The U.S. occupation forces used Iraq water as bargaining chip

[donsu]

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=240


The U.S. occupation forces besieging the Iraqi town of Ramadi used restoration of water and other basic services there as a bargaining chip to force its residents provide information leading to the arrest of resistance fighters, the Iraqi Resistance Report website said, citing a story published by the Iraqi newspaper Mafkarat al-Islam.

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On their radio beamed at Ramadi’s residents, the American forces said they would stop raiding their houses and mosques, and open roads to local people and turn the electricity and drinking water supply in the city back on, only if the residents provided them with information about the resistance fighters’ locations and bases.

Also in its statement, the U.S. military said that it would launch a program for employing Iraqi youths and provide those who want to get married with financial help only if the local residents of Ramadi informed the American forces on the Resistance fighters.

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The report added that the U.S. propaganda radio also jammed other local and international radio stations in an attempt to force the residents listen to the announcement.
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NAZI NAZI NAZI NAZI NAZI

see world, what the criminal bushgang is doing to Iraqis. they will do it to you and me too, if we get in their way.

whose afraid of the big, bad bushgang?

[mike_c]

1. more collective punishment....

A hallmark of fascist military occupation.

[cmd]

2. Doesn't this qualify as torture?

I'm so ashamed of these tactics.

[cliss]

3. Ah, yes. Water.

I was wondering when this issue would come up. I've read that out of the many reasons for invading Iraq, water was one of them.

In the Middle East, water is a prime asset, a vital necessity of life. = You have water, you've got power.

The Euphrates River runs across Iraq, and has been a source of life for that parched country. So it doesn't surprise me that the US would use this as a bludgeon over their heads. I'm surprised they didn't dam it up, and refuse to give Iraqis water until they Tattled.

I've also read that as the world becomes more overpopulated and polluted, WATER will become one of the most important assets to have. Wars will be waged over water rights. With the desertification spreading across Africa and even southern Europe, this will be the hot issue of the century.

Instead of Kevin Costner's 'Water World', think 'Water Wars'.

[Karenina]

6. The Water Wars will make the Oil Wars

look like a kindergarten playground spat...

[MasonJar]

4. Americans under neo-con direction (won't call it leadership) are

becoming a nation of cruel, bloodthirsty, bigoted freaks. We have to get rid of these monsters. It is hard to keep up because every day is a new atrocity, but let's try to write LTTEs and call our reps in D.C. Perhaps if we bombard them often something will change.

[H5N1]

5. The Nazi Regime has taken control

for real