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Insurgents vow to fight until last US soldier goes |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 19:05 |
 In Iraq, insurgents have dismissed the US administration’s announcement of a “new dawn,” saying they will fight on until the last US soldier has left the country. Operation Iraqi Freedom, launched by George Bush seven years ago, ended Tuesday with the end of official US combat operations. However, Iraqi insurgent groups said it was business as usual. A senior official in the Iraqi Baath party, which remains heavily involved the insurgency, said: “Nothing has changed at all, they can say combat is over but there has been no ceasefire from the resistance and there will be no ceasefire while there is even a single American soldier in Iraq.” He said US claims to have ceased offensive military operations were a “lie,” pointing to the continued role of US Special Forces and intelligence units. US soldiers also continue to patrol the so-called trigger-line territories – areas disputed between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs.
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Israeli Knesset member says Israeli commandos boarded Gaza flotilla ships with intent to kill |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 19:01 |
 Israeli-Arab Knesset member Hanin Zuabi told a UN panel probing Israel's deadly raid on the Gaza aid flotilla Israeli commandos boarded the ships intending to kill.
A UN inquiry team began hearings Monday into the May 31 raid on a Turkish ship trying to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip in which nine Turkish activists were killed. Ms. Zuabi told The Associated Press after testifying before the UN team headed by Karl Hudson-Phillips, former judge of the International Criminal Court: "It was evident .. the commandoes viewed all of us activists as terrorists.” The lawmaker, who was aboard the Mavi Marmara, where the killings took place, said Israel's use of large numbers of elite troops with sophisticated weaponry showed it intended to kill the passengers, adding: "We were very peaceful activists, but the commandoes came to kill." Israel has refused to cooperate with the probe, accusing the UN Human Rights Council of bias.
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US Embassy shadow government in Iraq? |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 18:40 |
 US plans to fortify its huge embassy in Iraq have raised suspicions about its true purpose in the politically-gridlocked country. The White House has reduced the US troop level in Iraq to around 50,000, but has also announced plans to increase the number of US contractors. Entifadh Qanbar from the Shia parliamentary front Iraqi National Alliance, says: "I think having 20,000 or 10,000 security personnel on the Iraqi ground is a serious violation of Iraqi sovereignty," adding: “It will give the impression .. the US embassy is … acting as a shadow government." The contractors would be authorized to run surveillance missions to search for roadside bombs, fly spy planes and man radar facilities. The number of the US-deployed aircraft, helicopters, mine-resistant vehicles and armor-plated cars will also go up to match contractor reinforcements. Frank Wisner, former US ambassador to Egypt and India said: "We paid a terrible price…for what we did with our intervention."
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