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NEWS ... GLOBAL NEWS ... FAMILY FARMERS FIGHT BACK IRAQI COLLABORATOR EXPOSES AMERICAN DEATH SQUADS mall farmers—and the consumers who he Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reports that a former Iraqi support them—celebrated the fourth of collaborator has disclosed some of the US activities such as assassinations and July with the launch of the Farm-to- | bombings in markets that aim at sparking sectarian fighting among Iraqis so as to Consumer Legal Defense Fund. The non- | facilitate the partition of the country. AMSI reported the source as saying that he rofit organisation was founded to protect | worked with the US occupation troops for about two-and-a-half years and then was the rights of farmers to provide meat, eggs, | able to flee from them to an area outside Baghdad. raw dairy products, vegetables and other The former collaborator, who asked not to be identified, recalled: "I was a soldier foods directly to consumers. in the Iraqi Army in the war of 1991, and during the withdrawal from Kuwait The opening celebration was attended by _| decided to seek asylum in Saudi Arabia along with dozens of others like me. Thai over 500 farmers and consumers who was how | was recruited into the American forces, for there were US military elieve in the constitutional right to obtain | committees that chose a number of Iraqis who were willing to volunteer to join them raw milk and other foods directly from _| and be transported to America. | was one of those," he said. family farms without interference by The former collaborator went on: "In 1992 | was taken to America, specifically to federal, state and local governments. an island where most of the establishments were military. | was with a number o "Farmers across the land are either being | other Iraqis, one of them the former governor of an-Najaf, ‘Adnan adh-Dharfi. We forced into producing factory-quality | received military training and intense courses in English and in how to carry ou industrial food and selling it through tasks like assassination," he recounted. corporate channels or just closing down the The former collaborator said that during the 2003 invasion and subsequent war, farm,” says Minneapolis activist Will he was transported back to the interior of Iraq to carry out specific tasks assigned to Winter, DVM. "Some who've tried to do it him by the US agencies. the old-fashioned way have found "During the last war that led to the occupation of Iraq, | was with a group o| themselves faced with huge fines and even | COMrades who had received training in America on how to spread chaos in the jail time.” ranks of the Iraqi Army. The unit that | was with settled in the presidential palace in (Source: Press release, 4 July 2007, from the al-A'zamiyah district. My job was being a guard, but after a time that situation Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, Media Liaison, _ | Changed and the American occupation forces put me in charge of a group of a uni that carried out assassinations in the streets of Baghdad," he said. "Our task was to carry out assassinations of individuals. The US occupation army would supply us with their names, pictures and maps of their daily movements to and from their place of residence and we were supposed to kill the Shi'i, for US GETS MILITARY BASE IN WA example in [the Sunni district of] al-A'zamiyah, and kill the Sunni in [the Shi'i district of] Madinat as-Sadr, and so on. Anyone in the unit who made a mistake was killed. Three members of my team were killed by US occupation forces after they failed to assassinate Sunni political figures in Baghdad. A US force that had been so-ordered eliminated them. That took place two years ago." The former collaborator said that the Americans have a unit for "dirty jobs". That . . ~ . ae unit is a mix of Iraqis, Americans and foreigners and of the security detachments that satellites, and is the first big US military | are deployed in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. This unit doesn't only carry out installation to be built in Australia since the | assassinations, but some of its members specialise in planting bombs and car bombs controversy surrounding the joint spy base | in neighbourhoods and markets. This unit carries out operations in which wanted at Pine Gap more than two decades ago. people whom the American Army does not want killed are arrested. Philip Dorling, visiting fellow at the The former collaborator said that "...operations of planting car bombs and blowing Australian Defence Force Academy, said | up explosives in markets are carried out in various ways; the best-known and most that once the base was operating it would | famous among the US troops is placing a bomb inside cars as they are being be almost impossible for Australia to be | searched at checkpoints. Another way is to put bombs in the cars during fully neutral or stand back from any war in| interrogations. After the desired person is summoned to one of the US bases, a Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, email wholenutritionist @ earthlink.net) fter three years of secret negotiations with Australia, the United States is to build a new military communications base at Geraldton in Western Australia. The base is to provide an important link for a new network of secret US military which the US was involved. bomb is placed in his car and he is asked to drive to a police station or a market for Details of the deal emerged on the same _| some purpose and there his car blows up." day as the US finally told Australia it AMSI noted that the testimony of the former collaborator is consistent with some would not allow even its key allies, Western reports that have disclosed the involvement of US military personnel in including Australia, to buy its best fighter | bombings that target lraqi civilians. The British reporter Robert Fisk, AMSI noted, aircraft, the F-22 Raptor. had recently met with Iraqis in Syria concerning such "black operations" carried out Defence minister Brendan Nelson _ | by the Americans. confirmed that talks were continuing with The Egyptian writer and former editor of Al-Ahram, Muhammad Hasanayn the US Defence Department which wants Haykal, also noted in an interview with Al-Jazeera satellite TV that there are to build more ground stations for its mercenaries who practically make up an army second only to the regular US Army Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), in Iraq in terms of their numbers and equipment. This force is now called the an array of satellites being developed to _| "Knights of Malta", Haykal said, and they are the cause of many of the attacks that provide new-generation communications _| target Iraqi civilians. Haykal noted that there are Iraqis and Lebanese working in for US and allied forces. the ranks of that force. (Source: The Age, 15 February 2007) (Source: Uruknet.info, 9 May 2007, http://uruknet.info/?p=m32781 &s1=h1) US GETS MILITARY BASE IN WA fter three years of secret negotiations with Australia, the United States is to build a new military communications base at Geraldton in Western Australia. The base is to provide an important link for a new network of secret US military satellites, and is the first big US military installation to be built in Australia since the controversy surrounding the joint spy base at Pine Gap more than two decades ago. Philip Dorling, visiting fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy, said that once the base was operating it would be almost impossible for Australia to be fully neutral or stand back from any war in which the US was involved. Details of the deal emerged on the same day as the US finally told Australia it would not allow even its key allies, including Australia, to buy its best fighter aircraft, the F-22 Raptor. Defence minister Brendan Nelson confirmed that talks were continuing with the US Defence Department which wants to build more ground stations for its Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), an array of satellites being developed to provide new-generation communications for US and allied forces. (Source: The Age, 15 February 2007) NEXUS +9 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com