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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. _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk