UrukNet - Daily Information from Occupied Iraq - newsletter 05 Nov 2008

UrukNet - Daily Information from Occupied Iraq - newsletter 05 Nov 2008
17 US Terrorist Attacks On Pakistan Since September - Media Applauds
Jyoti Mishra
One of the issues most vexing to Pakistan is the ongoing missile strikes by US unmanned Predator drones, or UAVs, into Pakistan’s tribal areas. Since 1 September, there have been at least 17 of these strikes and, while US officials say al-Qaeda leaders are being successfully targeted, local tribesmen say scores of civilians have been killed. (Source: BBC News). Look at the picture at the top of this post, taken from the article I quote above. Notice anything strange about it? It shows the result of illegal US bombing of Pakistan, via robot drones. It shows one of many building destroyed in 17 separate such terrorist attacks. And the words under the picture read:"Damage to civilian life and property is making Pakistan’s leaders uneasy".Now, imagine a picture of the 7/7 London bombings. Visualise the carnage and imagine a subtitle saying, "Damage to civilian life and property is making Britain’s leaders uneasy."...

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Iraqi government confident Obama won't withdraw troops too quickly
Missy Ryan, Reuters
The Iraqi government is confident that president-elect Barack Obama will not jeopardise Iraq's improving security by hastily withdrawing U.S. troops, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday. Obama has "reassured us that he would not take any drastic or dramatic decisions," Zebari told BBC television...

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Narratives Under Siege (23): ‘The Israelis Attack us Every Day’
PCHR - Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
"I’ve been a fisherman for fifteen years now, ever since I was fifteen years old. My father was a fisherman and so was my grandfather. I have spent half my life at sea. But every day we face problems from the Israeli gunboats: they follow us, and then they start shooting at us because they want to force us to stop working." Saber Al-Hissie comes from a Gazan family of fishermen. His 20 metre vessel belongs to his father, who, after many years of fishing, has finally passed the family business over to Saber....

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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 44/2008 (30 Oct. - 05 Nov. 2008)
PCHR - Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law escalated in the OPT during the reporting period (30 October – 5 November 2008): Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF killed 7 Palestinians and wounded 8 others in the Gaza Strip. They also wounded 13 Palestinian civilians and an international human rights defender in the West Bank. On Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, 4 and 5 November 2008, IOF killed 6 members of the 'Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas), and wounded 5 others in the southern and central Gaza Strip. All victims were hit by missiles fired by IOF aircrafts during Israeli incursions into some areas in the Gaza Strip. IOF also arrested a wounded woman. On Wednesday evening, IOF killed using missiles a member of al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad) and wounded 2 civilian bystanders...

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One year after Annapolis
Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada
It seems like another age, but it was only one year ago that United States President George W. Bush and his administration were preparing to bring Israelis and Palestinians together to launch a final push for a peace settlement. The resulting conference in Annapolis, Maryland, was attended by officials from dozens of countries, the United Nations, the Arab League, the European Union, the Quartet and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, among many others. Only the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people under occupation, besieged in Gaza, were not invited...

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Elect a president; massacre Palestinians. No change here.
DetainThis
What great timing for another U.S.-subsidized Israeli aggression against Palestinians. Brilliant and original, once again. The headline ratio between the U.S. elections and the Israeli invasion of Gaza must be at least 200–1....

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Obama May Keep Some Bush Foreign Policies
Jason Ditz
...According to former Assistant Secretary of State Edward Walker, "the basic difference is going to be style." Obama’s campaign may have been based around a theme of multilateralism and diplomacy, but in practice the US policy from Russia and China to the Middle East are unlikely to see anything but the most superficial changes from the Bush Administration’s. Even in Iraq, which Obama made the centerpiece of his primary campaign, his position became increasingly indistinguishable from the current administration as time went on. He declared that "the surge succeeded beyond our wildest dreams," and he began predicating his pullout on recommendations from the military commanders. The chief of Iraq’s presidential cabinet too believes that "US policy will not change...

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November 5, 2008: 1 US Soldier, 13 Iraqis Killed; 23 Iraqis Wounded
Margaret Griffis, Antiwar.com
Baghdad quieted down overnight, but still suffered from at least one attack today. Overall, at least 13 Iraqis were killed and 23 more were wounded across the country. One U.S. soldier died of a non-combat related cause in central Iraq today. commentary over the election of a new president in the U.S. is already flooding out of the Middle East/South Asia conflict zone...

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