Their helicopters buzzed through the Baghdad sky, their patrols bristled with the latest weaponry and their armoured vehicles carried the latest high-tech gadgets, wrote Paul Tait in The Canberra Times (22/9/2007, p.B2). Read the rest of this entry »
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Multinational mercenaries: Iraq private-security contractors still immune from Iraqi law
Posted by electricityweek on October 5, 2007
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6 September: Israel air-raid on Syria, hit Syrian facility, near Turkish border; joint operation with US on unknown target?
Posted by electricityweek on October 3, 2007
Israel’s decision to attack Syria earlier this month came after Israel shared intelligence with President George Bush indicating that North Korean nuclear personnel were in Syria, according to US Government sources. Unlike Israel’s destruction of an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, Israel made no announcement of the recent raid and imposed strict censorship on reporting by the Israeli media.
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Israel and US at war with Syria and Iran: mystery explosion at Syrian military installation near Aleppo followed by 6 September F-15Is bomber attack
Posted by electricityweek on September 27, 2007
The Syria installation where the July 26 explosion occurred is in the same general area as the alSafir site where the Israeli air attack was carried out on September 6 but there has thus far not been any indication of a connection between the two events. Read the rest of this entry »
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US suspends all land travel by diplomats and civilian officials in Iraq after law-immune US-paid mercenaries kill 20 Iraqis: Iraq’s Ministry of Defence confirms deaths
Posted by electricityweek on September 27, 2007
The US has suspended all land travel by diplomats and civilian officials in Iraq outside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, amid mounting outrage over the alleged killing of civilians by the US Embassy’s security provider, Blackwater USA, reported The Mercury (20/9/2007, p. 20). Read the rest of this entry »
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Israel declares Gaza an “enemy entity” and said it would cut off power and fuel supplies to the coastal strip of Gaza
Posted by electricityweek on September 27, 2007
In Jerusalem, Israel’s Security Cabinet declared the Gaza Strip an “enemy entity” last night and said it would cut off power and fuel supplies to the coastal strip. The move threatens to cloud U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to the region on a peacemaking mission. The group of top Israeli political and defence ministers did not set a date for a cut-off. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office said Israel did not intend to provoke a humanitarian crisis.The Advertiser, 20/9/2007, p. 31
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