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IRAQ WAR REPORTS

How It Is
Mar 14, 2011 By Michael Hoffman – Army Times Staff writer [Excerpts]

Convoys still get hit by IEDs — just a lot less — and protected by the mine-resistant
ambush-protected vehicles’ armor, most soldiers walk away from the blast with no more
than concussions.

Lt. Col. Gerald Boston, whose battalion mans patrol bases on the outskirts of Mosul near
Kurdistan’s borders, stood in front of a map with a few pins marking IED strikes.

“If this was a couple years ago, we wouldn’t have enough room for all (the pins) we’d
need,” he said.
 Resistance Attack On Kanan Military
Base Kills 10 Soldiers;
25 Wounded

Remains of the Kanaan army barracks in Diyala province after an insurgent attack killing
at least 11 troops and wounding 14. (AP Photo)

March 14, 2011 From Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN [Excerpts]

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A bombing at an Iraqi military base north of Baghdad killed at
least 10 people and wounded 25 others Monday, police said.

Most of the dead and wounded were Iraqi soldiers, according to Baquba police, who said
the truck bomber ran into a barracks. Police combed through the rubble of the building
looking for victims.

The attack took place in the town of Kanan about 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of
Baquba in Diyala province, which is ethnically mixed.

More Resistance Action

March 13 (Reuters) & March 14 (Reuters) & March 16, 2011 By Mohammed Tawfeeq,
CNN & Reuters

MOSUL - A roadside bomb went off near a police patrol and wounded one policeman in
western Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - A sticky bomb attached to a car killed an off-duty policeman near the city of
Mosul, police said.
TAL AFAR - Insurgents using weapons equipped with silencers killed an off-duty
policeman near his house in the town of Tal Afar, about 420 km (260 miles) northwest of
Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded three policemen, in

Baghdad’s southeastern Ameen district, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD – Three police were wounded when two roadside bombs went off in
succession in the southern Doura district of the capital, a source in the Interior Ministry
said.

A policeman was shot by insurgents with silenced pistols in the capital’s central
Karradah area, a relatively affluent neighborhood. Another policeman was wounded in
the attack.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded two off-duty policemen when it exploded near their
vehicle, southwest of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad on Monday, police
said.

FALLUJA - Insurgents detonated three bombs in front of three houses belonging to

policemen, and wounded a policeman in southern and central Falluja, 50 km (32 miles)
west of Baghdad, on Monday, police said.

A car bomb exploded in central oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday morning, police
said. The car bomb exploded in a busy road that leads to Kirkuk municipality building
and Kirkuk general hospital. Seven police officers were among the wounded people
who were in a police patrol parked on the side of the road.

MUSSAYAB - A bomb planted near a police station went off and wounded two
policemen in the town of Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, an Interior
Ministry source said.

MOSUL - Gunmen in a car shot dead Khawla al-Sebawi, the head of the provincial
government’s property registry office in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of
Baghdad, police said.

TUZ KHURMATO - A roadside bomb exploded near the local police chief’s vehicle,
wounding him and one of his guards in the town of Tuz Khurmato, 170 km (105 miles)
north of Baghdad, police said.

Iraqi Dictatorship Kills Better-

Government Demonstrators In Kut
Feb 16 (Reuters)
KUT - Three people were killed and dozens wounded when protesters demanding better
services clashed with police and set fire to government buildings in the southern city of
Kut, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

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AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

Connecticut Sgt. Killed In Afghanistan

March 14, 2011: Sgt. 1st Class Daehan Park, a veteran Special Forces soldier originally
from Watertown, Conn., and who lived in Lacey, Wash., was killed March 12, 2011 when
his vehicle was struck by an explosive device in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)
 California SSG Killed In Kandahar

Staff Sgt. Eric S. Trueblood, 27, of Alameda, Calif., died March 10 in Kandahar province,
Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised
explosive device. He was assigned to the 391st Combat Sustainment Support Battalion,
16th Sustainment Brigade, Spinelli Barracks, Mannheim, Germany. (AP Photo/U.S.
Army)

California Soldier Killed In Giyan

Private First Class Arturo Emmanuel Rodriguez of Bellflower, Calif., 19, a 101st Airborne
Division Soldier died of wounds after being struck by small-arms fire while on
dismounted patrol, March 12, in the Giyan District, Paktika, Afghanistan. Rodriguez is
survived by his father, Arturo Rodriguez Segura and mother, Rosa Jimenez Davila, both
of Mexico. He is also survived by his aunt, Maria Lopez of Bellflower, Calif. (AP
Photo/Fort Campbell Public Affairs)
 Foreign Occupation “Servicemember”
Killed Somewhere Or Other In
Afghanistan Tuesday:
Nationality Not Announced
March 16, 2010 AP

A foreign servicemember died following an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan

yesterday.

Marine Pursued ‘A More Certain Path’

Jordan R. Stanton

March 08, 2011 By KRISTY CHU, Orange County Register

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – Since his deployment to Afghanistan in November,

Cpl. Jordan R. Stanton was only able to speak to his father twice, most recently a week
ago.

“I got a satellite call from him Wednesday morning, for just two or three minutes,” Robert
Stanton said. “I got to tell him I love him, and it was great. He was happy.”

Jordan Stanton shared a few brief moments by phone that day with his father, mother
and fiancée.

Two days later, on Friday, Jordan Stanton was killed during combat operations in
Helmand Province.

Stanton, 20, joined the Marine Corps in April 2008. He enrolled early, just before his
2008 graduation from Trabuco Hills High School. Stanton had applied to several different
colleges – and was accepted to all – but his heart was set on joining the military, his
father said.

Jordan Stanton first expressed interest in the military when he was 15 years old and
began researching the different branches. Stanton had looked up to his maternal
grandfather Jim Reynolds, a Vietnam veteran, as a hero and an inspiration.

And though his parents didn’t know it at the time, their son had also befriended a retired
naval captain at the gym whom he viewed as a mentor.

“He knew he wanted to do this,” Robert Stanton said. “He wanted to do something
special, on his own. He was a little older than his years in high school – he matured a
little faster.”

Preparation to become a U.S. Marine is physically strenuous, but Jordan Stanton was a
natural-born athlete. He played baseball, football and wrestled, and even tried
skateboarding and sports in between. Though he was extremely skilled in sports, said
his father, he wouldn’t let his athleticism define him, eventually breaking away from
sports to pursue “a more certain path.”

His athletic strength was but one of the qualities friends and family remember about the
Marine. He always had a smile on his face, with a fun-loving personality people couldn’t
help but gravitate toward. He was simply an all-American kid full of energy and life.

Jordan Stanton was well-liked in school. Childhood friend Zach Vosough said he always
enjoyed seeing his buddy because “you couldn’t hang out with Jordan Stanton and not
have a good time.”

Beyond his easygoing nature, Stanton was incredibly trustworthy and faithful, Vosough
said. He was not one to leave commitments unfulfilled.

POLITICIANS CAN’T BE COUNTED ON TO HALT

THE BLOODSHED

THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THE

WARS

Georgian Serviceman Killed In

Afghanistan; Two More Wounded
March 14 By N. Kirtskhalia, Trend

Another Georgian serviceman was killed in Afghanistan and two others were injured.
As a result of a mine explosion, Corporal Valeri Verskiani was killed, and Captain Aluda
Seturidze and Corporal Revaz Gorgazde were injured, the Georgian Defense Ministry
reported. The injured servicemen are being treated at a hospital. Verskiani’s body will
be delivered home soon.

All three servicemen were blown up by a mine during their patrolling of the area. They
served in the Gelmand province under the command of the U.S. armed forces.

Foreign Military Fuel Trucks Blown Up

And Burned In Uruzgan
Mar 16, 2011 By Indo Asian News Service

A bomb hidden in a fuel-tanker for foreign military forces exploded and killed the driver
and injured another person in southern Uruzgan province Wednesday, Khudai Rahim,
the provincial governor said.

‘A few other tankers parked nearby also caught fire due to the explosion,’ the governor
said, without giving the exact number of tankers destroyed.

Insurgent Attack On Army Recruiting

Center In Kunduz Kills At Least 33;
42 More Wounded

Bodies of Afghans killed at a recruitment center are removed in Kunduz, Afghanistan

March 14, 2011. A bomber struck an Afghan army recruitment center in the northern
Kunduz province on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Fulad Hamdard)
3/14/2011 AP

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials say a bomber posing as an army volunteer has
killed more than 33 people at an Afghan army recruiting center in the northern province
of Kunduz.

Kunduz Deputy Governor Hamdullah Danishi says the attacker approached on foot and
detonated a bomb on Monday afternoon as recruits lined up outside the center. He says
at least 42 people were also wounded in the blast.

A doctor at Kunduz hospital says ambulances and private vehicles have been bringing
the dead and wounded to the hospital.

Taliban Close Down Phone Network In

Helmand Province
16 March 2011 AFP

The Taliban forced mobile phone companies to switch off their networks across
Afghanistan’s Helmand province Wednesday, as security forces conducted an operation,
officials said.

Deputy provincial governor Abdul Satar Mirzakwal said insurgents had ordered mobile
phone coverage to close, as Afghan and foreign security forces tackled a militant
stronghold.

Mobile phones are the primary means of communication in areas of rural Afghanistan
such as southern Helmand province.

“The closure of the mobile phones is because of Taliban threats,” Mirzakwal said, adding
that the government had given the service providers until midnight Wednesday to reopen
connections or “be punished.”

MTN, one of Afghanistan’s four mobile phone companies, said that the service disruption
was due to insurgent threats. “We do close our operations from time to time. It has been
because of threats by antigovernment armed forces,” Mohammad Naser Nasery, a
company executive, said.

“We do obey for the sake of our personal and facilities security. Today’s closure
has been one of those threats.”

Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said a “fierce operation” was under way in Dishu,
but denied that the insurgents had ordered the phone shutdown. He claimed it had been
ordered by the government “to hide their defeat in the operation.”
 Other Resistance Action

[Graphic:flickr.com/photos]

Mar. 11, 2011 The Associated Press & Mar 15 By RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government says a bomber has killed the police
chief of northern Kunduz province and two of his bodyguards. The Taliban have claimed
responsibility for the attack. A government statement on Friday says police chief Abdul
Rahman Sayedkhili was killed as he walked through the streets of Kunduz city late on
Thursday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing in an e-mail.

On Tuesday, provincial council member Malang Malik was killed by a remote controlled
bomb as he walked near his home in Laghman province in northeast Afghanistan, said
government spokesman Kochai Nasery. The blast also injured a relative of Malik, the
former head of the provincial council.

Great Moments In U.S. Military

History:
Air Attack Kills Two Kids For
Watering Fields While Afghan
[Score: 11 Dead Kids In Kunar From
Recent Air Attacks]
Mar 15 (Reuters)

An air strike by U.S. forces killed two children as they were watering fields in
Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province late on Monday, an Afghan official and lawmaker
said.

The deaths occurred after tensions between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his
Western backers were inflamed by the killing recently of nine children who were
collecting firewood in the same province.
Abdul Marjan, district chief of Chawki in Kunar where the two brothers, aged 10 and 15,
where killed on Monday, said the boys had been working on irrigation channels before
they were hit.

“They might have been mistaken for insurgents as they were carrying spades on their
shoulders,” Marjan told Reuters.

Shahzada Shahid, a lawmaker from Kunar, said the pair were students who had gone
out to help work their father’s fields.

Irrigation agreements between villagers in the area mean the family’s land gets access
to river water only in the evening.

MILITARY NEWS

THIS IS HOW OBAMA BRINGS THEM HOME:

ALL HOME NOW, ALIVE

The remains of Army Spc. Andrew C. Wilfahrt of Rosemount, Minn., upon arrival at
Dover Air Force Base, Del. Feb. 28, 2011. Wilfahrt died of wounds suffered when
insurgents attacked his unit in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
 GI Resistance to Afghanistan War
Planned for 2011:
You Can Make It Go

[Printing this again: more timely than ever. T]

12.22.2010 Iraq Veterans Against The War

Is it any surprise that last week’s White House progress report on Afghanistan showed
little ‘progress’ at all?

Sure, there have been a few tactical military ‘successes,’ but these have been
overshadowed by significantly larger negative trends:

■A marked increase in civilian casualties, maintaining Afghan resentment of U.S.

occupation;

■An overall increase in Taliban strength;

■A continued lack of legitimacy for the Afghan government; and

■A weakening of our military fighting force by a suicide epidemic caused by multiple

deployments.

The larger story here is that the Afghan war strategy is a complete failure.

And those in Washington lack the political will to do anything about it.

To IVAW though, this is about more than just politics.

As veterans and service members, this is about our lives, our health and well-being, and
that of Afghan civilians.

We are the ones whose lives are on the line in Afghanistan every day, and we are
challenging the political status quo to say enough is enough.

Will you stand with us?

Your year-end donation will support our important work to end the stay-the-
course Afghanistan policy that prevails in Washington.

Building GI Resistance Among New Troop Deployments In 2011

IVAW has learned that beginning in January, 23,000 troops from ten different military
bases will be dispatched to Afghanistan to replace troops finishing up their deployment
cycles.

For some of these troops – like the 1st Cavalry Division’s Air Cavalry Brigade and
Headquarters Company leaving from Fort Hood, TX – this will be their fourth combat
deployment.

So this is what the ‘stay the course’ political policy means for us – more
deployments for troops who are already suffering from war trauma, more
casualties, and more broken families.

That is why IVAW will be starting our GI resistance outreach drive to all affected
military bases in February.

With your help, we will send outreach teams to the ten military bases that are sending
troops to Afghanistan and talk to soldiers and military families about:

- the problems of multiple deployments,

- dialogue about their views on whether the Afghanistan mission is worthwhile,

- and bring them into our Operation Recovery campaign to stop the deployment of
traumatized troops.

Your financial contribution today will help sustain these outreach efforts to those
preparing to deploy.

Make a donation now at:

https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5966/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_
item_KEY=3055

New Poll Reveals 60% Of Americans Think Afghanistan War Is

Not Worth Fighting
It is heartening to know that many Americans see that this war is not worth us risking our
lives and the lives of Afghan civilians. But it is time to translate this belief into
action.

Join us in building a GI resistance movement that can stop the Pentagon in its
tracks and end the occupation of Afghanistan by making a year-end gift right now.

Your donation will make all the difference in helping us sustain our work in the New
Year.

Thank you!
Iraq Veterans Against the War

Afghanistan Veterans Against the War committee:

IVAW’s Afghanistan Veterans Against the War committee was formed in 2010 to provide
a platform for our Afghanistan veteran members to speak to their unique experience.

Iraq Veterans Against the War is a 501(c)(3) charity, and welcomes your tax deductible
contributions.

NEED SOME TRUTH?

CHECK OUT THE NEW TRAVELING
SOLDIER
Issue 34
Special Issue: Egypt, Tunisia, Libya
Soldiers in Revolt 2011
 Click here to download and view a PDF of issue 34:
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/TS34.pdf
Traveling Soldier is the publication of the Military Resistance Organization.

Telling the truth - about the occupations or the criminals running the government
in Washington - is the first reason for Traveling Soldier. But we want to do more
than tell the truth; we want to report on the resistance to Imperial wars inside the
armed forces.

Our goal is for Traveling Soldier to become the thread that ties working-class
people inside the armed services together. We want this newsletter to be a
weapon to help you organize resistance within the armed forces.

If you like what you’ve read, we hope that you’ll join with us in building a network
of active duty organizers. http://www.traveling-soldier.org/

And join with Iraq Veterans Against the War to end the occupations and bring all
troops home now! (www.ivaw.org/)

FORWARD OBSERVATIONS

“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh had
I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream of
biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.
“For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

“We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they
oppose.”

Frederick Douglass, 1852

Hope for change doesn’t cut it when you’re still losing buddies.
-- J.D. Englehart, Iraq Veterans Against The War

One day while I was in a bunker in Vietnam, a sniper round went over my head.
The person who fired that weapon was not a terrorist, a rebel, an extremist, or a
so-called insurgent. The Vietnamese individual who tried to kill me was a citizen
of Vietnam, who did not want me in his country. This truth escapes millions.

Mike Hastie
U.S. Army Medic
Vietnam 1970-71
December 13, 2004

Rise like Lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many — they are few
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819, on the occasion of a mass murder of British
workers by the Imperial government at Peterloo.

The Social-Democrats ideal should not be the trade union secretary, but the
tribune of the people who is able to react to every manifestation of tyranny and
oppression no matter where it appears no matter what stratum or class of the
people it affects; who is able to generalize all these manifestations and produce a
single picture of police violence and capitalist exploitation; who is able to take
advantage of every event, however small, in order to set forth before all his
socialist convictions and his democratic demands, in order to clarify for all and
everyone the world-historic significance of the struggle for the emancipation of
the proletariat.”
-- V. I. Lenin; What Is To Be Done

A revolution is always distinguished by impoliteness, probably because the ruling

classes did not take the trouble in good season to teach the people fine manners.
-- Leon Trotsky, History Of The Russian Revolution
It is a two class world and the wrong class is running it.
-- Larry Christensen, Soldiers Of Solidarity & United Auto Workers

“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to
time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
-- Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787

I say that when troops cannot be counted on to follow orders because they see
the futility and immorality of them THAT is the real key to ending a war.
-- Al Jaccoma, Veterans For Peace

“The Nixon administration claimed and received great credit for withdrawing the
Army from Vietnam, but it was the rebellion of low-ranking GIs that forced the
government to abandon a hopeless suicidal policy”
-- David Cortright; Soldiers In Revolt

These Are The Royal Dictatorships

The U.S. Imperial Government
Loves And Supports:
“Four Leading Sources Of Support
For Global Terrorism On The Arabian
Peninsula: Saudi Arabia, The UAE,
Kuwait, Qatar”
“Top Four US Allies On The Arabian
Peninsula: Saudi Arabia, The UAE,
Kuwait, Qatar”
8 December 2010 By Eamonn McCann, Belfast Telegraph [Excerpts]

“Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for Al Qaida, the Taliban, LeT
(Lashkar-e-Taiba) and other terrorist groups,” said Hillary Clinton in a memo issued last
December.
Other WikiLeaks documents show that Lashkar-e-Taiba - the Pakistan-based Sunni
group behind the 2008 Mumbai attack - is funded virtually entirely from Saudi Arabia.

And yet, according to Clinton 12 months ago, “It (remains) a challenge to persuade
Saudi officials to treat (terrorist funding) as a strategic priority.”

Let us imagine for a moment that Iran rather than Saudi Arabia had been revealed as
the main source of funding for Al Qaida, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba etc.

Does anyone doubt that Clinton would be thumping the lectern at a State Department
Press conference, explaining that America’s patience had run out and announcing that
the bombers were winging their way even now towards Tehran to eliminate the threat to
world peace? And anybody who voiced protest would be ridiculed as hopelessly naive
or denounced as an outrider of evil?

The State Department documents tell that another close US ally in the region, the
United Arab Emirates, is a source of substantial funds to the Afghan Taliban and
the terrorist Haqqanmi Network.

Two senior Taliban officials are said to travel regularly to the UAE to launder money
through front companies.

Then there’s Kuwait. Kuwait owes the US big-time. The first Gulf War was undertaken in
1991 to expel Saddam’s armies from the statelet and put the al-Sabah family back in
power. This was achieved at some cost in blood as well as treasure.

Now, however, according to documents from Clinton’s department, Kuwait is a

“source of funds and a key transit point” for Al Qaida and similar groups.

The al-Sabahs crack down hard on any attacks on its own soil, but are “less inclined to
take action against Kuwait-based financiers and facilitators plotting attacks outside of
Kuwait”.

The Kuwait regime has airily dismissed State Department pleas to ban the Revival of
Islamic Heritage Society which masquerades as a charity but has been denounced by
the US as a terrorist organisation channelling money and material to Al Qaida and
Lashkar-e-Taiba.

However, the Gulf country singled out by the State Department as “the worst in
the region” when it comes to combating terrorism is 2022 World Cup hosts Qatar.

Four leading sources of support for global terrorism on the Arabian peninsula:
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar.

Top four US allies on the Arabian peninsula: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar.

The public, and particularly the American public, have been given a glimpse of the
relationship between the Washington administration and the Arab States, a real insight
into how the US chooses its allies, its enemies and its targets for attack.
They don’t bear scrutiny. They bear no relationship to the guff about national security,
peace in the world and such palaver as comes from Obama - just as it came from Bush
and the other Clinton before him and the other Bush before that - as they whip up
support for their wars.

Hence their demented, near-comical efforts to prevent Americans laying eyes on the
WikiLeaks material.

DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK

 CLASS WAR REPORTS

[Thanks to Phil G, who sent this in.]

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 “Thousands Of Demonstrators On
Sunday Cut Off Bahrain’s Financial
Centre And Drove Back Police”

Bahraini anti-government protesters react Monday, March 14, 2011, at Pearl roundabout
in Manama, Bahrain, when opposition leader Sheik Habib al-Muqdad advised them
Saudi forces were believed to be coming to the roundabout and that there were buses
waiting to take them home. The women, many with masks ready for tear gas, refused to
go. The barrier in the foreground reads: ‘Down with Hamad.’ (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

14 March 2011 By Ben Quinn, The Guardian [Excerpts]

Thousands of demonstrators on Sunday cut off Bahrain’s financial centre and drove
back police trying to eject them from the capital’s central roundabout, while protesters
also clashed with government supporters on the campus of the main university.

Earlier on Sunday, police moved in on Pearl roundabout, a site of occupation by

members of Bahrain’s Shia majority, who are calling for an elected government.

Witnesses said security forces surrounded the protesters’ tent compound, shooting tear
gas and rubber bullets at the activists in the largest effort to clear the field in the middle
of the roundabout since a crackdown last month that left four dead after live ammunition
was fired.

Activists tried to stand their ground yesterday and chanted “Peaceful, peaceful” as the
crowd swelled into thousands, with protesters streaming to the roundabout to reinforce
the activists’ lines, forcing the police to pull back by the early afternoon.

At Bahrain University, demonstrators and government supporters held competing

protests that descended into violence when plainclothes pro-government backers and
security forces forced students blocking the campus main gate to seek refuge in
classrooms and lecture halls, the Associated Press reported.

MORE:

Saudi King Orders His Army To

Occupy Bahrain In Defense Of The
Royal Dictatorship:
“It Is A Repressive Regime Supported By
Another Repressive Regime”

Saudi Arabian Royal troops cross the causeway to invade Bahrain March 14, 2011.
REUTERS/Bahrain state TV via Reuters TV

14 Mar 2011 Al Jazeera and agencies & By Brian Murphy and Reem Khalifa - The
Associated Press

Hundreds of Saudi troops have entered Bahrain to help protect government facilities
there amid escalating protests against the government.

Bahrain television on Monday broadcast images of troops in armoured cars entering the
Gulf state via the 26km causeway that connects the kingdom to Saudi Arabia.

The United Arab Emirates has also sent about 500 police to Bahrain, according to
Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the Emirati foreign minister.

But opposition groups, including Wefaq, the country’s largest Shia movement, have
spoken out against the use of foreign troops.

“We consider the entry of any soldier or military machinery into the Kingdom of Bahrain’s
air, sea or land territories a blatant occupation,” Wefaq said in a statement.

Nabeel Rajab, from the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, told Al Jazeera that the Saudi
troops would be opposed by the protesters.
“This is an internal issue and we will consider it as an occupation,” he said. “This step is
not welcomed by Bahrainis. This move is not acceptable at all. It is a repressive regime
supported by another repressive regime.”

“We consider that any military force or military equipment crossing the boundaries of
Bahrain — from air, sea or land — an occupation and a conspiracy against the people of
Bahrain,” said a statement from the opposition groups.

Already, as reports circulated about the Saudi force’s arrival, hundreds of protesters had
gathered behind makeshift checkpoints around the Pearl Roundabout, the scene of
much of the protest in Bahrain.

Even some government supporters fear the economic impact of a Saudi intervention.

“Who would want to do business here if there are Saudi tanks rolling across the
causeway?” asked Abdullah Salaheddin, a Bahraini banker, last week.

Shiites, who account for 70 percent of the population, have long complained of
systematic discrimination by the Sunni dynasty that has ruled for more than two
centuries.

The grievances include allegations of being blackballed from key government and
security posts. They also strongly object to government policies that give citizenship and
jobs to Sunnis from other Arab countries and South Asia as a way to offset the Shiites’
demographic edge.

Bahrain’s leadership is under intense pressure from other Gulf neighbors, particularly
powerful Saudi Arabia, not to give ground.

The Gulf Sunni dynasties are fearful for their own fate as the Arab push for
change rumbles through the oil-rich region.

MORE:

“Rogue Militias , Covered Faces,

And Guns, With Checkpoints”
“(These Are Pro-Govt Supporters Or
Mercenaries, Saudi National Guard,
Who Were Here Even Before The
Troops Came, And Regular Armed
Thugs”
[Update This Morning From An American
In Bahrain]
From: CC Via H, nola_c3_discussion@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Update on the situation in Bahrain
Date: Mar 15, 2011

Below is one of the latest updates I’ve received this morning from an American in
Bahrain. I’ve removed some information to protect the security of the sender.

---------- Forwarded message ----------

Date: Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:30 AM
Subject: Fwd: PLEASE READ: Travel Warning Bahrain

We are waiting to hear whether we will be evacuated in the next few hours and have
been advised to pack. I’ve heard guns and tear gas employed in my neighborhood of
[redacted], where supposedly most of the 2,000 Saudis are to guard palaces and other
vips’ homes (we’re interspersed with poorer villages though).

[redacted] had to go out a little bit for water today, even though [redacted] bans it,
and saw a lot of the rogue militias , covered faces, and guns, with checkpoints
(these are pro-govt supporters or mercenaries, Saudi national guard, who were
here even before the troops came, and regular armed thugs).

We’re not scared of the protesters at all, though we haven’t seen as many of them
around today as yesterday (they’re armed now, in self-defense, finally).

[redacted] Al-Jazeera’s GCC reportage.. it’s been pretty shameful, even with obvious
allowances for Japan and Libya considered. They clearly have an agreement (and
they’ve sent 500 troops). We’ve had to watch Iran’s Press TV.

We were planning on going to the [redacted] on our own volition, tonight, but were
advised to stay off the roads, plus [redacted] to stay in our homes. So, we might just be
waiting for [redacted].

Really not sure whether [redacted] to clear out or not; it could go either way. But, one of
the [redacted] is being told [redacted] probably won’t be able to get back in the country
for a while.

Oh, also: it sounds like Manama’s a lot more normal , right now, though friends
have seen the same miles-long rushes on ATMs, Petrol Stations, and supply-
stores.

Also, we are waiting to hear from [redacted] on whether or not they will be sending home
all dependents and non-essential staff. They’re currently having [redacted] meeting.

I sincerely do not feel unsafe, but, this is being called a foreign occupation, there are
denouncements, and a lot of students are writing about martyrdom. As always, it’s hard
to separate the rhetoric from the likely future consequences.
We’ll stick with the [redacted] plan, but even aside from that, we have many, many offers
for help from well-connected Bahrainis, Saudis, and Kuwaitis on all sides of this--will wait
to hear [redacted] and will let you know [redacted]..

[redacted]

Yemeni Anti-Government Protesters Call

For The Ouster Of President Saleh

Yemeni anti-government protesters call for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh
during a demonstration in the northern restive city of Saada. At least 44 protesters were
wounded when police opened fire on Monday to disperse demonstrations in Yemen.
(AFP)

14 March 2011 Tom Finn, Sana’a; Guardian UK [Excerpts]

Fresh violence erupted on Monday when the governor of Marib, an eastern desert
province, was stabbed in the neck while trying to disperse anti-government protesters, a
local official said.

Governor Ahmed Naji al-Zaid was stabbed by a group of armed men who attacked his
convoy. He is said to be in a critical condition.

In Jowf, north-east of Sana’a, 40 protesters trying to storm the government headquarters

were wounded when security forces and pro-regime loyalists guarding the building
opened fire.

Monday’s fighting followed a dramatic weekend in the capital. Seven people were killed
when riot police with water cannon, teargas, and rubber bullets fired on anti-government
protesters near Sana’a University.
Sami Zaid, a doctor from Islamic Relief, said plain-clothes civilians were also involved in
the shooting. There have also been reports of Yemeni security forces abducting injured
protesters from hospital for interrogation.

“Two wounded individuals at the Saudi German hospital were arrested on Saturday by
national security men who arrived in civilian clothing,” said Abdulrahman Barman, a
Yemeni human rights activist and a legal representative of the protesters. “The hospital
is morally and professionally responsible for their arrest. They shouldn’t allow any patient
to be removed from the premises illegally,” he said.

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soon to update people on events at) a GI Café in Kaiserslautern/Germany.

The US military currently has dozens of bases and tens of thousands of soldiers
throughout Germany which are essential to continuing its current military operations in
Iraq and Afghanistan and which will serve as launching pads for wars that may come in
the future in eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

Kaiserslautern is a heavily militarized city in the heart of Rhineland-Pfalz. It is a

centerpiece of both the US military´s presence here in Germany, as well as their
disastrous War on Terror.

It is home to Ramstein Airbase which is an essential transportation hub to Afghanistan,

Iraq, Kuwait, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Landstuhl Regional Medical Center where many
soldiers wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan are sent for immediate treatment. Kaiserslautern
is currently the largest US military community outside the continental United States with
around 50,000 US citizens living in and around the Kaiserslautern area and a German
population of around 100,000.

Having an anti-war café in Kaiserslautern will unavoidably draw attention from the US
military personnel, and is a very direct confrontation to the militarism prevalent within the
community itself. It will provide an excellent headquarters for anti-militaristic work (a
base against the bases!).

It will serve as an embassy to effortlessly get in direct contact with military personnel, to
share alternative points of view and information and provide a safe space for soldiers,
veterans, and their families away from the bases.

The café will also serve as a counseling node for the GI Rights network, which is
currently represented here in Germany by the Military Counseling Network. The concept
of the GI Rights network is to have a team of free counselors available to soldiers who
can help them learn military regulations, pursue discharges, and reaffirm their rights in a
military environment that preaches conformity and obedience.
It will also serve as a place to help veterans reintegrate into German and American
society. With all of this there is great promise and hope it that it could attract several
soldiers and act as an incubator for a movement of people who dissent within the US
military.

We are asking you to help us make this GI Café a reality. We are planning a sustainable
project, and that will mean donations on an ongoing basis. The benefits of supporting
such a Café are as worthwhile as any in the peace movement, and the project itself has
a promising outlook for concrete results.

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