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A documentary film by John Pilger

Sanctions enforced by the UN on Iraq since the Gulf War have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, including over half a million children - many of whom weren't even born when the Gulf War began.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15385.htm

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John Pilger: A profile in courage for daring to tell the truth
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=115608



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Pilger

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18557.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff

On AlterNet.org, Joshua Holland and Raed Jarrar write: "Two weeks ago, the US Senate passed a nonbinding resolution supporting 'regional federalism' in Iraq. The measure is a disaster waiting to happen, and should be called what it is: a blueprint for ethnic cleansing and potentially a full-blown civil war."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101507S.shtml



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http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/27718

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Jay Rockefeller's Unintentionally Revealing Comments
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/24/6594/



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Le Nouvel Observateur's star reporter Sara Daniel, who has spent a great deal of time in Iraq since the outset of the war there, considers some of the wider questions of the Blackwater scandal while offering some new details.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101507G.shtml



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

The editors of The New York Times write, "The quickening pace of oil deals between Kurdish regional leaders and foreign companies is another sign that Iraq is spinning out of control and the Bush administration has no idea how to stop it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101507C.shtml

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/d5b8a067686e9f7d?hl=en



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Ahmed Abassi once worked for the U.S. government in Iraq but fled with his family in fear, hoping to seek refuge in the United States.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12245508.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

Agence France Presse reports that "A key Shiite member of Iraq's ruling coalition called Saturday for the complete withdrawal of foreign troops from his country and rejected the possibility of permanent bases."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101407B.shtml



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

By Laith

I don't know how to express my feelings when Leila my boss and I visited the man who lost his wife in the incident of Al Nosoor Square 13 days ago. I saw him fighting his tears and he didn't allow them to run away from his eyes. I could feel the difficulty he faced when he was talking.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18545.htm