BAGHDAD, Iraq — Sunni Arab political leaders said Thursday that nearly 90 Sunnis had been reported abducted or killed in the past two days by groups with possible ties to the nation’s Shiite Muslim-led Interior Ministry forces.

In one incident, up to 25 men just released from detention were reportedly whisked away by gunmen in SUVs. The Sunnis also allege that 20 corpses turned up in Baghdad, all people reportedly abducted by security forces on the morning of April 4.
seattletimes.nwsource.com

Iraq unrest forces 65,000 to flee
At least 65,000 Iraqis have fled their homes as a result of sectarian violence and intimidation, according to new figures from the Iraqi government.

And the rate at which Iraqis are being displaced is increasing.

Figures given to the BBC by the Ministry for Displacement and Migration show a doubling in the last two weeks of the number of Iraqis forced to move.

April 12: U.S. Death Toll in Iraq This Month Hits 35
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Four more American soldiers were killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said as the U.S. death toll for the month surpassed the total for all of March. More than 40 Iraqis also died, including at least 22 in a car bombing near a Shiite mosque northeast of Baghdad.

April 14: Nine US troops killed in Iraq over 4 days; Two-stars demands Rumsfeld resign
WASHINGTON (Agencies): A recently retired two-star general who just a year ago commanded a US Army division in Iraq on Wednesday joined a small but growing list of former senior officers to call on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. “I believe we need a fresh start in the Pentagon. We need a leader who understands teamwork, a leader who knows how to build teams, a leader that does it without intimidation,” Maj Gen John Batiste, who commanded the Germany-based 1st Infantry Division in Iraq, said in an interview on CNN.

In recent weeks, retired Marine Corps Lt Gen Gregory Newbold, Army Maj Gen Paul Eaton and Marine Corps Gen Anthony Zinni all spoke out against Rumsfeld. This comes as opinion polls show eroding public support for the 3-year-old war in which about 2,360 US troops have died. “You know, it speaks volumes that guys like me are speaking out from retirement about the leadership climate in the Department of Defense,” Batiste said. “But when decisions are made without taking into account sound military recommendations, sound military decision making, sound planning, then we’re bound to make mistakes.”

…Nine US soldiers have been killed across Iraq in the past four days, including three in roadside bombings Wednesday morning, the US military said. Two were killed when their vehicle was struck by a bomb south of Baghdad at around 9:20 am (0520 GMT) Wednesday, and another died in a similar bombing east of Baghdad.
Three soldiers died on Tuesday after their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad. One soldier died on Monday from wounds suffered in enemy action on Sunday while operating in the western Al-Anbar province. Near Balad, north of Baghdad, a soldier was killed Sunday when his patrol was hit by a roadside bomb, the military said, adding that another was wounded.

A soldier from the 101st Airborne Division died on Monday in a “non-battle injury” at the US base of Sykes, near Tall Afar in northern Iraq. An investigation is underway. The latest fatalities brought the US military personnel death toll in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 2,364 according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures. President Bush’s claim three years ago that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq was based on US intelligence that was later proved false. Spokesman Scott McClellan vigorously denied suggestions that Bush was making claims that already had been debunked when he said that two small trailers seized in Iraq were mobile biological laboratories.

The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The documents state that the U.S. campaign aims to turn Iraqis against Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, by playing on their perceived dislike of foreigners. U.S. authorities claim some success with that effort, noting that some tribal Iraqi insurgents have attacked Zarqawi loyalists.

For the past two years, U.S. military leaders have been using Iraqi media and other outlets in Baghdad to publicize Zarqawi’s role in the insurgency. The documents explicitly list the “U.S. Home Audience” as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign.

Some senior intelligence officers believe Zarqawi’s role may have been overemphasized by the propaganda campaign, which has included leaflets, radio and television broadcasts, Internet postings and at least one leak to an American journalist. Although Zarqawi and other foreign insurgents in Iraq have conducted deadly bombing attacks, they remain “a very small part of the actual numbers,” Col. Derek Harvey, who served as a military intelligence officer in Iraq and then was one of the top officers handling Iraq intelligence issues on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an Army meeting at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., last summer.

In a transcript of the meeting, Harvey said, “Our own focus on Zarqawi has enlarged his caricature, if you will — made him more important than he really is, in some ways.”

…One slide in the same briefing, for example, noted that a “selective leak” about Zarqawi was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter based in Baghdad. Filkins’s resulting article, about a letter supposedly written by Zarqawi and boasting of suicide attacks in Iraq, ran on the Times front page on Feb. 9, 2004.

Filkins, reached by e-mail, said that he was not told at the time that there was a psychological operations campaign aimed at Zarqawi, but said he assumed that the military was releasing the letter “because it had decided it was in its best interest to have it publicized.”

…Another briefing slide states that after U.S. commanders ordered that the atrocities of Saddam Hussein’s government be publicized, U.S. psychological operations soldiers produced a video disc that not only was widely disseminated inside Iraq, but also was “seen on Fox News.”

U.S. military policy is not to aim psychological operations at Americans, said Army Col. James A. Treadwell, who commanded the U.S. military psyops unit in Iraq in 2003. “It is ingrained in U.S.: You don’t psyop Americans. We just don’t do it,” said Treadwell.

…The Zarqawi campaign is discussed in several of the internal military documents. “Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response,” one U.S. military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed three methods: “Media operations,” “Special Ops (626)” (a reference to Task Force 626, an elite U.S. military unit assigned primarily to hunt in Iraq for senior officials in Hussein’s government) and “PSYOP,” the U.S. military term for propaganda work.

One internal briefing, produced by the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, said that Kimmitt had concluded that, “The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date.”
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April 10, 2006. Bush speaks on terrorism
…The terrorists know that the greatest threat to their aspirations is Iraqi self-government. And we know this from the terrorists’ own words.

In 2004, we intercepted a letter from Zarqawi to Osama bin Laden. In it, Zarqawi expressed his concern about, “the gap that will emerge between us and the people of the land.” He declared, “Democracy is coming.” He went on to say, “This will mean suffocation” for the terrorists.

Zarqawi laid out his strategy to stop democracy from taking root in Iraq.

BUSH: He wrote, “If we succeed in dragging the Shia into the arena of sectarian war, it will become possible to awaken the inattentive Sunnis as they feel imminent danger. The only solution for us is to strike the religious, military and other cadres among the Shia with blow after blow.”

The advance of democracy is the terrorists’ greatest fear. It’s an interesting question, isn’t it?

Why would they fear democracy? What is it about freedom that frightens these killers? What is it about liberty that causes these people to kill innocent women and children?

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (April 5) – American stock car racing’s governing body called a network television news magazine “outrageous” on Wednesday, saying it tried to provoke anti-Muslim reactions from spectators at last week’s race for a story about growing U.S. sentiment against Islam.

The National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing said the NBC network’s “Dateline NBC” confirmed it was sending Muslim-looking men to a race, along with a camera crew to film fans’ reactions. The NBC crew was “apparently on site in Martinsville, Virginia, walked around and no one bothered them,” NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said Wednesday.

“It is outrageous that a news organization of NBC’s stature would stoop to the level of going out to create news instead of reporting news,” Poston said.
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The NSA program came to light in December, when the New York Times reported that the president had authorized the agency to intercept telephone and Internet communications inside the United States without the authorization of any court. Over the ensuing weeks, it became clear that the NSA program has been intercepting and analyzing millions of Americans’ communications, with the help of the country’s largest phone and Internet companies.

Reporting has also indicated that those same companies—and AT&T specifically—have given the NSA direct access to their vast databases of communications records, including information about whom their customers have phoned or emailed with in the past.

In the lawsuit, EFF alleges that AT&T, in addition to allowing the NSA direct access to the phone and Internet communications passing over its network, has given the government unfettered access to its over 312 terabyte “Hawkeye” database, detailing nearly every telephone communication on AT&T’s domestic network since 2001, according to the complaint. The suit also alleges that AT&T allowed the NSA to use the company’s powerful Daytona database management software to quickly search this and other communication databases.
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This is part six of this very worthwhile 10-part article

Research on population control, preventing future births, is now being carried out secretly by biotech companies. Dr. Ignacio Chapela, a University of California microbiologist, discovered that wild corn in remote parts of Mexico is contaminated with lab altered DNA. That discovery made him a threat to the biotech industry.

Chapela was denied tenure at UC Berkeley when he reported this to the scientific community, despite the embarrassing discovery that UC Chancellor Berdahl, who was denying him tenure, was getting large cash payments – $40,000 per year – from the LAM Research Corp. in Plano, Texas.

Berdahl served as president of Texas A&M University before coming to Berkeley. During a presentation about his case, Chapela revealed that a spermicidal corn developed by a U.S. company is now being tested in Mexico. Males who unknowingly eat the corn produce non-viable sperm and are unable to reproduce.

Depopulation, also known as eugenics, is quite another thing and was proposed under the Nazis during World War II. It is the deliberate killing off of large segments of living populations and was proposed for Third World countries under President Carter’s administration by the National Security Council’s Ad Hoc Group on Population Policy.

National Security Memo 200, dated April 24, 1974, and titled “Implications of world wide population growth for U.S. security & overseas interests,” says:

“Dr. Henry Kissinger proposed in his memorandum to the NSC that ‘depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.’ He quoted reasons of national security, and because `(t)he U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less-developed countries … Wherever a lessening of population can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resources, supplies and to the economic interests of U.S.”
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This is part six of this very worthwhile 10-part article

Research on population control, preventing future births, is now being carried out secretly by biotech companies. Dr. Ignacio Chapela, a University of California microbiologist, discovered that wild corn in remote parts of Mexico is contaminated with lab altered DNA. That discovery made him a threat to the biotech industry.

Chapela was denied tenure at UC Berkeley when he reported this to the scientific community, despite the embarrassing discovery that UC Chancellor Berdahl, who was denying him tenure, was getting large cash payments – $40,000 per year – from the LAM Research Corp. in Plano, Texas.

Berdahl served as president of Texas A&M University before coming to Berkeley. During a presentation about his case, Chapela revealed that a spermicidal corn developed by a U.S. company is now being tested in Mexico. Males who unknowingly eat the corn produce non-viable sperm and are unable to reproduce.

Depopulation, also known as eugenics, is quite another thing and was proposed under the Nazis during World War II. It is the deliberate killing off of large segments of living populations and was proposed for Third World countries under President Carter’s administration by the National Security Council’s Ad Hoc Group on Population Policy.

National Security Memo 200, dated April 24, 1974, and titled “Implications of world wide population growth for U.S. security & overseas interests,” says:

“Dr. Henry Kissinger proposed in his memorandum to the NSC that ‘depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.’ He quoted reasons of national security, and because `(t)he U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less-developed countries … Wherever a lessening of population can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resources, supplies and to the economic interests of U.S.”
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…In the Nineties, Central Asia’s two big states developed along different routes. Kazakstan implemented economic reforms, allowed a degree of political freedom, and remained closely allied with Moscow while also inviting western engagement in its lucrative oil industry.

Uzbekistan attracted much less investment, not least because it chose to avoid political and economic reform. At the same time it grew apart from Russia, trying to position itself as the main regional player. When the United States-led coalition began the “war on terror” in Afghanistan, the Uzbeks seized the opportunity, offering the use of a military airbase and building closer relations with western powers.

But this strategic partnership came to an abrupt end last summer, when Tashkent responded to US demands for an investigation into Andijan by evicting the American military and turning away from the West.

According to an Uzbekistan-based analyst who asked not to be named, President Karimov took this radical step not because he could easily dispense with western economic assistance, but because “western democratic standards had become a danger to the continued existence of the extreme authoritarian regime in Uzbekistan”.
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ARBIL (AFP) – Iraq has announced the discovery of oil reserves in the mountainous Kurdish region of Zakho, close to its border with Turkey.

“We have discovered oil at Zakho, 470 kilometers (292 miles) north of Baghdad,” announced Iraq’s deputy oil minister Motassam Akram.

He said Saturday the oil wells were drilled by a Norwegian company, DNO and added that the actual crude reserves would be known “soon”.

In March, the Kurdish authorities had announced the signing of a contract with a Canadian company, Western Oil Sands, to survey the region of Garmain, 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of Sulaimaniyah.

Most of Iraq’s crude reserves are in Shiite-dominated southern regions and are exported through the two southern terminals. Exports from Iraq’s northern fields around Kirkuk, just south of Kurdistan, have effectively been shut down by insurgent attacks.

The self-rule Kurdish region, which groups the provinces of Sulaimaniyah, Arbil and Dohuk, has a small number of oil fields.
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The Egyptian president says civil war has broken out in Iraq and the conflict would spread and worsen if US forces left the country.

Hosni Mubarak also told Arabic channel Al Arabiya on Saturday that many in the large Shia Muslim populations of Arab states around Iraq were more loyal to Iran than to their own countries.

Asked what effect an immediate US troop withdrawal would have, he said: “Now? It would be a disaster… It would become an arena for a brutal civil war and then terrorist operations would flare up not just in Iraq, but in very many places.

“It’s not on the threshold [of civil war]. It’s pretty much started. There are Sunnis, Shia, Kurds and those types which come from Asia.”

“I do not know when the situation in Iraq will stabilise. I personally do not see a solution to the problem in Iraq, which is practically destroyed now.”
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