DoD News: Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz : not going to be any difference ... on July 1st

DoD News: Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Stakeout Following Operations and Intelligence Brief: "it's a chance to make a very important point that is poorly understood, not only here, but sometimes in Iraq and it's very important to understand it correctly. There's not going to be any difference in our military posture on July 1st from what it is on June 30th, except that we will be there then at the invitation of a sovereign Iraqi government, which I am quite sure will want us to stay there until killers like the ones who perpetrated these atrocities in Fallujah are brought under control."

How much more clearly can a colonialist define colonialism !

Muslim Rivals Unite In Baghdad Uprising

Muslim Rivals Unite In Baghdad Uprising (washingtonpost.com):





"Muslim Rivals Unite In Baghdad Uprising "

Mandrakesoft Exits Bankruptcy

Mandrakelinux : friendly Linux operating system for both servers and desktop:

"March 30th, 2004 - Mandrakesoft Exits Bankruptcy - 'Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated' (Mark Twain). The whole Mandrakelinux community can enjoy these words! Today the Commerce Court accepted Mandrakesoft's exit plan from 'redressement judiciaire' (Chapter 11 like protection). The plan was approved as proposed by the company and its court appointed administrator, and it means the return to normal operations for Mandrakesoft after a 14 month observation period"

Palestinians love Mel Gibson's film

Aljazeera.Net - Palestinians love Mel Gibson's film:

Mel Gibson's controversial film, The Passion of the Christ, is all the rage among Palestinians, curious about complaints by Jews that it is anti-Semitic.

Meanwhile, local distributors in Israel are shunning the film, which Jewish groups say demonises Jews by depicting them as pressuring the Romans into crucifying Jesus.

The film has banked more than $315 million since its release in February.

Only one per cent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are Christians while the other 99% are Muslims, who revere Jesus as a prophet but do not believe he was crucified. Moreover, the portrayal of a prophet in a film is forbidden in Islam.

Pirated copies
"People are calling me from everywhere in the West Bank –from Bethlehem, Hebron, Ram Allah and Nablus - to ask for copies of the movie," said the owner of a Gaza city video shop, which sells pirated copies of new release movies.

The Passion of the Christ has outsold other Hollywood blockbusters in Gaza and the West Bank's pirated video market, including Matrix Revolutions and The Last Samurai.

Israel cold
In Israel, the local agent for the film's international distributor Icon Entertainment said it passed on its option to show The Passion of the Christ, but declined to specify its reasons other than to say the movie was "sensitive".

Industry insiders in Israel say local distributors are not interested in the film because of allegations it is anti-Semitic and for expected lukewarm audience response.

Jewish groups and some Roman Catholic clerics have expressed concern the film could foment anti-Jewish attacks.

Palestinian President Yasir Arafat watched a preview of the film at his West Bank headquarters earlier this month. Aides said he found the film "moving".

6 Death sentences for Islamic prisoners in Jordan

Eleven Libyan, Syrian, Palestinian and Jordanian Islamists had been charged. Their trial began in the military State Security Court 10 months ago.

The five in custody, including the Libyan national, told the court their guilty confessions had been extracted under duress.

Two of the accused produced witnesses who testified the men were not at the crime scene when Foley was killed.
: "Eleven Libyan, Syrian, Palestinian and Jordanian Islamists had been charged. Their trial began in the military State Security Court 10 months ago.
The five in custody, including the Libyan national, told the court their guilty confessions had been extracted under duress.
Two of the accused produced witnesses who testified the men were not at the crime scene when Foley was killed.
Last week, authorities said they arrested several suspects who had entered the kingdom from Syria to carry out attacks against government ministries and other targets. At least three others in the latest alleged plot are still at large. "

Foley served for 25 years as a senior official of the USAid program, and was suspected to have been a senior CIA officer in the Middle East.

Singapore ends military presence in Iraq with return of airforce crew

Catcha Singapore - News: "Singapore ends military presence in Iraq with return of airforce crew "

Singapore ends military presence in Iraq with return of airforce crew
SINGAPORE, April 5 (AFP) - Singapore no longer has a military presence in Iraq after the last of its troops returned home on Monday from a two-month stint in the war-torn country, the government said.


Thirty-one Singaporean Armed Forces personnel and a C-130 transport plane were deployed on February 4 to help the US-led forces in Iraq conduct supply and humanitarian aid delivery missions.

With the expiry of the scheduled two-month deployment, a first batch of troops returned to Singapore with the C-130 on Sunday while a second group arrived home aboard commercial flights on Monday.

"With the return of the troops today, we have no more personnel in the Gulf," defence ministry spokeswoman Felicia Tang told AFP in an e-mailed response to questions.

The crew, which previously had never experienced a hostile environment, came under fire on about one quarter of the sorties flown in Iraq, the Straits Times newspaper said on Monday.

"This was by far the riskiest exercise we undertook and the first time we were operating in a non-benign area," contingent leader Major Francis Ngooi, who returned on Sunday, said.

Singapore has consistently shown a strong commitment to the United States in its campaign in Iraq, giving strong political and limited military support.

Aside from the C-130 crew, 160 personnel on a landing ship tank returned to Singapore in February after two months in the Gulf and 32 Singaporean police personnel were deployed last year to train the local police force.

Tang was non-committal, however, when asked if Singapore intended to send more military personnel to help the United States in Iraq.

"We will continue to evaluate in what way we can play a useful and meaningful role in the reconstruction of Iraq," she said via e-mail.

"What we contribute will also have to take into account our resource situation."

Speaking with yankee arrogance

Daily Comet: "'We cannot allow this problem to fester indefinitely,' Khalilzad told about 100 people at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

'We have told the Pakistani leadership that either they must solve this problem or we will have to do it for ourselves"

Biggest gang of criminals in history

Crunch time for Special Ops forces | csmonitor.com: "biggest deployment in history."

Alpha Company, forced the two men to jump into the Tigris River

That night, Rudesheim said, an infantry patrol picked up two Iraqi men on curfew violations. "For no explicable reason," he said, soldiers in the patrol, from the battalion's Alpha Company, forced the two men to jump into the Tigris River.

(washingtonpost.com):

"It's a little like the French colonel in 'The Battle of Algiers,' ' he said, referring to the 1965 film about the Algerian uprising against French colonial rule. That is, he explained, the French officer said, ' 'You're all complaining about the tactics I am using to win the war, but that is what I am doing -- winning the war.' "

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