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Bundeswehr im Libanon

Die Politik dankt ab und die Marine läuft aus. Sechs Gründe gegen den Marschbefehl nach Libanon

Pressemitteilung des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag vom 14. September
2006 http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Libanon/baf-presse2.html


Neue Kanonenbootpolitik. Präzedenzfall Libanon: Deutsche Marine probt an der Nahost-Küste auch für Einsätze in aller Welt

Artikel von Lühr Henken aus "junge Welt" vom 16. September 2006 beim Friedensratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/Bundeswehr/marine.html


Aus: LabourNet, 18. September 2006

Independent [UK]
by Patrick Cockburn

09/17/06

The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli artillery during the last three days of the conflict kill four people in southern Lebanon and wound many more. The casualty figures will rise sharply in the next month as villagers begin the harvest, picking olives from trees whose leaves and branches hide bombs that explode at the smallest movement. Lebanon's farmers are caught in a deadly dilemma: to risk the harvest, or to leave the produce on which they depend to rot in the fields...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1616665.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

By Eric Margolis

As Canadian, American and British soldiers continue to die in Afghanistan, it is time the truth be told about this ugly little war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15004.htm

Video

On the 7th of July 2005 London was hit by a series of explosions. You probably think you know what happened that day. But you don’t.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14988.htm

Truthout
by Chris Floyd

09/14/06

It may look and feel like a farce right now, but one day some future Shakespeare might write it as a tragedy: the fall of a powerful, popular leader broken on the wheel of war. For make no mistake: if not for the criminal folly of the Iraq invasion, British Prime Minister Tony Blair would not have been unceremoniously shoved toward the exit last week by his own party, including some of his fiercest loyalists. The man who once commanded one of the largest majorities in the history of the ancient British Parliament, who won three successive national elections and appeared to have sealed his party's hold on power for decades to come, has seen his stature and authority eaten away by the hubris that led him to join George W. Bush's duplicitous, disastrous Babylonian Conquest...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091406J.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent [UK]

09/15/06

Labour chiefs have been accused of trying to stifle free speech after the grieving families of servicemen killed in Iraq were banned from demonstrating outside the party's annual conference in Manchester. The city's Labour-controlled council has denied them permission, on health and safety grounds, to set up a 'peace camp' to coincide with the start of the conference on 24 September...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1603689.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The war lasted 34 days. It left 1,393 people dead. Another 5,350 injured. And more than 1,150,000 displaced, of whom 215,413 are still homeless. The damage amounts to more than £2.6bn. Exactly one month after it ended, a Foreign Office minister admits that Tony Blair should have called for a ceasefire.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1578727.ece


From Information Clearing House

http://counterpunch.com/lamb09142006.html


From Information Clearing House

I am profoundly ashamed of the Government. The Labour Party has lost its way.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14969.htm



'Fast-track discipline' for Short after Blair attack

She criticised Mr Blair's "craven" support for US policies and said he had made the world a more dangerous place.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article114970.htm

NATO is trying to head off a full-blown crisis of credibility as allied defense chiefs failed to offer any extra troops to help hard-pressed soldiers fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. With commanders on the ground urgently demanding reinforcements, Britain and the US struggle to get their NATO partners to provide more forces to defeat the Taliban.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091406L.shtml

Independent

09/12/06

Soldiers deployed in Helmand province five years on from the US-led invasion, and six months after the deployment of a large British force, have told The Independent that the sheer ferocity of the fighting in the Sangin valley, and privations faced by the troops, are far worse than generally known. 'We are flattening places we have already flattened, but the attacks have kept coming. We have killed them by the dozens, but more keep coming, either locally or from across the border,' one said. 'We have used B1 bombers, Harriers, F16s and Mirage 2000s. We have dropped 500lb, 1,000lb and even 2,000lb bombs. At one point our Apaches [helicopter gunships] ran out of missiles they have fired so many. Almost any movement on the ground gets ambushed. We need an entire battle group to move things. Yet they will not give us the helicopters we have been asking for'...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1523144.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Having finally obtained his visa from George Bush to visit the Middle East, Tony Blair must rank as one of the most unwelcome British visitors to the region in decades

http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1870086,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By David Wearing

Outside of the UK, those who have not already done so must now recognise Britain – not just its current Prime Minister - as nothing less than a fully paid up and active member of the neo-conservative imperial project, and deal with it on that basis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14938.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1870192,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://tinyurl.com/khful


From Information Clearing House

"What we did was insane and monstrous; we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war. In addition, soldiers in IDF artillery units testified that the army used phosphorous shells during the war, widely forbidden by international law.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206C.shtml

"Der Westen weiß erbärmlich wenig von diesem Land"
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23532/1.html

THE former aide-de-camp to the commander of the British taskforce in southern Afghanistan has described the campaign in Helmand province as “a textbook case of how to screw up a counter-insurgency”.

http://snipurl.com/w7j1


From Information Clearing House

As in Iraq, the Americans and the allies have managed the opposite of what they intended. They have "recreated the safe haven for terrorism that the 2001 invasion aimed to destroy."

http://snipurl.com/w7j7


Informant: Lew Rockwell

The victory won by President George Bush in 2001 after the 11 September al-Qa'ida attacks on America has evaporated. "The fighting is extraordinarily intense. The intensity and ferocity of the fighting is far greater than in Iraq on a daily basis," the commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Brig Ed Butler said this week.

http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article1431080.ece


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0909-26.htm


Informant: binstock

With Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan locked down in one of this country's biggest battles in modern times, Ottawa's top military officials conceded yesterday the Taliban cannot be eliminated by force.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14891.htm