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Iraq official: U.S. guards detained in Baghdad
Post Date: 2007-11-25 10:44:16 by robin
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U.S. guards detained in Baghdad Soldiers reportedly stop two guards after security convoy opens fire The Associated Pressupdated 5:32 a.m. PT, Sun., Nov. 25, 2007BAGHDAD - Iraqi soldiers detained two American security guards along with several other foreigners traveling Monday in a private security convoy after they opened fire in Baghdad, wounding one woman, an Iraqi military spokesman said.U.S. military and embassy officials had no immediate information about the report, which follows a series of recent shootings in which foreign security guards have allegedly killed Iraqis.Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said the convoy was driving on the wrong side of the road in the central Baghdad ...
Iraq- Through the eyes of children
Post Date: 2007-11-25 08:27:22 by Zipporah
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Martin von Krogh/WpNThrough the eyes of children
The youngest Iraqis reflect on life in war and share their hopes and aspirations.
Scars from Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-25 08:06:11 by Zipporah
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American-backed killer militias strut across Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-25 07:54:22 by Zipporah
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Hala Jaber, Baghdad IT WAS 9.30am when three men entered Haidar Musa’s sweet-shop and shot him repeatedly in the head as his eight-year-old daughter Zainab crouched in terror behind the counter. By midday his stricken wife Kahiriya had packed Zainab and four other children into a car with a few possessions and fled their home town of Abu Ghraib for a life of penury in Baghdad, 20 miles to the east. Eighteen months later, the six of them are living in a room that measures 12ft by 12ft, with a concrete floor. Its contents include a cooking pot, a sewing machine and thin sponge mattresses because this is their kitchen, sitting room and bedroom. Asked when she intended to leave this ...
Inside a Private Mercenary Compound in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-25 07:23:19 by Zipporah
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Inside a Private Mercenary Compound in Iraqby Jared Polis
Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:07:43 PM PST
Mercenaries, Missionaries, and Misfits
As we pulled out of the Al Rashid hotel around 6 pm, we saw smoke a few hundred yards off, and wondered why our van was made to halt at the checkpoint. Apparently a car bomb or mortar shell had gone off, so the checkpoint was closed and we could not leave the Green Zone. We waited about ten minutes, then were told to get out of the car by the "Triple Canopy" Peruvian/Corporate troops. They took us behind some bunkers. The only Spanish-speaking member of our group, I joked around with them. It was all in a day’s work for them; this is their ...
Retired U.S. commander speaks out for Democrats
Post Date: 2007-11-24 22:50:27 by Peppa
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The general who led U.S. forces in Iraq after the invasion launched by Republican President George W. Bush spoke out for Democrats on Saturday, backing legislation aimed at withdrawing American troops. Click for Full Text!
Poster Comment:"The general who led U.S. forces in Iraq after the invasion launched by Republican President George W. Bush spoke out for Democrats on Saturday, backing legislation aimed at withdrawing American troops. "
Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
Post Date: 2007-11-24 20:11:47 by robin
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Cholera spreading through Baghdad
Post Date: 2007-11-24 19:31:31 by Zipporah
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Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:29:26 Cholera is one of the consequences of warThe Iraq Health Ministry says reported cases of cholera have risen in the capital Baghdad over the past weeks to more than 80.. A ministry official said Friday most instances of the disease were reported in impoverished areas that lack water and other necessary services. Most of the incidences have been reported in the eastern part of Baghdad, especially in poor areas routinely deprived of water and other basic services, an official at the ministry said. The official said that six governmental hospitals suffer from unsafe water supplies, including Yarmouk, one of Baghdad's chief hospitals. Cholera, which is normally ...
Iraq nullifies Kurdish oil deals
Post Date: 2007-11-24 19:22:01 by Zipporah
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Iraq nullifies Kurdish oil deals Sat Nov 24, 5:57 AM ET Iraq's oil ministry has declared all crude contracts signed by the Kurdish regional authorities with foreign companies null and void, a government official said on Saturday. "The ministry has nullified all contracts signed by the Kurdistan Regional Government," the official told AFP, asking not to be named. "They will not be recognised." The government in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region has signed 15 exploration and exportation contracts with 20 international companies since it passed its own oil law in August, infuriating the Baghdad government. Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani has in recent ...
The World Is Ruled By Serial Killers And We The Sheeple Are Allowing Them To
Post Date: 2007-11-24 19:04:16 by Brian S
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There is no other explanation as to what has been happening to us over the past few decades.... war after war leading to other wars... never to peace. How is it that the people, the citizens of the world are allowing this to go on? The wars spoken of have taken on a new face, at one time it was army Vs. army... today it is army vs civilians.... in some cases, army Vs. innocent children. Yet, despite protests and demonstrations... these crimes continue... The Bushes, the Olmerts, the Blairs and others have one common goal; to rid the world of Islam. They have all cooperated in this agenda in a systematic style only used by serial killers. They have gone as far as to 'stage' crimes in ...
Richard Perle: ‘I Don’t Believe I Was Wrong’ About Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-24 16:54:14 by robin
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Richard Perle: ‘I Don’t Believe I Was Wrong’ About Iraq Appearing on BBC’s Hardtalk with Stephen Sackur this weekend, Iraq war architect Richard Perle attempted, on the one hand, to distance himself from the failures of the Iraq war, and on the other hand, to claim it was a fantastic success. “I’m not happy about the way events have unfolded in Iraq,” Perle began. But when asked whether he felt a “sense of personal responsibility” for what has happened in the aftermath of the invasion, Perle said “I certainly don’t consider myself responsible” for the disastrous post-war occupation of Iraq. Asked whether he was wrong on Iraq, Perle ...
NBC: 'Wave of violence' against women in US-occupied Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-24 16:48:02 by robin
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"Iraqi women were once the most emancipated in the Arab world," says correspondent Tom Aspell. "Educated, encouraged to work and vote; even allowed to divorce." Women in US-occupied Iraq, in sharp contrast, are frequent targets of violence at the hands of Shiite militiamen and "religious zealots," according to the Iraqi government, especially in the southern city of Basra. "I'm sorry to say that we've started to lose," says Iraqi MP Safia al-Souhail. In Basra, over fifty women are known to have been murdered, often after being humiliated, but police are often too scared to investigate. Says al-Souhail, a lot of women are killed for how ...
New Polish premier pledges Iraq pullout
Post Date: 2007-11-24 03:35:51 by tom007
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New Polish premier pledges Iraq pullout template_bas template_bas Donald Tusk says he will withdraw all troops in 2008 and consult neighbors on a proposed U.S. missile defense system. By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer November 24, 2007 WARSAW -- Signaling a rapid about-face after last month's parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Donald Tusk pledged Friday to end Poland's military deployment in Iraq in 2008 and said his nation would engage in more "dialogue" with its neighbors before accepting a U.S. missile defense system on Polish soil. The three-hour speech before Parliament marked a significant departure from the politics of the last two years, when ...
Iran urges disarming nuclear states
Post Date: 2007-11-24 01:31:26 by tom007
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Iran urges disarming nuclear states TEHRAN (Press TV) -- Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council on Thursday called on the NPT signatories to strive for the disarmament of atomic powers. Speaking at the International Conference on Iran's Nuclear Program, which kicked off here on Thursday, Saeed Jalili said, ""The Article 6 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty stresses the necessity of the disarmament of nuclear powers."" ""Islamic Republic of Iran insists on its absolute rights within the framework of NPT, and won't accept to be deprived of its nuclear rights,"" Jalili reiterated. ""Iran complied with additional ...
Iraq war is hell on the bottom line at the box office
Post Date: 2007-11-23 22:04:55 by kiki
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Jabbar Magruder is an active duty Army National Guard sergeant who served 11 months in Iraq. He was hoping that stateside Americans would get a glimpse of what the war was like when several dramas featuring the Iraq conflict either in the foreground or the background hit theaters this fall. Few have. Despite A-list casts - including Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones - and generally good reviews, war-related dramas tanked this fall at the box office, failing to attract a substantial audience during Hollywood's serious film season. And now, with the lighter holiday movie fare blanketing screens beginning this weekend, the cultural window to bring narratives about the war ...
A plan to attack Iran swiftly and from above
Post Date: 2007-11-23 20:07:37 by Zipporah
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A plan to attack Iran swiftly and from above A bombing campaign has been in the works for months - a blistering air war that would last anywhere from one day to two weeks PAUL KORING From Thursday's Globe and Mail November 22, 2007 at 5:11 AM EST WASHINGTON — Massive, devastating air strikes, a full dose of "shock and awe" with hundreds of bunker-busting bombs slicing through concrete at more than a dozen nuclear sites across Iran is no longer just the idle musing of military planners and uber-hawks. Although air strikes don't seem imminent as the U.S.-Iranian drama unfolds, planning ...
U.S. Navy Steps Up Fuel Deliveries To Gulf Forces
Post Date: 2007-11-23 19:27:23 by Brian S
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By Stefano Ambrogi LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. military has stepped up chartering of tankers and requests for extra fuel in the U.S. Central Command area, which includes the Gulf, shipping and oil industry sources say. A Gulf oil industry source said the charters suggested there would be high naval activity, possibly including a demonstration to Iran that the U.S. Navy will protect the Strait of Hormuz oil shipping route during tensions over Tehran's nuclear programme. The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) has tendered for four tankers in November to move at least one million barrels of jet and ship fuel between Gulf ports, from Asia to the Gulf and to the Diego ...
Army: Wounded Vets Will Get All of Their Bonus Money
Post Date: 2007-11-23 13:58:08 by aristeides
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Army: Wounded Vets Will Get All of Their Bonus Money By Spencer Ackerman - November 23, 2007, 11:51AM After learning from the media that a wounded Iraq veteran, Private First Class Jordan Fox of Pennsylvania, was asked to return his enlistment bonus when an IED prematurely ended his soldiering career, the Army has emphasized that its policy is not to recoup those bonuses. But it doesn't know how the snafu occurred. And that raises concerns that other wounded soldiers might lose their benefits through a different bureaucratic mix-up. Apropos of Paul's good question on Wednesday about recruitment bonuses -- are they paid up front, allowing them to be partially withheld if soldiers ...
'Al Qaeda rolodex' found in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-23 13:30:05 by Zipporah
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As many as 60 percent of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq in the past year have come from Saudi Arabia and Libya, according to documents discovered in a raid in September near the Syrian border, a senior U.S. military official in Baghdad confirmed to CNN Thursday. A Syrian soldier stands guard at a border post with Iraq. The majority of foreign fighters coming into Iraq have entered via Syria. The documents confiscated in that raid listed the identities of more than 700 foreign fighters in Iraq, whom the United States believes entered that country since August 2006. The official ...
A question. Your opinion requested.
Post Date: 2007-11-23 12:20:55 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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As the time left for this administration gets less and less what are the chances of attacking Iran doing?
Iraqi Children Bear The Burden Of An Uncalled-for War
Post Date: 2007-11-23 12:07:21 by Brian S
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NEW YORK -- Looking at photos of Iraqi children maimed by the war makes the conflict unforgettable. Reflecting on the causes that led to that war makes it unforgivable. Slowly but steadily new information is coming out on the effects of the war on children, and how it has affected not only their health but also their quality of life and prospects for the future. One child dies every five minutes because of the war, and many more are left with severe injuries. Of the estimated 4 million Iraqis who have been displaced in Iraq or left the country, 1.5 million are children. For the most part, they don't have access to basic health care, education, shelter or water and sanitation. They ...
Bombs Kill 26 in Baghdad, Northern Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-23 11:57:57 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Two bombs exploded hours apart Friday in a central Baghdad pet market and a police checkpoint in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing 26 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The attacks were among the deadliest in recent weeks, underscoring warnings by senior U.S. commanders that extremists still pose a threat to Iraq's fragile security despite a downturn in violence since a U.S.-Iraqi security plan began in mid-February. The blast in the capital's popular weekly al-Ghazl animal bazaar occurred just before 9 a.m., shattering the festive atmosphere as people strolled past the stalls. At least 13 people were killed and nearly 60 wounded, including ...
20,000 vets' brain injuries not listed in Pentagon tally
Post Date: 2007-11-23 11:55:51 by Horse
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At least 20,000 U.S. troops who were not classified as wounded during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have been found with signs of brain injuries, according to military and veterans records compiled by USA TODAY. The data, provided by the Army, Navy and Department of Veterans Affairs, show that about five times as many troops sustained brain trauma as the 4,471 officially listed by the Pentagon through Sept. 30. These cases also are not reflected in the Pentagon's official tally of wounded, which stands at 30,327. The number of brain-injury cases were tabulated from records kept by the VA and four military bases that house units that have served multiple combat tours in Iraq and ...
Afghanistan 'falling into hands of Taliban' (KABUL THREATENED)
Post Date: 2007-11-23 10:28:06 by aristeides
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Afghanistan 'falling into hands of Taliban' · Frontline getting closer to Kabul, says thinktank · Aid not going to those who need it most, warns Oxfam Richard Norton-Taylor Thursday November 22, 2007 The Guardian The Taliban has a permanent presence in 54% of Afghanistan and the country is in serious danger of falling into Taliban hands, according to a report by an independent thinktank with long experience in the area. Despite tens of thousands of Nato-led troops and billions of dollars in aid poured into the country, the insurgents, driven out by the American invasion in 2001, now control "vast swaths of unchallenged territory, including rural areas, ...
‘Bush unembarrassed by Pakistan emergency’
Post Date: 2007-11-22 23:20:04 by tom007
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‘Bush unembarrassed by Pakistan emergency’ WASHINGTON: President General Pervez Musharraf’s imposition of a state of emergency would have been very embarrassing for Bush, “if Bush were the type of a guy to get embarrassed,” according to Professor Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, who is also president of the National Lawyers Guild. She argues that the real motivation for Musharraf’s declared emergency is not to defend the country against “Islamic extremists”, as he claims, but to maintain him in power. He acted to prevent public protests that lawyers and political parties were organising. She says the Bush administration is ...
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