Lies cost lives in Iraq.

Remember the reasons given by the US military and puppet interim Iraqi government for Operation Phantom Fury against Fallujah? Just prior to the November, 2004 assault on that city, the primary reasons given for the massacre in Fallujah were: to provide “security and stability” for the upcoming January 30 “elections” and to rid Fallujah of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi.

Let us judge the success or failure of this massacre by their own yardstick.

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the CPT

Four members of the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT)

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in Baghdad have been abducted and taken hostage recently. This event is

horribly dismaying for me, as I've known embers of CPT since before I

ever ventured to Iraq.

Back in November of 2003, while sitting in Amman, Jordan waiting to go

into Iraq, I met a member of CPT who had been working in Palestine. He

told me he was walking with Palestinian children as they went to school,

in order to prevent them from being attacked by Israeli settlers.

Later I would learn that this same individual had returned to Palestine

and was beaten so severely by Israeli settlers that he was hospitalized

for several weeks.

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The Advocate

by  Andrew Stromotich

On September 29, 2005, shortly after 8 p.m., Amal Kadhum Swadi, and her

youngest son Safa were arrested by U.S. forces in the Ghazaliya district

of Baghdad on suspicion of planting an improvised explosive device.

They were just leaving their Baghdad home with other family members, and

had opened their garage door to take out the family car, when the Swadi

family were swarmed by multiple Humvees and numerous heavily armed U.S. Soldiers with weapons drawn.

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