Glen Rangwala / The Independent

June 27, 2004

Tony Blair's message to the Iraqi people, 8 April 2003 promised: "Coalition forces will make the country safe, and will work with the United Nations to help Iraq get back on its feet." What happened: Coalition military leaders now recognise that a substantial sector of the Iraqi population has been engaged in fighting an insurgency against them from the start of the occupation. At first, it was thought that stability could be achieved simply by taking out the leaders of anti-coalition paramilitary groups in "mopping-up operations". From September 2003, however, the occupation authorities began to think of the violence as a broadly based insurgency...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85702:740526

Glen Rangwala / The Independent

June 27, 2004

Tony Blair's message to the Iraqi people, 8 April 2003 promised: "Coalition forces will make the country safe, and will work with the United Nations to help Iraq get back on its feet." What happened: Coalition military leaders now recognise that a substantial sector of the Iraqi population has been engaged in fighting an insurgency against them from the start of the occupation. At first, it was thought that stability could be achieved simply by taking out the leaders of anti-coalition paramilitary groups in "mopping-up operations". From September 2003, however, the occupation authorities began to think of the violence as a broadly based insurgency...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85702:740526

US armed forces are now realising that crushing military superiority is not enough to save them from hostage-taking, ambushes and other deadly assaults. For soldiers on the ground the occupation of Iraq is fast becoming a descent into hell...

http://mondediplo.com/2004/06/01leader


From Information Clearing House

You know, of course, that the alleged handover of Iraqi sovereignty on June 30 is a phony-baloney public-relations stunt. The armed forces will remain in the country. A U.S. embassy with 1,000 employees will open. In other words, it will be a continued occupation with an Iraqi face...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6390.htm

The shameless corporate feeding frenzy in Iraq is fuelling the resistance...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6382.htm

http://www.ips-dc.org/iraq/costsofwar/


From Information Clearing House

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1246876,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/24/national0353EDT0452.DTL


Informant: kevcross5

Während der Versuch der US-Regierung gescheitert ist, Immunität gegenüber dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof zu erhalten, scheint die irakische Übergangsregierung dies den Koalitionstruppen und privaten Auftragnehmern weiterhin gewähren zu wollen...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/irak/17743/1.html

The Bush Administration is using the military invasion and occupation of Iraq to advance a corporate globalization agenda that is illegal under international law...

http://www.ifg.org/analysis/globalization/IraqTestimony.html


From Information Clearing House