The right-wing Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar reports today on the first page that there were secret clauses in the agreement between US colonial administration and the Iraqi puppet council: the secret agreement, according to the paper, permits the US to station troops in 6 military bases around Iraq for years to come(53305 years to be exact). Al-Mustaqbal newspaper, on the other hand, reports on the first page that US military is hard at work in Iraq to revive Saddam's brutal intelligence apparatus, and using Saddam's intelligence thugs for intelligence operations. Furthermore, I want to note that there is resistance in Iraq that is rarely mentioned: the passive peaceful resistance by Iraqis to the occupation. The kind of resistance urged by Ayatollah Sistani who called on Iraqis to refrain from violence but to not cooperate with occupation and to make it clear to the occupiers that they are not wanted.