Posts Tagged ‘Us
U.S. likely to join, if Israle strikes Iran
The United States would find it difficult not to join an Israeli air strike in the event that Jerusalem decides to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, a former top-ranking U.S. Air Force officer told participants at a conference this weekend organized by a Washington think tank.
Charles F. Wald, former deputy commander of United States European Command, [...]
Rashid Khalidi – What you don´t know about Gaza
Nearly everything you´ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip.
THE GAZANS Most of the people living in Gaza are not there by choice. The majority of the 1.5 million people crammed into the roughly 140 square miles of the Gaza Strip belong to families that came from towns and villages outside Gaza like Ashkelon and Beersheba. They were driven to Gaza by the Israeli Army in 1948.
Kawther Salam – The Donkey Who Scared the Israeli Army
The weakest and most coward army in the world, which considers itself as the strongest one targeted and bombed a donkey on the streets of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. The cowards of the Israeli Air forces fired a missile at the donkey which was pulling a cart while Lama and Haya Hamdan, two sister aged 4 and 11, were searching for some food for their impoverished family.
Haya and Lama at the Al-shifa’s hospital cooler.The poor “terrorist” donkey scared the Israeli soldier who was watching him from outside Gaza, using war equipment received from the “friendly” USA. The great scare of the “innocent” Israeli army obliged them to protect, to defend themselves and their criminal state from the big horror of a “terrorist” donkey, probably from “Hamas”. So they in the air force to drop an intelligent GBU-39 bomb at the donkey cart, immediately killing not only the donkey, but also Lama and Haya, the two young sisters.
Deaths in Pakistan ‘US strikes’
A suspected US missile strike has killed at least seven people in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region.
One missile hit a vehicle in the village of Wana killing four people, while another strike killed three in a nearby village, both in South Waziristan on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
“Tribesmen opened fire on the drones after the attacks,” a resident of Wana told Reuters news agency.
Israel should be expelled from the UN
By Snorre Lindquist and Lasse Wilhelmson – Stockholm
The Gaza Strip is now the largest concentration camp in the world. The situation grows steadily more insufferable for the 1.5 million Palestinians who live there. Deliveries of food, medicine and fuel are made difficult or stopped altogether. Child malnutrition is increasing. Water supplies and drainage have ceased to function. Children die for lack of healthcare. Tunnels to Egypt, dug by hand, are the only breathing space. Journalists and diplomats are denied entry. Israel is planning more military efforts. The Palestinians in Gaza are now to be starved into surrender and become an Egyptian problem.
If this is what US and Britain call freedom, God help Iraq
If we learn anything from the recent letter entitled, ‘These Wars are Not Imperialist’, Monday December 1 by ‘John, Crumlin’, it is that history, unless you have suffered at the hands of the oppressors, has a very short and selective memory.
The Irish will never forget the oppression suffered under British rule, the Jews under Nazism, Armenians under the Ottoman empire, and, appropriately, the people of Iraq under the puppet regimes installed by various governments over the years.
US: Detainee dies in US custody in Iraq
BAGHDAD – The U.S. military says a detainee has died of an apparent heart attack while in custody at a U.S. detention facility in Baghdad.
Monday’s statement says the 25-year-old man was pronounced dead by doctors at a combat hospital after losing consciousness at Camp Cropper.
U.S.: India prepared for strike on Pakistan
Source: CNN
The United States believes that India’s air force began preliminary preparations for a possible attack against Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of the recent massacre in Mumbai, CNN has learned.
One U.S. official said India’s air force “went on alert” following the attacks in Mumbai.
New report slams US reconstruction of Iraq
Source: Khaleej Times
NEW YORK – An unpublished federal draft report depicts the US-led reconstruction of Iraq as a $100 billion failure doomed by bureaucratic infighting, ignorance of basic elements of Iraqi society and waves of violence there, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.
US troops may stay in Iraq beyond deadline
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Maliki rejects notion Iraqi troops need 10 years to get ready
BALAD: The top US commander in Iraq said on Saturday that some US troops may remain in Iraqi cities after next June, even though a US-Iraq security pact calls for their withdrawal from urban areas by then.