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Acts of War

A political and ideological program of "Resurgent America" is being cultivated
and guided from the highest offices in the land. Its prominent themes
- a "moral awakening of the nation" and the drive for America to be Number One in the world
by force of arms - have a distinctly fascist aura and raise the specter of a police state.

- Refuse & Resist! Founding Statement

Bush knew of terrorist plot to hijack US planes: "...a 1999 report for the National Intelligence Council warned that fanatics loyal to bin Laden might try to hijack a jetliner and fly it into the Pentagon..."
A bad call? White House on defensive over revelations: "...that memo passed to Bush on 6 August, warning that Osama bin Laden's organisation was poised to hijack US aircraft to wage a terror campaign..."
Hitler and the Reichstag Fire: "...Widespread belief in Germany and abroad, on the basis of extensive investigation, was that the Hitlerites themselves set fire to the Reichstag..."
Israeli tanks re-enter Jenin: "...Israeli troops entered the Palestinian town of Jenin and its devastated refugee camp early today in an operation aimed at finding militants who had eluded capture during last month's siege..."
US media cowed by patriotic fever, says CBS star: "...he admitted that he had shrunk from taking on the Bush administration over the war on terrorism..."
Dick Armey Calls for a Crime Agaisnt Humanity: "...I'm content to have Israel grab the entire West Bank..."
U.S. to Renounce Its Role in Pact for World Tribunal: "...the United States will simultaneously assert that it will not be bound by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, a 1969 pact that outlines the obligations of nations to obey other international treaties..."
Across West Bank, daily tragedies go unseen: "...stories beginning to unfold from the Palestinian cities, towns, refugee camps and villages that lie between Jenin and Dura show that the Israeli army has been engaged in systematic abuse the length of the West Bank..."
U.S. Blueprint to Topple Hussein Envisions Big Invasion Next Year: "...allowing time to create the right military, economic and diplomatic conditions. These include avoiding summer combat in bulky chemical suits, preparing for a global oil price shock, and waiting until there is progress toward ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict..."
Henry Kissinger Wanted for War Crimes: "...while he was US national security adviser to President Richard Nixon, he was the chief architect of a US war policy which resulted in the killing, injuring and displacement of 3 million Vietnamese and Cambodian people..."
Israel blocks UN mission to Jenin: "...Israeli officials are afraid the humanitarian backgrounds of Mr Sommaruga and Ms Ogata will favour the Palestinians, and leave them less receptive to the Israeli argument that the destruction visited on the camp was a legitimate result..."
Rubble, dust and rotting bodies everywhere: "...Jenin - A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover up for a fortnight has finally been exposed..."
Amnesty International Calls for Immediate International Humanitarian Assistance: "...Amnesty International is calling for immediate and unimpeded access for humanitarian assistance wherever it is needed..."
Israel Murders Ten Palestinians, Including 9 and 15 Year Olds: "...U.N. special envoy Terje Roed-Larsen described Thursday, April 18, the situation in the camp as "horrific beyond belief,"..."
Back in Jenin, Refugees Hope to Find Survivors: "...Some searched for people they thought might be buried alive beneath buildings flattened by Israeli bulldozers. Others simply hoped to bring dignity to the dead..."
The lunar landscape that was the Jenin refugee camp: "...They just started demolishing with the people inside," said Hania al-Kabia, a mother of six whose flat is on the edge of the lunar landscape. "I used to hear them on the loudspeaker saying come out, come out. Then they stopped doing that, but they went on bulldozing..."
Jewish Manifesto: Sharon is Israel's Worst Enemy: "...he and his policies have almost single-handedly brought the Middle East to the point where disaster could strike at any moment. Sharon is the biggest threat to the Israeli people and to Jews around the world..."
Ten-day ordeal in crucible of Jenin: "...I ask him to tell me the names of those who died in this way. 'The household of Abu Naif Zagrah,' says Ali Mustapha with certainty. Who else? 'The households of Mazen al-Ghul and Abura al-Ghul.' He continues: 'Abu Jawad Narseh and Abu Jawad al-Asmar.'..."
Trails of Destruction, Tales of Loss: "..."I heard the kids screaming, then the bulldozer came and started destroying the house," he said. "They were entombed under the wall in their living room where they sat.".."
Jenin Refugee Camp's Dead Can't Be Counted or Claimed: "...Palestinians here describe bodies cut in pieces, bodies scooped up by bulldozers and buried in mass graves, bodies deliberately concealed under collapsed buildings..."
'We are Just Statistics': "...The most recent Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers in Ramallah was Manal Sofran. She was a housewife shot in the head on Wednesday, neighbors said, while calling her husband Sami and their four children..."
Nablus: The mosque became a morgue: "..."There were 24 bodies in all," said one medic, Tawfiq Gazal. "We dug a hole and buried [the other] 14 of them at a house near here two days ago."..."
In the Nablus Ghetto: "...As black smoke from a burning tire drifted past, he lay face down on the packed dirt in a patch of sun, his legs splayed, his sneakers bright white against the black of his clothes..."
Roundups of Palestinians "Expedited": "...caught up in the dragnet include teachers, doctors, students, laborers, accountants, policemen and -- according to the Israeli military -- more than 360 wanted men. The army spokesman's office said it did not know how many of those detained had been released..."
Chicago: Rally against Israeli Occupation: "...an estimated 5,000 protesters marched on the Israeli consulate in Chicago to oppose the occupation, Israeli military and settler violence, and U.S. government support for Israelis brutal oppression of the Palestinian people..."
Pro-Palestinian protests spread: "...From New York to Sydney and Paris to Jakarta, protesters have chanted anti-Israeli slogans and called for an end to the fighting..."
Protesters condemn Israeli raids, U.S. support: "...Police in Bahrain clashed Friday with thousands of demonstrators who had gathered outside the U.S. Embassy to protest U.S. and Israeli actions..."
Arab Protesters Focus Ire on U.S.: "...Despite attempts by governments to ban or at least limit such marches, there were protests today in Cairo, Beirut, Amman, Tunis and even Dhahran, Saudi Arabia..."
Israeli Armor Units Continue Sweeping Through West Bank: "...Mr. Sharon has not set any deadline on the operation, saying only that it would be an "extended" campaign to root out the infrastructure of terrorism..."
Governments Divide on the Occupation of Palestine: "...Egypt is to suspend all contacts with Israel except any diplomatic ties that might help the Palestinians ... Meanwhile, the EU head office today declared American mediation a failure and urged Washington to stand down as primary peacemaker..."
Israel Uses Palestinians As Human Shields: "...food, water and medicine supplies were almost completely finished, and that the situation was getting desperate. "Where are the human rights organizations, now?"..."
The bodies, the chaos - and the debris of war in a city under siege: "...A grandmother in her fifties, she was shot dead by an Israeli sniper as she walked from the hospital gates on her cane..."
Israeli army in campaign to destroy security forces: "...After the surrender of the policemen, civilian male residents of the flats stripped, marched down stairs, and surrendered. Then came the women, pulling their shirts up above their waists..."
Across the Mideast, an Outpouring of Anger and a Show of Support: "...Thousands of marchers moved peacefully through the streets of Khartoum, in Sudan, and demonstrators in Lebanon chanted outside the American Embassy near Beirut. Outside of Cairo, protests erupted in various Egyptian cities including Alexandria and Sohag, along the Nile..."
U.S. Agents Seize Terror Suspects in Pakistan Raid: "...the American team also included one C.I.A. agent and one official from the American Embassy. He also said that some 20 heavily armed Americans took part, though Gen. Tommy R. Franks, chief of the United States Central Command, said in Washington that none of his troops were involved..."
I saw the bodies, killed by a shot to the head: "...A gaping wound was visible in his chest - also, apparently, from a burst of fire from close range. What killed him, however, was the gunshot to his temple..."
US paves way for war on Iraq: "...The US Air Force has begun preparations to move its Gulf headquarters from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, to bypass Saudi objections to military action against Iraq, according to Saudi analysts..."
Story of terror lab in Afghan cave 'was made up' to justify sending marines: "...Doubts about the story surfaced almost immediately after it was published, as US officials first expressed bafflement and then denied any such lab had been found..."
Pentagon Says U.S. Airstrike Killed Women and Children: "...Mr. Rumsfeld said that the women and children were in the battle zone "of their own free will, knowing who they're with..."
In Images, the Murder of a Palestinian: "...The "execution" took place in the Beit Hanuna district, was reported Monday by Agence France-Presse (AFP). Photos of the whole process were published..."
Bush wants 25,000 UK Iraq force, Britain considers joint invasion plan: "...Government departments are considering the plans ahead of Vice-President Dick Cheney's meeting with the Prime Minister tomorrow..."
'Rogue' Nations Policy Builds on Clinton's Lead: "...There were no immediate plans on the shelf for target packages [for those countries] to give to bombers or missile crews, but we could produce targeting information for those countries within hours..."
Pentagon Details Nuclear Plans: "...the review said the weapons could be used in three types of situations: against targets able to withstand non-nuclear attack; in retaliation for attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons; or "in the event of surprising military developments..."
Outrage as Pentagon nuclear hitlist revealed: "...America has drafted secret plans to wage nuclear war against seven countries as well as building an arsenal of smaller nuclear devices..."
Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret: "...Assuming command of regional federal offices, officials said, the underground government would try to contain disruptions..."
Hunger strike at Camp X-Ray: "...More than 100 prisoners held at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have gone on a hunger strike after two guards allegedly removed a prisoner's turban during a prayer session..."
A Reservist Refusenik Speaks Out: "...Everyone blabbers about what is and what is not legitimate, exposing in the process the depth of their ignorance of political theory and their inability to distinguish a real democracy from a third world regime in the style of Juan Peron..."
Poll: majority of Muslims distrust US: "...respondents found the US "ruthless, aggressive, conceited, arrogant, easily provoked, biased..."
A discreet way of doing business with Iraq: "...Mr. Cheney is not the only Washington heavyweight to have been affiliated with a company trading with Iraq. John Deutch, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is a member of the board of Schlumberger..."
Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad: "...The Pentagon is developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations as part of a new effort to influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and unfriendly countries..."
Fleeing U.S. Bombs, Villagers Found No Place to Hide: "...The Americans say they can see anything on the ground," said Fazal Rabi, 30, who said he lost 12 family members in the attacks, including two sons and a daughter. "These were children..."
Afghans are still dying as air strikes go on. But no one is counting: "...day after day, in dribs and drabs, a lot of ordinary people are dying in a war that sees the most advanced fighting machine ever assembled doing its killing in one of the most backward societies on earth..."
Casualties of U.S. Miscalculations: "...Ahmad and two other local men, Daraz and Jahan Gir, were peasants gathering scrap metal from the war in a region of suspected al Qaeda hide-outs. They were killed last Monday when a U.S. Hellfire missile, fired from a CIA-run Predator drone shrieked down..."
Released Afghans Tell of Beatings: "...American soldiers beat and punched them in the district headquarters before their hands and feet were bound and they were loaded on helicopters and flown to the base in Kandahar. There they were made to lie face down on a hangar floor and for the rest of the night were subjected to violent blows and kicking..."
Long after the air raids, bomblets bring more death: "...First, there were the three children from a neighbouring village who wandered over unfamiliar fields to attend a wedding, and thought the small yellow cylinders were toys..."
Reservists' refusal to defend settlements raises uneasy issues: "...a small but growing number of reservists are refusing to serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, arguing that the army's presence has little to do with legitimate defense needs and might constitute a war crime..."
Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War: "...Adopted on 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August, 1949..."
Innocent Muslims killed as Bush allies 'crusade': "...Shootings and torture by security forces are spreading fear in the Philippines, the new flashpoint in the US war..."
Reservists Balk at Occupation, Roiling Israel: "...More than 100 Israeli Army reservists signed a statement published today saying they would refuse to continue serving in the West Bank and Gaza Strip because Israel's policies there involved "dominating, expelling, starving and humiliating an entire people."..."
Prisoners of War and the Geneva Convention: "...The term "unlawful combatant" or "Battlefield Detainee" are not actual terms in international humanitarian law. There are categories of individuals, such as mercenaries, who are not accorded the full protection of the Third Geneva Convention. But the prisoners in X-ray do not fall under this category..."
After Green Beret Operation, Townspeople Have Questions About Bound Bodies: "...when neighbors and a few who escaped the carnage ventured back to inspect the damage, they said they found the charred bodies of more than a dozen men who had been shot and burned in the rooms of one of the compounds..."
Afghans: US Forces Killed Wrong People: "...villagers in Uruzgan province, where the raid took place, claimed Saturday that the victims were neither Taliban nor al-Qaida fighters but Afghans sent by a pro-government official to negotiate the surrender of weapons from Taliban holdouts in the area..."
Sensory Deprivation in US Concentration Camp: "...Amnesty International said the pictures were "shocking" and showed the men were being "softened up" for interrogation..."
"Black Hawk Down" - the Real Story: "...how trapped United States troops indiscriminately fired on crowds of Somalis in Mogadishu in 1993, killing more than 1,000 - five times the 'official' number..."
U.S. Raid Kills 100 Afghans: "...U.S. warplanes killed over 100 people in a raid on a village in eastern Afghanistan, residents said Monday..."
US urged to detail origin of tape: "...There was growing doubt in the Muslim world about the authenticity of the film while special effects experts said computer technology made it possible to fake such a video..."
3,500 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan by U.S. Bombs: "...Professor Herold has been gathering data on civilian casualties since October 7 by culling information from news agencies, major newspapers, and first-hand accounts..."
Witnesses Recount POW Deaths: "...One prisoner, Ibrahim, a 30-year- old Pakistani mechanic interviewed in the presence of General Jurabek, said he thought some 35 people had died in his container en route from Kunduz.."
US planes rain death on the innocent: "..."My husband was thinking before this incident that the Americans would bring peace in our country," said Arafa, who lost eight members of her family. "Now I am left with my five daughters and two sons and no one to look after them."..."
U.S. Bombs Strike 3 Villages and Reportedly Kill Scores: "..."Civilized countries talk about human rights and then they bomb us," said a village elder, Muhammad Tahir. "Give my message to the Pentagon: This is our village. This is our only place for living."..."
US targets Somalia in hunt for al-Qaeda: "...Navy pilots have flown waves of missions to map two al-Qaeda camps near the Kenyan border with a view to launching air strikes, Pentagon sources said. US warships have positioned themselves off the coast near the capital, Mogadishu..."
Secret US plan for Iraq war: "...It envisages a combined operation with US bombers targeting key military installations while US forces assist opposition groups in the North and South of the country in a stage-managed uprising..."
Blood, tears, terror and tragedy behind the lines: "...tragedy was the word that came to mind. Out of a dust-storm came a woman in a grey shawl. "I lost my daughter two days ago," she wailed. "The Americans bombed our home in Kandahar and the roof fell on her..."
Allies justify mass killing of Taliban prisoners: "...Britain and the US were facing growing international pressure last night to explain their role in the deaths of up to 400 Taliban prisoners who were killed by US warplanes and Northern Alliance fighters...."
Aid Bundle Crushes Afghan House: "...A civilian was killed when a heavy bundle of humanitarian supplies dropped by parachute crushed her house..."
Cluster Bombs Look Similar to Food Aid Packages, Rights Group Slams U.S.: "...General Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressing the similarity between food aid packages and cluster bombs said, "It is unfortunate that the cluster bombs - the unexploded ones - are the same color as the food packets"..."
CIA Told to Do 'Whatever Necessary' to Kill Bin Laden: "..."The gloves are off," one senior official said. "The president has given the agency the green light to do whatever is necessary. Lethal operations that were unthinkable pre-September 11 are now underway."..."
US buys up all satellite war images: "...The Pentagon has spent millions of dollars to prevent western media from seeing highly accurate civilian satellite pictures of the effects of bombing in Afghanistan..."
The Government Blueprint for Assassinations: "..."Basically," says Ronfeldt, "you have to find somebody to wipe out."..."

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