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[casi] Gannett News Service breaks Taboo on "Iraq Water Tr. Vuln."



Dear Colleagues,

   A few hours ago the Gannett News Service broke the U.S. mainstream media
taboo against printing  the words, "Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities" as
well as the taboo against raising the spectre that the water borne deaths of
Iraqi kids are not  unforseeable, unknowable collatoral damage but rather
premeditated crime.

The four page article is at:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134506556_sanctions04.html

The article is also featured in the headlines section of today's
Commondreams.org

http://commondreams.org/headlines02/0804-04.htm

 Commondreams  has inserted a link to the  PROGRESSIVE article: " The Secret
Behind the Sanctions" which has been selected by Project Censored as one of
the top 25 stories of 2001.

    "Truth is the daughter of time", but two deadly years of sanctions passed
before any US media giant broke the taboo. How could this happen in a
democracy in the face of the compelling  publicly available  evidence that
this partially declassified document has guided U.S. policy for using the
sanctions to the present day?  The use of "Iraq Water Treatment
Vulnerablities" (or its successor(s) ) directly  violates  Article 54's
absolute prohibition  against rendering useless infrastructure vital to the
survival of civilians including water treatment.




    Thanks again to Felicity Arbuthnot who broke the story in Europe almost
two years ago, to CASI for posting my  Assoc. of Genocide Scholars paper on
this   and to  the Orlando Sentenal, National Catholic Reporter, etc. who
dared to  publish on this before it first appeared in any forum of  any U.S.
media giant. In Europe,  besides Felicity in the  Sunday Herald, the Danmark
press (Politiken and Information) printed long articles on this issue last
month. The critical midwife for this effort was the  Danish group, Stop the
Terror War, which supplied the evidence to the media.

Tom

P.s. Additonal work  on the DIA documents with suggestion for using   them to
change guility bystanders into active rescuers is at

    home.gwu.edu/~nagy

Will add more, e.g., my paper at the Karolinska Institute soon.



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