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[mark from ireland] Business As Usual: By no means all households have a weapon yet, but as the American occupiers continue to engage in policies that actively encourage the break up of Iraq, that’s an oversight that many Iraqis are rushing to correct. After the Samarra bombing the average price of a Russian-made AK-47 went from from US$112 to US$290 literally overnight while bullets jumped to 33 cents up from 24 cents again literally overnight.
[Quaker Agitator] Your (war) tax dollars at work, v. 30.: "The Pentagon has secretly shipped tens of thousands of small arms from Bosnia to Iraq in the past two years, using a web of private companies, at least one of which is a noted arms smuggler blacklisted by Washington and the UN."
[disturbing the comfortable] US Loses 100 Tons of Weapons: The reason Capitalism trumped Soviet Communism is because Capitalism has no princibles; Russian politics adhered to Marxist Leninism (as interpreted by various leaders) for decades.
[[SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE]] I just can't keep up ...: According to the Guardian article, "The Pentagon has secretly shipped tens of thousands of small arms from Bosnia to Iraq in the past two years, using a web of private companies, at least one of which is a noted arms smuggler blacklisted by Washington and the UN."
[Gideon Starorzewski] Lobby for "Armsgate" Coverage: The American news media has failed to cover this story, which reflects very poorly on the Bush Administration's handling of he Iraq war; in essence, the media is ignoring the story, just as it ignored the Downing Street Memos until it was forced into covering them.
[Streamtime.org] www.streamtime.org: Iranian government started filtering popular websites and weblogs, while the Internet is effecively the only unrestricted interactive medium accessable to Iranians. Purpose of stop.censoring.us is to provide official and unofficial accounts on Internet censorship in Iran so that International observers and activists have a beter picture about the situation of freedom of information in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
[Michaelmoore.com] MichaelMoore.com - Newsroom: Samuel Lee, of Anaheim, Calif., killed himself in March 2005, an investigative report says, the 19-year-old had talked to fellow soldiers about a dream in which he tried to kill his sergeant before taking his own life, and of kidnapping, raping and killing Iraqi children. Three times, a soldier recounted in a sworn statement, Lee had pointed his gun at himself and depressed the trigger, stopping just before a round fired.
[Liberalavenger.com] The Liberal Avenger » Blog Archive » 200000 AK-47s may have ...: Bush for the crimes of a Russian arms smuggler. Missing the whole point, of course, which is that the Bush administration is responsible for continuing to hand out massive no-bid, no-oversight contracts to obviously crooked companies like Halliburton, and this is the kind of thing that results.
[Prorev.com] UNDERNEWS: Negroponte, after all, is most infamous for his tenure as ambassador to Honduras during the Reagan years, when he exemplified that administration's see-no-evil approach to monitoring the malleable military dictatorship's human rights violations which included everything from the army's torture and slaughter of nuns to the regime's arming and protecting the United States-created Contra guerrillas who were terrorizing civilians in next-door Nicaragua..
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