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ZIONIST & CHRISTIAN INVASIONS
INVASIONS & MURDER ARE ALWAYS OVERLOOKED WHEN IT COMES TO IMPERIALISTS - EXAMPLES OF THE FOLLOWING 2 INVASIONS ARE SUCH EXAMPLES:
ENGLAND INVASION OF IRELAND:
the twelfth century English invaders, led by King Henry II succeeded in claiming the eastern & southeastern coasts of Ireland for England.
Henry divided the land into ten regions, giving each region to ten of his principal followers, meaning that each part of the land now had two owners - the rightful, native owner & the English invader. The English believed that the Irish were barbarians & had no right to the land - much like the European invaders towards American Natives.
Laws were quickly drawn up in an overt attempt to bring the Irish natives 'into line' - subjugation was the early ploy by the English - again, much as was done towards the American Natives. It was under Queen Elizabeth I reign that Ireland was fully under British Rule, a time that British statesmen believed that the best way to bring the Irish natives into line would be through widespread starvation.
The military systematically went through the farmlands all over Ireland, destroying crops that had already been planted, preventing land cultivation & killing the old, native Irish landowners one by one.
Elizabeth's plan to colonize Ulster with English people fell to her successor, James I, who gave 'gifts' of Irish land to his ardent Scottish supporters.
By the summer of 1845, the Irish found that they could no longer pay the rent to their landlords & over the coming years many were evicted from their properties.
The Penal Laws (passed initially in 1695) were now strictly enforced, making it illegal for Catholics (most of the Irish) to own land, illegal for them to have an education, illegal for the Irish language (Gaelic) to be spoken or taught, illegal to enter the professions, hold office, vote, deal in trade, join the army, or practice their religion.
A widespread crisis was imminent. Six months after the failure of the potato crop people were beginning to starve.
The irony is that at the height of the Famine, Ireland was producing food, but the vast majority of it was exported, landlords seeking a better market price, & the native Irish were too poor to buy the food they themselves were farming.
Money was clearly more important to the British government than human lives. The failure of Britain to substantially help the Irish during the Famine while at the same time systematically profiting from her crops, has been perceived by many to be evidence of Genocide
The facts remain however that the Potato Famine in Ireland had devastating & wide-reaching effects; many died from starvation & diseases (including typhus, fevers, dysentery, dropsy, scurvy etc.), the population dropped from 8 million (before the famine) to 5 million (after), resentments against the English grew eventually leading to outright rebellion & the formation of the IRA.
USA'S UNJUST ATTACK ON GUATEMALA - excerpts from Arnold J. Oliver June 18, 2004 - Editor: John Gershman, Interhemispheric Resource Center
On June 17, 1954, the Government of the United States supported the overthrow of the legitimate & democratically - elected government of Guatemala
....What was done to Guatemala in 1954 was criminal, ...After throwing off dictatorial rule in the 1940s, Guatemala had several democratic elections that culminated in 1950 with Jacobo Arbenz becoming president with 65% of the popular vote.
Arbenz, committed to modernizing the country, pushed for more labor rights & higher wages, more spending on infrastructure, education, & land reform. The latter was a kind of Central American 'trust busting' - an effort to break up large uncultivated land holdings to create thousands of family farms. President Arbenz himself unselfishly lost 1700 acres to the reform program.
Unfortunately for Arbenz, his reforms ran up against a powerful multi - national corporation, the United Fruit Company, which owned over a half million acres of land in Guatemala, controlled the country's telegraph, rail systems, as well as the only Atlantic sea port.
The company had good connections in Washington. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles & his brother Allen Dulles, the Director of the CIA, both had extensive financial ties to United Fruit. They both bitterly opposed the Arbenz government's proposal to nationalize & distribute 390,000 acres of uncultivated land owned by the company
'Operation Success,' as the CIA - supported coup was called, removed the Arbenz government by force in June of 1954, & installed its hand - picked 'Liberator,' Castillo Armas, who promptly cancelled the land reform program, imposed press censorship, banned political parties, outlawed most labor union & leftist political activity, & re - hired the chief of the secret police from the old dictatorship.
more than thirty years would pass before Guatemala would again have reasonably democratic elections.
The CIA coup ushered in a long night of torture, repression, & state terrorism that took the lives of close to two hundred thousand Guatemalans. Among the victims have been nuns, priests, teachers, students, labor unionists, indigenous Mayans, & others labeled as 'subversives.'
Throughout the decades of repression, U.S. government officials supported the terror with arms, training, diplomatic cover, & intelligence.
State terror escalated to genocide in the 1980s as entire Mayan communities were wiped out with the active connivance of the Reagan administration, according to the findings in 1999 of a United Nations sponsored truth commission.
Although President Clinton apologized to the Guatemalan people in 1998 for the U.S. government's earlier backing of abusive regimes, the legacy of the coup & the decades of violence continue.
Guatemala in 1954 was a precedent. Elected governments in Brazil, Chile & Nicaragua later met a similar fate, & others including Argentina & Uruguay fell indirectly.
Recently, the U.S. government has subverted or grossly interfered with democratic processes in Haiti, Venezuela, & El Salvador.
September 22 1980 - Border dispute between Iran & Iraq escalates into full-scale war - SUPPORTED BY USA GOVERNMENT
1981 -1993 US & British companies are among several Western firms that sell Iraq materials that can be used to develop nuclear, chemical, biological, & conventional weapons. They do not dare lose control of Iraq, regardless of costs in lives & dollars. British Royal Commission, agreeing with Winston Churchill's policy towards Iraq, in 1913 We must become the owners, or at any rate the controllers at the source, of at least a proportion of the oil which we require' - obviously, almost a hundred years before the Bloody Bush Administration, Iraq's resources & military position was a concern to the world:
1981 - 1988 The Reagan administration provides covert support to Iraq in an effort to prevent Iran from overrunning the oil - rich states of the Persian Gulf. [New York Times; Washington Post; The Nation] In June, 1982, President Reagan decided that the United States could not afford to allow Iraq to lose the war to Iran. Reagan decided that the United States would do whatever was necessary to prevent Iraq from losing the war with Iran. The Times Sources: Teicher Affidavit
US Air Force officers are secretly deployed to Iraq to assist their counterparts in the Iraqi military. [The Nation]
The US provides satellite photography to Iraq revealing the movements of the Iranian forces. [New York Times; Washington Post
The US provides Iraq with intelligence gathered by Saudi-owned AWACS operated by the Pentagon. [The Nation]
Iraq uses US-supplied military intelligence 'to calibrate attacks with mustard gas on Iranian ground troops....' Washington Post
'[M]ore than 60 officers of the Defense Intelligence Agency .... secretly ... [provide] detailed information on Iranian deployments, tactical planning for battles, plans for airstrikes & bomb-damage assessments for Iraq.' President Reagan & Vice President George Bush personally deliver military advice to Saddam Hussein, both directly & through intermediaries. [Washington Post Sources: Teicher Affidavit]
US closely monitors '3rd country arms sales to Iraq to make sure Iraq [has] the military weaponry required.' Washington Post,: Teicher Affidavit
According to the censured portion of Iraq's December 7, 2002 declaration to the UN, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory & Sandia National Laboratories help train Iraqi nuclear weapons scientists & provide nonfissile material for Iraq's nuclear weapons program. [San Francisco Chronicle]
1983 Secretary of Commerce Howard Baldridge & Secretary of State George Shultz successfully lobby the National Security Council (NSC) advisor to approve the sale of 10 Bell helicopters to Iraq in spite of objections from other NSC members. These same helicopters are later used in 1988 to deploy poison gas against Iranians & possibly the Kurds. [Washington; Phythian]
1983 The Reagan administration approves the sale of 60 civilian Hughes helicopters to Iraq, even though it is widely understood that the helicopters can be weaponized with little effort. Critics will regard the sale as military aid cloaked as civilian assistance. [Phythian]
November 26, 1984 The United States Government re-establishes full diplomatic ties with Baghdad even though it is fully aware that Iraq has been using chemical weapons in its war against Iran. [Gwertzman; National Security Archive]
September 22 1980 - Border dispute between Iran & Iraq escalates into full-scale war - 17 individual shipments, 80 batches of biomaterial, two batches of anthrax, two batches of botulism, one batch each of salmonella & E.Coli, West Nile fever, brucella melitensis, biological warfare-related materials, missile fabrication equipment missile system guidance equipment & missile delivery system development programs were sent to the Iraqi by the USA sundayherald.com
October 1, 1984 - October 13, 1993 The Reagan & Bush administrations' commerce departments allow US companies & the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention to export chemical & biological agents as well as other dual-use items to Iraq. An October report revealed that the 'microorganisms exported by the United States were identical to those the United Nations inspectors found & removed from the Iraqi biological warfare program.'
May 2, 1986 Two batches each of bacillus anthracis & bacterium clostridium botulinum are shipped from the US to the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education. [Sunday Herald]
August 31, 1987 One batch each of salmonella & E coli is sent to the Iraqi State Company for Drug Industries with the approval of the US Department of Commerce. [Sunday Herald ]
January 1988 - February 1988 The US Commerce Department allows the export of equipment to Iraq for its SCUD missile program, allowing the Iraqis to increase the range of its SCUD missiles. Committee on Government Operations, House, Strengthening the Export Licensing System,
March 1988 - According to several accounts, Iraq uses US - supplied Bell helicopters to deploy chemical weapons during its campaign to recapture lost territories in its war with Iran.
July 18, 1990 - August 1, 1990 The Senior Bush administration's Commerce Department approves $4.8 million in sales of advanced technology products to Iraq's 'MIMI' & 'Saad 16' research centers. 'MIMI' is known to be a development facility for chemical, biological, & nuclear weapons programs & 'Saad 16' is known to be involved in the development of chemical & nuclear weapons [Committee on Government Operations, House, 'Strengthening the Export Licensing System' cited in Hurd & Rangwala 12/12/2001]
1992 The last shipment of Clostridium Botulinum, a source of botulinum toxin, is sent to Iraq. [Sunday Herald]
March 1992 Iraq receives its last shipment of US Pralidoxine from the US - an antidote to nerve gas which can also be reverse engineered to create actual nerve gas.
TODAY MANY ARE POINTING THEIR FINGERS AT IRAQ'S ATTACK ON IRAN, STATING HOW WRONG THE ACT WAS; SO FEW RECALL THAT THE CHRISTIAN USA SUPPLIED SADDAM WITH WMD TO FIGHT IRAN?
March 30, 1984 THE USA, AFTER SUPPLYING IRAQ WITH CHEMICAL WARFARE, DENIES ANY WRONG DOING - ADMITTING [KNOWING THAT CHEMICAL WEAPONS ARE BEING USED] THAT THEY ARE UNCONCERNED - IN TIME USA's G. W. BUSH CONDEMN IRAQ FOR USING WHAT THEY SUPPLIED THEM IN THEIR WAR AGAINST IRAN, FOOLISHLY THINKING SADDAM STILL POSSESSED THEM
February 15 2001 - US & Britain bomb Iraq's air defense network.
January 30 2002 - After the September 11 attacks on America, US president George Bush says Iraq is part of an 'axis of evil'. BUSH'S OPPORTUNITY FOR REVENGE NOW SURFACES -
10 April 2002, House of Commons,
British Prime Minister Tony Blair: 'Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable,
he is developing weapons of mass destruction, & we cannot leave him doing
so unchecked ... he is a threat to his own people and to the region &, if
allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.'
August 1 2002
- Iraq invites UN chief weapons inspector to Baghdad.
August 26 2002, US Vice President Dick Cheney: 'Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction; there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, & against us.'
September 12 2002 - President Bush addresses UN to put the case for war against Iraq.
September 16 2002 - Iraq accepts 'unconditional' return of UN inspectors
September 24 2002 - Britain publishes dossier saying Iraq could produce a nuclear weapon within one or two years, if it obtains fissile material & other components from abroad. PERHAPS BASED ON WHAT USA ALREADY GAVE TO SADDAMOctober 7 2002, US President George Bush: 'America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof - the smoking gun - that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud...the evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons programme. 'Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his 'nuclear mujahidin' - his nuclear holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear programme in the past. 'Iraq has attempted to purchase high -strength aluminum tubes & other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons...if the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. And if we allow that to happen, a terrible line would be crossed.' October 16 2002 - Iraq renews offer to UN weapons inspectors, after 'referendum' gives Saddam Hussein another seven -year term as president with 100% of the vote
November 13 2002 - President Saddam sends a letter to the UN secretary -general, Kofi Annan, accepting the UN resolution.
December 3 2002 - In a public
relations coup for Iraq, government officials cooperate fully with UN
weapons inspectors when a surprise search is sprung on one of Saddam
Hussein's Baghdad palaces.
December 7 2002 - Iraqi officials in
Baghdad present the UN with a 12,000 page dossier disclosing Iraq's program
for weapons of mass destruction, as demanded by UN resolution 1441.
General Hasam Amin of Iraq's national monitoring directorate says the dossier shows 'that Iraq is empty of weapons of mass destruction. I reiterate Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction
The contents of the Iraqi dossier are, NATURALLY, met with widespread skepticism in Washington & London. & SO BEGINS BUSH'S PERSONAL WAR using the almighty lie & repeating it endlessly RELIABLE INTELLIGENCE HAVE PROVED THAT IRAQ STILL HAS WMD. NOTHING IS GOING TO SWAY BUSH & BLAIR.
In a surprise move, Saddam Hussein uses a televised address to apologize to the people of Kuwait for invading their country in 1990.
December 8 2002 - Copies of the dossier are flown to the UN inspection agency in New York, the security council & the UN nuclear agency in Vienna for examination. General Amir al -Sadi, an adviser to President Saddam Hussein, admits that Iraq had come 'close' to developing a nuclear bomb but that program had long been abandoned
December 17 2002 - Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, hints that the White House will reject the Iraqi weapons declaration, saying there were problems with the 12,000 -page document. IRAQ CAN NOT WIN - LATER, April 7 2003 - previous claims of finding such weapons proved inaccurate.
December 18 2002 - The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, indicates that the UK government believes Iraq has made a 'material breach' of the UN resolution. Meanwhile the Ministry of Defense reveals that ships are being chartered to carry troops & heavy armor to the Gulf. NO MATTER WHAT. THE COALITION WANTS WAR
December 19 2002 - The United
States accuses Baghdad of being in 'material breach' of the UN resolution
after the UN's chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, says the Iraqi arms
declaration contains little new information about its weapons of mass
destruction capability. IT IS OBVIOUS THAT NOTHING WOULD CHANGE AS THERE
IS NOTHING TO ADD
December 22 2002 - Baghdad fights back in the
propaganda war between Iraq, the US & Britain by inviting the CIA to enter
the country & track down its alleged weapons of mass destruction.
2002 The desperate Palestinian stick & stone throwers begin the era of the dreaded SUICIDE BOMBERS - Most of the world is blind to the history & issues of Palestine; never paid heed until the horror of suicide bombings began - David meets Goliath - but still the world only sees what the media allows them to see, one side only. January the 1st female suicide bomber, Wafa Idris, struck. This 28 year old refugee, also driven out of her home, was an ambulance volunteer.
2000 Israeli's Ariel Sharon, surrounded by 1,000 Israeli Police, visits Haram Al -Sharif [Islam's 3rd holiest site & holiest site in Judaism]. The next day Palestinian stone-throwers begin protests in Israel, Gaza & the West Bank. The Israeli military responds shooting hundreds of Palestinians in the ensuing months
December 30 2002 - It emerges that the Reagan administration & its special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, did little to stop Iraq developing weapons of mass destruction in the 1980s, even though they knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons 'almost daily' against Iran.
December 31 2002 - A UN inspection team member in Iraq admits to finding 'zilch' evidence of weapons of mass destruction & says that the teams have been provided with little guidance from western intelligence agencies.
January 6 2003 - Saddam Hussein says he is ready for war, accuses UN weapons inspectors of being spies & calls his enemies the friends & helpers of Satan
January 9 2003 - Hans Blix says UN weapons inspectors have not found any 'smoking guns' in their search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but acknowledges that Iraq's 12,000 page weapons declaration was incomplete, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE INCOMPLETE PART IS
January 11 2003 - A British naval task force leaves for the Gulf headed by the HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier, carrying some 3,000 marines
January 13 2003 - In his monthly televised briefing, Tony Blair says that weapons of mass destruction will reach terrorists & that Britain could act against Iraq with the US without a second UN resolution. WMD FANTASY IS STEADILY BEING PUSHED
Mohammed el -Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says that UN weapons inspectors would need 'a few months' to finish their work in Iraq.
Arab nations tell Saddam: go now & we avoid war - WOULD THE IMPERIALISTS BULLIES BUSH & BLAIR LEAVE if the reverse was threatened
January 19 2003 -The US offers President Saddam immunity from prosecution if his departure from Baghdad would avert war
January 29 2003, state of the union address, Bush pushes his lies: 'Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last casualty in a war he had started & lost. To spare himself, he agreed to disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next 12 years, he systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical, biological & nuclear weapons even while inspectors were in his country...'
February 5 2003 -Colin Powell uses satellite photographs, tapes of intercepted conversations & newly opened CIA files to make the United States case against Iraq in a determined attempt to win over international opinion - the world remains divided
February 6 2003 - Around 100 aircraft & 7,000 RAF personnel are to be deployed in the build up for the inevitable war against Iraq, the defense secretary, Geoff Hoon, announces.
February 7 2003 - Downing Street admits that much of its dossier on Iraq, released a week earlier in an attempt to reinforce the case for war, was lifted from academic sources & compiled by mid -level officials in Alastair Campbell's Downing Street communications department. Downing St admits blunder on Iraq dossier statement to UN, Bush: 'The (Iraqi) regime has never accounted for a vast arsenal of deadly biological & chemical weapons.'
February 8 2003 - Hans Blix & Mohamed El Baradei are given new documents by Iraq, & describe key talks with Iraqi officials in Baghdad as 'very substantial'.
February 9 2003 - The US reacts furiously to a Franco -German peace initiative to triple the number of arms inspectors in Iraq & back them up with surveillance flights. The Bush administration sees it as a thinly -disguised attempt to derail the US timetable for war - BUSH WANTS WAR, PERIOD
February 16 2003 - The NATO deadlock over Turkey is broken after the organization strikes a deal to send military hardware into the country for its defense in the event of war. France snubbed as NATO strikes Turkish deal
February 17 2003 - Amid growing domestic opposition to war, the Turkish government delays a parliamentary vote on whether to allow US troops into the country, to form a northern front during a war on Iraq.
February 25 2003, House of Commons, Blair: 'The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD program is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression...the biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death - given to them by the enemy in the Regan years
DECLARATION OF WAR BEGINS
March 20 2003 - At around 0230 GMT, shortly after the 48 -hour deadline for Saddam to quit Iraq expires, America launches its first series of air strikes on Baghdad. George Bush says the US has begun attacks against 'targets of military opportunity'.
Saddam Hussein gives a televised address to the Iraqi people at around 0530 GMT, calling the attack a 'shameful crime' & vowing to win the war.
At around 1800 GMT, US planes begin a heavy bombardment of military targets in central Baghdad. Later on, British marines invade the Faw peninsula in the south of the country.
March 21 2003 - Parts of the port town of Umm Qasr, south of Basra, are seized by US military. To the west of Basra, British troops help US soldiers to secure oilfields from possible sabotage. Bombs & missiles begin to strike Baghdad for a third successive night, in a massive scaling -up of air strikes that are designed, say the US military, to 'shock & awe' the Iraqi people into submission.
March 22 2003 - Bombing continues in Baghdad.
March 23 2003 - American B -52 bombers continue their heavy raids on Baghdad: Iraq says last night's raids killed 106 civilians.
March 24 2003 - It is revealed that a US missile hit a Syrian passenger bus near the Iraqi border yesterday, killing five people. The Red Cross warns of an humanitarian emergency as water supplies begin to run out in Basra.
March 25 2003 - British forces bombard the southern city of Basra in an apparent reversal of an earlier decision not to take the city, amid reports of a popular uprising & an increasingly critical humanitarian situation.
March 26 2003 - Iraq says that a US missile has struck a busy Baghdad market, killing 'many' civilians. Overnight strikes aimed at Baghdad's national television station fail to take the state channel off the air - WHY ATTACK COMMUNICATIONS FOR FUTURE IRAQI INFORMATION USE - WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF BEING AIRED
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defense secretary, accuses Syria of being engaged in 'hostile acts' by delivering military equipment to Iraq, LIKE THE AMERICANS DID IN SUPPLYING IRAQ IN ITS WAR AGAINST IRAN
March 31 2003 - The US military launches an investigation after troops kill seven women & children at a checkpoint in southern Iraq
Three houses in Baghdad's up -market al -Mansour area are destroyed in what neighbors said was an allied missile attack. US officials say early on April 8 that they had intelligence President Saddam & his sons were meeting there. Two bodies have been recovered, but the toll may be as high as 14, rescue workers said. LIKE THE ISRAELI, THE AMERICANS WILL KILL MANY IN THE HOPES THAT ONE ENEMY MIGHT BE AT THAT PLACE TO BE DESTROYED
April 8 2003
- George Bush, says that he sees a 'vital' role for the UN in establishing an interim authority made up of Iraqis
- BUT IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN NECESSARY HAD BUSH LISTENED THE UN IN THE FIRST PLACE & DELAYED ITS ATTACKS, USING WMD.
SLOWLY THE BUSH/BLAIR ADMINISTRATION ARE CHANGING TUNES & ARE NOW STATING THEIR CAUSE IS A WAR ON TERRORISTS, Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, & eventually they will believe it
April 10 2003 - Kirkuk falls to Kurdish fighters. Turkey, fearing the Kurds will seize the city's oil wealth & make a bid for independence, sends in military observers at the invitation of the US
radio speech to the Iraqi people, Blair: 'We did not want this war. But in refusing to give up his weapons of mass destruction, Saddam gave us no choice but to act.' NOTE, HE SAYS NOTHING, AT THIS POINT, ABOUT TERRORISTS
April 16 2003 - US officials trumpet the capture Palestinian guerrilla Abu Abbas - AN ISRAEL ENEMY, NOT AN AMERICAN ENEMY - PERHAPS A SLIP OF THE TONGUE AS TO ANOTHER UNDERLYING REASON AS TO WHY WAR WAS DECLARED
April 24 2003 - The UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, calls on the US -led coalition to respect international law as the 'occupying power' in Iraq, drawing immediate ire from US officials who resist the label 'occupier'; yet on May 9 the America & British lay out their blueprint for postwar Iraq in a draft resolution to the United Nations security council, naming themselves as 'occupying powers' & giving themselves control of the country's oil revenues [something many thought was the real reason of Bush's war on Iraq]
IRAQ LIVES BECOME MEANINGLESS
April 28 2003 - US troops fire on a group of Iraqi demonstrators near Baghdad, killing at least 13 people & wounding 75 others
April 30 2003 - US troops open fire on Iraqi civilians for the second time as an angry crowd in Falluja protested over an earlier shooting
May 3 2003
- The Bush administration moves to heal a damaging rift with London, following claims from a senior Washington official that Saddam Hussein may have got rid of most of his weapons of mass destruction before the war. Such claims are highly awkward for Tony Blair, who remains adamant that banned weapons will be found & prove the coalition was justified in going to war. IN OTHER WORDS, IF NO WMD ARE DISCOVERED, THE
DEATHS OF SO MANY WERE IN VAIN & UNJUSTIFIED
- AS WAS THE CASE - THUS 'TERRORIST PROPAGANDA' IS STEADILY INTRODUCED & PUSHED OVER & OVER AGAIN
TERRORIST IS NOW THE MIND GAME AS WMD SLOWLY PASS OUT OF MEMORY
America & Britain lay out their blueprint for postwar Iraq in a draft resolution to the UN security council, naming themselves as 'occupying powers' [THE WORDS THEY ONCE CLAIMED TO BE NONSENSE] in full control of Iraq's oil revenues.
May 11 2003 - Iraqi agriculture is on the brink of collapse, with fears that many of its 24.5 million people will go hungry this summer, according to a confidential report being studied by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.
May 15/03 - Foreign secretary, Jack Straw, concedes that hard evidence of WMD destruction might never be found in Iraq. Now the new official reason [public mind game] for war has taken hold - He says it is 'not crucially important' to find them because the evidence of wrongdoing was overwhelming
May 22 2003
- The UN security council votes 14-0 to lift sanctions on Iraq & hand temporary control of the country to the US & Britain. Syria boycotts the vote. More proof that the USA & Britain rule the United Nations
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May 30 2003 - Military police question a British soldier about photographs of alleged 'torture' of Iraqi prisoners of war, including one gagged, bound, & dangling in netting from a fork -lift truck
June 4 2003 - House of Commons, Blair: 'There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists & experts, will be able to go in & do the job properly...as I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.' He rejects calls for an independent judicial inquiry into the case for the Iraq war.
June 6 2003 - A little late, but Hans Blix hits out at the quality of intelligence given to him by the United States & Britain on Iraq's alleged chemical & biological weapons program. 'Only in three of those cases did we find anything at all, & in none of these cases was there any weapons of mass destruction..,' he says.
June 8 2003 - David Blunkett becomes the most senior minister to admit publicly that Downing Street was wrong to publish the 'dodgy dossier' on the military threat posed by Saddam Hussein
June 10 2003 - The all -party parliamentary intelligence & security committee serves notice that it expects ministers to cooperate fully with its inquiry into Iraq's banned weapons program.
Hans Blix, the UN chief weapons inspector, meanwhile lashes out at the 'bastards' in who he says tried to undermine him throughout the three years he has held his high -profile post.
June 22 2003 - George Bush addresses increasing national disquiet over the number of US servicemen killed in Iraq. More than a quarter of US casualties have occurred since the president declared an end to major military combat on May 1. Iraq lives are meaningless?
July 6 2003 - Former US diplomat Joseph Wilson says it was 'highly doubtful' that Niger sold uranium to Iraq.
July 8 2003 - Tony Blair tells a committee of MPs that his evidence for Iraq's attempts to secure uranium from Niger did not come from forged documents but 'separate intelligence'.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says the report on the uranium 'did not turn out to be accurate'.
evidence to Commons liaison committee, Blair: 'I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong....I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programs.
July 10 2003, report to US Senate armed services committee, Rumsfeld: 'The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.' & the reason of war takes on a new twist - all knowing Saddam & Bin Laden are enemies & that there was no connection between Saddam & the 9/11
July 11 2003 - The CIA director, George Tenet, apologizes for not preventing George Bush from making use of the British -sourced uranium claims in his state of the union address.
July 28 2003 - Tony Blair & other British ministers are accused of crimes against humanity in prosecuting the war against Iraq in a case lodged with the international criminal court by Greek lawyers
August 8 2003 - Six Iraqis, including a father & 3 of his children, are killed in Baghdad by US troops who open fire on them as they hurry home to beat the curfew. THE LIBERATORS STEADILY GAIN ENEMIES
September 7 2003 - President George Bush seeks to reassure jittery Americans about their country's involvement in Iraq, dismissing doubts by arguing that it remains a central front in the war on terror.
September 12 2003 - The US military reignites tension in one of Iraq's most troubled towns when its troops mistakenly shoot dead eight policemen who were chasing a car full of suspected bandits.
September 18 2003 - The former UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, says he believes Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago
October 2 2003 - The man in charge of a hunt for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction admits that no weapon stocks had been found, and that all a three -month search, costing some $300m, had uncovered was a single vial containing a possible strain of biological agent.
BBC interview, chief US arms investigator in Iraq, David Kay: 'We've found a strong body of evidence with regard to the intentions of Saddam Hussein to continue to attempt to acquire WMD... No one doubts that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction pre-1991. But 13 years of UN activity, including Dr Blix, was unable to confirm that the Iraqis had actually gotten rid of all those weapons as they claim.'
November 6 2003 - Several US papers report that, in the weeks before its fall, Iraq's Ba'athist regime made a series of increasingly desperate peace offers to Washington, promising to hold elections & even allow US troops to search for banned weapon
December 10 2003 - Pentagon excludes countries that opposed the Iraq invasion from bidding for reconstruction contracts. Penalizes all who were right in not attacking Iraq on false claims on WMD
December 12 2003 - A Pentagon audit finds that Halliburton overcharged the government by $61m for delivering petrol to Iraq;
December 16 2003 - Germany & France agree to a US request to write off part of Iraq's $120bn debt; two divisions of Halliburton - the oil services firm formerly run by the US vice president, Dick Cheney
March 1 2003 - Turkey snubs US troops, in an unpleasant surprise for the Bush administration, the Turkish parliament narrowly rejects a plan to deploy 62,000 US troops in the country, to form a northern front in the event of war. An example of who will support whom in an aggression attack on Iran
March 2 2003 - It emerges that Britain & the US have been increasing their air strikes on Iraq in recent days, in an apparent bid to 'soften up' the country's defenses ahead of a war.
2001 Ariel Sharon is elected Israeli Prime Minister. Now Palestinian suicide bombers meet Israeli tanks, air bombers & helicopter gun ships - Two million starved people are now under curfew.
APRIL 2002 Israeli troops & tanks attack civilians in schools, offices, clinics, theatres, & radio stations in Ramallah as well as other towns in occupied Palestine - supposedly to stop the terrorism which has been created over the years of suppression. The longest military occupation begins. Freedom of movement is installed; Palestinians become house arrest prisoners; a maze of controls, road blocks, checkpoints set in.
Iraq oil - the target for years
By Ahmad Quni - Sunday 10 August 2003, 12:40 Makka Time, 9:40 GMT- US policy towards Iraq has always been shaped by the country's rich oil resources, its strategic location on the Gulf & its regional weight. Iraq ranks only second to Saudi Arabia for its oil resources, & was the world's second largest oil exporter before the Iraq-Iran war broke out in 1980.
The US has always been a key importer of Iraqi oil. Even under the UN sanctions, US companies imported some 750,000 barrels per day (bpd) from Iraq until the end of 2002.
Based on current estimates, Iraq's oil reserves stand at about 115 billion barrels, equivalent to the total oil reserves of the US, Canada, Mexico, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China and the whole of Asia.
Now that the US has succeeded in ousting President Saddam Hussein, Iraqi oil is set to start flowing once again.
US occupation administration hopes that Iraq would soon be able to export about 600-700,000 barrels a day, mostly to the US, in addition to 300-400,000 barrels produced for domestic consumption.
Exports could be back to the pre-war level of 2.5 million barrels a day, say US occupation officials.
According to plans designed by the occupying powers, Iraqi oil revenues will be channeled into a trust fund controlled by the US & the UK.
January 5 2004 - 3 American soldiers have been discharged after being found guilty of viciously beating & harassing Iraqi POW's
February 6 2004, after launching inquiry into WMD intelligence to figure out why no weapons were found, Bush: 'We're also determined to make sure that American intelligence is as accurate as possible for every challenge in the future.'
February 8 2004, interview on American television, NBC's 'Meet the Press', Bush: 'First of all, I expected to find the weapons. I based my decision on the best intelligence possible, intelligence that had been gathered over the years, intelligence that not only our analysts thought was valid but analysts from other countries thought was valid.'
March/04 the UN was forced to temporarily suspend food distributions in Gaza because of Israeli restrictions imposed on containers & staff, affecting between 700,000 to 1.2 million civilians.
July 14 2004, 16:29 Makka Time, 13:29 GMT - An UNRWA convoy delivering food to a besieged Palestinian town has come under Israeli fire in the occupied Gaza Strip, according to UN officials. A statement by UNRWA (United Nations Relief & Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) said the incident occurred after it delivered 370 tons of flour, oil, lentils, sugar, rice & whole milk to Bait Hanun in northern Gaza on Wednesday - food supplies meant for 20,000 civilians, or two -thirds of the besieged population. An Israeli armored personnel carrier opened fire at a five-vehicle convoy marked with UN flags & symbols, after UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter Hansen & operations personnel made the distributions, according to the statement.
October 12 2004 - Israeli troops who killed a Palestinian schoolgirl in the Gaza Strip have come under investigation for riddling her with bullets although she proved to have posed no threat to them, military sources say. Iman al-Hams, 13, was shot 20 times on 5 October as she walked past an Israeli military outpost on the way to school in Rafah, a refugee camp on Gaza's border with Egypt. 'Israeli soldiers stormed the area, the girl left the bag & tried to run,' 'Bullets hit the [girl's] bag & then soldiers opened fire on the girl.' Israel shoot 11-year -oldPalestinian schoolgirl Ghadir Mukheimar's stomach inside a school run by the UN refugee agency (UNRWA) in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. 'She was inside the classroom, sitting at her desk,' Paul McCann, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency said. It is the fourth incident in under two years. Just last month, a 10-year -old girl died after being shot at her desk. (AFP)
September 19, 2005, two British soldiers were arrested by Iraqi police for driving a car bomb in a Basra street. They were freed by British forces before being interrogated by Iraqi police. This incident sheds some light on who might be behind car bomb explosions in Iraq
Pakistan: Why Blame America? By Yamin Zakaria Al-Jazeerah, January 21, 2006
The US air strikes carried out on the 13th of January 2006, on the remote Pakistani village of Damadola was a clear act of terrorism. Out of the 18 civilians killed, 10 were women & children. It seems US state-terrorism inside Pakistan is becoming routine, earlier on the 7th of January 2006 at least eight civilians were killed by the US helicopters attack. To be precise, such acts are state-terrorism or primary-terrorism as opposed to the usual: secondary-terrorism of individuals or groups! The bombings were indiscriminate & without warning, like the routine bombings of the defenceless Iraqi cities or the Palestinian villages & towns. ................Hence, the decision to bomb shows the clear US apathy towards the lives of the ordinary Pakistanis. Iraq is another example of that apathy, where they have murdered 30,000-100,000 civilians looking for those mythical WMDs. ..........Yamin Zakaria, www.iiop.org, London, UK
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