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The British military's chain of command has instructed the country's top investigators not to examine hundreds of incidents involving Iraqi deaths and serious injury, a former British military police officer told the BBC Sunday.

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Blair and Brown Listen As Archbishop of Canterbury Condemns Iraq War Decisions

By Ruth Gledhill

"The invisible enemy may be hiding in the temptation to look for short cuts in the search for justice - letting ends justify means, letting others rather than oneself carry the cost, denying the difficulties or the failures so as to present a good public face," he said.

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Blair Snubbed After Memorial for Iraq Dead

By AFP

Former British prime minister Tony Blair was told he had "blood on his hands" by the father of a dead soldier Friday, after a memorial for the fallen of the Iraq war in London.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23677.htm



War, What Is it Good For?

Iraq to Deal Oil in Euros

By Digby

You may remember that among the million and one reasons why we may have "really" gone into Iraq was this one, embraced mostly by alleged conspiracy theorists and silly leftists who thought that the invasion might have something to do with oil and the dollar.

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Legal Case Filed Against 4 U.S. Presidents and 4 UK Prime Ministers

By The Brussels Tribunal

Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure from powerful governments accused of grave crimes, will limit Spain's laws of universal jurisdiction. Yesterday, ahead of the change of law, a legal case was filed at the Audiencia Nacional against four United States presidents and four United Kingdom prime ministers for commissioning, condoning and/or perpetuating multiple war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23671.htm



Tortured Law

Video Documentary

Tortured Law, examines the role lawyers played in authorizing torture, and calls upon Attorney General Holder to conduct a full investigation of not only the CIA operatives, but of the torture memo authors.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23666.htm



FBI Tries to Deport Muslim Man for Refusing to be an Informant

By Trevor Aaronson

After Imam Foad Farahi declined to become a federal informant, the government tried to destroy him.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23670.htm



Gore Vidal's United States of Fury

By Johann Hari

He says, it is clear the American experiment has been "a failure". It was all for nothing. Soon the country will be ranked "somewhere between Brazil and Argentina, where it belongs."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23668.htm



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Under Saddam Hussein, despite the brutality of his regime towards so many of Iraq's people, war widows were looked after by the state. Now, they are mostly hidden and vulnerable.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8282510.stm


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UK army 'rotten', Iraq probe told

British soldiers who abused an Iraqi detainee who died in their custody were not just "a few bad apples", a public inquiry has been told.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8266699.stm

 

Abuse of Iraqi civilians by British army widespread

The use of "coercive interrogation techniques" by the British army in Iraq was widespread and endemic, a public inquiry into the 2003 death of hotel receptionist Baha Mousa was told Monday.

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Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/18-7

 

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By John Pilger

By refusing to bring the troops home, Brown is likely to provoke an atrocity by young British Muslims who view the war as a western crusade; the recent Old Bailey trail made that clear. He has been told as much by British intelligence and security services. Brown's own security adviser has said as much publicly. As with Tony Blair and the bombs of 7 July 2005, he will bear ultimate responsibility for bringing violence and grief to his own people.

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MI6 is being investigated by the police over allegations of torture for the first time. It follows a similar investigation already launched into MI5.

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More contractors, fewer troops: The Pentagon's "quarterly report on contracting showed a 19 percent increase from the three previous months in the number of security guards in Iraq hired by the Defense Department.

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Big U.S. Bases Are Part of Iraq, but a World Apart

The first people you encounter when driving up to an American base are not actually American. They are usually Ugandans, employed by a private security company, Triple Canopy, and those at Balad had enough authority to delay for five hours an American Air Force captain escorting an American reporter onto the base.

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