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Surge in Iraqi resistance because of US support for Israel
Surge in Iraqi resistance because of US support for Israel
Check out the BBC article by John Simpson included below as it mentioned that the US went into Falluja after the four US contractors were killed outside Falluja.. Guess why the contractors were killed outside of Falluja. It was because of US support for Israel yet again.. Israel had blasted the spiritual leader of Hamas (Sheik Yassin) which was the catalyst for the Iraqis from Falluja to do what they did to the four US contractors outside Falluja... They had a picture of Yassin in the back window of their truck and had mentioned that the killing of the four Americans was a 'gift to their brothers in Palestine' (of course they knew that the Israelis had used American provided weaponry to blast Sheik Yassin in his wheel chair). The pro-Israel biased US press/media didn't report this, of course! Here is the mention of such: http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=14282 Fallujah killings linked to Yassin's death April 2, 2004 - 1:31AM http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/...544641272.html A previously unknown group has claimed responsibility for the the gruesome killing of four US contractors in Fallujah, western Iraq. It said the action was in revenge for Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin. "This is a gift from the people of Fallujah to the people of Palestine and the family of Sheik Ahmed Yassin who was assassinated by the criminal Zionists," said in the statement from the "Brigades of Martyr Ahmed Yassin". "We advise the US forces to withdraw from Iraq and we advise the families of the American soldiers and the contractors not to come to Iraq," said the statement obtained by AFP. The statement, entitled "Fallujah, the graveyard of the Americans", claimed the group's fighters killed "members of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Zionist Mossad", referring to Israel's intelligence agency. It said the "blind violence" of Fallujah residents resulted from an increasing hatred of the Americans and was also in response to the "US aggression, raids on mosques and homes, the arrests, the torture of clerics and the terrorising of women and children." Yassin, the spiritual leader of the hardline Palestinian militant group, was killed last month in an Israeli air strike as he left a Gaza City mosque. The four US security contractors were killed in an ambush in Fallujah on Wednesday as they were escorting a truck carrying food supplies to a nearby military base. Two of their charred bodies were then dismembered and paraded by angry residents. Fallujah killings linked to Yassin's death - SpecialsWarOnIraq - www.smh.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Iraq engulfed by tide of violence http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...as/5371394.stm By John Simpson World affairs editor, BBC News Manfred Nowak, the UN's chief anti-torture expert, captured the headlines round the world when he suggested that torture could be worse in Iraq now than it was under Saddam Hussein. Torture is indeed at appalling levels in Iraq. Everyone, it seems, from the Iraqi forces to the militias to the anti-US insurgents, now routinely use torture on the people they kill. Each day, bodies are found with appalling injuries, particularly in Baghdad. At the Baghdad mortuary, I was told that more bodies now showed signs of torture than of a clean death. But new figures show that the picture is worse in other ways. The number of violent deaths for July and August reached a total of 6,600 - 13% higher than the figure for the previous two-month figure. 'Too late' They come at a time when 147,000 American soldiers are deployed in Iraq, the majority of them in the area around Baghdad. In recent months, reinforcements have been brought in to try to curb the violence. The figures seem to indicate clearly that the US forces simply do not have the answer to the basic problem. The same applies to the British forces in Basra and the south, where the situation is also deteriorating. The rise in hostility to the US forces is clearly linked to the onslaught against the town of Falluja in 2004 John Simpson Some 147,000 soldiers may seem a large number, and it is more than the US Department of Defense had been hoping to deploy in Iraq by now. But the overwhelming majority of them are not out on the streets, stopping the bombings and kidnappings and murders. The total number of fighting soldiers in the American force is probably about 18,000 - quite a small number, given the area they have to cover and the size of the problem. Even so, more troops does not seem to be the solution. It is probably too late now to introduce different tactics, but in policing hostile towns and cities there is no effective alternative to the foot patrol. A well-trained platoon can control quite a large area, making it hard for their opponents to gather together and carry out attacks. Of course, armoured vehicles can cover more ground, but as soon as they have passed, the insurgents can come out of hiding again. The Americans have never put enough foot patrols in the streets, and they long ago lost control of many towns and cities as a result. Rise in hostility The US Department of Defense has now provided another measure of the problem it faces. Its latest opinion poll carried out in Iraq indicates that, among the five million Sunni Muslims there, about 75% now support the armed insurgency against the coalition. This compares with 14% in the first opinion poll the Defense Department carried out back in 2003. It is a catastrophic loss of support, and there is no sign whatever that it can be effectively reversed. The rise in hostility to the US forces is clearly linked to the onslaught against the town of Falluja in 2004. This, we are told, was ordered directly by the White House and the Department of Defense after the bodies of four American defence contractors were hung from a bridge in April 2004. The ferocity of the attack by the US marines persuaded large numbers of Iraqi Sunnis that the Americans were their enemies. The situation in the country as a whole has never seriously improved since then, and Falluja itself has still not been entirely subdued. Last year, President George W Bush said he would accept nothing less than complete victory in Iraq. For many months, as the situation there deteriorated even further, he went quiet about his promise. But earlier this month, before the fifth anniversary of the attack on the twin towers, he repeated it. That presumably had more to do with American politics than with the situation in Iraq. But the latest crop of figures indicate that complete victory for the US, whatever that might mean, is now out of the question. Story from BBC NEWS: PROOF U.S. USED ILLEGAL WEAPONS ON IRAQIS VIDEO: DSL/BROADBAND http://www.corvusworld.com/phosphorus.wmv VIDEO: DIALUP http://www.corvusworld.com/phosphorusdialup.wmv The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists...642831,00.html Now we know napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis, why have the hawks failed to speak out? George Monbiot Tuesday November 15, 2005 The Guardian Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian TV last week, which has generated gigabytes of hype on the internet. It's a turkey, whose evidence that white phosphorus was fired at Iraqi troops is flimsy and circumstantial. But the bloggers debating it found the smoking gun. The first account they unearthed in a magazine published by the US army. In the March 2005 edition of Field Artillery, officers from the 2nd Infantry's fire support element boast about their role in the attack on Falluja in November last year: "White Phosphorous. WP proved to be an effective and versatile munition. We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE [high explosive]. We fired 'shake and bake' missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The second, in California's North County Times, was by a reporter embedded with the marines in the April 2004 siege of Falluja. "'Gun up!' Millikin yelled ... grabbing a white phosphorus round from a nearby ammo can and holding it over the tube. 'Fire!' Bogert yelled, as Millikin dropped it. The boom kicked dust around the pit as they ran through the drill again and again, sending a mixture of burning white phosphorus and high explosives they call 'shake'n'bake' into... buildings where insurgents have been spotted all week." White phosphorus is not listed in the schedules of the Chemical Weapons Convention. It can be legally used as a flare to illuminate the battlefield, or to produce smoke to hide troop movements from the enemy. Like other unlisted substances, it may be deployed for "Military purposes... not dependent on the use of the toxic properties of chemicals as a method of warfare". But it becomes a chemical weapon as soon as it is used directly against people. A chemical weapon can be "any chemical which through its chemical action on life processes can cause death, temporary incapacitation or permanent harm". White phosphorus is fat-soluble and burns spontaneously on contact with the air. According to globalsecurity.org: "The burns usually are multiple, deep, and variable in size. The solid in the eye produces severe injury. The particles continue to burn unless deprived of atmospheric oxygen... If service members are hit by pieces of white phosphorus, it could burn right down to the bone." As it oxidises, it produces smoke composed of phosphorus pentoxide. According to the standard US industrial safety sheet, the smoke "releases heat on contact with moisture and will burn mucous surfaces... Contact... can cause severe eye burns and permanent damage." Until last week, the US state department maintained that US forces used white phosphorus shells "very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes". They were fired "to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters". Confronted with the new evidence, on Thursday it changed its position. "We have learned that some of the information we were provided ... is incorrect. White phosphorous shells, which produce smoke, were used in Fallujah not for illumination but for screening purposes, ie obscuring troop movements and, according to... Field Artillery magazine, 'as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes...' The article states that US forces used white phosphorus rounds to flush out enemy fighters so that they could then be killed with high explosive rounds." The US government, in other words, appears to admit that white phosphorus was used in Falluja as a chemical weapon. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Iran: The Next War (for Israel): http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=56761 SCANDAL: 9/11 Commissioners Bowed to Pressure to Suppress Main Motive for the 9/11 Attacks: http://representativepress.blogspot....nt-inside.html The Gorilla in the Room is US Support for Israel : http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=39590 http://www.IRmep.org/jm.wmv http://representativepress.blogspot....pport-for.html |
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