Mass grave in Mosul/Ninewa in the areas vacated by the Peshmerga

Fatihoun News Agency

June 1, 2008

Joint Iraqi forces found a mass grave in Mosul in areas taken over by them soon after the withdrawal of the Peshmerga (The Kurdish Militia) from these areas.

Tens of bodies were reported by our correspondence to have been found at the headquarters of the Peshmerga in Al-Tanak district of Mosul situated near the Electricity Department.

Mosul people rushed to the mass grave seeking help from the Iraqi forces finding the bodies of missing sons and families.

http://www.almosul.org/000_Mosul_Observer.htm

Source from Fatihoun News Agency, Mosul, Iraq

مقبرة جماعية للمختطفين في مقر انسحبت منه البيشمركة بالموصلالمصدر : الموصل (فاتحون) -خاص:عثرت القوات المشاركة في عمليات نينوى على مقبرة جماعية للمغدورين في مقر اخلته قوات البيشمركة قبل ساعات في الموصل . وقال مراسل (فاتحون) ان عشرات الجثث وجدت مدفونة في مقر البيشمركة قرب دائرة الكهرباء في حي التنك . وهرع اهالي المدينة من ذوي المفقودين الى المكان يطلبون من القوات الحكومية مساعدتهم للتعرف على اولادهم المختطفين والذين وجد بعضهم في مقر البيشمركة

Long-Term Contracts Show Plans for Continued Iraq Occupation

A Blackwater security contractor in Mosul, Iraq. The depth of US involvement in Iraq is illustrated by a handful of new contract proposals made public in May.(Photo: Jacob Silberberg / AP)


by: Walter Pincus, The Washington Post

The depth of US involvement in Iraq and the difficulty the next president will face in pulling personnel out of the country are illustrated by a handful of new contract proposals made public in May. The contracts call for new spending, from supplying mentors to officials with Iraq's Defense and Interior ministries to establishing a U.S.-marshal-type system to protect Iraqi courts. Contractors would provide more than 100 linguists with secret clearances and deliver food to Iraqi detainees at a new, U.S.-run prison.

The proposals reflect multiyear commitments. The mentor contract notes that the U.S. military "desires for both Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense to become mostly self-sufficient within two years," a time outside some proposals for U.S. combat troop withdrawal. The mentors sought would "advise, train [and] assist ... particular Iraqi officials" who work in the Ministry of Defense, which runs the Iraqi army, or the Ministry of Interior, which runs the police and other security units.

The mentors will assist an U.S. military group that previously began to implement what are described as "core processes and systems," such as procurement, contracting, force development, management and budgeting, and public affairs.

Mentors would have to make a one-year commitment, with options for two one-year contracts after that. As a reminder of what they are getting into, the mentors must supply their helmets, protective body armor and gas masks, according to the announcement.

The marshals service would be organized by the State Department's bureau responsible for developing rule of law programs in Iraq. It "has plans to create an Iraqi service to be known as the Judicial Protection Service (JPS), modeled to some degree after the U.S. Marshals Service, that will ensure the safe conduct of judicial proceedings and protect judges, witnesses, court staff, and court facilities," a notice published last month said.

State's plan is to hire a contractor as a judicial security program manager, who would work out details of how such a service could be put together for the Iraqis. That person or group would develop not only the mission, size and structure of an Iraqi JPS service, but also the personnel, budgeting and training materials necessary, plus "all other aspects of creating the new organization so that the project can be contracted out."

In short, State wants a contractor to put together all the elements so the department can contract the project to another contractor.

State also is looking to hire a contractor to provide "100 plus linguists" who would work for a year each, with as many as four one-year options to follow.

Arabic and Kurdish translators are sought. "Native or near native capability in the foreign language and an excellent command of the English language are required," according to the notice. They will work not only at State's Baghdad embassy, but also at regional offices and with Provincial Reconstruction Teams.

Another contract noticed last week previews the opening, apparently in September, of a U.S.-run prison, now labeled a Theater Internment Facility Reconciliation Center, which is to be located at Camp Taji, 12 miles north of Baghdad. The new contract calls for providing food for "up to 5,000 detainees" and will also cover 150 Iraqi nationals, who apparently will work at the facility. The contract is to run for one year, with an option year to follow.

The U.S. holds about 20,000 Iraqis at two facilities today, mostly in Camp Bucca in southern Iraq and the rest at Camp Cropper near Baghdad. Along with the facility at Camp Taji, which is expected to hold Iraqis detained in Baghdad, another new reconciliation center, mainly for Sunnis, is being built at Ramadi in Anbar province, where many of these detainees were captured.

In March, Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas Stone, who runs the detainee program, told reporters that, on average. Iraqi detainees remain in a U.S. facility for 11 months.

But that might not be the case for the roughly 9,000 Iraqis whom he described as having "a very rigorous view of an ideology that we would broadly categorize as al-Qaeda." They are headed to the new reconciliation centers for what could be longer stays.

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National security and intelligence reporter Walter Pincus pores over the speeches, reports, transcripts and other documents that flood Washington and every week uncovers the fine print that rarely makes headlines - but should. If you have any items that fit the bill, please send them to fineprint@washpost.com.

TÜRKMEN KOORDİNASYON KURULUNUN 4. TOPLANTISI

Kurul bugün TP bürosunda toplanarak ,gündemde olan Irak"taki seçim
Yasası konusunda görüşmeler ve fikir alişverişi yaparak yasanın önemine
değinildi

Türkmen görüşünde (%32) paylaşımnın yasada yer almasının önemli olduğunu,
Türkmen milletvekillerinin Irak parlemantosunda yaklaşık 120 imza topluyarak
sondukları öneriye milletçe sahip çıkılmasının zarureti dile getirildi.

Türkmen siyasi parti ve Türkmen medyasının ana gündemi ,söz konusu seçim
yasası ile görüşlerimizin teşkil etmesi gerekliliği de dile getirildi.

Bütün Türkmen halkının ister yurt içinde ister yurt dışında ,ister siyasetçi
ister tarafsız ,bu konuda seferber olmaları istenildi.

Ayrıca TKK olarak konu ile ilgili bir dizi iç ve dış görüşmelerin yapılması
palnlandı.

Toplantıya katılanlar..

1.Türkmen Adalet Partisi
2.Türkmen Karar Partisi
3.Milli Türkmen Partisi
4.Türkmen Vefa Hareketi
5.Irak İslami Türkmen Birliği
6.Türkmen Bağımsızlar Hareketi
7.Türkmeneli Partisi
8.ITC temsilcisi (Münir kafili)
9.Sn.Ali Haşim Muhtaroğlu (ITC yürütme kurulu üyesi)

اجتماع الهيئة التنسيقية التركمانية

اجتماع الهيئة التنسيقية التركمانية

بتاريخ 1/6/2008 تم عقد الاجتماع الرابع للهيئة في مقر حزب تركمن ايلي في كركوك

تم التباحث في الاجتماع آخر المستجدات على الساحة السياسية عموما والساحة التركمانية خصوصا و مسودة قانون الانتخابات

حيث اشاد المجتمعون بجهود اعضاء مجلس النواب التركمان والتي اثمرت في جمع توقيع اكثر من 115 نائب والتي تؤيد ألاعتماد على نسبة 32% كأساس للانتخابات في محافظة كركوك

كما تم التأكيد على اهمية عمل كافة الاحزاب التركمانية والمثقفين التركمان والأعلام بهذا الاتجاه وضرورة إجراء اللقاءات الداخلية والخارجية ومواصلة الجهود لحين اقرار القانون الخاص بمحافظة كركوك

وقد شارك في الاجتماع ممثلي الاحزاب ادناه

1.حزب العدالة التركماني
2.حزب القرار التركماني
3.حركة الوفاء التركمانية
4.حزب تركمن ايلي
5.الحزب الوطني التركماني
6.حركة المستقلين ا لتركمان
7.الاتحاد الاسلامي لتركمان العراق
8.السيد منير القافلي ممثلا عن الجبهة التركمانية العراقية
9.السيد علي هاشم مختار اوغلو عضو الهيئة التنفيذية للجبهة التركمانية
العراقية

Too Little, Too Late... by Layla Anwar

Painting: Iraqi artist, Mohamed Ali Shaker.

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/

Friday, May 30, 2008

Too Little, Too Late...

We have a popular saying in Iraq and it goes this way "Ba'ad Kharaab Al-Basra"??!!How to translate that? Literally it means "After the destruction of Basra" ?!


Kharaab comes from the verb kharraba, which means to destroy something that worked before, to irreparably damage it...Kharban-the adjective, means damaged, rotten, not functional, not working, failed...Simply put, kharraba means to screw up something so badly, rendering it useless...So this proverb is used when someone comes along with either an admission, an apology, or to rectify some wrong after colossal damage has been inflicted...



So you tell the person in Iraqi "What's the use, after the destruction of Basra?!"In the same vein, the latest admissions from Mc Lellan ex-press spokesman for the White House and from other media voices like this CNN reporter, who both finally admitted that their reporting on Iraq, was "less than candid". In other words they fucking lied...The CNN reporter added that they were "forced" to report in a particular fashion that was not detrimental to your government's image.

Excuse me, but am I supposed to feel better now or what ?



For 5 fucking years, no for 18 years, you've been buying the lies and suddenly you admit that it was "less than candid" and am supposed to feel OK with it ?



Like what do you expect me to do? Rush and embrace you for your "honesty"? Or maybe you expect me to forget our ruined lives and our filled to the brim graves ?



Or maybe being the fucking hypocrites that you are, you expect me to say "well after all, there are some good people left in America. It's not their fault really, they were forced..."



Oh, the bullshit! Oh, your bullshit that knows no limits.



Oh, you compulsive liars, bad faith, deceitful, dishonest lot !



You did the same thing in Vietnam.



After over 10 years of murder and mayhem, you took to the streets with your flowers and peace signs and cried about "poor" Vietnam.



It took you 10 fucking years. And you only moved your big fat asses after your brave boys came back in body bags and you could not stop the counting.



All throughout the 10 years, the pictures of the napalm burned kids did not move you, oh no they did not...you were too busy singing in Woodstock thinking you're so fucking cool...when you were and are nothing but a screwed up bunch of mental retards and morons...



And do you think you learned anything ? Nothing. You learned nothing and you will never learn. You only learn the hard way, when you get your asses kicked big time and people start talking your language. This is when you open those rotten ears of yours and listen.



The problem with you people and I've experienced over and over, you mistake the words and demeanor of basic human civility for weakness. You know nothing about civility or civilization, you understand only one language - violence. Because that is the only language you are proficient at.



And I being a "good Muslim", I follow the saying of our Prophet who said "talk to people in the language they understand".



So you come now and tell us that the whole thing was dishonest? "After Kharaab Al-Basra"? Ya awlad al Kalb - sons of dogs. But dogs are too noble to be compared to you. You are less than dogs. Less than animals. Less...much less. You are scum and vermin.



God, I fucking hate your hypocrisy ya awlad al sharmoota - you sons of whores.



You sons of a thousand whores, will your fucking Mc Lellan or your CNN marry the 3 million widows ? Or feed the 5 million orphans ? Or bring back the 5 million refugees home ? Or heal our cancer patients from your criminal weapons of mass destruction? Or grow a limb and an eye back to the 1000's lost, from your bombs ?



Or maybe your admission will revive the 1 million plus, dead ?



Or restore our 7'000 years old archaeological sites, homes, buildings, fields, infrastructure, electricity and water ?



Or maybe you short lived fake, phony meaculpa will disarm the sectarian pathological turbaned shits who are ruling us now-thanks to you ?



I am too angry to finish this post...and there is nothing left to finish...you bastards. I hate your fucking guts all of you.

Seven year anniversary for Parliament Square Peace Protestor Brian Haw

Dear supporters of Brian Haw and the right to protest,

Further to the email a few days ago about the 7th anniversary of the start of Brian's vigil for peace and justice in Parliament Square, Brian has confirmed that he will be fasting and praying from Sunday 1 June to Monday 2. He welcomes others to join him in the fast.

To mark this occasion there will be a gathering of supporters from 2pm on Sunday 1 June in the Square although it is requested that NO FOOD OR DRINK be brought. See the press release below for more information.

best wishes
Emma
Parliament Square Peace Campaign
http://www.blogger.com/www.parliament-square.org.uk



PRESS RELEASE
Friday 30 May 2008

Seven year anniversary for Parliament Square peace protestor

Monday 2nd June will be the 7th anniversary of the start of Brian Haw's continuous protest against the Government's foreign policy on Iraq - against the economic sanctions that caused huge suffering to the Iraqi people, and against the invasion and occupation of the country.

To mark the seven years, Mr Haw will be fasting and praying from Sunday 1 June to Monday 2nd and is inviting others to join him. There will be a gathering in Parliament Square at 2pm on Sunday 1st June for Mr Haw's supporters.

Brian Haw has continued his protest every day and night since 2nd June 2001, despite attempts to silence him including the introduction of a ban on unauthorised protest around Parliament under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act in 2005.

In his determination to stand up for peace and justice, Mr Haw has gained considerable recognition and continues his vigil while many of those who sought to stop his protest are no longer in power. And in March this year the Government announced that the restrictions on protest around Parliament would themselves be repealed. [A]

Contact and information:
Parliament Square Peace Campaign
info@parliament-square.org.uk
http://www.parliament-square.org.uk/

Notes:A. For details of the restrictions on protest under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act see http://www.repeal-socpa.info/

Blogger has finally UNLOCKED my blog

Ten days ago Blogger had locked this blog 'European Turkmen Friendships' making it impossible for me to publish new posts because 'Robots' had signalled my blog as a 'spam blog'.

Today Blogger has finally unlocked it !

While this blog was suspended I have started two other blogs (one with WordPress and the other one with Blogger) I'll be posting on them regurlarly.

Please see:

http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/is-google-ethnic-cleansing-the-internet/

Depleted Uranium shells used by U.S. Military worse than Nuclear Weapons

David Gutierrez

May 21, 2008(NaturalNews)

The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S. military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs dropped at the end of World War II.

DU is a waste product of uranium enrichment, containing approximately one-third the radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring uranium. Because of its high density, it is used in armor- or tank-piercing ammunition. It has been fired by the U.S. and British militaries in the two Iraq wars and in Afghanistan, as well as by NATO forces in Kosovo and the Israeli military in Lebanon and Palestine.

Inhaled or ingested DU particles are highly toxic, and DU has been classified as an illegal weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has estimated that 50 tons of DU dust from the first Gulf War could lead to 500,000 cancer deaths by the year 2000. To date, a total of 2,000 tons have been generated in the Middle East.

In contrast, approximately 250,000 lives were claimed by the explosions and radiation released by the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki."More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing [of nuclear bombs] has been released from DU weaponry since 1991," said Leuren Moret, a U.S. nuclear scientist. "The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the most part, is destroyed. The environment now is completely radioactive."

Because DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the Middle East will, for all practical purposes, be radioactive forever.

The two U.S. wars in Iraq "have been nuclear wars because they have scattered nuclear material across the land, and people, particularly children, are condemned to die of malignancy and congenital disease essentially for eternity," said anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott.

Since the first Gulf War, the rate of birth defects and childhood cancer in Iraq has increased by seven times. More than 35 percent (251,000) of U.S. Gulf War veterans are dead or on permanent medical disability, compared with only 400 who were killed during the conflict.

www.naturalnews.com/023274.html