Archive for March 16, 2004

Full text: THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON IRAQ

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

The former Iraqi exile group that gave the Bush administration exaggerated and fabricated intelligence on Iraq also fed much of the same information to newspapers, news agencies and magazines in the United States, Britain and Australia. A June 26, 2002, letter from the Iraqi National Congress to the Senate Appropriations Committee listed 108 articles based [...]

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

This is very cute. The Iraqi US-selected puppet council wants to stay in power.

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

Britain and other Western countries have failed adequately to investigate the role of multinational companies in exacerbating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

As you know, the US is claiming that it is serious about promoting democracy in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has just arrested a group of reformers (mostly academics–I think that I met one of them recently in Qatar). Do you think that the US government will speak loudly against Saudi oppression? Hold your breath.

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has accused France of being “directly” involved in the 1994 genocide.

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

The Bloody Price of the “War on Terror”, By ROBERT FISK

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

Full text: A Year After Iraq War; MISTRUST OF AMERICA IN EUROPE EVER HIGHER, MUSLIM ANGER PERSISTS: A Nine-Country Survey

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

Who is the brilliant person responsible for sending Christian missionaries into Iraq? I ask this as we read more news about the killing of US Christian missionaries in Iraq. . Sending Christian missionaries to convert Muslims in Iraq is as dangerous as sending armed troops. And would the US (the self-designated “beacon of freedom”) grant [...]

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

Incredible. Look at the differences between, say, the Japanese Government and the US government. The Japanese government has bought spots on AlJazeera to explain to Arab viewers their mission in Iraq, and its purpose. I saw one spot this morning. Very sensitive and well-done. I know that it is propaganda but it shows you how [...]

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

From today’s San Francisco Chronicle: Army counterintelligence agents improperly tried to gather information on civilian participants at a University of Texas conference on Islam, the Army acknowledged on Monday. Two agents of the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command from Fort Hood went to the law school on Feb. 9, seeking information on people who attended [...]

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

Full text: This is yet another poll of Iraqis by ABC News. This one shows clearly the divergent views of Arabs versus Kurds.

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad

I have offered my brief and very negative review of Mel Gibson’s The Passion below. But I saw the other day a report on that movie on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah’s station). Unsurprisingly, the station was very favorable toward the movie, and they interviewed a Maronite priest who went on to blame the controversy over the [...]

Posted on March 16, 2004 by As'ad