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Email from Abu Nasr on Iraq Resistance
By: Abu Nasr on: 11.10.2004 [20:08 ] (421 reads)
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But one intriguing thing that did suddenly appear on the ICP-Cadre site the other day was a 14-page day-by-day account of the Resistance struggle in October. Unlike the Resistance reports that I write for FAV, which are based on the Arabic media, which in turn are based on the western media (AFP mostly, actually, the French are MUCH better than the US or UK agencies), I say, unlike that, the ICP-Cadre report includes news items that they get directly from witnesses in the country and reports. That isn't necessarily a guarantee of 100-percent accuracy, but at least it is not tied to what the US military is willing to divulge.
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Email from Abu Nasr on Iraq Resistance
Tuersday, 04 Nov 2003
Dear Jay,
How are things?
I've been kind of busy lately. The Free Arab Voice came back and now, as of a couple days ago, was shut down again by some Zionist group calling itself the internet haganah which contacts the host company and says FAV supports killing Jews. Well, yes it does when the Jews in question happen to occupy Palestine, but if that's hate then I guess the French Resistance was a hate organization.
Anyhow right now I'm writing to tell you about the website of the Iraqi Communist Party - Cadre.
Don't get too excited because almost everything there is in Arabic, and most of that is just articles that they pull from anybody and everybody who opposes the US occupation of their country. So it's all kinds of stuff from moderate liberals to radicals. The same goes for the few items that they have in English, except for the two ICP-Cadre statements that I translated a few months ago and then you posted on your site (in fact, they still list your name on them as a reference, though the "link" to your site is inoperative). (Maybe if you wrote to them, they would activate the links at least which might be a nice comradely thing.)
But one intriguing thing that did suddenly appear on the ICP-Cadre site the other day was a 14-page day-by-day account of the Resistance struggle in October. Unlike the Resistance reports that I write for FAV, which are based on the Arabic media, which in turn are based on the western media (AFP mostly, actually, the French are MUCH better than the US or UK agencies), I say, unlike that, the ICP-Cadre report includes news items that they get directly from witnesses in the country and reports. That isn't necessarily a guarantee of 100-percent accuracy, but at least it is not tied to what the US military is willing to divulge.
And that is interesting too. NOBODY in the Arab world believes the US casualty figures. They are just too absurd. Cars hit landmines that disable tanks and nobody dies, supposedly. Several helicopters have been shot down before the Chinook and in previous cases people only got "wounded."
Today a kind of gloating article full of Schadenfreude appeared in a Jordanian paper saying "for once (in the case of the Chinook) the Americans are admitting their real losses."
The article is just rich in bitter, black sarcasm as it says that everywhere else in the world cars crash and people die, but if they're Americans in Iraq take direct hits from RPGs or hit anti-tank mines they only get "slightly injured."
What is particularly significant about the article, though, which appeared in the "Jordanian Affairs" section of its newspaper, was that the author is known for his links to the Jordanian secret police and so when his articles appear, people read them to see what the secret police want to tell them. (Which is why his article on the death toll in Iraq could appear on the "Jordanian affairs" page!)
Thus, what we have is virtually a statement that the Jordanian intelligence service thinks the US casualty figures coming out or Iraq are ridiculously laughable, and they are definitely in a position to know.
That brings me back to the Iraqi Communist Party - Cadre report for October's Resistance attacks. It's too long and too tedious to translate the daily litany of strikes, but below is a summary if the final October toll and a comment on the overall toll of the war so far.
As I say, in the full monthly report in Arabic, these figures are accounted for on a day-by-day basis in attacks that take more casualties than the US figures admit, but not wildly unlikely figures. Therefore these figures are credible, given that even the US admits that the average number of guerrilla attacks is now 33 per day.
Some of the references in these accounts will be unfamiliar to westerners. But I think the coverup in Iraq has reached incredible proportions. For example, I have heard accounts from individuals who were Arab volunteers and who actually were present personally at the epic Saddam International Airport Battle during the invasion. Many witnesses who were there (and who don't know each other) say the same things: Saddam personally was there, hundreds of Americans were killed, captives were beheaded with swords. Apparently films were made but nobody will show them and at least one Arabic news report said that Bush threatened to use nuclear weapons if Iraq broadcast the films at the time.
There are lots of rumours out there but that there were a lot of Americans killed in the airport - definitely more than the total they admit died in the war - comes from too many people who were actually there for reasonable people to discount those reports. Corroborating evidence comes from the fact that Palestinian cameraman working for Reuters, Mazen Dana, was shot dead on 17 August (one US bullet through his heart) when he was filming supposedly US graves at the International Airport.
After the occupation too, there have been lots of reports that the Resistance fighters generate videos of their attacks. This is not surprising; Hizb Allah did this regularly in South Lebanon, and some of the Palestinian guerrilla groups do it too. But none of the Arabic networks like al-Jazeera and al-Arabiyyah have the courage to air them even though they supposedly are sitting on them, and needless to say the western media won't do it either.
So if the figures below cited by the Iraqi Communist Party-Cadre sound farfetched, bear in mind that the Pentagon has a near stranglehold on what news gets out of Iraq. And even websites like the Free Arab Voice keep getting shut down.
Comradely,
Muhammad Abu Nasr
The Iraqi Communist Party - Cadre (ICP-Cadre) has published a report in Arabic on US imperialist losses in its war against Iraq on its website. The Arabic account is available
That report is 14 pages long. But here is the grand total for October:
734 Americans killed,
870 wounded,
240 vehicles, (including tanks, armored vehicles,
cars, and personnel carriers) destroyed,
28 railway cars destroyed,
7 helicopters destroyed,
13 explosions on oil pipelines.
The ICP-Cadre also comments on the the US claim made during October that the number of Americans killed after 1 May 2003 now equals the number killed in the invasion of Iraq. The ICP-Cadre says that that statement is true as regards the ratio, but not the raw figures.
They say that the number of Americans killed in the invasion was about 2,500, including those butchered alive in the attack on Saddam International Airport, as shown in films that were made at the time, and those whose charred bodies were left after that Airport Battle.
The number of Americans who have been killed since the start of the War of Liberation, i.e., since 10 April 2003, the ICP-Cadre says, is about 3,000; with 3,000-4,000 additional Americans wounded. As for the official US number of 116 dead, the ICP-Cadre says, Condaleezza Rice can just keep the small change in her purse.
The mail archive
Sent by Alvaro Frota - Thanks to TruthSeeker
by AlvaroFrota on 11.10.2004 [20:24 ]
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Thanks to TruthSeeker, the "disbeliever", now we know who are the Iraqis on the terrain that are the primary sources of Iraqi Resistance Reports.
And they are communists!
For me, it is another confirmation of the reability of such reports.
If one turns the KIA figures of these reports to (dead + median wounded + serioulsy wounded) he will get a real information of these war.
Aquele abraço!
Alvaro Frota
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by stopwar Guest on 11.10.2004 [20:46 ]
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Abu Nasr to contribute to this group? If he is sincere, he will be happy to back up his assertions, and respond to our questions. I care not whether he is a Communist or a Fascist in that respect. We will soon be able to judge whether he is trying to be truthful, or spinning a yarn. Just because he is a communist doesn't make him a liar.
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by AlvaroFrota on 11.10.2004 [22:04 ]
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As a Marxist, I agree with you. Despite, of course, a Fascist wasn't translating such things...
Anyone in this site have Mr. Abu's e-mail? If so, we are able to send such invitation to Muhammad Abu Nasr.
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by Nick_UK Guest on 11.10.2004 [23:13 ]
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Is therr anywhere we can read the full and truthful (i.e. non-American) account of what happened at Saddam Intl. Airport? I've heard the reports of the man himself being there, but that he was only there to be evacuated by someone (Russians? Americans?). How is it that an Iraqi military struggling to halt the US juggernaut was able to marshal itself for a heroic last stand of Baghdad Intl? 100s of dead Americans? How many Iraqi soldiers died? What weapons were used? I really would like to see concrete facts about what happened in those fateful days.
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by stopwar on 11.10.2004 [23:38 ]
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but it was described as "fierce fighting" for quite a long time with, if I remember correctly, both sides claiming victory. Remember the Iraqi Information Minister telling the western reporters in the underground car park the exact opposite of what the embedded reporters were reporting. All seems very surreal now.
Couldn't someone pull the report from this site at that time out of the archives, so we can remind ourselves.
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by Guest on 12.10.2004 [02:33 ]
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This is dated november 2003 not news.
So the sentence "But one intriguing thing that did suddenly appear on the ICP-Cadre site the other day..." is already one year old.
Just a warning, for people with fast response.
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by Guest on 12.10.2004 [02:44 ]
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go there for the latest count from the cadre party web site
http://www.alkader.net/okt1/arkef9_041012.htm
and scroll to the bottom of the page.
I don't understand anything because Idon't speak arabic but at the end of the page it looks like a casualty/destruction count.If anyone can translate...
It is from the source of the IRR (cadre website)
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by AL-FIRDAUS on 12.10.2004 [02:53 ]
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Would someone please respond to the above ^^^^request and translate the bottom of that web page! I am anxious to post it in English for the disbelievers. Thank you!
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by Truth Seeker Guest on 12.10.2004 [03:27 ]
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There is this claim about what might have been used at Baghdad airport and elsewhere. They are the so-called Tesla weapons. (Tesla is the man who invented the system of generation and distribution of electricity we still use today)
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1038379/posts
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by Aldion Guest on 12.10.2004 [08:35 ]
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Here is the link of the webpage created by an American military man, Captain May, who - as he alleges - has investigated about the lethal for US Army Battle of Baghdad Airport, with a death toll of many hundreds.
He also provides evidence on the cover-up of the massacre by the US media.
Go to the following:
http://geocities.com/onlythecaptain/
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by mike uk Guest on 12.10.2004 [11:56 ]
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on the airport battle. my friend is iraqi kurd livin in the uk, defected from saddams army then defected from kurdish army and cam here. anyway some months ago he told me his brother was coming here for a holiday & he was going to try & buy some video cd's to bring. the one in particular he mentioned is the aiport battle, specifically he mentioned beheading of usa troops and how the americans lied about what happened etc..
if you remember at the time, news reports from bbc etc... they said, americans have taken the airport. then 30 mins later, almost taken the airport, then a day later, nearly taken the airport, i think 2 or 3 days passed beofre they took the airport.
i have also read that the americans used napalm (or equaivalent) in the end, just killed thousands of iraqis in one hit, thats how they eventually won the battle.
sadly i did not see any of the videos, i will ask again though if its possible to get that one & have it posted or something. but my friend's family have all seen the videos, and they wanted them to be sent to the uk for the bbc to show, just from their point of view to show how evil the resistance are, particularly falluja, how they cut heads off and other forms of grisly execution. they wanted the world to see that the resistance in falluja were not heroes but sick people. thats their point of view as they are kurdish anyway....
i do however beleive my friend, i have no reason to doubt what he says, anyway he hates the resistance, but he also is not fond of the yanks, so these things do bring a smile to his face.
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by mike uk Guest on 12.10.2004 [12:03 ]
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US secreat weapons??? i am sorry but tesla was a russian (or soviet) scientist, the US did not invent any weapons, they tried to but could not get them to work. the russians apparently did get them to work, but i am sceptical. they are basically an invisible force shield that can be placed over something to stop it getting in or out. it also could have been used to vapourise the WTC on 911. apparently the russians used the weapon to vapourise a wall that was built by china to carve off a section of russia for them selves, so in the 60's or 70's the russians blasted the wall with a tesla weapon and it turned to dust in an instant.
hmmm..... dunno, i think if these weapons existed we would have more proof. and another use for this technology is perpetual energy, free unlimited energy that can replace oil, electricity etc.. etc....
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by AlvaroFrota on 12.10.2004 [13:18 ]
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Despite the interesting stuff about the batle of Baghdad, I think the most important point of this e-mail is that it shows the primary sources of Iraqi Resistance Reports after november, 2004.
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by mike uk Guest on 12.10.2004 [14:34 ]
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i have just been with my friend and he called home while i was with him and asked again about the videos of the aiport battle. his family said they would check if they had a copy at home, if not they can get one from the markets. posting will be a problem though so it will have to be brought by someone when they travel to the UK.
so hopefully we will eventually see a copy within a month or 2, something nice for eveyone at christmas maybe! also he asked for the full video & not clips.
if i get a copy i will let you all know and will send copies to anyone that can host a download site.
dont hold your breath though
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by mike uk Guest on 12.10.2004 [14:36 ]
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they also sais it was too horrible to watch
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by Syrian Guest on 12.10.2004 [15:13 ]
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It's all in here: http://strike-free.net/counterload/briefing.htm
There's a press conference but it's in arabic and about 20 minutes. The Iraqi accent is a bit difficult to deal with, maybe someone else can translate it?
The biggest deployment of weapons of mass destruction since Hiroshima at Baghdad Airport where two Divisons (23000 soldiers) were killed within a hour with 10ton aerosol-bombs and new weapons which let bodies shrink to clumps of coal
In a way, this confirms what truthseeker said, but theres no scientific basis for such a weapon unless someone can give me more information. It's more likely to be a neutron bomb, there were reports of a neutron bomb being used but it was erased in the maelstrom of crap.
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by Syrian Guest on 12.10.2004 [15:20 ]
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I really hate myself for not recording it. After watching a bit of it I was led to think "as long as the Iraqis keep going this well, the USAn scum are defeated".
show how evil the resistance are, particularly falluja, how they cut heads off and other forms of grisly execution. they wanted the world to see that the resistance in falluja were not heroes but sick people. thats their point of view as they are kurdish anyway....
In that case your friend probably supported the sick peshmergays who killed little children with sniper rifles. The resistance are nothing but heroic. There's no point keeping POW's when the cowards are breaking every rule in the geneva convention. Kill them fast, spare the bullets. In any case, I'll believe it when there's more evidence. But that wont change my opinion on the herioc resistance of Iraq.
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by Syrian Guest on 12.10.2004 [15:24 ]
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The link to the mp3 is down, luckily I kept a local copy. Is there somewhere on this website that we can upload things like this?
The guy who did the conference was captured. Very interesting what he said, completely consistant with what we have been saying on this website:
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=6476
Well expect for what the shill/provacteurs have been saying.
Syrian, you can put the video into the gallery (up to 4 Mb) when you log in as a registered user. After you put it, please write to admins, we verify that everything is ok. On behalf of admins — moderator
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by mike uk Guest on 12.10.2004 [15:37 ]
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techically he does not beleive in violence, but the life he was forced to lead, first by saddam, then by his own kurds, forced him into violent sitations. he showed me the foot long scar on his lower leg where he took a direct mortar / or shrapnel hit, nasty!
anyway, he's a nice guy, good sense of humour, he can laugh at the american foolishness, he knows how he would sort out falluja, his poeple dont like them regardless of how they feel about americans. but then isn't everyone entitled to their opinion? just as you are?
i must add that if the resistance from falluja (mostly republican guard soldiers, well trained) were to drive the usa out of america, lets just say they then had the power to invade a neighbour, or possible the UK (just for argument sake) i would not want to live by their rules, would you syrian?
no alcohol? women hidden and not allowed to work? im talking the extreme taliban/wahaabi type of ismal here. i have nothing against your average muslim, a few of my friends are, including the kurd.
having said that, i wish them all the luck in the world, someone needs to show america that they are as vunerable as everyone else.
anyway....
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by Truth Seeker Guest on 12.10.2004 [17:03 ]
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{i am sorry but tesla was a russian (or soviet) scientist}
Tesla was a Serb and when he did emigrate to the US in the 19th century, communism did not even exist yet. He remained in the US all his life afterwards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
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by Truth Seeker Guest on 12.10.2004 [17:16 ]
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The Iraq resistance reports written by Abu Nasr for the Free Arab Voice "are based on the Arabic media, which in turn are based on the western media (AFP mostly, actually, the French are MUCH better than the US or UK agencies)" in his own words. You say that {Thanks to TruthSeeker, the "disbeliever", now we know who are the Iraqis on the terrain that are the primary sources of Iraqi Resistance Reports.} No exactly, thanks to Truth Seeker you now know that Abu Nasr invents those news on the framework of the western newsfeed as he says himself.
Did you finally manage to download the video about Iraq I did post in the other thread ?
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by Truth Seeker Guest on 12.10.2004 [17:42 ]
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Well, I still have some space on my homepage that comes with my brodband subscription. If you email me the file and that I find it interesting enough I'll put it there provided it's not too big. (I can recompress to much smaller size than Mp3 especially if it's voice only)
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by mike uk Guest on 12.10.2004 [19:02 ]
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you are right, i found one of the articles from before and i think i was confused with the statement that russia had built them & used them, here is one article, i still find it all a bit to hard to beleive anyway
http://www.prahlad.org/pub/bearden/iraq.htm
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by eurohippie Guest on 12.10.2004 [19:22 ]
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I remember watching live coverage on CNN of the Iraqi Information Minister's daily press conference 2 or 3 days after the Usans supposedly took the airport. Al-Sahaf said that for that very night they had a big surprise in store for the ullooj who were trying to take it, involving "martyrdom operations" - when asked if he could be more clear about the operation, he said enigmatically that the Usans should have learned with the experience of the French in Indochina… — and when asked again to be more specific, he gave more or less the following answer to the reporter (a Western one): "If you don't know what I mean about the French in Indochina, go look it up in the history books!" — he was supremely confident as he said this, almost mocking — anyway, he was obviously referring to the (some googling here)
incredible underground tunnel network (…) constructed by Vietnamese resistance fighters during the long years of struggle for independence.
and the fact is at the time, after the supposed capture of the airport, news was coming on Western media of the ominous discovery of a network of tunnels underneath the airport, and there was a palpable nervousness about it…
anyway, as events turned out, I got the impression that the operation was cancelled, for it was the next day that al-Sahaf showed up in front of the Palestine Hotel for his final press conference (the IM building having been bombed meanwhile), the one in which the pronounced the famous words about how there were no Usans in Baghdad as an invader tank was circulating a few hundred meters away — this was the day that resistance completely disappeared, for whatever reason. But I still think the plan may have been carried out, that mujahedin may have come out suddenly out of tunnels right in the middle of Usan troops, causing great casualties.
I also remember distinctly an earlier press conference (probably the day before) when Al-Sahaf was asked if the invaders had taken the airport — and, clearly enjoying the moment, he said more or less: "How about if we take you there so you can see for yourself?", gesturing to an aide at his side who would arrange a visit by journalists to the airport. And I know for a fact the visit really took place, after having being postponed from 5pm that very day to the next morning. I can even name two journalists who were aomg the many filling the bus — Clive ? (a black guy) from BBC and Carlos Fino, then the correspondent in Baghdad of Portuguese TV channel RTP1. And I saw plenty of footage of Saddam Airport completely deserted, for instance the runways and parkings in front of the main entrance, not a soul in sight and no signs whatsoever of any damage — and not only that, there was complete silence, it was so calm it reminded me of my hometown on Sundays when I was a kid.
this is more or less what I can add on this matter from my tele-experience of events in Iraq.
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by Truth Seeker Guest on 12.10.2004 [19:56 ]
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If the Iraqis were hidden in underground tunnels as he seems to suggest and that they have been defeated easylly, it simply means they have abundantly douzed the area with fuel bombs. They have the main property to modify temporarily the chemical composition of the atmosphere by withdrawing oxygen from it. No one escapes, even in a network of underground tunnels. It is the most efficiently lethal weapon there is. The only protection is pressurised rooms or oxygen bottles and for only as long as the cans are full. The US army can drop fuel bombs for days over an area until the people underground have used up their oxygens reserves. I think that's what they did. I do further think that they have recovered the fresh bodies of the underground casualties for all those fresh, intact and healthy organs they contained.
I have downloaded many Iraq war news videos from taped CNN, NBC, etc with eMule. I haven't watched them yet. Does someone have the precise date of this battle ?
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by Richard Steven Hack Guest on 12.10.2004 [20:00 ]
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"They say that the number of Americans killed in the invasion was about 2,500...The number of Americans who have been killed since the start of the War of Liberation, i.e., since 10 April 2003, the ICP-Cadre says, is about 3,000; with 3,000-4,000 additional Americans wounded."
So we are supposed to have 2,500 killed in the invasion, then the total months later is only 3,000, while at the same time over 700 troops were killed IN ONE MONTH in October. What's wrong with this picture?
Plus we're supposedly getting this from Jordanian intelligence. Thanks, I really needed that confidence we're getting info from an "unbiased" source - a disinformation intelligence agency!
Sorry, while I do believe US casualties figures are probably much lower than officially stated, I'm not buying this report either.
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by Truth Seeker Guest on 12.10.2004 [20:06 ]
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The most documented, and probably the only one that is seriously known about, high frequency electromagnetic weapon system is the HAARP project the US Army runs in Alaska. It offers the possibilty to directly interfere with and modify or destroy the ozone layer in specific places for example,. Patents for several components of the project are held by a a certain Eastlund
http://www.brojon.org/frontpage/bj1203pat.html
Bearden seems to be a fraud but I am not knowledgeable enough in electromagnetics to be certain about it.
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by Guest on 12.10.2004 [21:35 ]
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Bearden is a fraud. His array of websites are misleading, and only lead the readers back to buying a book or a burned CD/DVD. His claims about being able to buy his free energy device are false and were only used as a confidence game.
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by Guest on 12.10.2004 [21:54 ]
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This thread about secret weapons turning into total crazyness.
I'm surprised noone did mention the weapons of alien origin, you know the ones from MIB the movie.
At least the US armyt is now 100% comparable to the nazi wermacht (at least for the bullshit factor)
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by Guest on 12.10.2004 [21:58 ]
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The US probably revived dead soldiers to send battalions of atomic zombies on the airport....
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by Truth Seeker Guest on 13.10.2004 [06:18 ]
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H. R. 2977, US House Of Representatives, October 2, 2001,
"In this Act:
(1) The term `space' means all space extending upward from an altitude greater than 60 kilometers above the surface of the earth and any celestial body in such space.
(2)(A) The terms `weapon' and `weapons system' mean a device capable of any of the following:
(i) Damaging or destroying an object (whether in outer space, in the atmosphere, or on earth) by--
(I) firing one or more projectiles to collide with that object;
(II) detonating one or more explosive devices in close proximity to that object;
(III) directing a source of energy (including molecular or atomic energy, subatomic particle beams, electromagnetic radiation, plasma, or extremely low frequency (ELF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy radiation) against that object; or
(IV) any other unacknowledged or as yet undeveloped means.
(ii) Inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person)--
(I) through the use of any of the means described in clause (i) or subparagraph (B);
(II) through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations; or
(III) by expelling chemical or biological agents in the vicinity of a person.
(B) Such terms include exotic weapons systems such as--
(i) electronic, psychotronic, or information weapons;
(ii) chemtrails;
(iii) high altitude ultra low frequency weapons systems;
(iv) plasma, electromagnetic, sonic, or ultrasonic weapons;
(v) laser weapons systems;
(vi) strategic, theater, tactical, or extraterrestrial weapons; and
(vii) chemical, biological, environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons.
(C) The term `exotic weapons systems' includes weapons designed to damage space or natural ecosystems (such as the ionosphere and upper atmosphere) or climate, weather, and tectonic systems with the purpose of inducing damage or destruction upon a target population or region on earth or in space."
http://www.theorator.com/bills107/hr2977.html
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by Syrian on 13.10.2004 [14:55 ]
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I really doubt such a "new weapon" exists. I said it was a neutron bomb. If you don't think they exist, I suggest you get your head examined.
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by Syrian on 13.10.2004 [14:58 ]
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"Al-Kubaysi press conference"
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by Syrian on 13.10.2004 [15:05 ]
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"Sea Surfing (CSRF) detected. Operation blocked."
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by Syrian on 13.10.2004 [15:05 ]
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I can send it to a friend...
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by Truth Seeker Guest on 13.10.2004 [17:42 ]
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That's my email address, in case you need it :
eidenk@ntlworld.com
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by TerraHertz Guest on 13.10.2004 [17:59 ]
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An article I posted elsewhere, relevent to the battle of Baghdad airport:
On alternative coverage of the Iraq War
The website where the current resistance reports seem to appear first, (under the "Around the world" heading, on the right) is:
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-index.php
For example:
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=25141
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 1 October 2004
This site can often take a long while to respond. Sometimes it helps to try http://213.219.244.104, if the DNS system is the problem. However in communication with the site admin, they admit that problems are more often related to unstable content-server software. Also, content on the site is fast moving, with many new stories added per day. So items will tend to scroll off the front page lists rapidly.
Another site where the same reports appear, later but all on their own page, in chronological order, with a complete set from their inception on 30th Oct 2003 to the present, and also regular summaries of casualty figures:
http://www.albasrah.net/ (home page, Arabic)
http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/english/iraqi_resistance.htm (English)
This site too has a fairly small bandwidth.
At the beginning of the war, http://www.aeronautics.ru (by Venik) carried English translations of detailed war reports that originated indirectly from the Russian GRU.
The first of these was on March 23, 2003, and is still available at
http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news066.htm (as are all the rest, but linked sequentially, with no master index I can find.)
These were derived from intercepts of US communications by Russian military signals groups, and were edited extracts of the Russian (private?) analysis of US operations.
Later, another site (www.iraqwar.ru - since defunct) also made available English translations, and attributed the reports to 'the Ramzaj group'. This site included an annonymous user comment forum, where many interesting details surfaced.
On April 8, 2003, during latter stages of the Battle of Bagdad, the Ramzaj reports ceased, citing loss of information sources. Sometime after that, iraqwar.ru went off the net, and so far I have not found any copy of its article and forum database online.
However the GRU/Ramzaj reports are still archived in many places on the net. For eg:
http://www.serendipity.li/iraqwar/war_reports.htm
as well as still (no visible link?) at Venik's http://www.aeronautics.ru
So, we have detailed coverage of the Iraq war for the periods:
March 23rd, 2003 to April 8, 2003 GRU/Ramzaj reports
October 30th, 2003 to the present Iraqi resistance reports.
Thus there is a gap: April 8th, to October 29th, 2003.
Now we know about the Battle of Bagdad, which began on Friday night, April 4th, 2003, and involved the near complete annihilation of the 3/7 Cavalry. The US then apparently counter attacked the Iraqi defenders at the airport, using a single neutron bomb, which wiped out all resistance.
http://iecolumnists.expressindia.com/full_column.php?content_id=46449
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/02/1669628.php
(and others; Google: neutron baghdad airport)
So far I don't know exactly what date and time this was done. Likely in the range April 6th to 8th, 2003. This is probably the very first time a tactical nuclear weapon has been used in a battlefield situation, unless rumours of atomic weapons use in Afghanistan are true.
At that time, I had wondered why the Ramjaz reports ceased so suddenly, with a stated reason that didn't ring true. Now we know. The Russians knew the US had used a tactical nuclear weapon in Iraq. The Ramzaj reports were attempting to be truthful, but could now either lie, or admit that Russia knew, or cease. They chose to cease operation. One line from their farewell notice reads: "... we do not have the right to reveal classified, 'top secret' information."
Now we know what that information was.
There appears to be no index to all the GRU/Ramzaj reports at www.aeronautics.ru, so here is a list of all the article URLs in sequence:
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news066.htm GRU's take on things (1st in series)
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news067.htm preparations in the north
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news068.htm preparations in the south
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news069.htm Mar 20 2003, 1st day of war
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news070.htm Mar 21, 2nd day of war
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news071.htm How mil. radio comms are intercepted?
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news072.htm What is GRU?
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news076.htm Mar 23, situation in sth Iraq
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news077.htm Mar 24, sitn. at An-Nasiriya (update)
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news078.htm Mar 25, fighting the people
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news079.htm Mar 26, fighting the people (still)
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news080.htm Mar 27, reqm. for more troops
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm Mar 27, preparing for battle UPDATE
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm Mar 28, A week of war
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_015.htm Mar 29, Little change
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_016.htm Mar 30, Massing near Karabela
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_017.htm Mar 31, New attack
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_018.htm Apr 01, Battle of Karabela
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_019.htm Apr 02, Unstable front
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_020.htm Apr 03, Advance on Bagdad
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_021.htm Apr 04, Enter Bagdad
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_022.htm Apr 05, gradual reduction
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_023.htm Apr 06, Quickly changing
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_024.htm Apr 06, Ongoing skirmishes
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_025.htm Apr 07, Extreme fierceness
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_026.htm Apr 07, Less tense
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_027.htm Apr 08, Last normal report
www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/iraqwar_ru_028.htm Apr 08, "Events of the last 2 days.."
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by TerraHertz Guest on 13.10.2004 [18:19 ]
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http://iecolumnists.expressindia.com/print.php?content_id=46449
Iraq’s secrets are tumbling out - SAEED NAQVI
Friday , May 07, 2004. Extract:
And, who knows, there may be more horrible revelations on the way. Abuses in prisons were being commonly talked about by Iraqis when I was in Baghdad last month. Why did I not write about them? There was no confirmation. Another story doing the rounds sounds almost apocryphal. Remember, how US tanks simply glided into Firdaus Square in April 2003? A few days earlier, the colourful minister for information, Mohammad Sahhaf, had threatened “a unique way” in which US troops around Baghdad airport would be “handled”. Two floors of the passenger areas were under American control. But Iraqis were still in occupation of VIP and service buildings. This is where the control valves were for water supply to the main passenger area, where the Americans were. At night, petrol was pumped into the first floor. The ground floor of the passenger terminal was flooded with water. An 11 KV current passed through the water. The first floor was then set on fire causing the US soldiers to rush downstairs — to be electrocuted. Heaven knows how many were killed.
To flush out the Iraqis from the remaining airport buildings, a neutron bomb was allegedly used. This enhanced radiation bomb spares buildings but reduces humans to ash. Iraqi Republican guards, witness to this macabre display, informed the Baathist military leadership about the lengths to which the US could go. This resulted in the collapse of all resistance, facilitating the entry of UStanks into central Baghdad. This is a one-sided story sourced to Baathist soldiers and local villagers. The US should either confirm or deny it. Was this the reason why Baghdad airport remained closed until nine months after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s statue on April 9, 2003?
A very respected cleric in Najaf told me: “The horrible stories in our prisons, the mystery at Baghdad airport — all these will surface in some distant future.” Well, Baathist army leaders and troops have been pressed into service in Fallujah. The story of prisoner abuse appears to be only the tip of the iceberg. What Americans thought were tightly kept secrets are part of common “gossip” in Baghdad. These will now reach Americans as truth resurrected by American journalists determined to restore credibility to their profession. The mist on Iraq and Afghanistan has begun to lift from the eyes of the American public, indeed the world.
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