Happy
Anniversary?
On 11
September 2001 the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York
collapsed after being hit by two jetliners. On 20 March 2003 Bush
ordered US-led troops to invade Iraq.
Why Iraq? Was it for
the spaceship, the aliens, or
the ancient
Anunnaki technology left by the Sumerians?
Must have been something out of this world as Bush is already starting to put money
aside for the War of the Worlds.
You can bet it wasn't because of
the Ten
Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq.
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Get Your Empire On |
| Countries from
all-over joined the "Coalition of the Willing" to take on Iraq (but not
Israel - they just sent their consultants along later to train the Death
Squads). The UK comes in third to the US in troop numbers. The American
military forces topped the league, followed by Americas private army. Yep, US private
corporations are now the second biggest contributor to coalition forces in Iraq. |
Lets hope they're
not all like Dyncorp, which has the contract to train an Iraqi police force. It also won
the contracts to train the Bosnian police and was implicated in a sex slavery scandal,
with its employees accused of rape and the buying and selling of girls as young as 12. A
number of employees were fired, but never prosecuted. The only court cases to result
involved the two whistleblowers who exposed the episode and were sacked.
"Dyncorp should never have been awarded the Iraqi police contract," said
Madeleine Rees, the chief UN human rights officer in Sarajevo.
Read more in Ian Traynors
Guardian article The Privatisation of War
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10,000 Civilians Dead |
| The war and the
subsequent occupation have now resulted in the deaths of at least 10,000 Iraqi civilians.
The group of academics who run Iraq
Body Count.org base their estimate on media reports since both the coalition
forces and the Iraqi Governing Council refuse to count civilian casualties. 
"At the moment it seems like there are
only attacks against Americans and only Americans are dying, or Iraqis who die during very
severe terrorist attacks," said Paola Gasparoli from Occupation Watch,
which monitors the conduct of troops in Iraq.
"There is no idea that there are also innocent civilians killed because of the
occupation. To admit that would be to admit the war isn't really finished." |
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LCC
Profits from War
What's the connection between Leicester and the War? Over 28,000 local people
- working for the county and city councils, the district and borough councils, DeMontfort
and Loughborough unis, the Leicestershire Police, Probation Board, and the Magistrates'
Courts Committee as well as a variety of sixth form colleges, the fire service and
Connexions - contribute to the local government pension scheme: the Pension Fund.
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BP |
| BP, who come in
second, are much more closely involved with the war. Back in April 2003, in a
speech at the annual shareholders meeting, BP chairman Peter Sutherland said:
“... what I will say is that there will be no involvement [of BP in Iraq]
without the support of an Iraqi government recognised by the world community and the Iraqi
people.” He will
say it but it ain't so. In August it was reported in CorpWatch
that in the days before the US and UK invaded Iraq, a team of BP engineers in Kuwait
taught combat troops from the 516 Specialist Team Royal Engineers how to run the oil
fields in southern Iraq.
As soon as the troops had secured southern
Iraq, Robert Spears, a Scottish manager from BP, was drafted by the British government to
help direct the effort to rebuild the refineries. In mid-July BP took possession of
its reward -- one of the first tankers of oil from Southern Iraq, having won 25% of the
initial sale of 8 million barrels of the existing stockpiles of Iraqi oil. |
Mind you BP didn't do as well
as ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco, the US oil companies. Since May 2003, when
Bush signed Executive Order 13303, US oil
companies dealing in Iraqi oil have been immune from legal proceedings in the US.
Anything that has happened before with oil
companies around the world -- a massive tanker accident; an explosion at an oil refinery;
the employment of slave labor to build a pipeline; murder of locals by corporate security;
the release of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere -- anything at all,
is now immune from the law. After all, they have to keep those
dollars rolling in...
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Rods
Over Baghdad
Not bats, birds or insects? Rods are an unknown. They tend to show up on
video footage, but are hardly ever seen by the naked eye. Mysterious long lines with
spiral wings shoot at high speeds across a scene and leave you wondering "what the
fuck was that?".
See some great stills of Rods over Baghdad
caught by Fox News at the start of the war on Jeff Renses site.
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Dude, Who Stole My
Country? |
In August Bush signed Executive
Order 13315, which places Iraq's
state assets under the total control of the US Treasury. In September the Coalition
Provisional Authority (CPA) issued an “order” allowing the privatisation of
Iraqi state companies: 100% ownership of Iraqi banks, mines and factories by foreign
companies, and 100% grab of the profits by foreign firms operating in Iraq.
Iraq Revenue Watch has discovered that a contract has been signed, selling off
75 percent of Iraq’s air transport sector to a single family without competitive
bidding or public notice. Lucky family...who do they know?
For those that can take it, the
full story of The Great Iraq Heist |
Captain
America Lives!
The Pentagon has learned its lesson from the war and is looking into ways for GIs
to fight for up to five days -- without eating a single meal.
The Darpa project, for "Metabolic
Dominance" is part of Pentagon research to develop grunts who are pretty much
immune to normal human demands. The agency has sunk millions into programs to reduce the
need for sleep and is investigating ways to keep injured GIs pulling the trigger for days
on end -- without help from a medic.
Read more in the Wired News
article Darpa Offers No Food for Thought
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The
London Protest
Wednesday June 30
6pm - 9pm in Parliament Square |
The supposed
transfer of authority in occupied Iraq on June 30 is fast approaching. The Stop the War
Coalition continues to demand a full military withdrawal from Iraq and the transfer of
real sovereignty to those who genuinely represent the Iraqi people.
The Stop the War Coalition
is organising a day of action in Britain on June 30th to protest against this undemocratic
farce. |
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