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A 9/11 Reality Check

By Robert Scheer

In blind and wrathful retaliation for 9/11 we wreaked havoc on Iraq, a nation that our then-president knew had not attacked us, and we continue to slaughter peasants in Afghanistan who aren't able to find Manhattan on a map.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23456.htm

 

Europe's Complicity in Evil

By Paul Craig Roberts

Europe must look beyond the empty American political rhetoric about "freedom and democracy" and recognize the emerging Brownshirt American State. Democracy is slipping away from America. Its place is being taken by an oligarchy of powerful interest groups, such as the financial sector, the military/security complex about which President Eisenhower warned, and AIPAC.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23454.htm

 

Report: Blackwater Guard Saw Iraqi Killings as 9/11 Revenge

By Stephen C. Webster

Guards "routinely acted in disregard of the use of force policies," and one, known as "Raven 23," allegedly bragged that disregard for Iraqi lives stemmed from a desire for revenge after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23451.htm

 

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Matthew Lee, The Associated Press: "State Department officials said Wednesday they have extended a contract with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA despite the fact the company is not allowed to work in the country. Three officials said the contract with Presidential Airways to provide air support for US diplomats was temporarily extended because the firm chosen to replace it is not yet ready to take over. The contract was due to expire on September 3 and be taken over a day later by DynCorp International."

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By Lisa Holland

An Iraqi doctor has told Sky News the number of babies born with deformities in the heavily-bombed area of Fallujah is still on the increase.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23406.htm

 

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The founder of Blackwater USA deliberately caused the deaths of innocent civilians in a series of shootings in Iraq, lawyers for Iraqis suing the security contractor told a federal judge Friday.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2009/08/31/222707/Blackwater-founder.htm


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By James Petras

The US imperial conquest of Iraq is built on the destruction of a modern secular republic. The cultural desert that remains (a Biblical 'howling wilderness' soaked in the blood of Iraq's precious scholars) is controlled by mega-swindlers, mercenary thugs posing as 'Iraqi officers', tribal and ethnic cultural illiterates and medieval religious figures. They operate under the guidance and direction of West Point graduates holding 'blue-prints for empire', formulated by graduates of Princeton, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale and Chicago, eager to serve the interests of American and European multi-national corporations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23342.htm



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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
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The US military plans to send thousands of American soldiers back to the oil-rich north of Iraq to prevent a civil war between Arabs and Kurds.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article6799620.ece


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Out now!

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/19/09

The other day, President Obama made a speech in which, among other things, he pledged that the U.S. would withdraw from Iraq on schedule. The question is: according to whose schedule? Because shortly after Obama spoke, the Iraqi government announced it wants to hold a referendum in January on whether U.S. forces should leave earlier than the 2011 deadline stipulated in the status of forces agreement signed last year by the Bush administration and the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/08/18/out-now/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Jeremy Scahill, The Nation: "Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State Department continues to allow Blackwater operatives in Iraq to remain armed. A State Department official told The Nation that Blackwater (which recently renamed itself Xe Services) is now operating in Iraq under the name 'US Training Center' and will continue its armed presence in the country until at least September 3. That means Blackwater will have been in Iraq nearly two years after its operatives killed seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square."

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American troops have reportedly shot dead three children in northern Iraq. - The children -- all under twelve -- were killed while they were shepherding in the northern Iraqi town of al-Tarmia on Saturday, the Iraq News Agency (Al-dar al-Araqiya) reported without giving further detail.

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Iraq's coalition of one changes its name

After the departure of British, Romanian and Australian troops last month, the remaining 130,000-odd American troops are now the only foreign force in MNF-I.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090816/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusmilitary


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