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5 US soldiers killed in Baghdad
Post Date: 2008-03-10 15:18:36 by richard9151
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Mon Mar 10, 11:56 AM ET BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed five American soldiers on a foot patrol Monday after detonating his explosives vest in central Baghdad, the U.S. military said, the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Iraq in more than a month. Four of the soldiers died at the scene and the fifth died later from wounds, the military said in a statement. The blast also wounded three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter, the military said. Military spokesman Maj. Mark Cheadle said that "it was reported to us as a suicide bomber." An Iraqi police officer at the scene, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said two ...
McCain to 60 Minutes: US has been torturing prisoners
Post Date: 2008-03-10 13:49:13 by robin
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Senator John McCain was recently accused of flip-flopping on the issue of torture when he voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, saying that he did not want to tie the CIA to the guidelines of the Army Field Manual.Advertisement McCain, who was him tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, had previously spoken out strongly against the use of torture and added a ban on torture to a defense spending bill in 2005. Now that he is the presumptive Republican nominee for president, McCain appears eager to shore up his anti-torture credentials. In an appearance on CBS's 60 Minutes, McCain replied, "Sure, yes, without a doubt" when asked if waterboarding is torture. "We ...
Baghdad bomb kills five US troops
Post Date: 2008-03-10 11:51:57 by robin
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Baghdad bomb kills five US troops Attacks on US soldiers had dropped since last summer's troop surgeFive US soldiers have been killed by a suicide bomb attack while on patrol in Baghdad, the US army has said. Three other troops and an Iraqi interpreter were also injured in the blast, an army statement said. The attack is one of the most deadly strikes on US forces in Baghdad since last summer's US troop surge. It came hours after a Sunni tribal leader, Thaer Ghadban al-Karkhi, was killed in a suicide bomb attack at his house near Baquba, north of Baghdad. Most vulnerable Iraqi army spokesman Maj Gen Qasim Ata told AFP news agency: "A terrorist wearing an explosive vest ...
AP: Troops sickened at Iraq bases using KBR water
Post Date: 2008-03-09 21:47:26 by robin
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AP: Troops sickened at Iraq bases using KBR waterStory HighlightsReport obtained by AP says soldiers got ill after using water for hygiene, laundry
Water problems found at three sites run by contractor KBR, report says
KBR says its water treatment "has met or exceeded" military and contract standards
The problem did not extend to troops' drinking water
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.
A report obtained by The Associated Press said soldiers ...
Robert Fisk: Torture does not work, as history shows
Post Date: 2008-03-08 17:14:43 by tom007
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Robert Fisk: Torture does not work, as history shows The Americans are just apeing their predecessors in the Inquisition * Print Print * Email Email Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Bookmark & Share * Digg It * del.icio.us * Facebook * Stumbleupon What are these? Change font size: A | A | A Saturday, 2 February 2008 "Torture works," an American special forces major – now, needless to say, a colonel – boasted to a colleague of mine a couple of years ago. It seems that the CIA and its hired thugs in Afghanistan and Iraq still believe this. There is no evidence that rendition and beatings and waterboarding and the insertion of metal pipes into men's ...
True Cost of War -- Staggering Number of Wounded Vets
Post Date: 2008-03-08 13:56:57 by angle
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NEW YORK The number of wounded soldiers has become a hallmark of the nearly 5-year-old Iraq war, pointing to both the use of roadside bombs as the extremists' weapon of choice and advances in battlefield medicine to save lives. About 15 soldiers are wounded for every fatality, compared with 2.6 per death in Vietnam and 2.8 in Korea. But with those saved soldiers comes a financial price — one veterans groups and others claim the government is unwilling to pay. Those critics also say that the tens of thousands of soldiers wounded in Iraq are part of a political numbers game, one they say undermines the system meant to care for them. The most frequently cited figure is the 29,320 ...
Iraq Veteran Says McCain Policy Is Wrong
Post Date: 2008-03-08 12:47:13 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - Speaking on behalf of the Democratic Party, an Iraq combat veteran said Saturday that apparent GOP nominee John McCain should not win the presidential election because he would continue the war in Iraq. Roger Martinez, who served as an Army ranger in Afghanistan and Iraq, noted in the Democrats' weekly radio address that President Bush endorsed McCain this week. Bush said McCain "won't flinch in the face of danger" and McCain strongly supports the U.S. efforts in Iraq. Electing a leader who would continue Bush's policies in Iraq would be a mistake, Martinez said. "Our country and our armed services cannot afford another leader like President Bush ...
Congress demands testimony from Nato commander in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-03-07 20:10:44 by richard9151
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The US Congress is demanding the senior Nato commander in Afghanistan appear to explain the worsening situation in the country following a series of bleak warnings from the international community. General David Petraeus, the senior US commander in Baghdad, and Ryan Crocker, the top US envoy in Iraq, are due to testify in April at hotly anticipated hearings on the Iraq war. The two senators who will lead those hearings today asked the state department to make the same offer for public testimony on Afghanistan. "Hearing directly from the commanding general in theatre and the US ambassador to Iraq is critically important … the conflict in Afghanistan must also be a priority," ...
Guantanamo detainee loses court case - Judge: Guantanamo Bay Detainee's Mistreatment Claims Are Not Believable
Post Date: 2008-03-07 14:19:03 by robin
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A judge ruled Friday that claims by a former Guantanamo Bay inmate that he was tortured could not be fully believed because his testimony was inconsistent and may have been exaggerated to try to help him win a defamation lawsuit. But Mamdouh Habib almost certainly was mistreated during his three years of detention without trial in four countries after being arrested in Pakistan in late 2001, during which he suffered extreme stress and trauma, the judge found. The findings came in a judgment in Habib's case against Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper in which he claimed that the paper defamed him by implying he lied about being tortured. A jury in 2006 found in Habib's ...
The CIA Plot To Overthrow Hamas
Post Date: 2008-03-06 20:26:34 by richard9151
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Video Al Jazeera interviews Hamas' head of the groups political bureaux, Khalid Mishaal Broadcast 05/03/08 Part 1 Part 2 HERE: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19468.htm Click for Full Text!
The Myth of the Surge
Post Date: 2008-03-06 20:11:21 by robin
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The Myth of the Surge Hoping to turn enemies into allies, U.S. forces are arming Iraqis who fought with the insurgents. But it's already starting to backfire. A report from the front lines of the new Iraq NIR ROSENPosted Mar 06, 2008 8:53 AMClick here to see more photos taken by Danfung Dennis for this feature It's a cold, gray day in December, and I'm walking down Sixtieth Street in the Dora district of Baghdad, one of the most violent and fearsome of the city's no-go zones. Devastated by five years of clashes between American forces, Shiite militias, Sunni resistance groups and Al Qaeda, much of Dora is now a ghost town. This is what "victory" looks like in a ...
The 'Great Satan' Strike Out
Post Date: 2008-03-06 20:03:26 by richard9151
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05/03/08 "HP" -- -- Are the media dumb or just out to lunch? Sorry to be intemperate, but how else can one explain the meager attention paid to the truly historic visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Iraq? Not only is he the first Mideast head of state to visit the country since its alleged liberation, but the very warm official welcome offered by the Iraqi government to the most vociferous critic of the United States speaks volumes to the abject failure of the Bush doctrine. Buzz up!on Yahoo!On Tuesday, Condoleezza Rice reiterated the administration's position that Iran is behind the turmoil that has engulfed the Mideast from Beirut to Baghdad and, most ...
War is Hell, But What the Hell Does it Cost? -- One Week at War in Iraq and Afghanistan for $3.5 Billion
Post Date: 2008-03-06 18:09:07 by richard9151
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The Cost of a Week in Hell 05/03/08 "Tomgram" -- - How far off were they? Well, it depends on which figure you choose to start with. Here's the range: According to key officials in the Bush administration back in 2002-2003, the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq was either going to cost $60 billion, or $100-$200 billion. Actually, we can start by tossing that top figure out, since not long after Bush economic advisor Larry Lindsey offered it in 2002, he was shown the door, in part assumedly for even suggesting something so ludicrous. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz championed the $60 billion figure, but added that much of the cost might well be covered by Iraqi ...
Iraqi Christians cling to last, waning refuges
Post Date: 2008-03-06 14:03:25 by robin
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Iraqi Christians cling to last, waning refugesAl Qaeda-linked militants and Kurdish ultranationalists are both pressuring Iraq's largest Christian enclave.By Sam Dagher | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor BARTELLA, Iraq The bullets lay on the desk amid Bibles and rosaries. They're for two pistols owned by Father Ayman Danna. "The only solution left for our people is to bear arms. We either live or die. We must be strong," says the Syriac Catholic priest at the Church of Saint George in Bartella, a northern Iraqi town in a swath of fertile land called the Nineveh Plain that now has the largest concentration of a dwindling Christian community. The Christians ...
George Bush's gift to Ahmadinejad
Post Date: 2008-03-05 15:42:39 by tom007
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George Bush's gift to Ahmadinejad Published: March 5, 2008 E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Text Size During his state visit to Iraq on Sunday and Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke of fraternal ties between the two countries, announced a billion-dollar reconstruction loan that will be used for contracts with Iranian firms, and said foreign forces should withdraw from Iraq immediately. The irony was hardly lost on Iraqis and their neighbors. The virulently anti-American Ahmadinejad could only be received with pomp and ceremony by Iraq's president, prime minister and foreign minister because President George ...
The Iraq War Is Wrong. Why Can't Candidates Admit It?
Post Date: 2008-03-05 13:28:02 by tom007
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The Iraq War Is Wrong. Why Can't Candidates Admit It? By Norman Solomon, AlterNet. Posted March 4, 2008. The only way for Democrats to challenge U.S. militarism is to condemn the Iraq war as inherently immoral. Tools email EMAIL print PRINT 20 COMMENTS Normon Solomon Share and save this post: Digg iconDelicious iconReddit iconFark iconYahoo! iconNewsvine! iconFacebook iconNewsTrust icon Also by Norman Solomon What We Learn from Mourning those We Love Our own mourning should help us understand and strive to prevent the unspeakable pain of others. Jan 23, 2008 Edwards Reconsidered Why Edwards was the most improved presidential candidate of 2007. Jan 3, 2008 Channeling Suze Orman ...
Jobs Needed Or Iraq Troop Pullout At Risk - US general
Post Date: 2008-03-05 13:00:03 by Brian S
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TIKRIT, Iraq, March 5 (Reuters) - The United States may be forced to halt planned troop withdrawals from Iraq unless Iraqi authorities move faster to create jobs and improve basic services, a top U.S. general said on Wednesday. Major-General Mark Hertling, commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq, said both central and regional authorities had to take action if hard-won security gains were not to be reversed. "I think we have six months to make a difference and this today is the start line," he said in an interview with Reuters and another agency at a conference where governors from seven northern provinces aired grievances with government ministers. Asked what would happen if ...
Crossfire War - Lebanon Orders Army to "Achieve High Combat Readiness"
Post Date: 2008-03-04 21:42:06 by Horse
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Yarze - There are more signs of a wider regional war as Tears for Lebanon (TFL) and Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) are reporting Army Commander General Michel Suleiman has ordered his officers to "achieve high combat readiness of their units to confront all expected possibilities, especially defending the southern land, maintain domestic security and stability." General Suleiman was issuing the directives to his senior commanders of Lebanon's most important units from his headquarters at Yarze a suburb east of Beirut. This is definitely within the time-table of Tehran as most of Lebanon's military has close relations with Damascus-Hezbollah. He said the ...
Egypt leaks information about an American military action against Syria
Post Date: 2008-03-04 21:33:26 by Horse
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Egypt leaks information about an American military action against Syria Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab Al-Youm reported today, through sources that an American message leaked by Egypt to Syria shows that the United States is ready to launch a broad military operation against Syria if it insists on its position on the Lebanese crisis and this is the real reason behind the deployment of “USS Cole” in front of the Syrian - Lebanese waters The source said that the official announced reason of Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Egypt is to push the Palestinian - Israeli peace process forward but the real reason is to explain the American military actions and the presence of the American ...
Check Out This Ten Second Video of an IED- in Iraq.- Must See
Post Date: 2008-03-04 20:24:20 by tom007
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War crimes and the "3 stomp signal".
Post Date: 2008-03-04 15:28:09 by PSUSA
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March 3, 2008 I. Absence of Evidence There are many things that the American people are forbidden to know by the immensely profitable organizations that control the dispensing of information in the United States. Some things will simply not be reported, others will be distorted or sugar-coated or shellacked with fabrications until they bear only the most tangential connection to the actual events being "reported." One of the most forbidden topics of all, of course, is the savage reality of the conflicts being fought in the name of the so-called "War on Terror." This global war – launched solely to advance a long-held, openly acknowledged militarist agenda of ...
Bush blasts OPEC 'mistake' (President blames economic slowdown on the organization's refusal to increase oil production)
Post Date: 2008-03-04 13:24:15 by FOH
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush is chiding OPEC for failing to pump more oil as energy prices soar and the U.S. economy slumps. After an Oval Office meeting Tuesday with Jordan's King Abdullah II, Bush said the OPEC countries should understand the consequences of high energy prices. Bush said it's a "mistake to have your biggest customers' economies slowing down as a result of higher energy prices." Key oil ministers signaled Tuesday that OPEC has virtually ruled out pumping more oil to ease record-high prices. Bush has called for increased oil production as demand and prices continue to rise.
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Liberia War Cannibalism
Post Date: 2008-03-04 12:33:02 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This video is 10 minutes long. It has objectionable material but it tells us where Liberia and several other nations are headed. It is difficult for Americans to comprehend how thin civilization is in many parts of the world. I had to think awhile before I finally decided to post this video.
Marines Investigate Puppy-Throwing Video
Post Date: 2008-03-04 11:28:57 by robin
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Marines Investigate Puppy-Throwing Video Blogs Buzz About Disturbing Video and Some Question If It's Real March 4, 2008 — The United States Marine Corps is investigating one of its own after a disturbing video appeared on YouTube showing a Marine apparently throwing a puppy off a cliff in Iraq. The grainy images look as if they may have been shot by a cell phone camera. In the video, a uniformed Marine holds a small black-and-white puppy by the scruff of the neck and says, "Cute little puppy, huh?" Then he launches the dog over the cliff. The puppy's yelps can be heard until it hits the ground below. Then the Marine shrugs his shoulders while another Marine ...
Vid of one of our Brave Men In Uniform throwing a puppy off a cliff [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-04 09:52:43 by PSUSA
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http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=10978
Poster Comment:They are so brave
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