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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pepe+Escobar

The US military in Iraq has lost track of another 12,000 weapons, including more than 800 machine-guns, and everything from 2100 new electricity generators to half a dozen garbage trucks.

http://snipurl.com/1vfe1


From Information Clearing House

Britain handed over security in Basra province yesterday, bringing a formal end to its ill-starred attempt over almost five years to control southern Iraq.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article3258008.ece



Basra residents blame UK troops

More than 85% of the residents of Basra believe British troops have had a negative effect on the Iraqi province since 2003, an opinion poll suggests.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7144437.stm


From Information Clearing House

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UK Has Left Behind Murder and Chaos, Says Basra Police Chief
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/17/5860/



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

New testimony from witnesses and victims provides the most in-depth, harrowing account to date of the U.S. security firm's deadly rampage in Iraq.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/12/14/blackwater/


From Information Clearing House



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

McClatchy Newspaper's David Goldstein says, "The war in Iraq came home to Kathy Berry's front porch in south Wichita, Kansas, one morning last winter. It was just past six am on February 22, not quite dawn, when two soldiers in green dress uniforms stepped past the patriotic bunting that trimmed her home."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121607E.shtml

"As an American I think our country has an enormous responsibility to protect the people of Iraq we have made vulnerable, " she told Adnkronos International (AKI).

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.1670211190


From Information Clearing House



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The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pentagon investigators reported.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-12-13-Iraqcontract_N.htm


From Information Clearing House

http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1275


Informant: shane_digital



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1214-02.htm



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

Robin Wright reports for The Washington Post, "employee allegations have prompted four government probes into the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), including an investigation by the FBI and federal prosecutors into the agency's financial practices and claims of e-mail monitoring, according to law enforcement sources and SIGIR staff members."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121407L.shtml



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