iraq denounces US attack on syria

the US raid on syria is illegal under the iraq constitution, but the iraq government is powerless to control it's foreign master




Iraq denounces U.S. raid into Syria
Raid into Syria killed top al-Qaeda operative: U.S. official
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
CBC News

Iraq's government has denounced a U.S. air strike that hit a farm and killed eight civilians in a community just inside the Syria border.

"The Iraqi government rejects U.S. aircraft bombarding posts inside Syria," said Ali al-Dabbagh, Iraq's chief spokesman.

Four U.S. helicopters attacked a compound Sunday in the Albou Kamal area of eastern Syria, about eight kilometres from the Iraq border. Eight civilians were killed, according to Syrian officials.

An American official said U.S. forces carried out a raid inside Syria to kill a top al-Qaeda operative in Iraq.

The operative, known as Abu Ghadiyah, was the leader of a network that moves foreign fighters linked to al-Qaeda into Iraq, and the United States was acting on information that he was planning to launch an attack in Iraq, the U.S. official told the Associated Press.

Speaking on condition of anonymity because the raid was classified, the official said Ghadiyah was killed.

But Syria has denied Ghadiyah was in the area where the raid occurred.

"What they are saying is just unjustified," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem told Reuters on Tuesday.

The Iraq constitution does not allow the country to be used as a staging ground to attack its neighbours, Dabbagh said.

Iraq has opened an investigation into the incident and is urging U.S. forces not to repeat cross-border attacks, he said.

Dabbagh said Iraq is also calling for a halt to insurgent activity in Syria.

Iraq "reiterates its demand to halt all activities of organizations that are using Syria as a staging ground to arm and train terrorists that are targeting Iraq," Dabbagh said.

I'm actually surprised that our nazi president hasn't done more of this in the last couple months of his dead presidency. Again it shows how much he cares about anybody's constitution including our own. The man has no respect for human life. I'm sure he'd love to go back to slavery.

we already embraced slavery by buying our clothes, sneakers, toys, etc from foreign sweatshops...sometimes those slaves work on american soil!



Groups allege widespread 'slavery' on Saipan (a US territory)
By Abid Aslam

WASHINGTON - Human rights groups are demanding afull-scale probe of workers' conditions and criminal activities onthe island of Saipan, capital of the Commonwealth of the NorthernMariana Islands - a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean.

''Recent events suggest that the pattern of labor abuse may infact be growing'' in Saipan, the activists assert in a letter toU.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.

They also want the commonwealth brought into compliance withmainland labor and immigration laws, from which the islands havebeen granted a temporary reprieve since becoming a U.S. territoryin the 1970s.

The non-governmental Global Survival Network, in a reportreleased here, says involuntary servitude is rife in theterritory's apparel, construction and tourism industries.

Some 40,000 ''guest workers'' - most from China, the Philippinesand Bangladesh - toil as indentured laborers, contributingbillions of dollars to the territory's economy and about $160million in profits for criminal syndicates, the report charges.

Women hired as waitresses from as far away as Russia are put towork as sex slaves, according to the report. Commonwealthofficials say there is no sex industry but one local newspaperreports that ''Saipan . . . is being advertised as a top destinationfor sightseeing and sex tours in the Pacific."

''Tourists can engage the services of prostitutes for a feeranging from $20 dollars to $200,'' according to the SaipanTribune.

As part of an eight-month probe by Global Survival Network, twoinvestigators - one posing as a U.S. buyer and the other as auniversity researcher - interviewed 60 guest workers and usedhidden cameras to videotape conditions in Saipan's factories,night clubs and workers' dormitories. The report describes theseas ''barracks'' patrolled by security guards and ringed withbarbed-wire fences.

Workers are lured by international human trafficking networks,which promise job-seekers good employment in the United States.They pay these ''recruiters'' an average of $5,000for travel and the right to work. Some raise the money by pawningtheir families' belongings and others take loans they are thenexpected to work off.

Upon arrival, they express ''shock and dismay upon discoveringthat 'Saipan USA' is nothing more than a 47-square-mile island inthe Pacific Ocean,'' says the report.