UK Iraq Newswire Archive
Joe’s Borrowed Idea: Split Iraq Up into Three Pieces
27-09-2007 08:31
It is, to say the least, a predictable outcome, one that dovetails nicely with the neocon master plan. “US lawmakers voted Wednesday to split Iraq into a loose federation of sectarian-based regions and urged President George W Bush to press Iraqi leaders to agree,” reports Monsters and Critics.Play on war in Iraq
26-09-2007 17:11
This startling and contemporary portrayal uses mythology and the supernatural to reveal the political, cultural and ideological battles current raging in Iraq and the wider Middle East
IRAQ: Now we have Article 41
25-09-2007 20:53
Now we have article 41.In brief, it says go to your cleric and he will deal with whatever issues you have.Schnews: Iraq And A Hard Place
24-09-2007 17:21
AS MEGA DEATH TOLL FROM OCCUPATION PASSES A MILLION“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” - Josef Stalin
And how proud Old Joe would have been of our Soviet-style self censorship! Here’s one that slipped past the headlines - the death toll in Iraq has now passed the one million mark.
The Statue of Liberty Should Weep
23-09-2007 23:19
When children fainted in school, the reason was usually: 'It's not my turn to eat today' - courtesy USA and Britain.Full article | 1 addition | 5 comments
Progress in Iraq: up to 80 US dead/month and rising
23-09-2007 19:47
General Dannatt: Most Iraqi militants 'not bad people'
22-09-2007 22:29
Although almost completely ignored by the UK Press, the head of UK Armed Forces, General Sir Richard Dannatt, has described the resistance in Iraq in terms that once more set him at odds with his political masters.Forces control 8% of Baghdad
22-09-2007 14:50
Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil, speaking to reporters at the Pentagon from his Multinational Division-Baghdad headquarters, painted a generally positive picture but acknowledged that the fighting remains hard.Help bring a smile to an orphan's life
21-09-2007 11:43
Greenspan, Kissinger: Oil Drives U.S. in Iraq, Iran
20-09-2007 22:00
Alan Greenspan had acknowledged what is blindingly obvious to those who live in the reality-based world: The Iraq War was largely about oil.“Ignominious” British in Basra
20-09-2007 10:10
The British government promoted its occupation of Basra as an exercise more sophisticated and intelligent than that conducted by its ally the US in Iraq. From the moment the British hunkered down in Basra after the March 2003 invasion of Iraq it seemed the British government and much of the mainstream media never missed a chance to boast of the softly-softly, ‘hearts and minds’ approach of its occupation. We were assured that this had everything to do with the experience it had gained in previous British military exploits, particularly in Northern Ireland, while the US were still learning lessons from their historic defeat in Vietnam. This projection of the fair-playing Brits was repeated ad naseum until a string of dramatic events took place in front of the world’s media which put an end to this myth making. Events such as prisoner and detainee abuse by British soldiers, and SAS special forces undercover operations apparently designed to foment civil strife, exposed the British army as no different to any other hostile military occupier. Everyone outside the Ministry of Defence and Cabinet agrees that the British ‘deployment’ from Basra Palace to the airport eleven kilometres out of the city is a defeat.From Dungavel to Death in Iraq: Remember Solyman Rashed
19-09-2007 19:09
Solyman Rashed was killed in Iraq on 3rd September, two weeks after being deported. There will be a vigil to remember him in George Square, Glasgow, this Thursday from 5.30 to 6.30pm.It is an open vigil and the organisers encourage anyone to attend.
It’s Not About Oil, Stupid, but Flattening Arab and Muslim Countries
19-09-2007 11:43
As should be obvious, the invasion and occupation of Iraq—and the coming attack against Iran and Syria—is not “largely” about oil or even Israel’s “security.” It is about flattening Arab and Muslim societies and reshuffling the charred and blood-spattered remains into splintered, emasculated, and “failed” vassal states.Peace and Freedom Party War Protestor Arrested
18-09-2007 18:53
Yesterday John Reiger, a member of Peace and Freedom Party, was among ten war protestors that were arrested at the office of Congresswoman Doris Matsui in Sacramento California. The protestors were part of a nationwide movement of anti-war protestors that oppose the Iraq war and congressional support for the war.The Price of Freedom.
18-09-2007 14:54
An Iraqi man was killed on his return to his home country after the Home Office detained him for over a year and rejected his claim for asylum.The Media Ignore Credible Poll Revealing 1.2 Million Violent Deaths In Iraq
18-09-2007 13:30
We Can’t Talk About Oil
Poll: More Americans Support Iraq Occupation and Mass Murder
15-09-2007 09:21
A recent Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll “suggests” Bush “may have a little more maneuvering room at a critical point in debates over war costs and troop levels... The poll shows an uptick in support for the president’s handling of the war as well as a small increase in the proportion of Americans who believe the troop surge is helping and that victory remains possible.”If we can trust the numbers cranked out by the War Street Journal and NBC-GE, the coming attack directed against Iran—next week, next month, certainly before the decider-commander guy leaves office—will not be a cakewalk, but rather a piece of cake, as the American people are easily swayed, or at least half of them are, by neocon manufactured “new realities” enthusiastically marketed by a corporate media with a vested interest in continued mass murder and misery.
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SOCPA Court report - Case dismissed
14-09-2007 22:31
The SOCPA case against five activists who took part in the No More Fallujahs Weekend of action last October collapsed today at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court when judge Quentin Purdy found no case to answer and dismissed all charges against the five at the end of a protracted and at times farcical hearing which lasted almost four hours.Previous court reports for cases related to the No More Fallujahs weekend here:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/371878.html September 2007 - More than 1,000,000 Iraqis murdered
14-09-2007 19:23
In the week in which General Patraeus reports back to US Congress on the impact the recent ‘surge’ is having in Iraq, a new poll reveals that more than 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have been murdered since the invasion took place in 2003.British troops in Iraq deployed to Iranian border
14-09-2007 15:15
Britain’s Independent reported Wednesday that UK troops stationed in Iraq have been deployed to the Iranian border.