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The government has upheld the findings of an official investigation of the alleged shooting death of 17 Iraqis by employees of Blackwater USA and is pressing the U.S. Embassy to expel the private security company from Iraq, officials said Wednesday.

http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/story/747696.html



Iraq clamps down on security firms

The Iraqi government has decided to formally revoke the immunity from prosecution granted to private security companies operating in the country.

http://snipurl.com/1snx1


From Information Clearing House



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

THE Bush Administration is considering air strikes, including cruise missiles, against the Kurdish rebel group PKK in northern Iraq.

http://snipurl.com/1snwt


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=air+strike

By Mike Whitney

Iraq was not only the Cradle of Civilization; it was indeed the Pillar, the Column, The Spinal Vertebrae, the Backbone of the Arab world. Now that it has crumbled, now that it has broken up, the rest will follow...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18613.htm



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Andrew E. Kramer reports for The New York Times: "Gunfire from an American helicopter killed 11 people, including women and children, after it came under fire north of Baghdad on Tuesday, according to a statement by the military. The episode was the second this week in which multiple Iraqi deaths resulted from a United States combat action."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraqi+civilians
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+E.+Kramer

http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-2/650/650_05_NewLie.shtml


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From ufpj-news



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

10/24/07

We keep hearing about the ‘liberal,’ ‘antiwar’ media, which is supposedly spinning the ’success’ of the administration’s ’surge’ in Iraq into a defeat. The stab-in-the-back thesis is being run up the flagpole by the neocons, in the hopes that at least some of their base — the most deluded of the Kool-Aid drinkers — will swallow it. Yet it was this supposedly liberal media that led us down the primrose path to war and occupation and immersed us in what Gen. William E. Odom calls the biggest strategic disaster in American military history — and they did it by instilling fear...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11803


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The State Department does not know specifically what it received for a billion-dollar contract with security firm DynCorp International to provide training services for Iraqi police, a U.S. watchdog agency said on Tuesday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22450778.htm


From Information Clearing House

The air strike was the third resulting in civilian deaths in two weeks and comes as the U.S. military's reliance on airpower to target militants is under increased scrutiny from the Iraqi government and the United Nations mission in Iraq.

http://snipurl.com/1sm4z



Iraqis weigh limits on U.S. military

Leaders in the Iraqi parliament said Monday that they were taking steps to examine the U.S. military presence in Iraq with an eye toward possibly restricting the force's activities, in a continuing backlash over an American raid that Iraqi officials say killed 13 civilians.

http://snipurl.com/1sm50


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=air+strike
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths

Christian Berthelsen reports for The Los Angeles Times, "Leaders in the Iraqi parliament said Monday that they were taking steps to examine the US military presence in Iraq with an eye toward possibly restricting the force's activities, in a continuing backlash over an American raid that Iraqi officials say killed 13 civilians."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102307N.shtml



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