a raz�n, y una disposici�n absoluta al sacrificio. �Deberemos olvidarnos de Palestina para obtener la aprobaci�n de alguien? Nos escuchar�an si partes de Francia o de EEUU estuvieran ocupadas. Somos respetados a ojos del mundo en tanto que nos respetamos a nosotros mismos, y en primer lugar a nuestros propios derechos. Nuestros enemigos mataron al Conde Bernadotte [3]. Han espiado a EEUU. Cortaron la electricidad en una exposici�n donde se pod�a contemplar el cuadro de una joven luchadora m�rtir. Se han burlado de todas las resoluciones de NNUU que iban contra sus intereses. Hacen todo esto sin tener la raz�n de su parte, pero est�n dispuestos a luchar hasta la muerte, aunque sean invasores ocupando la tierra de alguien. �No deber�a ser esta determinaci�n mas apropiada para los descendientes de Salah ad-Din, al- Awwam y Jalid Ibn al-Walid [4]?

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	(This statement on the current situation in Palestine was approved on December 26, 2004, after extensive dialogue, on the Arab Nationalist list. We are hereby asking all those interested to distribute it as widely as possible). Translated from Arabic by Muhammad Abu Nasr Today our Arab People are under savage assault by the international forces of darkness. The outlines of their plans have become clear in Iraq, in what is going on in the Sudan, in their interference in Lebanese affairs, and in their threats to Syria. All of this is taking place at a time when there are two currents in the Arab Region. One of those currents will never be able to break the will of the peoples. Resistance always finds a way to stand up to the invaders even if it reaches a point that the human body is turned into a deadly weapon. The situation in Palestine today is but another part of the struggle between the two currents: the current of resistance and liberation and the current of giving up and selling out. This noble people and their glorious intifada, and in the first place the heroic resistance movement, are under a hostile attack of a special kind that combines the big stick of the occupation - destruction, massacres, murder, the uprooting and displacement of people and their very fields, i.e., the attempted genocide of our people and the subjugation of those who are left with the carrot, the hint, in fact the open declaration, that peace is at hand and that all we must do to achieve it is to prepare to enter the new order, dressed appropriately in honor of their venerable culture. At the same time, money has begun to pour in, in a precise and well-directed manner, and taking advantage of the difficult living conditions endured by our people to try to rob them of their steadfastness and determination, putting before them the choice of paradise or the fire. Along the same lines they have come at us with the innovation of the "Non Governmental Organization," with its mysterious foreign sources of funding, inevitably linked with the programs and positions that serve to totally crush the liberation struggle, that demand at the very least that the basic right to armed resistance against occupation in particular the martyrdom operations and the martyrdom fighters be abandoned. The Oslo Agreement substituted the chimera of a state for the reality of the revolution to put an end to the first intifada, and we suffered a two-fold loss. That agreement replaced the slogan "Revolution until victory" with a Palestine "Authority" that possessed no land, no water, nor even airspace. It gave up most of Palestine while at the same time relieving the occupation of its moral, historical, and practical burdens. It rewarded the lackeys and turned the revolutionaries into fugitives. And what was the outcome? That anyone who obstructed their way would be poisoned. What a shameful bargain! Faithful people, we must not fall into the same hole twice. Today the engineers of ruin are eying us again, and this time they plan to take all that is left of Palestine. Arms are no longer a man's honor but his shame. An end must be put to "anarchy." To speak the truth or to complain are "incitement" against the Zionists which has been prohibited by a "presidential order" issued before presidential power has even been conveyed to its issuer. Our motto now must be to "understand the sufferings of the Jews," and this will be our admission ticket to the club of America's friends, the key to a treasure chest of promised wonders. We have surveyed the history and experience of the world's peoples. We understand the dimensions of the Zionist and imperialist programs on our land. We are guided by our forefathers who never for one day accepted humiliation but freely gave their lives to resist oppressors throughout the ages so that our country might remain free and pure of all desecration. We can see the bright rays of the light of victory coming from the hands of the glorious heroes of the triumphant Iraqi resistance. We take pride in the hard-won victory in southern Lebanon, the fruit of a resistance struggle that addressed the aggressor in the language he understands. In accordance with the law of Heaven and the behests of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Mahir al-Burnu, The Guevara of Gaza, of al-Ayyash and ash-Shiqaqi, and all those now awaiting their turn to join the every-growing line of martyrs, we declare the following: First. Palestinian national work, the behavior of Palestine's representatives, and the course taken by its leaders must be based on the historic authority of Palestine and the original Palestine National Charter, (which was falsified by the national council when they met US president Clinton a step that was illegal, given the fact that the Council and even the Palestine Authority has no authority to pass resolutions affecting the destiny of the Palestinian people who come from all of Palestine, that which was stolen in 1948, as well as the West Bank and Gaza, as well as those living dispersed around the world, and in the first place those in the refugee camps awaiting their return home.), and they must affirm the Arab and Islamic dimension of Palestine. Second. Resistance is the option for driving out the occupation, for crushing it, compelling it to retreat, for burying its illusions forever. Resistance is not a bargaining chip; it is a sacred, moral, and human duty for which we will be judged by God and history. In this context we warn against so-called Palestinian presidential elections that will be taking place under the occupation, and affirm that our priority now is to rally around the option of fighting the enemy, of massing forces against him. Therefore the intifada is the means available today on the path of liberation. It must continue and deepen in opposition to Oslo and the conciliators. We refuse to operate using a logic like that of the enemy, but this does not mean that we must remain silent regarding the errors of those who persist in committing mistakes within our own ranks. The Oslo Agreement has lost all credibility even in the eyes of those who formerly had illusions about it. The aim of Oslo has become crystal clear, and it would be best for those who have defended it and promoted it to apologize to our people and to withdraw, out of moral considerations to say nothing of political ones. Third. The right of return and compensation is not subject to negotiation, to give and take, to say nothing of being thrown away and abandoned. Is it reasonable to demand that the person whose house has been stolen, who has been displaced and made homeless should look on and smile because the one who kicked him out has now solved his own housing problem? Or even to go and willingly help him remodel the house so that it suits him better? The right to our home is a basic right enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights and indeed in the logic of history before any international bodies and institutions were created. If our fathers never let go of the keys to our homes, it is not for us to throw out the rights of future generations. We inherit this land as we inherit our names and genetic characteristics, and their loss means the loss of our humanity, of our status as human beings. Fourth. We would like to be able to hand over our problem to what is called international legality if this were a perfect world, if the word of judges were listened to, not thrown aside or abrogated, if they were all like Mandela, Gandhi, Mother Theresa, or Jesus Christ, we too would turn the other cheek, and at the end of the day our rights would be returned to us. But since that is all a dream, and so long as murderers and their henchmen sit on their thrones, then reality in the first place makes us take back by the sword that which has been taken from us by the sword, for that which has been taken by force cannot be regained except by force. Until the dream of a perfect world comes to pass, putting faith in international legality is nothing but suicide for the weak, but suicide under a cloak of legality. Fifth. The course of "rational" submission and conciliation (as represented by Mahmud Abbas, Yasir Abd Rabbuh, and the rest of the Oslo and Geneva gang) is not the course chosen by the Palestinian people. They do not have the right to sell, concede, or give up anything in their name. The active forces among our resisting people must come to an agreement on a way to elect a leadership that represents all of the Palestinian people, everywhere they are, one that continues to hold on to that which is greater than the leaders or us individually the Palestine National Charter and the basic national priniciples that stand above everyone, like Palestine. Until such time, our spokesman will be the resistance, our official announcements will be the bullets and rockets of the resistance, until such time as someone who can speak by their logic is elected. Sixth. It is not important whether the language we use is in agreement with the language used in quarters that do not believe in the Arab character of Palestine. What good is it if we win over the world but lose our own rights? If it were the correct path to persist in common error at the expense of a right that is hard to obtain, then the Prophet Muhammad would not have preferred the religion of his Lord over having control of the moon in his right hand and the sun in his left, then Jesus Christ would not have rebelled against the armies of oppression and murder without having a Katyusha nor a million men behind him. His only weapon was what was right and a readiness to sacrifice everything for it. Should we give away Palestine in order to win someone else's approval? Would they be listening to us if it were parts of France or America that were occupied. We are respected in the eyes of the world to the extent that we respect ourselves, and in the first place our own rights. Our enemies killed Count Bernadotte. They spied on America. They turned off the electricity to an exhibit where there was a picture of a girl martyrdom fighter. They have made a mockery of every resolution passed by the United Nations if they thought that to be in their interests. They do that and are in the wrong, yet are ready to fight to the death, even though they are alien thieves occupying someone else's land. Is not this kind of determination more appropriate for the descendants of Salah ad-Din, al-'Awwam, and Khalid Ibn al-Walid?

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	Testimony of an ex- soldier marine of the U.S.A. that fought in Iraq Jimmy Massey: "I have been a psic�pata assassin" by Rose Miriam Elizalde * During almost 12 years sergeant Jimmy Massey was marine of hard heart. In March of the 2003, he arrived at Iraq with the invading troops and directed to 45 men who did not doubt in killing innocent civilians. Jimmy Massey participating in the Fair of Libro of Caracas, where it presented/displayed his book Cowboys de Infierno, a crude testimony of the genocide that the U.S.A. commits day to day against the Iraqian town. Ex- marine responds to the questions of Cuban journalist Pink Miriam Elizalde de Cubadebate. From Caracas I am 32 years old and I am a trained psic�pata assassin. The only things that I know to do are to sell to the young people the idea to him to enlist themselves in marines and to kill. I am incapable to conserve a work. For me the civilians despicable, are delayed mental, weak ones, a herd of ewes. I am his sheepdog. I am a predator. In the Army they called "Jimmy to me the Shark" ". This it has been the second paragraph of the book written for three years by Jimmy Massey, with the aid of journalist Natasha Saulnier, who was presented/displayed in the Fair of Libro of Caracas. Cowboys de Infierno is the story more violent than it has been written until now of the experience of an ex- member of the Body of Marines, one of first in arriving at Iraq during the invasion of the 2003 and that decided to count every time they are necessary what means to have been by 12 years ruthless marine and why it changed the war to it. Jimmy attended like panelista the main factory of the Fair, that has an controversial title: "the United States, the possible Revolution", and its testimony has been perhaps the one of greater impact in the hearing. It takes the hair with a military court, espejuelos dark, walks with martial airs and their arms completely are tattooed. It seems exactly what was: marine. When it speaks is another thing: somebody deeply marked by a frightful experience that tries to avoid other incautos young people to him. As it assures in his book, he has not been the unique one that killed in Iraq: this was a constant practice between its companions. Four years after leaving the war, still it lives persecuted by the nightmares. Rose Miriam Elizalde: What mean all those tattoos? Jimmy Massey: I have many. Me I did them in the Army. In the hand (it indicates to the zone between the thumbs and to annul), the logo of Blackwater, the mercenario army that was founded where I I was born, in Carolina of the North. Me I did it in an act of resistance, because marines has prohibited to tattoo the zone that goes of the wrists to the hands. A day the members of my squad emborrachamos us and all we became the same tattoo: cowboy of eyes injected in blood on several aces, that represent the death. It means exactly that that you are thinking: "you killed somebody". In the right arm, the symbol of marines, with the North American flag and Texas, where I enlisted myself in the Army. In the chest, of the left side, a Chinese dragoon that tears the skin and means that the pain is the weakness escaping of the body. What it does not kill to us does more fort to us. Cover of the Cowboys book of the Hell that was presented/displayed in the Fair of Libro of Caracas (FILVEN 2007) and in the presence of Jimmy Massey. You will be able to request the book being written to the Tim�li publishing house: [email protected] and to support this way to our journalistic investigations. ________________________________________________ Rose Miriam Elizalde: Why it said that in the Body of Marines it found the worse people than you have known in your life? Jimmy Massey: The United States single has two ways to use to marines: humanitarian tasks and to assassinate. In the 12 years that I never happened in the Body of Marines of the United States I participated in humanitarian missions. Rose Miriam Elizalde: Before going to Iraq you recruited young people so that they joined the Army. What means to be a recruiter in the United States? Jimmy Massey: To be a mentiroso. The Bush administration has forced to North American youth so that it is enlisted in the Army and what basically it does - and I also did is to try to gain people with economic incentives. During three years I recruited 74 people, who never said me that they wanted to enter the Army to defend to the country nor argued no patriotic reason. They wanted to receive money to go to a university or to obtain a health insurance. And I described first all those advantages to them and single in the end she spoke to them as which they were going to serve the mother country. I never recruited to the son of a rich one. In order to maintain the work, the recruiters we could not have scruples. Rose Miriam Elizalde: Now the Pentagon has relaxed plus the requirements to enter the Army. What means that? Jimmy Massey: The standards for the recruitment have descended enormously, because nobody almost wants to enlist itself. No longer it is an impediment to have mental problems nor antecedent criminals. People can enter who have committed felon�as, is to say that they have been sentenced to more of a year of jail, which considers a serious crime. Boys can enter who have not finished the preuniversity studies. If they pass the test mental, enter. Rose Miriam Elizalde: You changed after the war, but what feelings had before? Jimmy Massey: I was like another soldier anyone, that believed in which they said to him. Nevertheless, since he was recruiting I began to feel bad: as recruiter had to lie all along. Rose Miriam Elizalde: Nevertheless, it thought that its country was enlisted in a just war against Iraq. Jimmy Massey: Yes. The intelligence reports that we received said that Saddan had arms of massive destruction. Later we discovered that everything was lie. Rose Miriam Elizalde: When one found out that they had deceived it? Jimmy Massey: In Iraq, at where I arrived in March of 2003. To my squad it was called on to him to go to the places that had been of the Iraqian Army and we saw thousands and thousands of the ammunition in boxes that took the North American label and were there since the United States helped to the government of Saddan in war against Iran. I saw boxes with the North American flag and until tanks of the U.S.A. My marines - I was sergeant of E6 category, a rank superior to the sergeant, and directed to 45 marines- asked to me why there were the ammunition of our country in Iraq. They did not understand. The information of the company affirmed that Salmon Peace was a field of terrorists and who we were going to find chemical and biological arms. We did not find anything. Then I began to think that our mission really was petroleum. Rose Miriam Elizalde: The most disturbing lines of their book are those where you it is recognized like psic�pata assassin. It can explain why says it? Jimmy Massey: I have been a psic�pata assassin because they trained me to kill. I was not born with that mentality. It was the Marine infantry that educated to me so that outside a gangster of the American corporations, a delinquent. They trained to me to fulfill blindly the order of the President of the United States and to bring to him to house which he requested, without repairing in any moral consideration. I was a psic�pata because they showed no mercy to shoot to us first and to ask later, since a patient would do and not a professional soldier who single must face another soldier. If there were to kill to women and children, we did it. Therefore, we were not welded, but mercenarios. Rose Miriam Elizalde: What experience exactly made you to him reach that conclusion? Jimmy Massey: There were several. Our work was to go to certain areas of the cities and to occupy to us of the security in the highways. There was an incident in individual - and many more than really it took to me until the edge of the precipice. It affected a car that took Iraqian civilians. All the information of intelligence that arrived to us said that the cars went loaded with pumps and explosives. That was the information that we received from intelligence. The cars arrived at our controls and we made some warning shots; when they did not stop his march at the speed that we indicated, we shot without contemplations. Rose Miriam Elizalde: With the machine guns? Jimmy Massey: Yes. We hoped that each vehicle were explosions when pestering. But never we heard nothing. Soon we opened the car and what we found: died or wounded, and nor a single weapon, no propaganda of A the Qaeda, nothing. Except for civilians in the mistaken place and the mistaken moment. Rose Miriam Elizalde: You also relate how his squad machine-gunned a pacific manifestation. He is thus? Jimmy Massey: Yes. In the environs del Complex Military man of Rasheed, South al of Bagdad, close del Tigris river. There were demonstrators at the end of the street. They were young and they did not have arms. And when we advanced there was already a tank that was parked to a side of the street. The conductor of the tank said to us that they were pacific demonstrators. If the Iraqians had wanted to do something they could have flown the tank. But they did not do it. They were being only pronounced. That made us feel to us well because we thought: "If they went to shoot to us, they would have done it already". They were like a 200 meters of our detent. Rose Miriam Elizalde: Who issued the order to machine-gun the demonstrators? Jimmy Massey: Of the High Command they said us that we did not lose of Vista the civilians because many fedayines (combatant) of the Republican Guard had taken off the uniforms, they had put clothes of civilians and they were triggering terrorist attacks against the American soldiers. The intelligence information that they gave us were known basically by each member of the control chain. All marines we knew very clearly the structure of the control chain that was organized in Iraq. I believe that the order to shoot to the demonstrators wine of high civil employees of the Administration, that included so much to the centers of military intelligence like governmental? Rose Miriam Elizalde: You what you did? Jimmy Massey: I returned to my vehicle, humvee (jeep highly equipped) and listened to a shot over my head. My marines began to also shoot and I. They did not give back any sudden flight to us, whereas I had shot 12 times. I wanted to make sure that we had killed according to the norms battle of the convention of Geneva and the prescribed operative procedures. I tried to forget its faces and looked for the arms to me, but there was no. Rose Miriam Elizalde: And their superior ones how reacted? Jimmy Massey: They said to me that "the excrement happens". Rose Miriam Elizalde: When their companions found out that they had been deceived, how they reacted? Jimmy Massey: I was second in the control. My marines asked me why we were killing to so many civilians "You you can speak with the lieutenant", they asked to me. "Deals that it has to have suitable detents, prepared by the engineers battle". The answer was: "Not". At the moment in which marines discovered that it was a great lie, they drove crazy more. Ours first mission in Iraq was not for supporting humanitarian, as they said means, but to assure the oil fields Bassora. In the city of Karbala we used the artillery by 24 hours. It was the first city that we attacked. I thought that we were going to give medical and nutritional aid him to the population. No. We followed of length until the oil fields. Before arriving at Iraq, we were in Kuwait. We arrived in January of 2003 and our vehicles were full of food and medicine. I asked to him the lieutenant what we were going to do with the provisions, because as soon as we with so many things inside fitted. It said to me that his captain had ordered to leave everything to him in Kuwait. Shortly after they issued the order to us to burn it everything: humanitarian foods and medical provisions. Rose Miriam Elizalde: You also have denounced the use of impoverished uranium... Jimmy Massey: I am 35 years old and I only conserve the 80 percent of my pulmonary capacity. A degenerative disease of the spine, chronic fatigue and pain in the sinews have diagnosed me. Before, every day it ran 10 kilometers by pure pleasing, and now single I can walk every day between 5 and 6 km. I have fear to have children for that reason. My face is inflamed. It watches this photo (it shows the image that appears to me in the credential of the Fair of Libro), me took it shortly after returning of Iraq. I seem a Frankenstein. All that I must to impoverished uranium, now imag�nate what it will be happening with people in Iraq. Rose Miriam Elizalde: What happened when it returned to the United States? Jimmy Massey: They treated to me like a crazy person, a cowardly one, a traitor. Rose Miriam Elizalde: Their superior ones have said that everything is lie what is counted. Jimmy Massey: The evidence against them is overwhelming. The North American Army this exhausted. While more time lasts this war, more possibilities will have of than my truth appears. Rose Miriam Elizalde: The book that you have presented/displayed in Venezuela is published in Spanish and French. Why it has not been published in the United States? Jimmy Massey: The editorials have demanded that eliminate the real names of the people who are involved in their history and that presents/displays the war in surrounded Iraq like in a fog, less crude. I am not arranged to do it. Editorials like New Press, supposedly of left, refused to publish it because they feared to see itself surrounded in a lawsuit presented/displayed by the people involved in the book. Edited by MAHDI

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	The state of Iraq as it enters 2008 By James Cogan 2 January 2008 Use this version to print \| Send this link by email \| Email the author Media reports about New Year parties in parts of Baghdad cannot disguise the fact that Iraqis have little to look forward to in 2008, and even less to celebrate about 2007. Last year was yet another of death, destruction and suffering. Even the incomplete data compiled by the Associated Press�which only include reported deaths and exclude so-called insurgents who were killed in combat with US and Iraqi government forces�show that at least 18,610 civilians died as a result of violence. Tens of thousands more deaths were caused by the effects of malnutrition, unsafe drinking water, depleted uranium contamination and a dysfunctional health system. 2007 will be remembered as the year in which the British-based polling agency ORB estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis had been killed under the US occupation, substantiating the death toll previously calculated by scientists working with Johns Hopkins University. It will also go down as the year when more than one million Iraqis were forced to flee their homes to escape the sectarian violence fomented and encouraged by the policies of US imperialism. The �surge� of 30,000 additional US troops to the country between March and June was accompanied by arguably the worst ethnic-communal cleansing in Iraq�s modern history. UNICEF published statistics on December 21 revealing the level of social destruction: just 28 percent of Iraqi 17-year-olds sat for their final school exams in 2007 while the violence prevented close to one million children from attending primary school. Such figures underscore the charge leveled by the WSWS on May 24, 2007 that the architects of the Iraq invasion had committed sociocide��the deliberate and systematic murder of an entire society��in order to seize the country�s territory and oil resources for the benefit of the American corporate establishment. For these war crimes, the perpetrators in the Bush administration and allied governments must be brought to account. Thousands of American and British military families have paid a bitter price. More occupation troops were killed in Iraq in 2007 than any other year since the March 2003 invasion. A total of 901 American, 47 British and nine soldiers from other occupying countries lost their lives. Cumulative US casualties in the illegal war now stand at 3,904 dead and 28,661 wounded�many of whom have suffered brain damage, lost limbs or suffered other permanent injuries. A further 30,185 soldiers have had to be medically evacuated for �non-hostile� wounds, such as disease and psychological disorders. At least 132 American troops have committed suicide in the war-torn country. 2008 will see the killing and maiming continue. In his final press conference for the year on December 29, the American commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus poured cold water on declarations that the US troop �surge� had brought the country under US control. While noting the decline in US casualties over the previous three months�fatalities were the lowest since early 2004�he warned that �inevitably there will be tough fighting, more tough days and more tough weeks, but fewer of them, god willing�. Petraeus�s warning stemmed from the clearly temporary nature of the modest lessening of risks for American troops. The ebb in attacks on occupation forces stems not from any change in the overwhelming Iraqi opposition to the US presence, or from any improvement in the catastrophic living conditions facing the majority of Iraqis. Rather, it flows from a series of desperate deals, orchestrated by Petraeus, to buy off a number of largely Sunni Arab-based insurgent groups and secure a ceasefire with the main Shiite fundamentalist opposition to the occupation, the Mahdi Army of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. These deals are beginning to unravel. There are at least 77,000 Sunni militiamen being paid by the US military in western Iraq and in Sunni enclaves inside and around Baghdad. Their leaders, many of whom have links to the previous Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein, are seeking a greater political role through a sordid sectarian power-sharing arrangement with the Shiite fundamentalist and Kurdish nationalist parties that dominate the US puppet government in Baghdad. In the process, all factions are setting themselves in direct opposition to the hopes and aspirations of ordinary Iraqi working people of all sects and ethnic groups. Already, some two million Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan are being told they cannot necessarily return home. Whether they can or not will depend on whether they belong to the same sect as the one whose militia now controls their home suburb. Thousands of Shiites are being prevented from entering areas under Sunni militia authority and which are, in many cases, sealed off by US-erected 12-foot concrete walls. At the same time, tens of thousands of Sunnis and Christians driven out by Shiite militias face losing everything. The Mahdi Army, as part of Sadr�s deal with Petraeus, has taken over large swathes of Baghdad and rules it as a sectarian fiefdom on behalf of the cleric. Anger at the US-negotiated carve-up of the city and the elevation of militias is amplified by the inability of the occupation to provide jobs or basic services. Combined unemployment and underemployment in areas such as Sadr City stands at up to 70 percent, and new outbreaks of resistance are inevitable. Across the Shiite-populated south of Iraq, the situation is equally volatile. Sadr�s arrangement with the occupation has meant, in practical terms, abandoning his predominantly working class supporters to the US military and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC)�the largest pro-occupation Shiite party and the representative of the most powerful Shiite business and clerical elites. As a result, hundreds of Sadrist militiamen have been branded �rogue elements�, hunted down and detained or killed. Observers of Iraqi politics are noting the growth of disaffection within the Sadrist base over the consequences of Sadr�s horse-trading and collaboration with the US forces. Peter Harling of the International Crisis Group told McClatchy Newspapers last month: �I don�t know how sustainable this can be. They [Sadr�s supporters] appear extremely frustrated, willing to comply with Moqtada�s decision [the ceasefire], but not for very long.� According to an article in the December 26 Washington Post, large numbers have been rounded up in Najaf, Karbala, Hilla and Diwaniya. There are indications that the US military, along with Iraqi government forces loyal to SIIC, are preparing a crackdown against Sadrist and Sadrist-linked parties, militias and unions in the oil-rich city of Basra. The operation has the potential to be the first major blood-letting of the New Year and to unleash anti-occupation rebellions across southern Iraq. As the killing continues, various quarters of the US ruling elite are exploiting the very carnage they have produced to argue that American forces must remain in Iraq to establish the conditions for �democracy�. Such propaganda is nothing more than a shameless apology for the first great and ongoing war crime of the twenty-first century. The occupation is ruling through the promotion of sectarian divisions and the daily repression of opposition to its presence. The precondition for Iraq�s recovery from the social and political catastrophe created by the US-led war is the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all American and foreign troops. See Also: US occupation prepares Basra operation following British withdrawal [29 December 2007] What has the US "surge" in Iraq accomplished? [24 December 2007] British polling agency: More than one million Iraqi deaths since US invasion [15 September 2007] US officials guilty of �sociocide� in Iraq must be held accountable [24 May 2007]

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The state of Iraq as it enters 2008

By James Cogan2 January 2008

By James Cogan
2 January 2008