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• Graphics version | Change to UK Edition | BBC Sport Home News Front Page | Africa | Americas | Asia-Pacific | Europe | Middle East | South Asia | UK | Business | Health | Science/Nature | Technology | Entertainment | Have Your Say | In Pictures | Week at a Glance Thursday, 13 May, 2004, 19:22 GMT 20:22 UK 'Zarqawi' beheaded US man in Iraq.
• Al-Qaeda suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi probably carried out the beheading of US contractor Nicholas Berg in Iraq, CIA officials say. ...
• " CIA assesses with high probability that the speaker on the tape is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and that person is shown decapitating American citizen Nicholas Berg " Unnamed CIA official .
• His killers said they were avenging the abuse of Iraqi detainees by US forces in Iraq. ...
• video, the CIA assesses with high probability that the speaker on the tape is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and that person is shown decapitating American citizen Nicholas Berg," a CIA official said. ...
• In February, US officials in Iraq said they had uncovered what they believed to be a plot by Zarqawi to foment sectarian violence in the country. ...
• FBI visited Berg .
• Mr Berg - a telecoms worker - was arrested two months ago in Iraq. ...
• Mr Berg's father, Michael, said his son had been trying to come home before the violence in Iraq worsened. ...
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• Parents agonize over their son missing in Iraq (Nick Berg Story 3 Days Ago).
• Parents agonize over their son missing in Iraq.
• The last time Nick Berg called home, he was OK.
• Now, a month later, Berg's parents, Michael and Suzanne, have gone from concerned to frantic.
• And they hope that someone, somewhere, can give them the news they desperately want to hear: that Nick Berg is alive, that it is simply taking him a long time to make his way home.
• "Our hopes are that he's still in hiding or en route and traveling in a very slow manner," Michael Berg said yesterday.
• A spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq who tracks the number of civilians missing in that country was unavailable for comment yesterday.
• Nick Berg, 26, owns a business called Prometheus Methods Tower Service Inc. ...
• He first went to Iraq on Dec. ... "It was more of an exploratory mission," Michael Berg said. ...
• But they say they think he was lured partly by a sense of adventure, partly because he is a "staunch supporter of the government position in Iraq and he wanted to go over there and help. ...
• But when he returned to Iraq on March 14, the company had no work, so Berg began traveling and networking and found some.
• He usually called home once a day and e-mailed several times; Michael Berg is his business manager, and they needed to stay in touch.
• They spoke on March 24, and Nick Berg told his parents he was coming home on March 30. ...
• Michael Berg went to John F. ... His son never got off the plane, and an employee of Royal Jordanian airlines later told him Nick Berg was a no-show.

• Parents agonize over their son missing in Iraq -- who beheaded Berg? by Ytzhak • Wednesday May 12, 2004 at 06:56 PM montfu65@hotmail. ...
• When FBI agents arrived at the Berg's West Chester home on March 31, they were relieved to know their son was alive - although in jail. ... Berg's purpose in Iraq. ... military in Iraq. ...
• Parents agonize over their son missing in Iraq .
• The last time Nick Berg called home, he was OK. ...
• Now, a month later, Berg's parents, Michael and Suzanne, have gone from concerned to frantic. ...
• And they hope that someone, somewhere, can give them the news they desperately want to hear: that Nick Berg is alive, that it is simply taking him a long time to make his way home. ...
• "Our hopes are that he's still in hiding or en route and traveling in a very slow manner," Michael Berg said yesterday. ...
• A spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq who tracks the number of civilians missing in that country was unavailable for comment yesterday. ...
• Nick Berg, 26, owns a business called Prometheus Methods Tower Service Inc. ...
• He first went to Iraq on Dec. ... "It was more of an exploratory mission," Michael Berg said. ...
• But they say they think he was lured partly by a sense of adventure, partly because he is a "staunch supporter of the government position in Iraq and he wanted to go over there and help. ...
• But when he returned to Iraq on March 14, the company had no work, so Berg began traveling and networking and found some. ...
• He usually called home once a day and e-mailed several times; Michael Berg is his business manager, and they needed to stay in touch. ...

• Iraq.
• UK Offers Iraq Crisis Cash to NGOs .
• By Nick Cater .
• March 12, 2003 Britain is to increase its contribution to the UN appeal for Iraq preparedness and, for the first time in the crisis, offer NGOs grants for contingency planning. ... Apart from maintaining its funding of international NGOs -- such as Save the Children, which works in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, and CARE International, which has long been active in central Iraq -- DFID had given nothing to relief agencies to prepare for the looming Iraq war, which could leave millions of civilians injured, ill, hungry or homeless. ... government has approached five American companies to fulfil up to $1 billion of contracts for reconstruction in Iraq in an expedited process without competitive tendering. ... The five companies are Bechtel, the Brown & Root division of Halliburton, the Fluor Corporation, Louis Berg Corporation and Parsons Corporation. ... Government's contingency planning for Iraq, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) solicited proposals for various goods and services, including seaport and airport projects, schools, education and health services. ... Norway and Switzerland are among countries beginning to allocate funds for Iraq emergency work to the United Nations and NGOs, while Japan has said it will assist with post-war reconstruction. APPROVAL WHEN WAR STARTS A USAID spokesperson told AlertNet that all the emergency funding it had spent so far on Iraq was taken from other programmes, which will have to wait to see if they are replenished. ...

• and rebuilding of Iraq.
•   As rebuilding of Iraq is poised to begin, the question arises as to whether Turkey should take part in the reconstruction. I believe that Turkey is able to take a role in the peace process in Iraq, for it would prove advantageous to both Ankara and Washington. ...   A role for Turkey would be resented not only by the Kurds in northern Iraq, but by the Iraqis as a whole.
• The Kurds are concentrated in northern Iraq.   Though it would be incorrect to assume that the Kurds are indicative of the Iraqi people, the Kurds do constitute a sizable minority, which accounts for approximately twenty percent of Iraq’s population. i   The Kurds have been marginalized for hundreds of years, most notably after the Great Powers reneged on their guarantee in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres to establish an independent Kurdish state and in 1991 when George Bush Senior encouraged the Kurds to ‘take matters into their own hands,’ and rebel against Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist Party, only to withdraw from Iraq shortly thereafter. ...   They were, it is believed, the region’s original inhabitants, present in Iraq in the seventh century. ...
•   In 1975, the government in Baghdad initiated a process of “Arabization” in northern Iraq, methodically exterminating the Kurdish population there. ...
• The Kurds, however, have managed to attain a degree of autonomy in Iraq. ...   They agreed that federalism is the only viable solution for the future stability of Iraq. ...
•   The Turkish Defense Minister, Sabahattin Cakmakoglu asserted that Turkey had a “historic responsibility” for northern Iraq, given the fact that the oil-rich cities of Mosul and Kirkuk were initially part of the Turkish Republic, as defined by the founder of democracy in Turkey, Kemal Ataturk. ...
• xvi   However, in order to prevent a repeat of 1991, Turkey has obtained permission from the United States to set up refugee camps in northern Iraq.   Turkey, in cooperation with the United Nations, began sending food and relief materials to Kurdish Iraq in March. ...
•   Northern Iraq has provided a haven for the PKK, and some argue that the fighting is likely to continue as long as the PKK has this refuge. ...
•   The financially weak state currently spends between six and eight billion dollars a year in an attempt to curtail the PKK conflict in Turkey and northern Iraq. ...

• May 21 SD# 719 - Kuwaiti Citizens Complain: Our Sons Were Lured into Fighting in Iraq Via Syria .
• (TEHRAN TIMES, IRAN, 5/24/04)       CHALABI'S DAILY PAPER WROTE THAT HE LED THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ AND IS STRUGGLING FOR THE COUNTRY'S FULL SOVEREIGNTY. ... (AL-MU'TAMAR, IRAQ, 5/24/04)       THE IRAQI MINISTER OF PETROLEUM CONFIRMED THAT HE HAS GIVEN THE DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE OIL FOR FOOD PROGRAM TO THE INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION PANEL. (AL-NAHDHA, IRAQ, 5/24/04)       TWO MOROCCAN INTELLECTUALS CALLED FOR RELIGIOUS RENEWAL AND AN INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION TO FORTIFY THE MOROCCAN SOCIETY AGAINST EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM. (AL-ZAMAN, IRAQ, 5/24/04)       ISRAEL ELECTRICITY COMPANY HAS ENTERED INTO AGREEMENT TO IMPORT EGYPTIAN NATURAL GAS FOR ITS GENERATORS. ... (AL-ZAMAN, IRAQ, 5/25/04)       ACCORDING TO AL-SHARQ AL-AWSAT, A REPORT PREPARED BY THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN TEL-AVIV SAYS THAT SHARON HAS FAILED TO MEET ANY COMMITMENT HE MADE TO THE U. ...

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• UK offers Iraq crisis cash to NGOs 12 Mar 2003.
• By Nick Cater.
• LONDON (AlertNet) - Britain is to increase its contribution to the UN appeal for Iraq preparedness and, for the first time in the crisis, offer NGOs grants for contingency planning. ...
• Apart from maintaining its funding of international NGOs -- such as Save the Children, which works in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, and CARE International, which has long been active in central Iraq -- DFID had given nothing to relief agencies to prepare for the looming Iraq war, which could leave millions of civilians injured, ill, hungry or homeless. ...
• government has approached five American companies to fulfil up to $1 billion of contracts for reconstruction in Iraq in an expedited process without competitive tendering. ...
• The five companies are Bechtel, the Brown & Root division of Halliburton, the Fluor Corporation, Louis Berg Corporation and Parsons Corporation. ...
• Government's contingency planning for Iraq, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) solicited proposals for various goods and services, including seaport and airport projects, schools, education and health services. ...
• Norway and Switzerland are among countries beginning to allocate funds for Iraq emergency work to the United Nations and NGOs, while Japan has said it will assist with post-war reconstruction. ...
• A USAID spokesperson told AlertNet that all the emergency funding it had spent so far on Iraq was taken from other programmes, which will have to wait to see if they are replenished. ...
• Iraq in turmoil .
• Iraq profile .
• Huge blasts at US base in Kirkuk, Iraq-witness .
• Chirac says changes needed to new UN draft on Iraq .

• troops would be greeted as liberators in Iraq. ... â � If this were a just world, Wolfowitz would deserve to face a Nuremberg-like Tribunal for his role in launching the Iraq War. ...
• The Iraq() War is creating an ugly, mean-spirited America! Take for example, Paul Wolfowitz, the â œGodfatherâ � of that conflict. ... troops that had already died in Iraq. ... Wolfowitz is the same armchair military genius who predicted the Iraq war would be over in seven days (Sen. ... Hollings, who is retiring from the Congress, believes Bushâ ™s invasion of Iraq was â œto secure Israel. ... troops would be greeted as liberators with â œrose petalsâ � in Iraq. ... If this were a just world, Wolfowitz would deserve to face a Nuremberg-like Tribunal for his role in launching the Iraq War. ... He is using the vicious killing of Nick Berg in Iraq, to serve his own right wing agenda. ... Do you think maybe that he was afraid to criticize Zionist Israel?) What Hannity wonâ ™t tell his audience is that Nick Bergâ ™s grieving father, Michael Berg, who opposes the war in Iraq, is blaming Bush and Donald Rumsfeld for the murder of his son. Michael Berg also believes that the USA Patriot Act was a â œcoup dâ ™etatâ � (Reuters, John Hurdle, 05/13/05). The Coalition Forces had wrongly detained Nick for 13 days, when he was trying to leave Iraq. Bottom line: Nick Berg would be alive today, along with the 782 American troops, and over 10,000 innocent Iraqis, if the Bush-Cheney Gang, that Hannity has been shamelessly shilling for, hadnâ ™t lied our country into this Vietnam-War-like quagmire.

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• John Hawkins | 11:59 PM | Comments (33) | TrackBack (0) --> Reuters Refuses To Acknowledge That WMD Have Been Found In Iraq? .
• It's bad enough that the mainstream media hasn't given the discovery of artillery shells in Iraq, one filled with sarin and the other containing traces of mustard gas, anywhere near the attention that it deserves. But, in this story about Hussain Shahristani, the man who may be the premier of a new interim Iraqi government, Reuters refuses to even acknowledge that WMD have now been found in Iraq.
• Bush cited Saddam's weapons of mass destruction as a prime reason for the Iraq war but none have been found. ...
• However, even Reuters shouldn't be denying the very existence of WMDs in Iraq at this point. ...
• John Hawkins | 11:58 PM | Comments (51) | TrackBack (1) --> The Top Ten Suggested Lines For Bush's Iraq Speech Last Night By Frank J. ...
• "I'll hand over Iraq when they leggo my Eggo. ...
• "For those who are vehemently opposed to the war in Iraq, I have this to say to them: I will kill you and your family. ...
• "It wasn't like Iraq was going to invade itself. ...
• "France was really opposed to us invading Iraq, so you know some good would have to come of it. ...
• "I assure you that Iraq will become a full-fledged democracy instead of a quasi-dictatorship like Canada. ...
• "The war has actually been going very well; we just didn't realize that Iraq would be so d@mn full of Iraqis. ...
• And the number one suggested line for Bush's Iraq speech.
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• Berg's loving legend .
• Books: Kate remembered by A Scott Berg (Simon & Schuster, £18. ...
• Reviewed by Alan Taylor   THE death of Katharine Hepburn at the end of June gives Scott Berg’s rather wonderful memoir the air of a requiem. ... What it emphatically is not, underlines Berg, is a biography or an objective portrait. ...
• Berg met Hepburn in 1983, when she was 75 and he was 33. ... Berg, who was then writing a biography of Sam Goldwyn, persuaded Esquire to include Hepburn. ...
• Over the next 20 years, Berg and Hepburn met often, either in New York or in Connecticut, where Hepburn had a family home. ... Berg seems to have had a rare empathy with a woman more than twice his age and little by little she unburdened herself, emerging as a woman with an independent mind and a wicked, forthright sense of humour. ...
• The night he came to dinner is described by Berg in hilarious detail, from the moment Hepburn told Jackson to take off his shades – your eyes, she told him, are “the window to your soul” – until he departed, when she hollered to her maid: “Whisky! Norah, get the whisky!” So unworldly was Jackson that he thought cauliflower was “white broccoli”. ...
• In his last conversation with her, Berg plucked up courage and asked what life is all about. ...

• In an article opposing the liberation of Iraq, Seumas Milne of London's Guardian nicely encapsulates the moral bankruptcy of the "antiwar" left:.
• In fact, leftwingers were pretty well the only people in the west campaigning against the Iraqi regime two decades ago--left activists were being imprisoned and executed in their hundreds by Saddam Hussein at the time--while the US and British political establishments were busy arming Iraq in its war against Iran and turning a blind eye to his worst human rights abuses, including the gas attacks on the Kurds in the late 1980s. ...
• A week ago, we noted that several Democratic senators who voted in October to declare war on Iraq were now making noises suggesting they had switched sides. ... We speculated that the Dems were politically motivated, hoping that a quagmire in Iraq would hurt the Republicans' chances in the 2004 election.
• The New York Post's Deborah Orin quotes an unnamed "Democratic strategist": "If you support Bush on Iraq and he wins, you gain zip. ...
• " Why five years ago? Well, it was in 1998, just under five years ago, that the minority leader backed the Iraq Liberation Act, which enshrined "regime change" as official U. ...
• In December of that year, as the Associated Press noted at the time, President Clinton launched "Operation Desert Fox," a series of desultory airstrikes against Iraq. ...
• The AP reports on another Democrat who gave a speech inveighing against the liberation of Iraq: "The vast majority of the world's public opinion opposes this already announced war," he declared. "The threat of a war in Iraq has been looming considerably over the world economy, which is currently affected by a serious and deep crisis. ...
• As we write, even the wire reports don't merit a link on the Times' special page that it bills as offering "complete coverage" of what the paper, no doubt thinking wishfully, calls the "standoff" with Iraq.
• The "news" service's headline reads: " 'Gang of Eight' Iraq Letter Rubs Salt in EU Wounds. ...
• "It is a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing in Iraq," Mandela said in a speech today in Johannesburg, South Africa. ...
• But according to Reuters, Mandela also "said he would support without reservation any action agreed upon by the United Nations against Iraq. ...
• troops here to man air defenses, the launch of search-and-rescue missions from its airfields and the passage of allied planes across its airspace in any war with neighboring Iraq. ...
• SANA, Syria's official "news" agency, reported that "Syrian President Bashar Assad received a telephone call from his French counterpart, Jacques Chirac, in which the agency said they sought ways to 'coordinate at the Security Council in the next stage to prevent the circumstances from reaching the point that may lead to the war on Iraq. ...
• " Mubarak may be anticipating, as we've long argued, that once America has a friendly regime in place in Iraq, it can afford to be less tolerant of bad behavior by Mideast "allies. ...

• Was Berg's Beheading a Case of Death Squad and Mistaken Identity? .
• Michael Berg Jr. , recently murdered on video in Iraq, may have been a victim of mistaken identity. ...
• Berg's Father and Firm Were On A Right-Wing 'Enemies' List http://www. ... htm The family firm of beheaded American Nick Berg, was named by a conservative website in a list of 'enemies' of the Iraq occupation. That could explain his arrest by Iraqi police --a detention which fatally delayed his planned return from Iraq and may have led directly to his death. Nick Berg, 26 disappeared into incommunicado detention after his arrest by Iraqi police in March, 2004. ... On 7th March, 2004, just three weeks before the first anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, an 'enemies' list of anti-war groups and individuals was posted on the Free Republic forum. ... Berg, Teacher, Prometheus Methods Tower Service, Inc. " That's Nick Berg's father, Michael who acts as business manager for his son in their family radio communications firm, Prometheus Methods Tower Service. Both father and son cared deeply about Iraq. ... Michael was ardently antiwar, whereas his Bush-supporting son was in favor of the war to the extent that he had already visited Iraq seeking to help with rebuilding efforts. Just seven days after "Michael Berg" and "Prometheus Methods Tower Service" had come up on that Iraq war 'enemies' list, his son Nick Berg returned to Iraq under the business name of Prometheus Methods Tower Service. ... " If that list could end up on an Internet forum, then it could just as readily end up with the FBI, and eventually in the hands of those in Iraq who are keen to track or harass antiwar activists entering the country.

• Iraq timeline: February 1 2004 to present.
• PM Tony Blair falls out of step with the US on post-handover security arrangements, as Washington replaces its most senior general in Iraq over the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. ...
• The Bush administration tries to erase the recent shameful images of postwar Iraq by saying it would demolish Abu Ghraib prison, and discipline its commander. ...
• Car bomb kills head of Iraq ruling council.
• Donald Rumsfeld arrives in Iraq on a surprise visit aimed at boosting troop morale in the wake of the prison abuse allegations.
• The UK government says the alleged prisoner abuse photographs published by the Daily Mirror were 'categorically not taken in Iraq'.
• Rumsfeld pays surprise Iraq visit.
• Nick Berg, a US hostage in Iraq, is shown being beheaded by Islamic militants in a video released on a website sympathetic to their cause. ...
• Iraq's first human rights minister, Abdel Bassat Turki, tells the Guardian that Paul Bremer was warned repeatedly last year that US soldiers were abusing Iraqi detainees. ...
• A new recording attributed to Osama bin Laden offers rewards in gold for killing senior American and United Nations officials or citizens of any country that has troops in Iraq. ...
• New Iraq abuse photos published.
• President George Bush tells Arab TV viewers that the treatment of prisoners by some members of the US military in Iraq was 'abhorrent' and will be thoroughly investigated.
• Attacks halt rebuilding of Iraq.
• Aid agencies warn that the Geneva convention is being breached in Falluja, Iraq, amid serious concern about the safety of civilians in the city where at least 600 people have been killed by coalition forces.
• A series of explosions rips through one of Iraq's main oil facilities in one of the most daring attacks by local insurgents or Islamic militants to date.
• Suicide bombers in boat attack on Iraq oil terminal.

• Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Nick Berg, Iraq and the 9/11 Commission.
• SNOW:  Before we get to the other topics, I want to get your reaction to the gruesome video that surfaced today, the beheading of American businessman Nick Berg in Iraq apparently by Al Qaeda members? .
• GIULIANI:  I think the reaction is shock and horror and a reminder of what we're facing in Iraq, a horrific reminder because we've had these before of the kind of evil and the kind of terrible hatred that we're faced with, and the reality of how important it is for us to remain consistent to our purpose, to destroy terrorism, to disrupt international terrorism, and to try and make the whole situation in Iraq come out with a decent government and an accountable government at the end. ...
•   Do you think that is what the military ought to do right now, to send a message to Al Qaeda and anybody who might be inclined to support them in Iraq? .
•   There are plenty of other things to argue about in this presidential election than, you know, what just happened in Iraq. ...

• Despite losses around the world, al Qaeda has more than 18,000 potential terrorists, and its ranks are growing because of the conflict in Iraq, a leading think tank warned Tuesday. ...
• Tom DeLay, R-TX, May, 2004 (in response to Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, charging that Bush, R-TX, is "incompetent" in his handling of Iraq).
• We knew this already, but it is still incredible to see what a clown show we had going on in Iraq. ...
• forces in Iraq, what little faith existed in America's ability to resolve the country's worsening crises has all but vanished for ordinary Iraqis, with worrisome implications for the hand-over of sovereignty due in less than six weeks. ...
• The American establishment, led by the media and politicians, is in danger of talking the United States into defeat in Iraq. ...
• The media - unperturbed by mistakenly likening both the Afghan war and last year's invasion of Iraq to Vietnam - focuses overwhelmingly on the bad news coming out of Iraq. ...
• Matt Yglasias proposed that if a hard-core Republican Congressman were to stand up and say that things were really going badly in Iraq, and that it was the result of policy choices made by the people in charge, everyone would come together and we'd be able to turn a corner. ...
• We are in a bad situation in Iraq, and elsewhere, and we need to have people in charge who don't think the newspaper is engaged in a vast conspiracy to destroy America. ...
• The discovery that North Korea may have supplied uranium to Libya poses an immediate challenge to the White House: while President Bush is preoccupied on the other side of the world, an economically desperate nation may be engaging in exactly the kind of nuclear proliferation that the president says he went to war in Iraq to halt. ...
• He has fiddled around with Iraq for three years, while North Korea has grown from a managed problem to a completely undeterrable proliferator of uranium hexaflouride. ...

• Web Sites in Support of Democracy in Iraq.
• Mitch Berg.
• Nick Marsala.

• Filed under: Iranian Freedom watch by MommaBear at 19:19 | Permalink | (2) courageous responders --> Blog watch — Iraq.
• Iraq at a Glance: Ays has a picture, and a few words about prison torture under Saddam that should be required reading for our media. Healing Iraq: Zeyad has a personal report from Basra Iraq The Model: Ali points out that whatever Chalabi is up to, he's lost most of his support in Iraq by turning against America. Iraq and Iraqis: Firas Georges offers a report from the streets of Baghdad and a simple plan. ...
• Toys for Iraq.
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• Ever hear of the "Banned in Boston" effect? Report: US Needed 500,000 Troops to Pacify Iraq .
• --> Report: US Needed 500,000 Troops to Pacify Iraq Posted May 26, 2004 02:17 PM PST New York Police Unaware of New Terror Plot.
• Bush administration has used 27 rationales for war in Iraq, study says.
• --> Bush administration has used 27 rationales for war in Iraq, study says Posted May 26, 2004 01:35 PM PST“People may wonder, why are our men and women over there? Why did we go to war? Were we misled? In this election year, these questions deserve answers. ... Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq: The Words of the Bush Administration, Congress, and the Media from September 12, 2001 to October 11, 2002 .
• --> Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq: The Words of the Bush Administration, Congress, and the Media from September 12, 2001 to October 11, 2002 Posted May 26, 2004 01:33 PM PST Judge Sees Little Evidence to Support Anthrax Vaccine .
• US paper apologizes for false Iraq reports.
• --> US paper apologizes for false Iraq reports Posted May 26, 2004 08:50 AM PSTThe New York Times has admitted that information it published about Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction programme was not supported. ...
• Okay, let me see if I have this correct: Internet web sites like this one with no money, no staff, no support, all knew that Bush was lying about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but the mighty New York Times, with millions of dollars in operating budget, reporters all over DC and the world, and resources no internet site can yet dream of, was fooled? .
• soldier who deserted Iraq-bound regiment accuses U. ...
• soldier who deserted Iraq-bound regiment accuses U. ... soldier who deserted his Iraq-bound regiment and sought asylum in Canada said the U. S war in Iraq was illegal and he accused the United States of committing war crimes. ...
• Voters Opposing War in Iraq .
• Voters Opposing War in Iraq Posted May 26, 2004 08:15 AM PST Some soldiers cry foul over medals.
• But some soldiers across the country - and locally - are complaining that too many of the military medals being handed out to soldiers in Iraq are going to people who don't deserve them. ...

• Hot Topics Election 2004 Iraq War The War Room 2004 Joe Conason Heather Havrilesky on TV .
• resolution on Iraq.
• Army may tap training units for Iraq duty.
• Right Hook National Review pundits do battle over Bush's Iraq speech; Podhoretz says soldiers like Sivits and England deserve their own torture. ...
• Joe Conason Bush is running on empty -- with neocon fantasies, Chalabi's con and bright young right-wingers recruited to run Iraq.
• Anthony Zinni, former CentCom commander, lists the catastrophic blunders made by the Bush team that led to the Iraq nightmare.

• Nick Berg's Killing: 50 Fishy Circumstances, Contradictory Claims, and Videotape Anomalie by kuro5hin. ...
• The video tape and circumstances of the killing of Nick Berg seem fishier and fishier. This article summarizes and lists 50 anomalies around Berg and his death. ...
• A large number of anomalies surround the life and death of Nicholas Berg. ... Citizen, he traveled alone in Iraq. Family and friends described Berg as an adventurer, high spirited and intelligent. ...
• A Washington Post report notes, "Berg was a weight lifting enthusiast and amateur comedian who had traveled abroad to help people improve their lives. ...
• Berg visited Iraq from December, 2003, to January, 2004, and then again starting March 14, 2004. Berg was purportedly looking for electrical contracting work building radio towers. ...
• On March 24, Iraqi officials arrested Berg at a checkpoint in Mosul and jailed him, because of his Jewish last name and the Israeli stamp in his passport. (See Washington Post report - reg req'd - or CSM Terrorism & Security update for May 13, which excerpts stories about Berg from various media. ) Berg told friends in Baghdad that the Israelis thought he might be a spy. ... military in Iraq. The next day, April 6, Nick Berg was released. On Saturday, May 8, Berg's body was found outside of Baghdad on a highway overpass. On May 11, 2004, a video of Nick Berg's execution, seemingly by beheading, was posted on the Muntada al-Ansar website, which is now offline. ...

• When does media bias become hate? The Berg video and the consipiracy mongers.
• The good news: Motivated by the Nick Berg beheading, CAIR has circulated a petition condemning violence in the name of Islam. ...
• More difficult to classify is the recent opinion by Senator Fritz Hollings that Bush's goal in Iraq was to provide security for Israel hat tip: Lunchbox . ...
• When does media bias become outright hatred? Some people want "equal time" for the Nick Berg and Abu Ghraib stories, and accuse the media of disproportionate coverage of the prison abuse scandal. But this is really "just" bias, isn't it? What about outright lies? Al Jazeera publishes these points about the Berg video: hat tip: Instapundit There are plenty of questions raised concerning the video too. ... They engage in "who benefits" innuendo, implying that Americans killed Nick Berg to take the focus off of Abu Ghraib, but they have to resort to fabrication to discount the video evidence. ...
• Former Iranian president and shadowy puppetmaster Hashemi Rafsanjani is lashing out at the US over the situation in Iraq. ...
• Spanish Algerians recruiting European Muslims to fight for al-Qaeda in Iraq have been tied to Zarqawi as well as to the Hamburg cell that served as the staging ground for launching the 9/11 attacks. ...
• Posted at 08:47 AM | Direct Link | Comments (9) | TrackBack (2) | E-mail This! --> Andrew's Iraq Report: May 24/04.
• NET is to give you one power-packed briefing of insights, news and trends from Iraq that leaves you stimulated, informed, and occasionally amused every Monday & Thursday. ...
• This will kick off a campaign to focus more public attention on the future of Iraq rather than on the setbacks of recent weeks. ...
• Wretchard analyzes the reports of a Coalition attack on a wedding party in western Iraq. ...
• JK: Mike McNeal has a historical timeline of sorts on Iraq post-WW2 - start here, and scroll down. From the collapse of the monarchy, to the rise of the Ba'ath, to Iraq's status as a Soviet client state. ...
• Don't forget Chief Wiggles' Toys for Iraq drive! .
• I first got the idea to apply for the AEI internship program during the middle of the uranium flap in the State of the Union around mid-September 2003 when I came to the conclusion that AEI was one of the few think tanks in the United States that was still as interested in actually winning the war in Iraq as others were in declaring it a quagmire or following the nefarious designs of the neocons. ...

• <ZetaWolf> even my nick I had back in like 95 before even knowing about zetatalk.
• <ZetaWolf> I used to use this nick on dalnet.
• <SteveH> Q: Can the Zeta's comment on the current situation in the Iraq war as compared to the picture the US media is painting?.
• seems like war is essentially over and iraq regime more or less finished and defeated. ...
• <NancyL> I am accepting SteveH Q re Iraq/media as Q1.
• Is IRAQ really about OIL, or technology that they or others may have left behind.
• There are several dictatorships around the globe ten times worse than Iraq and whom are OPENLY opposing U. N (like North Korea) while Iraq had given in for instance.
• * Berg has joined #zetatalk.
• Are they protecting the babies in Iraq and Palestine from being run over, bombed? Nope.
• <ZetaWolf> Rods over Iraq with pix http://www. ...
• <Lebrasse> Nancy, r the zetas still intending to intervene in Iraq?.
• <drcadds> relates to real reason of iraq invasion.
• <ZetaWolf> china and russia lost alot of money in oil deals with iraq already.
• Is this related to the poleshift and/or the war in iraq?.
• <NancyL> Q1: Can the Zeta's comment on the current situation in the Iraq war as compared to the picture the US media is painting?.

• One of Iraq's holiest Shia Islamic shrines has reportedly been damaged in clashes between US troops and the forces of militant cleric Moqtada Sadr.
• A Shia nuclear scientist said to be close to Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is emerging as one of the frontrunners to become the new prime minister of Iraq.
• Closes In on Choice To Lead Iraq - Washington Post.
• FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) -- With U. ...
• Al-Qaeda 'spurred on' by Iraq war .
• The occupation of Iraq has helped al-Qaeda recruit more members, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.
• The fallout from the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib finally reached the Pentagon yesterday when it was announced that the senior military commander in Iraq was being shifted and the officer who was in charge of the jail had been suspended.

• Today's commentary: Will Bush survive Iraq? .
• The doomsayers' gloomiest predictions of a "new Vietnam" in Iraq are coming true. ... attempt to create a puppet administration has had even more dire consequences for its position in Iraq. ... The White House faces an insoluble dilemma: It cannot leave Iraq and it cannot stay. ... However, will all this help the Democrats in their fight for the White House? When discussing Bush's falling approval ratings, European commentators tend to ignore the fact that recent events in Iraq also highlight the failure of the Democrats' electoral strategy. ...
• Shocking details on abuse of Reuters staffers in Iraq .

• ,,In de week van 23 februari komen Alex Lely, Rico Diks, Nick van den Berg en Niels Feijen naar Vlissingen. ... De vier topspelers Diks, Feijen, Lely en Van den Berg hebben een kans. ...
• Goooooodmorning Iraq!Verder is Curry gisteren lid geworden van de Socialistische Partij. ...

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