UK Iraq Newswire Archive
Parliament Square Peace Camp Protestors in Court
13-09-2007 14:07
On Friday 14th September at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court, five peace protesters will stand trial for attending an ‘unauthorised’ peace camp in Parliament Square].CRITICAL MASS TONITE
13-09-2007 08:36
As part of a week of action against the DSEi arms fair there will be a ride on this evening for the arms dealers' dinner, leaving from the NFT under Waterloo Bridge at 6:00pm. Bikes and any other human-powered vehicle welcome.LOADED WORDS: ‘Surge’, ‘Reconstruction’ And ‘Withdrawal’
12-09-2007 10:47
News media this week are devoting huge swathes of coverage to the report by General David Petraeus, the top US military commander in Iraq, on the impact of the so-called ‘surge’ of US troops. The surge boosted the number of US troops in Iraq earlier this year by 30,000 to 168,000.The boy who dropped an egg on the world
12-09-2007 08:57
Is the U.S. Responsible for a Million Iraqi Deaths?
12-09-2007 08:20
In October 2006 researchers from Johns Hopkins University published a peer-reviewed article in The Lancet, one of Europe's most important and respected medical journals, estimating that 650,000 Iraqis had been killed due to the U.S.-led invasion of their country, 601,000 violently. [1] The report was quickly marginalized in public debate in the United States.9/11 ... 07 : SIX YEARS OF MASS DECEPTION
11-09-2007 13:25
Tuesday 11th September
Oxford Town Hall, 7.15 - 9.30
FREE ENTRY
The Petraeus Report
11-09-2007 06:29
To understand the Petraeus report to congress it is important to also understand the subsequent report to be given by President Bush. Bush will brief the US congress with regard to the eighteen benchmarks that the congress has set as a measure of the performance of the Iraqi government.IRAQ: Between Dealers and Death Squads
10-09-2007 15:35
On May 12th 2005, the United Nations organization which monitors drug trafficking announced that Iraq "is about to become a transit station for transporting the heroine, which is manufactured in Afghanistan and is heading towards Europe through neighbouring Iran".IRAQ: Former US Marine Matt Howard, “No-one is talking about the real violence”
10-09-2007 13:03
Basra: An Ignominious Defeat: The UK's Saigon Moment
10-09-2007 12:46
Last week the British armed forces left Basra Palace, their last base in the Southern Iraqi city, and moved to an airbase outside the city.Their withdrawal will be followed by the official handover of Basra province sometime in the next few months. Once that is complete, the British will finally leave Iraq.
The British withdrawal has led to a classic propaganda battle over how effective the British were in their four years of occupation.
Occupied Iraq: A Horizontal View
10-09-2007 12:43
Support displaced Palestinian families in Iraq
08-09-2007 12:00
International concern was first raised by Astrid Van Genderen Stort, a UNHCR spokeswoman in Geneva, who stated in 2005, "They (Palestinians) have been victims of night raids, arbitrary arrests and torture carried out by Iraqi security forces."An exchange with one of my readers on ZNet, IBC and the Lancet
07-09-2007 22:26
After the publication of my last exchange with ZNet's Michael Albert
http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2007/09/ibc-and-munir-chalabis-numbers-znet-and.htm I have received many comments. I would like to offer my readers the following exchange with Chris Malins.
Fueling rising alcoholism in Iraq
07-09-2007 21:39
"Iraq has one of the worst treatment and follow-up regimes for alcohol abusers in the Middle-East,"Death of ex-detainee 'Constructively deported' to Iraq
07-09-2007 15:09
We have had the very bad news that one of our ex-clients, SolymanRashed, has been killed by a car bomb in Kirkuk, after accepting
voluntary return. Our press release is below.
U-Turn for Peace: Mass Civil Disobedience Outside the Labour Party Conference in
07-09-2007 11:38
Join Maya Evans and John Catt for mass civil disobedience in Bournemouth,outside the Labour Party Conference, on Sunday 23 September.
"Wanted" poster for Generals James Mattis and David Richards
07-09-2007 00:37
assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which killed over 300 women and
children) and UK Lt Gen David Richards (commander of NATO forced in southern
Afghanistan, May 2006 - February 2007, during which period hundreds of
civilians were willed by aerial bombing).
Iraq: Government Death Squads Ravaging Baghdad
05-09-2007 23:20
Death squads from the Ministry of Interior posing as Iraqi police are killing more people than ever in the capital, emerging evidence shows.Occupation creates disaster in Iraq
05-09-2007 19:48
There are more than 4 million Iraqi refugees and more than 1 million dead. Seventy percent of Iraqi children are not in school. Yet these reports and statistics do not begin to tell the story of destruction and violence caused by the U.S. occupation.Death at a Distance: The U.S. Air War
04-09-2007 00:01
According to the residents of Datta Khel, a town in Pakistan's North Waziristan, three missiles streaked out of Afghanistan's Pakitka Province and slammed into a Madrassa, or Islamic school, this past June. When the smoke cleared, the Asia Times reported, 30 people were dead.