World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1128-20.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki

Denver Post

11/28/07

A child was among at least seven Iraqis killed when U.S. soldiers opened fire in two incidents in central Iraq during a span of 24 hours, while police said a suicide bomber posing as a shepherd killed as many as 13 people Tuesday outside a police station in eastern Diyala province. The shootings involved vehicles that the soldiers reportedly perceived as threatening. Three women and a man were killed while riding a minibus to work in the northeastern Baghdad neighborhood of Shaab, according to the Interior Ministry. … Elsewhere, two U.S. soldiers were killed and two others wounded when an explosion ripped through a vehicle, the military said in a statement...

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_7574608


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Jonathan Weisman of The Washington Post reports: "It may be among the strangest of political alliances: a former commanding general in Iraq, blocked from a fourth star and forced into retirement partly for his role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, and the speaker of the House, desperate to end a war that the general helped start."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112707T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sanchez
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Weisman

On TomDispatch.com, Dahr Jamail writes: "Name them. Maim them. Kill them. From the beginning of the American occupation in Iraq, air strikes and attacks by the US military have only killed 'militants,' 'criminals,' 'suspected insurgents,' 'IED [Improvised Explosive Device] emplacers,' 'anti-American fighters,' 'terrorists,' 'military age males,' 'armed men,' 'extremists,' or 'al-Qaeda.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112707R.shtml



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6882/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Bush Commits Troops to Iraq for the Long Term

The Guardian UK's Suzanne Goldenberg writes: "The Bush administration formally committed America yesterday to a long-term military presence in Iraq, pledging to protect the government in Baghdad from internal coup plots and foreign enemies."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112707S.shtml

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Iraq politicians oppose US pact

Iraqi opposition groups have criticised moves towards a long-term US-Iraqi pact following the expiry of the UN mandate governing foreign troops in Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7115131.stm



Bush Gets "Preferential Treatment" for U.S. Companies in Iraq

Bush just pulled the knee strings on his puppet in Iraq, and Nouri al-Maliki did the jig.
http://snipurl.com/1uc9r


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Suzanne+Goldenberg

The former U.S. commander of multi-national troops in Iraq says President Bush's strategy there is failing because it relies too much on military force and not enough on political reconciliation.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-11-24-voa34.cfm


From Information Clearing House



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

Looking at photos of Iraqi children maimed by the war makes the conflict unforgettable. Reflecting on the causes that led to that war makes it unforgivable. Slowly but steadily new information is coming out on the effects of the war on children, and how it has affected not only their health but also their quality of life and prospects for the future.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/340665_iraqikids23.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraqi+children

Our Own Holocaust Denial

By Mark Weisbrot

Institutionally unwilling to consider America's responsibility for the bloodbath, the traditional media have refused to acknowledge the massive number of Iraqis killed since the invasion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18765.htm



Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq 1,118,625
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html



Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially Acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq 3,875
http://icasualties.org/oif/



The War in Iraq Costs
$471,107,546,959

See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182


From Information Clearing House

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=616&thisview=item



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawal

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/18/wdenial118.xml


Informant: Mark G.