- Jeff,
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- Perhaps the American People, and Congress,
should revist *what actually happened* in our last 'attack on Iraq".(below) to
get a 'taste' of what everyone has seemingly FORGOTTEN....or was never
told...until now.
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- Many issues, facts and truths are comming to light
- very quickly - about corporate fraud, systemic government malfeasance,
judical corruption and, in general, 'madnesss in high office'.
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- After Caligula, you'd think we'd had enough.
Apparently not.
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- That's why it is so important to be honest now - and
take a close look at what American People are being whipped
into a savage frenzy to do....*again*.
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- This is a matter of life and death....please, pay attention.
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- (5 part series; read the following articles 'as a whole'.)
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- Our 'government' is Out-Of-Control'. It's
not 'America' anymore...is it.
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- steve meyers
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- Global Strategies Project
- http://www.bashar.com/GSP
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- "The first casualty of war...is Truth"
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- PART ONE:
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- International War Crimes Tribunal
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- "United States War Crimes Against Iraq"
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- Prepared by:
- Ramsey Clarke - Former US Attorney General
- of the United States of America
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- Initial Complaint Charging:
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- George Bush, J. Danforth Quayle, James Baker,
- Richard Cheney, William Webster, Colin Powell,
- Norman Schwarzkopf and Others to be named
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- With:
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- Crimes Against Humanity; Crimes Against Peace;
- War Crimes and Other Criminal Acts; High Crimes
- in Violation of the Charter of the United Nations;
- Violation of International Law; Violation of the
- Constitution of the United States of America
- and Laws made in Pursuance Thereof
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- http://www.deoxy.org/wc/warcrim2.htm (excerpts
below):
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- Preliminary Statement
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- "These charges have been prepared prior to the first
hearing of the Commission of Inquiry by its staff. They are based on direct
and circumstantial evidence from public and private documents; official
statements and admissions by the persons charged and others; eyewitness
accounts; witness interviews in Iraq, the Middle East and elsewhere
during and after the bombing; photographs and video tape..."
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- These actions constitute Crimes against Peace:
- http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-nurem.htm#p6
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- The Charges:
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- Charge 1. The United States engaged in a pattern of conduct
beginning on or before 1989 - intended to lead Iraq into provocations
justifying U.S. military action against Iraq and permanent U.S. military
domination of the Gulf.
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- At the time, Kuwait was violating OPEC oil production
agreements, extracting excessive amounts of oil from pools shared with
Iraq and demanding repayment of loans it made to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq
war. Kuwait broke off negotiations with Iraq over these disputes. The U.S.
intended to provoke Iraq into actions against Kuwait that would justify
U.S. intervention.
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- When Saddam Hussein requested U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie
to explain State Department testimony in Congress about lraq's threats
against Kuwait, she assured him the U.S. considered the dispute a regional
concern, and it would not intervene. By these acts, the U.S. intended to
lead Iraq into a provocation justifying war.
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- Charge 2. President Bush from August 2, 1990, intended
and acted to prevent any interference with his plan to destroy Iraq economically
and militarily.
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- "Without consultation or communication with Congress,
President Bush ordered 40,000 U.S. military personnel to advance the U.S.
buildup in Saudi Arabia in the first week of August 1990. He exacted a
request from Saudi Arabia for U.S. military assistance and on August 8,
1990, assured the world his acts were "wholly defensive." He
waited until after the November 1990 elections to announce his earlier
order sending more than 200,000 additional military personnel, clearly
an assault force, again without advising Congress. As late as January 9,
1991, he insisted he had the constitutional authority to attack Iraq without
Congressional approval."
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- Charge 3. President Bush ordered the destruction of facilities
essential to civilian life and economic productivity throughout Iraq.
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- the U.S. The bombing continued for forty-two days. It
met no resistance from Iraqi aircraft and no effective anti-aircraft or
anti-missile ground fire. Iraq was defenseless.
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- The United States reports it flew 110,000 air sorties
against Iraq, dropping 88,000 tons of bombs, nearly seven times the equivalent
of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. 93% of the bombs were free
falling bombs, most dropped from higher than 30,000 feet. Of the remaining
7% of the bombs with electronically guided systems, more than 25% missed
their targets, nearly all caused damage primarily beyond any identifiable
target. Most of the targets were civilian facilities.
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- Among the facilities targeted and destroyed were:
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- electric power generation, relay and transmission;
- water treatment, pumping and distribution systems and
reservoirs;
- telephone and radio exchanges, relay stations, towers
and transmission facilities;
- food processing, storage and distribution facilities
and markets, infant milk formula and beverage plants, animal vaccination
facilities and irrigation sites;
- railroad transportation facilities, bus depots, bridges,
highway overpasses, highways, highway repair stations, trains, buses and
other public transportation vehicles, commercial and private vehicles;
- oil wells and pumps, pipelines, refineries, oil storage
tanks, gasoline filling stations and fuel delivery tank cars and trucks,
and kerosene storage tanks;
- sewage treatment and disposal systems;
- factories engaged in civilian production, e.g., textile
and automobile assembly; and
- historical markers and ancient sites.
- As a direct, intentional and foreseeable result of this
destruction - hundreds of thousands of innocent adults and
children have died from dehydration, dysentery and diseases caused
by impure water, inability to obtain effective medical assistance, and
debilitation from hunger, shock, cold and stress. More will die from lack
of potable water, sanitary living conditions, adequate food supplies
and other necessities. There is a high risk of epidemics of cholera, typhoid,
hepatitis and other diseases as well as wide spread starvation and malnutrition.
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- Charge 4. The United States intentionally bombed and
destroyed civilian life, commercial and business districts, schools, hospitals,
mosques, churches, shelters, residential areas, historical sites, private
vehicles and civilian government offices.
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- The destruction of civilian facilities left the entire
civilian population without heat, cooking fuel, refrigeration, potable
water, telephones, power for radio or TV reception, public transportation
and fuel for private automobiles. It also limited food supplies, closed
schools, created massive unemployment, severely limited economic activity
and caused hospitals and medical services to shut down. In addition, residential
areas of every major city and most towns and villages were targeted and
destroyed.
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- As a result of the bombing of facilities essential to
civilian life, residential and other civilian buildings and areas, at least
125,000 men, women and children were killed. The Red Crescent Society of
Jordan estimated 113,000 civilian dead, 60% children, the week before the
end of the war.
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- Charge 5. The United States intentionally bombed indiscriminately
throughout Iraq.
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- U.S. aircraft bombed and strafed indiscriminately. In
every city and town bombs fell by chance far from any conceivable target,
whether a civilian facility, military installation or military target.
In the countryside random attacks were made on travelers, villagers, even
Bedouins. The purpose of the attacks was to destroy life, property and
terrorize the civilian population. On the highways, civilian vehicles including
public buses taxicabs and passenger cars were bombed and strafed at random
to frighten civilians from flight, from seeking food or medical care, finding
relatives or other uses of highways. The effect was summary execution and
corporal punishment indiscriminately of men, women and children, young
and old, rich and poor, all nationalities including the large immigrant
populations even Americans.
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- U.S. deliberate indifference to civilian and military
casualties in Iraq, is exemplified by General Colin Powell's response to
a press inquiry about the number dead from US air and ground campaigns:
"It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in."<http://www.deoxy.org/wc/warcrim2.htm#n9>[9]
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- Charge 6. The United States intentionally bombed and
destroyed Iraqi military personnel, used excessive force, killed soldiers
seeking to surrender and in disorganized individual flight, often unarmed
and far from any combat zones and randomly and wantonly killed Iraqi soldiers
and destroyed materiel after the cease fire.
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- In the first hours of the aerial and missile bombardment,
the United States destroyed most military communications and began the
systematic killing of soldiers who were incapable of defense or escape
and the destruction of military equipment. Over a period of forty-two days,
U.S bombing killed tens of thousands of defenseless soldiers, cut off most
of their food, water and other supplies and left them desperate and
helpless. disarray. Without significant risk to its own personnel, the
U.S. led in the killing of at least 100,000 Iraqi soldiers at a cost of
148 U.S. combat casualties.
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- When it was determined that the civilian economy and
the military were sufficiently destroyed, the U.S. ground forces attacked fleeing
Iraqi forces wherever they could be found, killing thousands more. The
slaughter continued after the cease fire. For example, on March 2, 1991,
U.S. 24th Division Forces engaged in a four-hour assault against Iraqis
just west of Basra. More than 750 vehicles were destroyed, thousands were
killed without U.S. casualties. (see: Highway of Death")
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- A U.S. commander said, "We really waxed them."
It was called a "Turkey Shoot." One Apache helicopter crew member
yelled "Say hello to Allah" as he launched a laser-guided Hellfire
missile.
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- Charge 7. The United States used prohibited weapons capable
of mass destruction and inflicting indiscriminate death and unnecessary
suffering against both military and civilian targets.
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- Among the known illegal weapons and illegal uses of weapons
employed by the United States are the following:
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- fuel air explosives capable of widespread incineration
and death;
- napalm;
- cluster and anti-personnel fragmentation bombs; and
- "superbombs," 2.5 ton devices, intended for
assassination of government leaders.
- Fuel air explosives were used against troops-in-place,
civilian areas, oil fields and fleeing civilians and soldiers on two stretches
of highway between Kuwait and Iraq. Included in fuel air weapons used was
the BLU-82, a 15,000-pound device capable of incinerating everything within
hundreds of yards.
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- One seven mile stretch called the "Highway of Death"
was littered with hundreds of vehicles and thousands of dead. All were
fleeing to Iraq for their lives. Thousands were civilians of all ages,
including Kuwaitis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Jordanians and other nationalities.
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- Charge 8. The United States intentionally attacked installations
in Iraq containing dangerous substances and forces.
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- "The U.S. intentionally bombed alleged nuclear sites,
chemical plants, dams and other dangerous forces. The U.S. knew such attacks
could cause the release of dangerous forces from such installations and
consequent severe losses among the civilian population."
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- Charge 9. President Bush ordered U.S. forces to invade
Panama, resulting in the deaths of 1,000 to 4,000 Panamanians and the destruction
of thousands of private dwellings, public buildings, and commercial structures.
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- "On December 20, 1989, President Bush ordered a
military assault on Panama using aircraft, artillery, helicopter gunships
and experimenting with new weapons, including the Stealth bomber. The attack
was a surprise assault targeting civilian and non-combatant government
structures. In the E1 Chorillo district of Panama City alone, hundreds
of civilians were killed and between 15,000 and 30,000 made homeless."
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- Charge 10. President Bush obstructed justice and corrupted
United Nations functions as a means of securing power to commit <http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-nurem.htm#p6>crimes
against peace and war crimes.
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- The conduct violates the <http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-un.htm>Charter
of the United Nations and the <http://www.deoxy.org/fz/consti.htm>Constitution
and laws of the United States.
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- Charge 11. President Bush usurped the Constitutional
power of Congress as a means of securing power to commit crimes against
peace, war crimes, and other high crimes.
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- "President Bush intentionally usurped Congressional
power, ignored its authority, and failed and refused to consult with the
Congress. He deliberately misled, deceived, concealed and made false representations
to the Congress to prevent its free deliberation and informed exercise
of legislature power. President Bush individually ordered a naval blockade
against Iraq, itself an act of war."
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- Charge 12. The United States waged war on the environment.
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- "Pollution from the detonation of 88,000 tons of
bombs, ('depleted' uranium), innumerable missiles, rockets, artillery
and small arms with the combustion and fires they caused and by 110,000
air sorties at a rate of nearly two per minute for six weeks has caused
enormous injury to life and the ecology. Attacks by U.S. aircraft caused
much if not all of the worst oil spills in the Gulf."
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- Charge 13. President Bush encouraged and aided Shiite
Muslims and Kurds to rebel against the government of Iraq causing fratricidal
violence, emigration, exposure, hunger and sickness and thousands of deaths.
After the rebellion failed, the U.S. invaded and occupied parts of Iraq
without authority in order to increase division and hostility within Iraq.
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- Without authority from the Congress or the UN, President
Bush continued his imperious military actions after the cease fire. He
encouraged and aided rebellion against Iraq, failed to protect the warring
parties, encouraged migration of whole populations, placing them in jeopardy
from the elements, hunger, and disease.
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- Charge 14. President Bush intentionally deprived the
Iraqi people of essential medicines, potable water, food, and other necessities.
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- imposed and enforced embargoes preventing the shipment
of needed medicines, water purifiers, infant milk formula, food and other
supplies;
- individually, without congressional authority, ordered
a U.S. naval blockade of Iraq, an act of war, to deprive the Iraqi people
of needed supplies;
- froze funds of Iraq and forced other nations to do so,
depriving Iraq of the ability to purchase needed medicines, food and other
supplies;
- controlled information about the urgent need for such
supplies to prevent sickness, death and threatened epidemic, endangering
the whole society;
- prevented international organizations, governments and
relief agencies from providing needed supplies and obtaining information
concerning needs;
- failed to assist or meet urgent needs of huge refugee
populations including Egyptians, Indians, Pakistanis, Yemenis, Sudanese,
Jordanians, Palestinians, Sri Lankans, Filipinos, and interfered with efforts
of others to do so;
- consistently diverted attention from health and epidemic
threats within Iraq caused by the U.S. even after advertising the plight
of Kurdish people on the Turkish border;
- deliberately bombed the electrical grids causing the
closure of hospitals and laboratories, loss of medicine and essential fluids
and blood; and
- deliberately bombed food storage, fertilizer, and seed
storage facilities.
- Charge 15. The United States continued its assault on
Iraq after the cease fire, invading and occupying areas at will.
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- The United States has acted with dictatorial authority
over Iraq and its external relations since the 'end' of the military conflict.
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- Charge 16. The United States has violated and condoned
violations of human rights, civil liberties and the U.S. Bill of Rights
in the United States, in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere to achieve
its purpose of military domination.17. The United States, having destroyed
Iraq's economic base, demands reparations which will permanently impoverish
Iraq and threaten its people with famine and epidemic.
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- Among the many violations committed or condoned by the
U.S. government are the following:
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- illegal surveillance, arrest, interrogation and harassment
of Arab-American, Iraqi-American, and U.S. resident Arabs;
- illegal detention, interrogation and treatment of Iraqi
prisoners of war;
- aiding and condoning Kuwaiti summary executions, assaults,
torture and illegal detention of Palestinians and other residents in Kuwait
after the U.S. occupation; and
- unwarranted, discriminatory, and excessive prosecution
and punishment of U.S. military personnel who refused to serve in the Gulf,
sought conscientious objector status or protested U.S. policies.
- Persons were killed, assaulted, tortured, illegally detained
and prosecuted, harassed and humiliated as a result of these policies.
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- Charge 17. The United States, having destroyed Iraq's
economic base, demands 'reparations' which will permanently impoverish
Iraq and threaten its people with famine and epidemic.
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- Having destroyed lives, property and essential civilian
facilities in Iraq which the U.S. concedes will require $50 billion to
replace (estimated at $200 billion by Iraq) killed at least 125,000 people
by bombing, and many thousands more by sickness and hunger, the U.S. now
seeks to control Iraq economically even as its people face famine and epidemic.
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- Charge 18. President Bush systematically manipulated,
controlled, directed, misinformed and restricted press and media coverage
to obtain constant support in the media for his military and political
goals.
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- The American people were seduced into the celebration
of a slaughter by controlled propaganda demonizing Iraq, assuring the world
no harm would come to Iraqi civilians, deliberately spreading false stories
of atrocities including chemical warfare threats, deaths of incubator babies
and threats to the entire region by a new Hitler.
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- [In fact - it was the US who was emulating the behavior
of Adolf Hitler]
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- i.e. "Twisting the truth.....in order to make a
trap for fools" (Rudyard Kipling)
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- Charge 19. The United States has by force secured a permanent
military presence in the Gulf, the control of its oil resources and geopolitical
domination of the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf region.
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- The U.S. has committed the acts described in this complaint
to create a permanent U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf, to dominate
its oil resources until depleted and to maintain geopolitical domination
over the region.
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- The conduct violates the <http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-un.htm>Charter
of the United Nations, international law, and the <http://www.deoxy.org/fz/consti.htm>Constitution
and laws of the United States.
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- Ramsey Clark, Former US Attorney General.
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- an article worth taking the the time to read:
- http://www.deoxy.org/wc/warcrim2.htm
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- complete series: http://www.deoxy.org/wc/
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- George Bush, Jr. "Like father.....like son."
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- For an interesting "twist" on the above
- something Bush & Co. and their accomplices should *definitely*
read and take to heart:
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- "What Ever Happened to Adolf Hitler?"
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- (hint: "What you put out...is what you get
back")
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- http://www.bashar.com/GSP/hitler.htm
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- think about it...
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- PART TWO: "Know Thy Enemy..."
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- A Facinating Look iniside the Mind of Mid-East "Terrorists"
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- (very *important* for American's to read and understand...)
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- Behind Enemy Lines: Radio Islam 'Terror Broadcasts'
- <http://abbc.com/islam/english/toread/iraq1.htm>http://abbc.com/islam/english/toread/iraq1.htm
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- (scroll down 1/4 page to: "Depleted Uranium")
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- "Lies.....it's all lies! We never did that.....did
we?"
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- "No...'you/we' didn't. But it WAS done in the name
of the American People.
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