MOSCOW - The Russian military is gradually increasing its combat-readiness after a long post-Soviet decline, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Friday, but cash shortages still limit training and the supply of state-of-the-art weapons.
MOSCOW -- Russian intelligence agents are holding daily meetings with Iraqi officials in Baghdad, and may be interested in gaining control of Iraqi secret service archives if Saddam Hussein's regime falls, the newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported Friday.
"President Bush's aides did not forcefully present him with dissenting views from CIA and State and Defense Department officials who warned that U.S.-led forces could face stiff resistance in Iraq, according to three senior administration officials. Instead, Bush embraced predictions of top administration hawks, beginning with Vice President Dick Cheney, who predicted Iraqis would joyously greet coalition troops as liberators and that the entire conflict might be over in a matter of weeks, the officials said."
It's a narrow enough designation that I think you can say clearly that there simply aren't "three senior administration officials" at the State Department. Indeed, this has all the looks of a story leaked right out of the White House. Presumably, we can scratch Dick Cheney's name off the list since they finger him as the person most responsible for selling the president a bill of goods. Of course, we said months ago that Cheney was the living, breathing disaster at the heart of this administration. But we'll get back to that later.
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you think now you might need that longer air war now, a couple more weeks of softening up the Republican Guard?
SEC. RUMSFELD: Oh, I'm sure there will be weeks of an air war. ... MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you think we'll still be fighting in Iraq six months from now?
SEC. RUMSFELD: Oh, goodness, you know, I've never -- we've never had a timetable. We've always said it could be days, weeks, or months and we don't know.
The FBI now believes that Israel intelligence, working closely with rogue U.S. and other foreign intelligence units, may be responsible for or otherwise deeply involved in the World Trade Center implosions and other acts of terrorism against the United States.
Newsman Jim Galloway, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (reprinted in The Austin American-Statesman, November 25, 2001, pg. A-11), reported that of the 1,100 foreigners arrested by the FBI for suspicion of involvement in the September 11 incidents, 100 are Israeli Jews.
But we already know that "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News Special Report
Dear God, please help George Bush in his holy quest to get more oil. I know that I am doing everything I can, including leaving my family behind possibly forever, facing death, hunger, sand storms and more, killing enemy soldiers and occasionally the civilian, too (I don't intend to! Honest to God, but combat is confusing, Lord, and can rouse the inner demon that is hard to control!) . . . I don't know how much more I can sacrifice for Bush, Lord, but if you give me a hint, I will certainly try. And just because the Republican-led House last week voted to cut veterans health care and benefits programs by nearly 25 billion over the next ten years, I know that doesn't mean that Bush doesn't love me, really I don't. He does--he just wants me to work harder for my health care, that's all. Maybe I can take a second a job at Kwiki-Mart when I get back in order to get me back some of them benefits and health care! Thank you Bush for making me be such a hard workin' honest man! Now, I'm gonna get back to the front lines now to help you secure your oil fields, sir, because I know you deserve them! And I know if you had another chance to be in the military and not go AWOL again, you'd do it, mister Commander-In-Chief! Ok, back to God: thank you God for another day. Thank you for having the Supreme Court install brave Bush into the White House and send us out here on this mission from you--I know the Pope is full of it, haw haw--You're talking to Bush, not the man with the funny hat, aintcha?? God Bless America, and God Bless George W. Bush!!!
Of one thing we can be sure, therefore: the world government movement is far from dead. Its henchmen wouldnt just give up after efforts going all the way back to the Wilson Administration. Beyond that, all we can do is speculate. War involves us in a maze of deceptions and unknowns. No one can say for sure where this will lead, or even how much it will cost. The price tag will be high given that the burden of rebuilding a "newly liberated Iraq" will doubtless fall to the U.S., and therefore to the longsuffering American taxpayer.
If the US army believes the road to Baghdad lies through Jenin, there is reason for Iraqi civilians to be concerned. During fighting in the Jenin refugee camp last April, more than half the Palestinian dead were civilians. There was compelling evidence that Israeli soldiers targeted civilians, including Fadwa Jamma, a Palestinian nurse shot dead as she tried to treat a wounded man. A 14-year-old boy was killed by Israeli tank-fire in a crowded street after the curfew was lifted. A Palestinian in a wheelchair was shot dead, and his body was crushed by an Israeli tank.
Israeli soldiers prevented ambulances from reaching the wounded and refused the Red Cross access. Using bulldozers, the Israeli army demolished an entire neighbourhood home to 800 Palestinian families reducing it to dust and rubble.
Martin van Creveld, a professor of military history and strategy at Jerusalem's internationally respected Hebrew University, has told reporters that, following his advice to US Marines, the American military bought nine of the converted bulldozers used in the Jenin demolitions from Israel. [more]
Bilderberg will hold its annual secret meeting at the luxurious Trianon Palace Hotel in Versailles, France May 15-18. The meeting dovetails with the Group of Seven meeting of finance ministers in Paris the day after Bilderberg concludes, on May 19 in Paris. Paris is only a 20-minute drive from Versailles.
International financiers and political leaders from Europe and North America will be conducting public business behind closed doors at the palatial resort. Banker David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger and high officials of the government and congressional leaders will participate, all pledging absolute secrecy.
Members of the Rothschild family from Europe and Britain will attend, along with high government officials.
Jim Hoagland will attend for the Washington Post and keep his pledge of secrecy. Publisher Donald Graham normally attends although he missed last years session in Chantilly, Va. The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and NBC, CBS and ABC have also been represented at Bilderberg meetings, binding themselves to a promise of secrecy.
Taxpayers will pay the travel cost for U.S. officials and lawmakers. It is against federal law for administration officials to hold secret meetings with non-officials to plan public policy. American officials will again ignore this law.
Central to the agenda will be planning post-war Iraq. France and Germany had extensive business relationships with pre-war Iraq and opposed the U.S. invasion. But what to do with Iraqs oil will be debated.
BEIRUT: Middle East expert and former Central Intelligence Agency officer Robert Baer has charged that the American-led war in Iraq is a dire mistake based on false assumptions and faulty information, but that President George W. Bush cannot stop now and leave Saddam Hussein in power after the long emotional and political buildup to the war.
The American people, Congress, government and president were conned into this war, in the full sense of the word, by neo-conservatives and hawks in Washington who sold a false bill of goods. The president was lied to and given erroneous information that was filtered through Iraqi exiles who had not lived in Iraq for 20 or 30 years and had no clear idea of realities inside Iraq. The exiles had no intention of fighting themselves, but wanted the US to fight for them, he told The Daily Star Thursday in an interview.
NICOSIA Syria, alarmed by the impending collapse of its neighbor and ally, has called for suicide missions against U.S. forces in Iraq.
Syrian President Bashar Assad also called on Arab regimes to oppose the U.S.-led war against Iraq. He warned that Syria could be the next target of Washington.
Assad said in an interview with the Beirut-based A-Safir daily that Damascus would not wait until the United States attacks Syria, Middle East Newsline reported. He did not elaborate.
"We will not wait until we become the next target," Assad said.
March 29, 2003Our daughter asked, "Dad, why are we bombing Iraq?"
First, I drew the big picture.
We are bombing Iraq because a dangerous concentration of political, corporate, and religious power has hijacked all three branches of our federal government. To pull it off, and to cover their tracks, they hijacked our media. Also, they are hijacking our democracy in a manner so alarming and disgustingI'll get to that laterit may cause an angry uprising of We The People.
That is what our troops are fighting and dying for. Our leaders and our media, acting in concert, keep our troops clueless about how they're fighting solely for the hijackers of our nation. If our troops knew the truth, most wouldn't bomb or shoot.
The Pope, in collusion with God, has been accused of trying to delay carnage in Baghdad by whipping up serious sandstorms.
An unidentified Pentagon spokesman explained: Ever since the Pope came out against the President, we have been monitoring him closely. After spotting him using French Wine and French Vanilla Wafers during the Eucharist, we knew it was just a matter of time before he tried to use the Red Phone.
The Pope replied: I only use the Red Phone in emergencies. I would say this qualifies.
THE US Marines have suffered an embarrassment with reports last night that one of their most prized investigators may have defected. Takoma, the Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin, had been in Iraq for 48 hours when he went missing on his first operation to snoop out mines. (looks like even the Dolphins think the reasons for this war suck...)
Whatever you believe about 911, you must agree that using the events of that day are central to all the policies from that point onward. When the WTC is continually used as THE excuse for incursion into Afghanistan and now the conquest of Iraq, it is imperative that doubt in the accounts of that day and suspicion of a subsequent cover-up will be seriously investigated.
Clearly, most people dont want to question the official version or to even consider that a strange series of events just dont pass the laugh test. Digging into the subject is painful; because if one rejects the government chronicle, the excuse for all other reactive policies, evaporates quicker than the collapse of the towers themselves.
The sheeple are simply more happy thinking they have a government that is incompetent than a government that is evil, when in fact they have a government that is so incompetent that it can't recognize its own evils.
Perhaps as Goddard said:
"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their govt. and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get."
"We're absolutely sick and tired of putting things out and finding they're not true. The misinformation in this war is far and away worse than any conflict I've covered, including the first Gulf war and Kosovo," said a senior BBC news source.
The subtleties surrounding the sensitive role oil plays in the Iraqi war may have eluded the United States Army. Deep in some newspaper coverage yesterday was a report that the 101st Airborne Division had named one central Iraq outpost Forward Operating Base Shell and another Forward Operating Base Exxon.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says shipments of military equipment have been crossing into Iraq from neighbouring Syria and the United States will hold Syria's government accountable for the "hostile acts."
Rumsfeld also warned Iran against inserting military personnel into Iraq during the war, saying such forces would be treated by U.S.-led forces as combatants.
SOUTHERN IRAQ (Reuters) - They don't think much of the view, they miss their families and they worry about getting killed.
A week after invading Iraq, some U.S. troops are wondering what happened to their hopes of a three-day race to Baghdad, waved on by the white flags of surrendering enemy soldiers.
"I feel like the longer I'm out here, the less are my chances of staying alive," said U.S. Marine Lance-Corporal Michael Sanchez, staring with sullen eyes at a vista of withered roadside shrubs.
"Right here the odds are against us, we don't know the terrain, we don't know the people, we don't know what they got coming for us," he said, his 21-year-old face a picture of resentment.
"All democracies turn into dictatorshipsbut not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ... What kinds of things push people and institutions into this direction? ...That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic."
"Lucas' comments clarify the connection between the Anakin trilogy and the Luke trilogy: that the Empire was created out of the corruption of the Republic, and that somebody had to fight it. "One day Princess Leia and her friends woke up and said, 'This isn't the Republic anymore, it's the Empire. We are the bad guys. Well, we don't agree with this. This democracy is a sham, it's all wrong.'"
The none-too-subtle staged terrorist attack against Senator Padme Amidala's ship to usher in an era of "security" and ultimately the take-over by the Dark Side did not go unnoticed. I didn't miss the similarities to the problem-reaction-solution system that has been utilized by world leaders as far back as the history books go. The kids who's parents paid $8 admission charge for them to see Episode 2 didn't seem to miss the point. Even the children get it.
Ask your average American why they think Hitler became supreme commander of Germany. Did he just "pull the wool over their eyes"? Was everybody "brainwashed"? or did his stormtroopers burn the Reichstag building down, blame it on terrorists, and tell the people: "I cannot protect you, unless you give me full control."
.....History is an error. Errors also repeat themselves....
ISLAMABAD, March 26 (Online): Around 500 dead bodies of American and British soldiers killed during military operation in Afghanistan after September 11 blitz have been lying in a morgue at Shebhaz Airbase in Jacobabad.
American and British authorities because of fear of strong reaction from their masses had kept the dead bodies of as many as 500 soldiers in a morgue established at Jacobabad Airbase instead of shifting them to their own countries, credible sources informed Online here Tuesday.
The bodies of these soldiers, who were killed during last five months in Afghanistan, were brought from Baghram Airbase and other areas of war-ravaged country, sources disclosed.
Sources said American and British authorities, which were planning to shift these dead bodies from their own countries, delayed the decision after eruption of war in Iraq.
New Delhi, March 28, IRNA -- Russia on Thursday said it wanted to align its position with strategic ally India on the humanitarian aspects and the consequences of the US-led war on Iraq as both sides were against the action.
"Discussions have been going on between Moscow and New Delhi on the Iraq situation and both sides should juxtapose their positions on the humanitarian aspect as also the consequences of the war," a Russian Embassy spokesman here told reporters Thursday night.
Asked if Moscow considered that New Delhi's position was closer to that of the US on Iraq crisis as it had adopted the "middle path", he said, "Russian and Indian positions are similar and both sides are against the war."
MOSCOW: Alarmed by a lack of Arab consensus on the war on Iraq, Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri traveled to Moscow Thursday to lobby for Kremlin support for Lebanon and Syria in their quest to prevent the disintegration of the Middle East as the war on Iraq rages on.
WASHINGTON: The eruption of war in Iraq last week set in motion a massive global PR network, cultivated by the Bush administration during the months-long buildup of forces.
The network is intended not only to disseminate, but also to dominate news of the conflict around the world.
"This has nothing to do with it. It has nothing to do with Iraq," an officer at the Russian Strategic Missile Forces press service told AFP by telephone.
The biggest war game in US military history, staged this month at a cost of £165m with 13,000 troops, was rigged to ensure that the Americans beat their "Middle Eastern" adversaries, according to one of the main participants.
General Paul Van Riper, a retired marine lieutenant-general, told the Army Times that the sprawling three-week millennium challenge exercises, were "almost entirely scripted to ensure a [US] win".
He protested by quitting his role as commander of enemy forces, and warning that the Pentagon might wrongly conclude that its experimental tactics were working.
When Gen Van Riper agreed to command the forces of an unnamed Middle Eastern state - which bore a strong re semblance to Iraq, but could have been Iran - he thought he would be given a free rein to probe US weaknesses. But when the game began, he was told to deploy his forces to make life easier for US forces.
"We were directed... to move air defences so that the army and marine units could successfully land," he said. "We were simply directed to turn [air defence systems] off or move them... So it was scripted to be whatever the control group wanted it to be."
The Army Times reported that, as commander of a low-tech, third-world army, Gen Van Riper appeared to have repeatedly outwitted US forces.
WASHINGTON, March 27 Richard N. Perle has resigned as chairman of an influential Pentagon advisory board following disclosures of business dealings that included his meeting with a Saudi arms dealer and a contract with a bankrupt telecommunications company seeking Defense Department permission to be sold to Chinese investors.
Now that UN troops have conquered the American homeland, ending a five-year reign of terror by the Bushites, the world can afford to catch its breath and try to understand how the nightmare started. How did America go from Superpower to rogue state, drawing down on itself the wrath of the entire world?
"It happened so quickly!" That's the point UN historian Col. Doug McNammie (UN/Canada) makes when describing America's descent into savagery. McNammie stresses the fact that America was a happy, prosperous nation in 2000.
McNammie sees the fall of America as having three distinct stages: First, the disputed election of 2000; then the disastrous Iraq expedition; and finally, the attacks of 2004, when the US seemed to strike out almost randomly at any country it considered "unhelpful."
Yankee POWs greet their Finnish Blue Helmet liberators from Bushite tyranny In McNammie's view, it was this third stage which forced the UN to contain the American threat. When the "Bushies" resorted to nuclear weapons to punish humble Norway for refusing to vote with the US in a Security Council showdown, Europe and Asia united against the "rabid" Yankees.
We sneered at Communist propaganda, how these creepy Stalinoids would confuse tyranny with freedom, how they would claim to be liberating people as they slit their throats, how they would decry all resistors as reactionaries, Kulaks, and agents of a capitalist foreign power.
And yet here is the US claiming to be liberating Iraq as it invades the country, decrying all resistors as terrorists, and generally feigning astonishment that these people do not immediately submit to the occupying power. What is it about other people's patriotism that American conservatives cannot understand?
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. - The plane carrying British Prime Minister Tony Blair to a meeting with President Bush was struck by lightning as it approached the United States on Wednesday, a reporter on board said. No injuries or damage were reported.
Britain's Press Association news agency said Blair's chartered British Airways Boeing 777 was struck by a lightning bolt as it approached Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland at about 10,000 feet. It landed 20 minutes later, at 5:05 p.m.
Anita, Assuming the current situation with Iraq leads to combat activity by US troops, I suggest we get a small film crew credentialed as press to shoot over there. This will solve some of the budget vs. production value problems we?ve discussed. In the best case scenario we can also get one or two of our leads over there in costume to do a scene with the mayhem of real war as a backdrop. [Take a look at pages 65, 72-74, and 96 for examples that lend themselves.] Failing this, we can have the war as a back plate to use with blue screen of our actors or to add CGI on. We?ll be the only movie with a multi billion dollar effects budget.
Russia on Wednesday expressed concern that Washington could fabricate evidence of Iraq allegedly hiding its weapons of mass destruction in an effort to justify the US-led attack on Baghdad.
Speaking before the Federation Council (Russian Upper House) on Wednesday Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov cautioned Washington and London that Moscow is not going to trust their claims of finding evidence of WMD in Iraq.
MOSCOW (AFX) - Russia has asked the US to provide fresh explanations for repeated flights of a U2 spy plane near its southwestern border with Georgia, according to media reports.
"We have asked the United States to explain to us the need for such flights," Interfax news agency cited Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov as saying.
Ivanov said Moscow was not satisfied with explanations it had received from Washington, according to which the U2 flights near the Russian-Georgian border are part of the "war on terrorism."
"We cannot accept these explanations about the fight against terrorism and will not accept them," Interfax quoted Ivanov as saying.
Abu Dhabi, Alittihad Daily, 3/26/2003 -- The UAE leading semi-official daily newspaper, Alittihad, reported today that a US government delegation has arrived in Amman, Jordan, yesterday in its way to Baghdad for negotiations with the Iraqi government about an immediate ceasefire.
A diplomatic source told Alittihad that the US government delegation included four leading members of Congress as well as Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of the US Vice President Dick Cheney, representing the US Department of State, where she works as an Assistant to the Deputy of the Secretary of State for Middle Eastern Affairs.
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Royal Marines were deployed to Iraq's border with Iran yesterday in a move that will unnerve Teheran's regime, which fears encirclement by American-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov warned that the Iraq crisis could lead to the establishment of a new world order, in an article published today in the offical daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
"It is obvious that not only the fate of Iraq depends of how events unfold, but also the future of international relations for a long time," Ivanov wrote. "The foundation of the future world order is the main issue at stake in this crisis."
Gee, How insightful. I guess I feel a little less like I have been screaming at the wall for the past few years.
MOSCOW. March 26 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov has criticized the U.S.' and its allies' statements concerning their mission in the war against Iraq.
"It is becoming increasingly evident, even now, just how far from reality the attempts [by the U.S. and its allies] are to present the war against Iraq as a triumphant campaign to liberate the Iraqi people with minimum casualties and damages," Ivanov said at the Russian Federation Council on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Democrat has called for an investigation of Richard Perle, an architect of the war on Iraq, for possible conflicts of interest in his roles as corporate adviser and Pentagon consultant.
Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee , asked the Pentagon's inspector general to probe Perle's work as a paid adviser to bankrupt telecommunications company Global Crossing Ltd. and his guidance on investment opportunities resulting from the Iraq conflict.
"I am aware of several potential conflicts that warrant your immediate review," Conyers said on Monday in a letter to the Defense Department's inspector general, Joseph Schmitz. The letter was made available on Tuesday.
"Mr. Perle is considered a 'special government employee' and is subject to government ethics prohibition -- both regulatory and criminal -- on using public office for private gain," Conyers' letter said.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A prosecutor who took part in an anti-war rally was placed on paid leave Tuesday because she allegedly pointed out undercover officers to fellow protesters.
Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Albright's actions Sunday angered police, who say she put the plainsclothes officers in danger. Anti-war activists, meanwhile, argued that undercover police shouldn't attend their rallies.
Albright, who has worked with Albuquerque police on criminal cases, pointed out - both verbally and with gestures - at least two undercover officers in the crowd of about 300 people, officials said.
Project for the New American Century writes: "And advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
A group of about 15 people picketed this morning outside the American Enterprise Institute's office on 17th Street across the street from the headquarters of the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. They were picketing the appearance of Richard Perle, James Woolsey and other war criminals speaking on the progress of the U.S. terrorist slaughter in Iraq.
HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- The Iraqi war has convinced the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership that some form of confrontation with the U.S. could come earlier than expected.
Beijing has also begun to fine-tune its domestic and security policies to counter the perceived threat of U.S. "neo-imperialism."
As more emphasis is being put on boosting national strength and cohesiveness, a big blow could be dealt to both economic and political reform.
That the new leadership has concluded China is coming up against formidable challenges in the short to medium term is evident from recent statements by President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.
Hu indicated earlier this year Beijing must pay more attention to global developments so that "China make good preparations before the rainstorm ... and be in a position to seize the initiative."
The London based Arabic daily Al Quds Al Arabi reported on Tuesday, March 25 that the American vice president, Dick Cheney, would soon head to the Jordanian capital, Amman.
The newspaper claimed that the visit would be an attempt by Cheney to convince his daughter, who was in the Jordanian capital, to back down her decision to go to Baghdad within a group of volunteers who want to form human shields against the US led attacks on Iraq.
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Conyers Seeks Impeachment Tally House Representative Congressman John Conyers on the Judicial Committee is asking you to, through his legislative assistant Alexia, fax or email if you want Bush impeached.
Message from Alexia: The phones are currently ringing off the hook, so please send a brief message stating whether you are for or against impeachment via email or fax.
China is continuing to call for a peaceful resolution of the Iraq crisis brokered through the United Nations, with the Chinese Premier calling for an early end to the US-led war in Iraq.
Chinese official media report Premier Wen Jiabao made the comment during a visit by his Pakistani counterpart.
He said China continues to seek a political resolution brokered through the United Nations, which would reduce the suffering of Iraqis and safeguard the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
While opposed to the war, China's leaders have made only muted criticisms of the United States.
There are signs ordinary Chinese feel far more strongly.
A state-controlled Chinese survey institute reports 90 per cent of respondents consider the US and British troops aggressors rather than liberators.
LAHORE, March 24 (Online): The next target of US after capturing Iraq will be replacement of religious government in Iran with a secular government as the US forces in Afghanistan have already started implementation on action plan in this regard.
According to reliable sources, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had submitted a detailed 300 pages long report to President George Bush in which it was pointed out that during possible US attack on Iran religiously motivated Jehadi (holy warrior) organizations would support Iran from the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Category: News & Opinion Topic: International Affairs Synopsis: Kuwait gets big payoff in regional gang rape of Iraq Source: The Hindu Published: March 21, 2003 Author: Atul Aneja For Education and Discussion Only. Not for Commercial Use.
MANAMA March 22. As the British and U.S. forces seek to consolidate their hold over Southern Iraq, the faint contours of a post-war power sharing arrangement in this area are beginning to emerge.
In a significant development, Kuwaiti troops showed up in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr, soon after the British and U.S. forces took it over on Friday, and hoisted their national flag over a captured building. The move was significant on two counts. First, it symbolically avenged Kuwait's invasion by Iraq 13 years ago. But more importantly, military analysts are veering to the view that Umm Qasr could be Kuwait's reward for offering nearly half of its territory as a launch pad for a U.S. attack on Iraq...... From Umm Qasr, Kuwait would be in a position to impose its influence over the Shatt Al Arab a key 193 km. long channel that has carried oil supplies from Basra and the Iranian oil city of Abadan into the Persian Gulf waters. Another event, which is likely to be of crucial importance, has been the tactical manoeuvring by British and U.S. forces on the outskirts of Basra.
After conducting coordinated operations in the Faw Peninsula, Umm Qasr and Rumaila oil fields, U.S. and British forces split up near Basra. While British forces were left to takeover Basra, U.S. troops turned northwest in the direction of the Euphrates. These troops travelled rapidly, and in parallel with another column from the U.S. first and third Infantry divisions. Both headed in the general direction of Baghdad......
March 24, 2003While the slaughter continues in Iraq, the United States has its sights set on the real prize: the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Even though Syria is next on the chopping block according to the authors of A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realmchief among them Richard Perle and Douglas Feithit is Iran that they covet.
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Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov warned that the Iraq crisis could lead to the establishment of a new world order, in an article published today in the offical daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 