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Michael R. Gordon reports for The New York Times, "John Edwards says that if elected president he would withdraw the American troops who are training the Iraqi army and police as part of a broader plan to remove virtually all American forces within 10 months."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010208N.shtml

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Edwards Breaks with Establishment Consensus on Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6116/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Edwards
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+R.+Gordon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Hayden

A score of young Iraqi women in tight, shimmering gowns shuffle across the nightclub dance floor under the hungry eyes of Gulf Arabs at nearby tables.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29661659.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

It must be a candidate for the worst job in Iraq. It falls to Baghdad's street sweepers, who use their bare hands, to pick up the fingertips and scraps of flesh spattered around every bomb site in the Iraqi capital. They do it without gloves, in all but the coldest weeks of winter.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/30/africa/baghdad.php


From Information Clearing House

By Tom Gallagher
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/26/6081/

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/31/6076/



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Anderson Independent Mail

12/30/07

The second half of 2007 saw violence drop dramatically in Iraq, but the progress came at a high price: The year was the deadliest for the U.S. military since the 2003 invasion, with 899 troops killed. American commanders and diplomats, however, say the battlefield gains against insurgents such as al-Qaida in Iraq offer only a partial picture of where the country stands as the war moves toward its five-year mark in March...

http://tinyurl.com/26x5yf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

By Laura Rozen

How an ex-Mossad chief, a German suberspy, and a gaggle of top-dollar GOP lobbyists helped Kurdistan snag 15 tons of $100 bills.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17524.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laura+Rozen

By Patrick Cockburn

Some of the so-called "Concerned Citizens" militiamen now on the US payroll are former al-Qa'ida fighters, though the US is still holding hundreds of men in Guantanamo, accusing them of being associates of al-Qa'ida.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18967.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40613


Informant: John Calvert



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ahmed+Ali
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail