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

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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

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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."

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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.




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