Zabiha News

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Submitted by Ali: “The U.S. military, faced with rising insurgent violence in Afghanistan, will revise its strategy for region to include militant safe havens in neighboring Pakistan, the top U.S. military officer said on Wednesday.
“I’m not convinced we are [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: “Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad’s prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, and subject to frequent sexual abuse by guards, current and former prisoners say.
The ministry is under Shia control and [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: “According to Egyptian website Al-Mesryoon, last two months there was a campaign in America to recruit Egyptians as interpreters in the American forces and to be sent to Iraq.
The Americans offer Green Card to Egyptians who sign a contract to work for at least six months, and the recruiters can extend [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: “NEGOTIATORS have concluded a deal which will see the complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by 2011, ending an eight-year occupation, the top Iraqi heading the team said yesterday.
Under the 27-point deal, all US combat troops will be withdrawn from Iraqi cities by next June, the negotiator, Mohammed al-Haj Hammoud, [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: Farah al-Jaberi, an Iraqi woman, who works in the Green Zone in Baghdad, says women are “seen by an electronic security scanner at one of the checkpoints entering Baghdad’s Green Zone — essentially naked, even when they are fully covered in conservative Muslim attire.”
Farah al-Jaberi began her protest after she refused [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: In a follow up to Ibn Batuta’s posting “Long Term American Troop Presence” we are posting an interesting analysis of the contract that is being signed between the American and Iraqi government. Some startling facts of this contract are that this agreement will grant American troops to strike any other [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: Jeremy Scahill, author of bestselling book Blackwater, was interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. Blackwater is the infamous mercenary army working in Iraq. The interview discusses the killing of seventeen Iraqi civilians by Blackwater forces and details of Blackwater’s business. “That individual, whose nine-year-old son died in his arms, [...]

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Submitted by Ibn Batuta: “Rafsanjani said the U.S. “occupation of Iraq represents a danger to all nations of the region” and warned that the security deal would create a “permanent occupation.” … The deal, which the Iraqis and Americans hope to finish in midsummer, would establish a long-term security relationship between Iraq and the United [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: “The future of Iraq is to be the focus of an international summit in the Swedish capital this week. But the tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees living in Stockholm remain unconvinced by claims the situation back home is improving. Clayton Swisher reports from Sweden’s Little Baghdad”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9StNaQShFQA

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Submitted by Joma: At a time when U.S. companies are outsourcing to China, the Chinese govt is outsourcing torture to the U.S. I wonder how the Chinese who invented creative ways to torture in ancient days were left behind in this field by the U.S. ABC news reports on this “an FBI agent reported a [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: A former detainee testified in Congress to the abuse and torture he had to endure at Guantanamo bay even though his captors knew that he was innocent. “Lawmakers were also provided with recently declassified reports, which show that US and German intelligence agencies had determined as early as 2002 that Mr. [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: “Two civilians and a Nato soldier have been killed in Afghanistan during a demonstration over the shooting of the Koran by a US soldier in Iraq. The protest by over 1,000 people in Chagcharan turned violent after the crowd tried to storm a Nato base.”

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Submitted by Zabiha News: This op-ed discusses whether the Quran sniping in Iraq was an isolated incident. The author highlights the actions of Lt Gen William Jerry Boykin “who, while in uniform, propagated hate at the grassroots level in dozens of speeches to church groups, saying that the war on terror was actually spiritual warfare, [...]

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Submitted by Riz: “Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s office said Mr Bush had promised to send the accused American sniper to trial. The soldier was sent home by the US military after the Muslim holy book was found riddled with bullet holes at a shooting range by Iraqi police.”

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The Iraqi government has banned popular songs praising the Shiite militia and Moqtada Al-sadr.
“I Am the IED” by Baha el Suwaedi
I am the IED
If an armored vehicle passes, I will blow it up
If I get thirsty, I will drink blood from a Hummer
If an armored vehicle passes, it is suicidal
I will become a volcano if [...]

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