Iran has accused the UK of co-operating with bombers who killed eight people in attacks in the restive south-western city of Ahwaz on Tuesday.
“Britain must respond to the doubts of Iranians concerning the events,” said Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.
Mr Mottaki said the masterminds of the bombing “or people of their mind” had [...]
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Iran accuses UK of bombing link
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British Soldier Killed in Iraq
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One British soldier has been killed and four British soldiers have been seriously injured following a roadside bomb attack in Basra, southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence says.
Iraqi police Capt Mushtaq Khazim told Associated Press that a British vehicle was destroyed by the bomb but had no further details.
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UK agrees to pay for Basra damage
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[what about all the reconstruction that UK troops are doing in Basra-ed]
The UK Government is willing to pay compensation for the casualties and damage caused in Iraq when two British undercover soldiers were freed.
During clashes on 19 September, the Army stormed a Basra police station.
Several Iraqis were killed or wounded when the walls were [...]
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SAS staging terror campaign in Iraq?
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Media blackout shadows why black op soldiers were arrested
In another example of how the Iraqi quagmire is deliberately designed to degenerate into a chaotic abyss, British SAS were caught attempting to stage a terror attack and the media have dutifully shut up about the real questions surrounding the incident.
What is admitted is that two British [...]
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The Galloway-Hitchens Debate
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Listen/watch online as George Galloway bitch-slaps neocon hack Christopher Hitchens!
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Blair advisor: Iraq invaded for Jews & Masons
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Tony Blair decided to wage war on Iraq after coming under the influence of a “sinister” group of Jews and Freemasons, a Muslim barrister who advises the Prime Minister has claimed. Ahmad Thomson, from the Association of Muslim Lawyers, said Mr Blair was the latest in a long line of politicians to have been influenced [...]
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SAS slush fund scandal
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British Army officers in Iraq are being handed stashes of up to £100,000 in cash for “operational expenses” without formal controls on how it is spent.
The money is used by the SAS and other units to buy off leaders of the insurgency or to purchase weapons on the black market to avoid them passing into [...]
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Al Qaeda threatens more UK attacks
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CNN) — Osama bin Laden’s No. 2 man in al Qaeda has threatened more destruction in London, saying that British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be to blame.
“To the British, I am telling you that Blair brought you destruction in the middle of London and more will come, God willing,” he said.
He appeared [...]
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Israel not ‘warned of attacks’
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Israel was not warned about possible terror attacks in London before at least six blasts ripped through the city, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom has said.
A Foreign Ministry official had said earlier that British police warned the Israeli Embassy in London of possible terror attacks minutes before the first explosion.
“There was no early information about [...]
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Over 70 British Muslims join Iraq fighters
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ABOUT 70 young Muslim men have left Britain to join the insurgents who are fighting coalition troops in Iraq, senior security sources have revealed.
At least three have been killed in combat, including one whose role in an Iraq suicide bombing in February was disclosed by police only last week.
The growing problem of militants from [...]
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Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington
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You got to love the way Galloway bitch-slapped Christopher Hitchens!
George Galloway stormed up to Capitol Hill yesterday morning for the confrontation of his career, firing scatter-shot insults at the senators who had accused him of profiting illegally from Iraqi oil sales.
They were “neo-cons” and “Zionists” and a “pro-war lynch mob”, he raged, who belonged [...]
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U.S. Geriatric Brigade
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And with this they plan to conquer the world? I wonder if they’re issued walkers & wheelchairs before going into battle?
At Landstuhl, where most soldiers injured downrange go for medical treatment, more troops arrive with noncombat injuries than fighting wounds. Eight out of 10 soldiers airlifted from battle zones since the beginning of the [...]
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Ex-Marine disputes Saddam capture story
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A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated.
“I was among the 20-man unit, including eight of Arab descent, who searched for Saddam for three days in the area of Dour near Tikrit, and we found him in a modest home in [...]
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Aussie general: Iraq = Vietnam
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“This talk about fighting for democracy, that is absolute, to use a phrase, bullshit”
–Major General Alan Stretton
Maj Gen Stretton, who served as chief of staff of the Australian force in Vietnam from 1969-70 but is best remembered for his role heading relief operations in Darwin following Cyclone Tracy in 1974, said there could never [...]
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Déjà vu all over again
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On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war. Under the heading “US encouraged by Vietnam vote: Officials cite 83% turnout despite Vietcong terror”, the paper reported that the Americans had been “surprised and heartened” [...]
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The Sadrist Autonomous Zone
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A long & informative article detailing the Mehdi Army’s strategy of “converting Sadr City into a ‘liberated area’, in the classic guerrilla warfare model.” The report also contends that a US withdrawal from Iraq wouldn’t necessarily lead to chaos on the local level: alternative power structures like the Sadrists, Kurdish peshmerga & Sunni insurgents [...]
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Canadian mercenaries in Iraq
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The Liberal regime in Ottawa- in spite of its public anti-war rhetoric- is an active partner in the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq. The author of the following article, it should be noted, is the father-in-law of neocon scumbag David Frum.
While it’s not exactly a secret, not many Canadians know that the second [...]
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Generation Kill
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While spearheading the American invasion of Iraq, the marines of the elite First Recon—nicknamed ‘First Suicide Battalion’—often operated deep behind enemy lines and far beyond anything they had trained for. They faced death every day—and above all, they killed a lot of people. From America’s first generation of disposable children, more than half of these [...]
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