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| 16 November 2004
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Streamtime invites you for a meeting with Raed Jarrar, who keeps the well-read weblog "Read in the Middle", writing from Baghdad and Amman.
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| 09 June 2004
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Discovery prompted by concerns about radiation readings.
Engines of two Iraqi surface-to-air missiles have turned up at a scrapyard in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, according to a report by the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).
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| 21 April 2004
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Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 20 April 2004, by Dr Toby Dodge (Senior Fellow, Middle East, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London).
"The rebuilding of Iraq is an international problem and should be given to the international community to handle."
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| 21 April 2004
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Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 20 April 2004, by Juan Cole (Professor of History at the University of Michigan).
"The biggest US failure in Iraq to date lay in American inability to understand the workings of Iraqi society."
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| 17 April 2004
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 by Dr. Geert Van Moorter
Medical Aid for the Third World
Survey on the health situation and the health care infrastructure in Iraq. New Version (28 April 2004)
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When Dutch marines arrived in a base camp near the town of As Samawah, Iraq, to replace American troops last summer, they measured unacceptably high levels of radioactivity. Yet troop transfer from the area was delayed by three weeks, putting both Dutch and American troops at risk of exposure to depleted uranium (DU).
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| 12 February 2004
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Residents of As Samawah in Southern Iraq are unduly exposed to radioactive debris as Dutch troops stationed in the area refuse to remove remnants of war contaminated with depleted uranium (DU).
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| 03 February 2004
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Abdul Amir al-Rikabi, held to be a key figure in a reported multi-million dollar deal between the Japanese government and Iraqi 'tribal leaders' to provide protection for Japan's Self Defence Force (SDF) in Iraq, denies his involvement.
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| 27 January 2004
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The Japanese government is reportedly paying approximately 10 billion yen (€ 75 million or US$ 94 million) to Iraqi tribal leaders to provide bodyguards for the Self Defense Forces (SDF) in Iraq.
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| 15 January 2004
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A majority of the population in The Netherlands says Dutch military should not be engaged in armed conflicts abroad.
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| 07 January 2004
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A Dutch marine who had been arrested last week on charges of killing an Iraqi civilian, was released yesterday, when a court ruled that there was not sufficient evidence to hold him in custody any longer.
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| 27 December 2003
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Finding points to more DU material in the area
Dutch troops stationed in the province of Al Muthanna in Southern Iraq have found a 30 mm round of depleted uranium (DU) ammunition. This has been announced by the Ministry of Defence today. According to RISQ Associate Maarten H.J. van den Berg, the finding points to the presence of more DU material in the area.
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| 02 December 2003
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Recently, the Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC) conducted a 13-day survey throughout the primary conflict zones in urban and rural areas of central and southern Iraq.
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Interview with Isam al-Khafaji
Isam al-Khafaji is an Iraqi social scientist. As a young faculty member and a left-wing intellectual, he was forced to leave Iraq in 1978 during campaigns of Baathification and repression of the left. In 2002, al-Khafaji participated in the US State Department "Future of Iraq" workshops. In May this year, he accepted the Pentagon's invitation to be a member of the Iraqi Reconstruction and Development Council (IRDC). Two months later, however, he submitted his resignation.
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| 29 September 2003
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The British government is preparing to remove depleted uranium rounds from service under Ministry of Defence plans to improve the fighting capability of the Army's Challenger II tank. As part of the enhancement programme, the tank will be fitted with a different gun which can fire a wider variety of more effective, and less controversial, ammunition types.
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| 07 October 2003
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William Rivers Pitt, co-author of 'War in Iraq: what the Bush government doesn't want you to know', speaks out on the importance of speaking up.
October 7th, 7:30PM Entry: € 4.50
ABC Treehouse, Voetboogstraat 11, Amsterdam
RSVP: treehouse@abc.nl
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| 10 August 2003
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The US Military Central Command (CENTCOM) denies it has given information to the Dutch government on the use of depleted uranium (DU) ammunition in Iraq. Dutch MPs along with troops stationed in the province of Al Muthanna as part of the UN-backed "stabilisation force in Iraq" (SFIR) have been assured by the government that no such ammunition was used there during the recent conflict.
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As Dutch peacekeepers are arriving in the Southern province of Al Muthanna to join the UN-backed 'stabilisation force' in Iraq (SFIR), the government has assured MPs that no DU ammunition was used in the area during the recent conflict. If this information comes from US officials, as the government claims, it has been deceived.
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| 23 May 2003
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By Imad Khadduri
(Former Iraqi nuclear scientist)
From YellowTimes.org, 23 May 2003
(YellowTimes.org) 'Iraq's free fall' -- There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The nuclear weapons program had already come to a halt on the first night of bombing in January 1991. The weapons were destroyed secretly, in order to hide their existence from inspectors, in the hopes of someday resuming production after inspections had finished.
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Iraq has been just one of the many countries that have been lent money to support our geopolitical or corporate interests, regardless as to where the money was being spent on and by whom. Most of these countries are still paying for these monies even after they have supposedly been freed from tyrannical regimes. Let us not now add Iraq to this list!
Speech delivered at a Jubilee Netherlands seminar held in Utrecht, the Netherlands on 29 March 2003.
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| 02 April 2003
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 Tariq Shadid, MD
from: Palestine Chronicle, 1 April 2003
"Before the Bush administration started its actual firing on Iraqi ‘targets’, Dutch public opinion was largely anti-war, which was reflected in the general mood in talk-shows and public debates ..."
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| 27 March 2003
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 Jody Raynsford
from journalism.co.uk, 27 March 2003
The vulnerability of news sites to attack was dramatically exposed after hackers forced the closure of the English language news site of Arabic satellite broadcaster, Al-Jazeera.
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| 24 March 2003
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 The US-based alternative news site YellowTimes was shut down this morning as it showed pictures of civilian Iraqi deaths and injuries, along with photos of American Prisoners of War (POWs). The internet provider of YellowTimes stated it had to discontinue service as the site displayed "inappropriate graphic material."
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