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US Military and Western Mainstream Media trying to conceal War Crimes committed in Fallujah.

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/01/05/p22346


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fallujah
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater

Video

"I am outraged at what's going on"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19007.htm

The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two hundred or so people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire.

http://snipurl.com/1wlj4


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain

By Afif Sarhan in Baghdad

Abu Muhammad, a Baghdad resident, found it difficult to let go of his daughter's hand but he had already convinced himself that selling her to a family outside Iraq would provide her with a better future.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18997.htm

By Josh White

After a two-year investigation into the killings of up to 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps has decided that none of the Marines involved in the incident will be charged with murder.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18995.htm



Iraqi Girl tells of US Attack in Haditha

Video Report

Ten-year-old Iman Walid witnessed the killing of seven members of her family in an attack by American marines last November. The interview with Iman was filmed exclusively for ITV News by Ali Hamdani,our Iraqi video diarist.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13452.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Josh+White

Donna St. George, reporting for The Washington Post, writes: "The sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the dirt. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptured. Her right side was marked by the angular tread of a tire. Her case would become one in a litany of noncombat deaths in Iraq, which number more than 700, from crashes, suicides, illnesses and accidents that sometimes reveal messy truths about life in the war zone."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408H.shtml

By Ramzy Baroud

It seems odd that the bulk - if not the entirety - of reports on the improvement in security are predicated principally on information released by the US military, Iraqi official sources or willing collaborates of both (conformist Shia sources, tribal Sunni leaders).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18993.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ramzy+Baroud

Leslie Thatcher reviews Dahr Jamail's book, "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Reporter in Occupied Iraq," and interviews him about viewing the US occupation through the eyes of Iraqis.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010308B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leslie+Thatcher

Bloomington Pantagraph

01/02/08

U.S. admissions of Iraqi refugees are nose-diving amid bureaucratic in-fighting despite the Bush administration’s pledge to boost them to roughly 1,000 per month, according to State Department statistics obtained by The Associated Press. For the third straight month since the United States said it would improve processing and resettle 12,000 Iraqis by the end of the current budget year on Sept. 30., the number admitted has actually slid, the figures show...

http://tinyurl.com/25nyyt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=refugees

US-LED coalition and paramilitary forces in Iraq were responsible for some 24,000 violent civilian deaths in 2007, according to an independent group monitoring casualties in the war-ravaged country.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22999216-2,00.html


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