UK Iraq Newswire Archive
Gordon Brown....Hustings in Oxford June 10
03-06-2007 17:11
Protest Gordon Brown and New Labour in Oxford on June 10th. Troups out of Afghanistan and Iraq now!U.N. Still Looking for Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction
02-06-2007 20:21
More than four years after the fall of Baghdad, the United Nations is spending millions of dollars in Iraqi oil money to continue the hunt for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq's Militias Under the US Surge: Killing with Impunity
01-06-2007 22:56
The raid on the Finance Ministry in Baghdad by 40 policemen in 19 vehicles who calmly cordoned off the street in front of the building before abducting five Britons shows how little has changed in the Iraqi capital despite US reinforcements and a new security plan.The Secret Carnage: 78,000 Iraqis Have Been Killed by Coalition Airstrikes
01-06-2007 22:53
An estimated 78,000 Iraqis were killed by U.S. and Coalition air strikes from the start of the war through June of last year, an article in "The Nation" magazine says.Turkish army ready to cross into Iraq
01-06-2007 20:26
Turkey's military, building up troops on the Iraqi border, said Thursday it was ready to launch a cross-border offensive to fight Kurdish fighters — pressuring the government to support the idea which could strain ties with Washington and lead to tensions with Iraqi Kurds.Political film 'Return to Kurkuk, a year in the fire'
01-06-2007 19:57
Film @ Broadway Cinema Satarday 2nd June 1pm - about Karzan (imprisonewd and tortured by Saddam' regime) after 25 years in exile RETURNS TO KIRKUK - This thought provoking, intelligent and emotional story gives a unique insight into the true political feeling and civil unrest in Iraq today.BAE Systems - Coming To A Hotel Near You?!
31-05-2007 23:08
BAE Systems, the infamous arms dealers, are holding a number of recruitment events in the UK. This company is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people bombed, shot and murdered across the globeUS holds talks with Iran in Baghdad
31-05-2007 17:19
US-Iranian talks—the first in nearly three decades—took place in Baghdad on Monday. American ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, met with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Kazemi Qumi in the offices of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad for four hours.Public Meeting: Craig Murray: After Blair -- breaking with Bush's Endless War
31-05-2007 13:08
Wednesday 20 June, 7pm 'After Blair-- breaking with Bush's Endless War'
With Guest speakers:
Craig Murray (former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan)
Rose Gentle (Military Families Against the War)
Andrew Murray (National Chair Stop the War Coalition)
Quaker Meeting House, James Street, Sheffield.
Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan resigns from the Democratic Party
30-05-2007 19:48
American antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan addressed an open letter to Congress May 26 announcing that she was leaving the Democratic Party, which now controls both houses of the legislature. Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son Casey died while serving in the US armed forces in Iraq in April 2004, came to prominence when she set up camp near George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas in August 2005 as a protest against the war.Good Riddance Attention Whore
30-05-2007 14:47
Republican Candidates Employ “al-Qaeda” Fairy Tales
30-05-2007 08:29
Like paranoid schizophrenic neglecting his meds, Senator John McCain tells us Osama will get us if the United States pulls out of Iraq.Bush supporters, soon enough to lend support to McCain, Guiliani, or Romney, are so inculcated with impossible and fantastic Brothers Grimm stories about turban-wearing terrorists they have completely surrendered their higher reasoning faculties, that is if they had any to begin with.
The Vicar of Baghdad, peacemaker or powerbroker ?
29-05-2007 19:25
The five Britons kidnapped in Baghdad work for Garda World, a Canadian security firm. Channel 4 news tonight led with a feature on them, where Jon Snow was pretty sceptical about their chances of survival due to their profession. There are 20,000 foriegn 'private security guards' in Iraq who are widely hated for acting like private mercenaries unconstrained by laws or morals. Jon seemed surprised to hear a few hundred of them have already been killed.Christian monasteries desecrated by U.S.
29-05-2007 15:57
Iraqi church leaders say the country’s Christians are suffering immensely and have blamed the U.S. for what they describe as their "tragic conditions".Noam Chomsky: 'A Poisoned Chalice': The Media and the Use of Force
29-05-2007 15:46
Attached is a one hour audio of Noam Chomsky speaking on 'a poisoned chalice': the media and the use of force, which was recorded at the 20 Years of Propaganda? conference held in Windsor, Canada, earlier this month. Noam Chomsky compares US aggression to Nuremberg standards of Nazi war crimes and discusses the occupation of Iraq, genocide and the role of the media in the fabrication of a pretext for war with Iran — it's pertiant to the discussion following the feature article on imperial disinformation.
Protest Against New Labour!
29-05-2007 15:10
The Prime Minister in waiting Gordon Brown is coming to Oxford on Sunday June 10th along with all the candidates for Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party, this includes 5 current Cabinet ministers, to speak. This is a unique opportunity for people in Oxford to protest against all that New Labour has done!
The myth of Al Qaeda is now almost totally exposed
28-05-2007 18:45
In raising the ante in Iraq, Lebanon, the West Bank and the Gaza by again raising the empty spectre of ‘al Qaeda’ in order to get at Iran, Syria and Hizbollah, the US and the Israelis have exposed their hand about the myth of ‘al Qaeda terrorism’ in the Middle East.Bush administration failing to achieve its “benchmarks” in Iraq
28-05-2007 17:38
US President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have all personally warned Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that time is running out. Deadlines have gone or are fast approaching. Still, the Bush administration is no closer to achieving the “benchmarks” it demanded of the Iraqi government on January 10 and linked to the success of its current military “surge”.