American Contact? - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com of ties to Osama bin Laden now works for the new Iraqi government. took place before the current Iraqi government even existed, the official said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8900557/site/newsweek/
Extractions: WEB EXCLUSIVE By By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball Aug. 10, 2005 - A former Washington-area man accused in court papers of being the "American contact" for an Osama bin Laden "front organization" is now believed to be working for the new Iraqi government's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, two U.S. law-enforcement officials and a longtime associate of the man tell NEWSWEEK. Tariq A. Hamdi, who allegedly delivered a satellite-telephone battery to bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1998, has left the United States and has told associates he is currently employed in the Iraqi Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, said the government officials, who asked not to be identified because of pending legal charges against Hamdi. Hamdi's precise status with the Iraqi foreign ministry could not be immediately determined. But one of the U.S. law-enforcement officials said that federal prosecutors were concerned enough about Hamdi's current status that they undertook a legal review with the State Department to determine if it would prevent them from charging him with federal crimes because of diplomatic immunity. But the prosecutors determined that his diplomatic status was "irrelevant" because the crimes they were considering charging him with took place before the current Iraqi government even existed, the official said.
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Iraq Weapons Of Mass Destruction Scandal (Nonviolence.org) Includes several articles on the claims of Iraqi weapons, the charges the Bush and Blair governments hyped the threat, and inquiries. http://www.nonviolence.org/articles/cat_iraq_weapons_of_mass_destruction_scandal
Extractions: Nonviolence Home Links About Us Discussion Board ... Issues Introduction: In his campaign to get the American people to back a U.S. war against Iraq, President Bush often cited the danger that Saddam Hussein might develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD's). Bush repeatedly assured the country that there was solid evidence of Iraq WMD's but no evidence has been found since the war's end. More and more attention has been given to what evidence President Bush had and whether he knowingly cited information he knew to be inaccurate in order to scare America into a war it wouldn't have chosen to fight otherwise. Read full article>> Comments (0) Judith Miller in cursor.org parody photo referring to her tendency to print dubious WMD intelligence from Ahmed Chalabi,...
The Right Way To Change A Regime Former secretary of State James Baker voices his concerns about the current USgovernments policy and describes the costs of a regime change in iraq. New York Times, US free registration required. http://www10.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/opinion/25BAKE.html
Extractions: INEDALE, Wyo. While there may be little evidence that Iraq has ties to Al Qaeda or to the attacks of Sept. 11, there is no question that its present government, under Saddam Hussein, is an outlaw regime, is in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions, is embarked upon a program of developing weapons of mass destruction and is a threat to peace and stability, both in the Middle East and, because of the risk of proliferation of these weapons, in other parts of the globe. Peace-loving nations have a moral responsibility to fight against the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by rogues like Saddam Hussein. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to do so, and leading that fight is, and must continue to be, an important foreign policy priority for America. And thus regime change in Iraq is the policy of the current administration, just as it was the policy of its predecessor. That being the case, the issue for policymakers to resolve is not whether to use military force to achieve this, but how to go about it.
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Sunnis Step Off Political Sidelines Sunnis have remained on the sidelines of the Iraqi government since then. US officials and leaders of the new Iraqi government have said that including http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/21/AR2005052100895.
Extractions: var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'world/mideast'; Hello Edit Profile Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Subscribe to SEARCH: News Web var ie = document.getElementById?true:false; ie ? formSize=27 : formSize=24 ; document.write(''); Top 20 E-mailed Articles washingtonpost.com World Middle East ... E-Mail This Article Top News World What is RSS? All RSS Feeds By Ellen Knickmeyer and Naseer Nouri Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, May 22, 2005; Page A01 BAGHDAD, May 21 More than 1,000 Sunni Arab clerics, political leaders and tribal heads ended their two-year boycott of politics in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq on Saturday, uniting in a Sunni bloc that they said would help draft the country's new constitution and compete in elections. Formation of the group comes during escalating violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims that has raised the threat of sectarian war. The bloc represents moderate and hard-line members of the Association of Muslim Scholars, the Iraqi Islamic Party and other main groups of the disgruntled Sunni minority toppled from dominance when U.S.-led troops routed Hussein in April 2003.
Extractions: The Iraqi government announced Monday it detained nearly 900 suspected militants in a two week crack-down on the insurgency. Phebe Marr of the U.S. Institute of Peace, recently back from a visit to Iraq, discusses the fledgling democratic government's efforts to rebuild and improve security under the strain of ongoing insurgent violence. RAY SUAREZ: We get that from Phebe Marr, an independent scholar and senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, a federally funded independent think tank in Washington. She's been analyzing Iraq for this program since before the first Gulf War. Marr spent three weeks in Baghdad and Basra last month interviewing members of the new Iraqi leadership as part of a study looking at the political future of that country. A historian of modern Iraq, Phebe Marr was making her second trip to the country in recent months. She visited Kurdish northern Iraq in December, and she joins us now. Phebe Marr, looking at the press coming out of Iraq, you hear everything from this is a country that's on the verge of slipping out of America's grasp to a country that's on the verge of being ready to stand on its own two feet. How do you see it? PHEBE MARR: Oh, I see it very much in the middle. Those are two extremes. It's going to be a race against time, but I think the Iraqis and the United States ultimately are going to win that.
Extractions: Kanan Makiya is among Iraq's most prominent democracy and human rights advocates. Born in Baghdad in 1949, he left Iraq in 1968 to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but, starting in 1981, dedicated himself to advocacy for a free Iraq and the study of tyranny. His 1989 book, Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq offered a rare glimpse into the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime. Other works followed, including The Monument and the prize-winning Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World Following the 1991 Iraqi Kurdish uprising, Makiya visited northern Iraq where he organized the collection of captured Iraqi military and security documents. These documents became the basis for an award-winning 1992 documentary, Saddam's Killing Fields , describing Saddam Hussein's ethnic cleansing campaign against the Kurds. In 1993, he also organized the Iraq Research and Documentation Project at Harvard University in order to catalogue the documents and make them accessible to scholars. Since Saddam Hussein's April 2003 ouster, Makiya has been a leading advocate for de-Baathification and a commemoration of the victims of Baathist tyranny. In June 2003, he founded the Iraq Memory Foundation. He is also a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at Brandeis University. Sam Spector, a research analyst at the Long-Term Strategy Project, interviewed Makiya in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 26, 2005.
Analysis: The Shadow Iraqi Government The Shadow Iraqi government. By Pepe Escobar Asia Times April 21, 2005 So much for Iraqi democracy . Long live the shadow Iraqi government. http://www.occupationwatch.org/analysis/archives/2005/04/the_shadow_iraq.html
Extractions: April 21, 2005 The ideal White House/Pentagon script for Iraq calls for a pro-American government, total control of at least 12% of the world's known oil reserves and 14 military bases to make it happen. Reality has been churning up other ideas. Whenever there is a so-called "transfer of power" in Mesopotamia, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, like clockwork, steps on a plane to Baghdad. On his latest trip designed to issue orders for the new, supposedly sovereign Iraqi government, Rumsfeld, in a splendid Freudian slip, let it be known on the record the US "does not have an exit strategy" in Iraq: only a "victory strategy". This is code for "we're not going anywhere". Reality had intervened two days before Rumsfeld arrived, when about 300,000 Shi'ite nationalists occupied the same Firdaws Square of "liberation day", April 9, 2003, but this time with no Saddam-toppling photo-op intent. Their messages were clear: out with the occupation; and Bush equals Saddam Hussein.
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