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According to an Oxfam International report released in July this year, "43 percent of Iraqis suffer from absolute poverty," and that according to some estimates over half the population are now without work. "Children are hit the hardest by the decline in living standards. Child malnutrition rates have risen from 19 percent before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to 28 percent now."

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


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The U.S. Army's Intelligence Analysis of the April 2004 Fallujah Attack

By Stephen Soldz

"During the first week of April, insurgents invited a reporter from Al Jazeera, Ahmed Mansour, and his film crew into Fallujah where they filmed scenes of dead babies from the hospital, presumably killed by Coalition air strikes. Children were shown bespattered with blood; mothers were shown screaming and mourning."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18955.htm



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Soldz

Scott Horton for Harper's provides an update on the trial of Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photojournalist Bilal Hussein.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122707R.shtml



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Close family members of U.S. troops are split on whether the Iraq invasion was a mistake, and 55 percent disapprove of President Bush's job performance, according to USA TODAY/Gallup polls focusing on immediate relatives of service members.

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/72467.php


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68 per cent of respondents oppose the U.S. war in Iraq, and 69 per cent call for a withdrawal of all or some U.S. troops from the country.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/29447


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David Zucchino of The Los Angeles Times reports: "On their own in a strange town, Carletta Davis' husband and sons had been waiting for December 2008, when she'd be coming home from her third Mideast deployment. Now they're not sure what happens next."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122507E.shtml

Steve Fainaru, reporting for The Washington Post, writes: "The US government disregarded numerous warnings over the past two years about the risks of using Blackwater Worldwide and other private security firms in Iraq, expanding their presence even after a series of shooting incidents showed that the firms were operating with little regulation or oversight, according to government officials, private security firms and documents."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122407D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steve+Fainaru

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/24/5992/



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A former warrior for Saddam Hussein's army and the insurgency now helps lead the fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/mayfaire/latimes83.htm


From Information Clearing House

The United Nations has called for immediate action to assist about two million Iraqi children affected by poor nutrition, disease and disrupted education.

http://snipurl.com/1vplq



Fred Thompson: "Iraq War Going Well"

"We saw some of these atrocities I think in the last day or two day, al Qaeda torch hospitals or whatever they call them. That's indicative of what's been happening out there and people are sick and tired of it. And they're coming to our side. Some of the Sunni leadership is coming to our side".

http://snipurl.com/1vpls



Life 'better' under Saddam says vicar of Baghdad

Life was "better" for Christians in Iraq under the regime of Saddam Hussein than it is today, according to the only Anglican vicar working in Baghdad.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3084957.ece


From Information Clearing House



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