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Chaos, Frustration and Extreme Violence as Iraq Readies for
Elections
Code Names: A Look Behind Secret U.S. Military Plans in the
Middle East, Africa and at Home
Chaos, Frustration and Extreme Violence as Iraq Readies
for Elections
Violent attacks continue across Iraq just days before the
scheduled Jan. 30 elections. We go to Baghdad to speak with
independent journalist Dahr Jamail who says, "Most Iraqis
feels that this violence and chaos that has become the norm
in Iraq will only continue to increase after the lections
occur." [includes rush
transcript]
37 American soldiers were killed yesterday in the deadliest
single day for US forces since the invasion of Iraq almost
two years ago. A helicopter crash in western Iraq killed 30
marines and one Navy sailor. Officials in Washington said
that bad weather was the most likely cause. Six US troops
and at least 22 Iraqis were killed in separate incidents.
The losses bring the total number of US soldiers killed in
Iraq to over 1,400. As many as 100,000 Iraqis have been killed
since the invasion began.
The latest violence come just days before scheduled elections
in Iraq. At a news conference in Washington, President Bush
called on Iraqis to "defy terrorists" and vote in
Sunday's poll even as violent attacks continued across the
country.
- Dahr Jamail,
an independent journalist currently based in Baghdad. He
is one of the only independent, unembedded journalists in
Iraq right now. He publishes his reports at DahrJamilIraq.com.
Code Names: A Look Behind Secret U.S. Military Plans
in the Middle East, Africa and at Home
We speak with military analyst, William Arkin, author of
the new book Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans,
Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World. It identifies
3,000 once-secret code names and details the plans and missions
they stand for. Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News describes
the book as "perhaps the most concentrated act of defiance
of official secrecy policies since Howard Morland wrote about
the H Bomb Secret in the Progressive in 1979."
We spend the rest of the hour with military analyst William
Arkin. He is the author of the new book "Code Names:
Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs, and Operations
in the 9/11 World." It identifies 3,000 once-secret code
names and details the plans and missions they stand for.
Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News has described the publication
of these secrets as "perhaps the most concentrated act
of defiance of official secrecy policies since Howard Morland
wrote about the H Bomb Secret in the Progressive in 1979."
Arkin is the author of 10 other books and is a columnist
with the Los Angeles Times, military analyst and former Army
intelligence officer. He joined us in our firehouse studio
yesterday for an extended interview. I began by asking him
why he published the book.
- William Arkin, author of Code Names: Deciphering U.S.
Military Plans, Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World.
More information available at CodeNames.org.
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