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India sets up team to probe Jaipur blasts
Published: May 16, 2008 at 11:01 AM
NEW DELHI, May 16 (UPI) -- India has set up a special investigative team to probe Tuesday's bomb explosions in the city of Jaipur in which 64 people were killed. -
Sadr fighters lay down their weapons
Published: May 15, 2008 at 10:44 PM
BAGHDAD, May 15 (UPI) -- Forces loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr laid down their weapons Thursday as reports emerged from Iraq of relative calm in the Baghdad district of Sadr City. -
U.S. claims Iranian weapons are in Iraq
Published: May 15, 2008 at 10:42 PM
BAGHDAD, May 15 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad said emerging evidence suggests Iran is backing the so-called special groups targeting coalition and Iraqi forces.
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Feature: U.S. cites attacks despite truce
Published: May 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
BAGHDAD, May 13 (UPI) -- A new cease-fire has been declared between the Iraqi government and Shiite gunmen of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, but U.S. and Iraqi forces say their troops are still coming under attack in Sadr City. -
Dogs of War: Blackwater, Najaf -- Take Two
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:28 AM
By DAVID ISENBERG
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- One aspect of private military and security contractors that is relatively ignored is their relationship with regular military forces. Such discussion, as there is, is generally limited to sound bites about the reported envy that soldiers have for allegedly better paid security contractors. -
Analysis: Indian agencies start blame game
Published: May 15, 2008 at 8:36 PM
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 15 (UPI) -- India's intelligence and security agencies are indulging in a blame game over a recent foiled infiltration bid by militants on the Pakistani border, with one agency accusing the paramilitary forces guarding the border of lacking alertness. -
Iraq press roundup
Published: May 15, 2008 at 7:20 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The daily Al Mashriq newspaper had an editorial Thursday titled "Last lines for the chaotic months" that said although Iraq has been in a war for five years, the government in the last few weeks has been chaotically carrying out quick military operations and offensives in many cities and areas around the country. -
Features: More graves found
Published: May 15, 2008 at 2:31 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
ZAHAMM, Iraq, May 13 (UPI) -- The number of human remains unearthed in an al-Qaida killing field northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province is nearing 70 with the discovery of more graves by villagers who had volunteered to search an abandoned pomegranate orchard. -
Analysis: USAF's cyber offense capability
Published: May 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- Procurement documents from the U.S. Air Force give a rare glimpse into the Pentagon's plans for developing an offensive cyberwar capacity that can infiltrate, steal data from and if necessary take down enemy information technology networks.
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The Association of Muslim Scholars' Al Baser newspaper said in an editorial Friday that the conflict in Iraq pitted the occupation against the Iraqi resistance.
The editorial, titled "Iraq is lost among the occupier, its agents, the players and propagandists," said U.S. studies, research and statements allow us to understand how greed is affecting Iraq.
"The occupation forces continue to divide Iraq through settling the concepts of federations and setting up a state of incomplete sovereignty, weak central government with an ethnic and sectarian basis," the paper said.
It said U.S.-led operations, in which it is helped by neighboring, regional and international countries, ensures U.S. goals.
The Saudi-based newspaper called the Iraqi government a "toy" government that is broken and lacks political independence and sovereignty.
"The Iraqi government's sovereignty on the ground is absent where armed chaos is a way of either life or death," it said.
It said the U.S. goal was to dominate the oil in Iraq as it is the key to the oil in the Gulf, as well as to continue the domination of the military-industrial complex.
The paper said the United States also wanted to dominate the region by reform through ideological, economical, political and social means as a way to achieve U.S. interests. It said these goals include guaranteeing a stable Israel and activating its role as a strategic "player."
"One of the most important U.S. goals is to establish a big military base that would float on a sea of oil that will enable the U.S. to control oil," it said.
The paper also said the U.S. occupation was carried out in stages: The first stage was shock and awe, which resulted in Iraq's institutions and society being destroyed. The second stage, the paper said, was setting up a broken and false government; the third stage, it said, was to create a civil war; and the fourth stage is the "national project," which gathers Iraqi forces inside and outside Iraq to establish a weak and fragile federal government.
"The occupier's cooperative agenda with the outside forces is represented by the existence of Israel as a strategic player and part of the American-British military ring," it said.
It said the other outside force is Turkey, coordinating with the U.S. administration to perform its projects in Iraq.
"The third outside forces are Saudi, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, the Emirates, Qatar and the European Union, and others," it said.
The paper said U.S. policy lacks logic and relies on political illusions and ideologies that don't exist on the ground.
"The U.S. strategy failed in bringing the Iraqi resistance into a political compromise," it said.
The U.S. failure, the paper said, strengthened the Iraqi resistance.
The paper said the political solution would still be important to the United States as there is a need to guarantee a secure path for it to leave Iraq through Basra to Kuwait. It also said the war in the Middle East is against an unknown enemy.
The paper said the other U.S. concern was that Israel would be harmed if the chaos in the region continued.
UPI Correspondent
The Association of Muslim Scholars' Al Baser newspaper said in an editorial Friday that the conflict in Iraq pitted the occupation against the Iraqi resistance.
The editorial, titled "Iraq is lost among the occupier, its agents, the players and propagandists," said U.S. studies, research and statements allow us to understand how greed is affecting Iraq.
"The occupation forces continue to divide Iraq through settling the concepts of federations and setting up a state of incomplete sovereignty, weak central government with an ethnic and sectarian basis," the paper said.
It said U.S.-led operations, in which it is helped by neighboring, regional and international countries, ensures U.S. goals.
The Saudi-based newspaper called the Iraqi government a "toy" government that is broken and lacks political independence and sovereignty.
"The Iraqi government's sovereignty on the ground is absent where armed chaos is a way of either life or death," it said.
It said the U.S. goal was to dominate the oil in Iraq as it is the key to the oil in the Gulf, as well as to continue the domination of the military-industrial complex.
The paper said the United States also wanted to dominate the region by reform through ideological, economical, political and social means as a way to achieve U.S. interests. It said these goals include guaranteeing a stable Israel and activating its role as a strategic "player."
"One of the most important U.S. goals is to establish a big military base that would float on a sea of oil that will enable the U.S. to control oil," it said.
The paper also said the U.S. occupation was carried out in stages: The first stage was shock and awe, which resulted in Iraq's institutions and society being destroyed. The second stage, the paper said, was setting up a broken and false government; the third stage, it said, was to create a civil war; and the fourth stage is the "national project," which gathers Iraqi forces inside and outside Iraq to establish a weak and fragile federal government.
"The occupier's cooperative agenda with the outside forces is represented by the existence of Israel as a strategic player and part of the American-British military ring," it said.
It said the other outside force is Turkey, coordinating with the U.S. administration to perform its projects in Iraq.
"The third outside forces are Saudi, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, the Emirates, Qatar and the European Union, and others," it said.
The paper said U.S. policy lacks logic and relies on political illusions and ideologies that don't exist on the ground.
"The U.S. strategy failed in bringing the Iraqi resistance into a political compromise," it said.
The U.S. failure, the paper said, strengthened the Iraqi resistance.
The paper said the political solution would still be important to the United States as there is a need to guarantee a secure path for it to leave Iraq through Basra to Kuwait. It also said the war in the Middle East is against an unknown enemy.
The paper said the other U.S. concern was that Israel would be harmed if the chaos in the region continued.
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