OCCUPATION BLUES No. 36

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Iraqi asylum seekers may be deported under new government proposals, it has been reported.

Some 14,000 Iraqis applied for asylum in the UK last year, with a small proportion returning voluntarily.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/politi...ics/3232222.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/politics/3232222.stm)


MOSUL, Iraq - After months of being celebrated as the model city of postwar Iraq, this ancient citadel on the Tigris is enduring a wave of attacks targeting U.S. forces and their allies - an alarming trend that intensified Sunday with the killing of two American soldiers as they drove through town in broad daylight.

"All these guys we rounded up, they're saying in the interrogation, if we don't torture them, we're not going to get the information," Col. Joe Anderson said, adding that many Iraqi security officials have told him the same thing: "If you don't rough these guys up, you're not going to get the information you need."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...es-world-manual (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mosul24nov24,1,566057.story?coll=la-headlines-world-manual)


An important gas pipeline has been blown up in northern Iraq.

The resulting fire was so huge the glow could be seen in the night sky in the town of Kirkuk, 30 kilometres (20 miles) away, say reports.

The attack has halted supplies of gas from Jambur oil field to a power plant in the town of Baiji.

That in turn is likely to cause disruption to oil production at the refinery in Baiji - Iraq's largest - the head of the oil company's fire department reportedly said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/3233320.stm


Since April, at least 17 American troops in Iraq -- 15 Army soldiers and two Marines -- have taken their own lives.

That's according to an Associated Press review of Army casualty reports.

And the number is likely even higher because the Pentagon is still investigating at least two dozen other non-combat deaths.

http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/news/2...644/detail.html (http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/news/2658644/detail.html)


Yet many police said they are uncomfortable with some of their duties, particularly going on raids with U.S. soldiers. Lt. Thamer, of Baqouba, said he and his men resent the way Americans burst into homes and turn over furniture, bullying innocent occupants and searching and pushing around women.

http://www.nola.com/iraq/index.ssf?/newsfl...&news&emergency (http://www.nola.com/iraq/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0654_BC_Iraq-Police&&news&emergency)


WASHINGTON - American military commanders did not impose curfews, halt looting or order Iraqis back to work after Saddam Hussein's regime fell because U.S. policymakers were reluctant to declare U.S. troops an occupying force, says an internal Army review examined by The Associated Press.

In the section regarding legal matters facing the division, the report said unidentified "higher officials" constrained the occupation effort and did not prepare for the fall of Saddam's government.

..."But the U.S. failed to understand the Iraqi government was based on Stalinism and the fear of reprisals was greater than they had anticipated."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wi...1,2951794.story (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top13nov27,1,2951794.story)

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Since April, at least 17 American troops in Iraq -- 15 Army soldiers and two Marines -- have taken their own lives.

That's according to an Associated Press review of Army casualty reports.

And the number is likely even higher because the Pentagon is still investigating at least two dozen other non-combat deaths.

http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/news/2...644/detail.html

I'd like to know what percentage of these men were W.A.S.P.'s. I bet its very low. I have great reason to beleive that anyone who doesn't conform could be murdered and have it covered up. One of the people I used to be closer to had a boyfriend who went to Iraq and reported back to her that a Muslim soldier had been killed in Afghanistan by other soldiers and it was made to look like suicide. Since this poor, stupid, girl happens to be a Bush supporter, I'd beleive her word on this one and not just take it as hype.
Remember towards the very first days of the war in Iraq when the muslim soldier tossed a grenade into some tents of his peers? He said if he didn't get them, they would have taken him out instead.

from http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/news/2...644/detail.html


But the top American military commander in Iraq -- Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez -- was concerned enough to order a 12-person mental health assessment team to Iraq. Their job: To see what more can be done to help troops better cope with anxiety and depression.

An Army spokeswoman says the service has an extensive suicide prevention program and a goal of "zero suicides."
This last part sickens me. A GOAL!?!? Of course they want "zero suicides." A machine without all of its cogs cant serve its master too well, can it?

This further degrades these poor cornfed white farmer boys and those who couldn't find jobs in our wonderful job market, these illegal immigrants who are hoping that killing some brown people for Uncle Sam will make the legit. I really do feel sorry for these tools of imperialism, because they have become nothing but numbers.