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27Nov

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Iraq, USA

Wars Have Left Six Million Iraqis Disabled

NOVANEWS azzaman.com The wars Iraq has gone through in the last three decades have produced a nation of disabled people – six million out of a population of 30 million. “People with disabilities caused by the three wars Iraq has suffered are estimated at more than 6 million,” according to Raad Abdulhusain who heads the rehabilitation of disabled people in the religious province of Najaf. Abdulhusain was referring to the first Gulf war with Iran which continued from 1980-1988, the second Gulf War over Kuwait in 1991 and the third Gulf War in which a U.S.-led invasion of the country toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003. But the U.S. invasion led to horrendous suffering and casualties as it sparked a ruinous insurrection in which the mighty U.S. marines used disproportionate power t...

13Nov

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Iran, Iraq

As Sanctions Hit Iran’s Most Vulnerable, the Man Who Dared to Feed Sanction-Starved Iraq Remains in Prison

NOVANEWS by John Pilger In 1999, I traveled to Iraq with Denis Halliday, who had resigned as assistant secretary-general of the United Nations rather than enforce a punitive UN embargo on Iraq. Devised and policed by the United States and Britain, the extreme suffering caused by these “sanctions” included, according to Unicef, the deaths of half a million Iraqi children under the age of five. Ten years later, in New York, I met the senior British official responsible for the imposition of sanctions. He is Carne Ross, once known in the UN as “Mr.Iraq.” I read to him a statement he made to a parliamentary select committee in 2007: “The weight of evidence clearly indicates that sanctions caused massive human suffering among ordinary Iraqis, particularly children. We, the US and UK g...

28Oct

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Iraq, Afghanistan War Wounded Pass 50,000

NOVANEWS WASHINGTON — More than 50,000 Americans have been combat-wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001, a grim measure of the cost of more than a decade of war. According to Defense Department accounting, the number of wounded reached 50,010 on Thursday. The names of the wounded are not released. Unlike those killed in combat, whose names are released and whose remains are brought home in sober, white-glove ceremony, those who are wounded are flown home on medical evacuation aircraft and carried off on stretchers in anonymity. Among the wounded are some 16,000 severely injured, casualties who would have died on the battlefield just a generation ago. But new medical procedures, protective gear such as body armor and faster medical evacuation are saving more than 90 percent of ...

27Oct

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Crimes against Humanity: Iraq’s Mass Graves

NOVANEWS By Dirk Adriaensens Global Research * US Occupation authorities: guilty. They created, trained and armed the National Police and controlled the Ministry of Interior, responsible for death squad policies. * Maliki government: guilty. They acted as local US stooges. They carried out the US counterinsurgency strategy, protected the kidnappers and prevented an investigation. * UN Human Rights Bodies: guilty by negligence. They refused to nominate a special Human Rights rapporteur for Iraq. They refused toinvestigate thiscrime against humanity. On 22 October 2012, Shafaq, an Iraqi News Agency, reports: “An official security source revealed on Monday that a mass grave was found in Sada area on the outskirts of Sadr City, belonging to the staff of the Department of missions of the Min...

26Oct

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PETITION: INTEL MUST CLOSE ITS PLANTS IN "KIRYAT GAT"

NOVANEWS To: Mr. Paul S. Otellini, Intel President and Chief Executive Officer We the undersigned demand that Intel abandon its investments and shut down and dismantle its plants in Israel without delay. The company's manufacturing plants in Kiryat Gat are built on private land without permission of its owners and in violation of international law. Intel is trespassing on...SEE MORE SIGN THE PETITION Intel is violating international law and trespassing on privately-owned US citizens' property. The original inhabitants of Iraq Al-Manshiya and the nearby village of Fallujah were expelled from their villages in 1949 by Israel contrary to international law and an armistice agreement which Israel itself signed earlier that year on 24 February 1949. This agreement, which was c...

22Oct

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Iraq Buys Russian Weapons

NOVANEWS $4.2 Billion Worth Just Before American Election by Bob Nichols (San Francisco) The Premier of Iraq journeyed many miles to the United States’s enemy, Russia, to sign on the dotted line for Russian weapons worth US$4.2 Billion Dollars, the Russian news agency RIA NOVOSTI released October 9, 2012 in Moscow. RIA Novosti reports “MOSCOW, October 9 – Russia will deliver attack helicopters and mobile air-defense systems to Iraq in arms deals worth $4.2 billion signed earlier this year, it was disclosed today during a visit to Moscow by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in which he met his counterpart Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.” YouTube “Excuuuuuuuuuuse Me,” as comedian Steve Martin yells in his show. I thought Iraq was the United States’ client and would buy American, a...

21Oct

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More Iraqi babies suffer birth defects caused by US weapons

NOVANEWS Yousif Hamed, right, his brother Anas Hamed and his sister Inas suffering from birth defects are pictured in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. (file photo) A recent study shows a spiraling numbers of birth defects, ranging from congenital heart defects to brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs, among Iraqi babies as a result of weapons used by the US and UK forces. The new findings, published in the Environmental Contamination and Toxicology bulletin, report high rates of miscarriage, toxic levels of lead and mercury contamination in the cities at the heart of the US-led military campaigns in Iraq, especially Fallujah and Basra. Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, one of the lead authors of the report and an environmental toxicologist at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, sa...

18Oct

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The Best Speech Ever in Court

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Sr [To the judge:] Give me a chance... give me a chance... Give me a chance, don't cut me off. I'm not defending myself, I'm defending you. He gets to bring his files in, while Saddam Hussein must write on his hand what he wants to remember to say to the judges. "Your honor, I want you to be like lances and swords confronting the enemies."

16Oct

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Iraq, United Kingdom

Horrors of war: US, UK munitions ‘cause birth defects in Iraq’

NOVANEWS Iraqi women wait with their sick children at a Baghdad hospital.(AFP Photo / Karim Sahib) US and UK weapons ammunition were linked to heart defects, brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs, according to a recent study. The report revealed a shocking rise in birth defects in Iraqi children conceived after the US invasion. Titled ‘Metal Contamination and the Epidemic of Congenital Birth Defects in Iraqi Cities,’ the study was published by the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. It revealed a connection between military activity in the country and increased numbers of birth defects and miscarriages. The report, which can be found here, also contains graphic images of Iraqi children born with birth defects. (The images were not published on RT due to their d...

10Oct

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Iraq War – Was it Worth it?

NOVANEWS The Iraq war cost $3 Trillion. 4,800 US soldiers were killed and 32,000 seriously wounded. Iraqi civilian casualties range around 600,000. Was It Worth It? "This war will be long seen as boon for the few, and a bane for the many." by RA (our Baghdad Correspondent) In the build-up to the Iraq war, the United States used Iraq's alleged "weapons of mass destruction" to justify the decision to invade the country. What were the real reasons for the war? What were the costs and benefits from the US point of view? REAL REASONS OF THE WAR 1. Control of Iraq's oil: Second only to Saudi Arabia, Iraq possesses more than 60% of the world's known oil reserves, amounting to 115 billion barrels. Thanks to the war, American oil companies returned to Iraq, 36 years after Saddam n...