World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/08/4397/



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

Residents of Hillah await answers and justice in the slayings of two men. They believe those responsible for the deaths were Blackwater employees.

http://snipurl.com/1rxd6


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

In The Philadelphia Daily News, Dante Zappala says, "Until recently, I thought America agreed that the death of over 3,800 troops in Iraq is a tremendous loss to this country."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100807T.shtml

James Glanz and Alissa J. Rubin report for The New York Times, "The Iraqi prime minister's office said Sunday that the government's investigation had determined that Blackwater USA private security guards who shot Iraqi civilians three weeks ago in a Baghdad square sprayed gunfire in nearly every direction, committed 'deliberate murder' and should be punished accordingly."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100807D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Glanz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alissa+J.+Rubin

Aref Mohammed reports for Reuters UK, "Residents of Iraq's southern city of Basra have begun strolling riverfront streets again after four years of fear, their city much quieter since British troops withdrew from the grand Saddam Hussein-era Basra Palace."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100807B.shtml



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

Joshua Partlow, of The Washington Post, reports: "for much of this year, the US military strategy in Iraq has sought to reduce violence so that politicians could bring about national reconciliation, but several top Iraqi leaders say they have lost faith in that broad goal. Iraqi leaders argue that sectarian animosity is entrenched in the structure of their government. Instead of reconciliation, they now stress alternative and perhaps more attainable goals: streamlining the government bureaucracy, placing experienced technocrats in positions of authority and improving the dismal record of providing basic services."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100807M.shtml



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

MSNBC

10/07/07

The massive U.S. embassy under construction in Baghdad could cost $144 million more than projected and will open months behind schedule because of poor planning, shoddy workmanship, internal disputes and last-minute changes sought by State Department officials, according to U.S. officials and a department document provided to Congress...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21141467/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

This appears to be the new engagement strategy for the US Military in Iraq. And who said the surge isn't working? We're killing everyone in sight...

http://snipurl.com/1rvyv


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Apartheid-era hired guns drawn by money
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The Iraqi government lashed out on Thursday against a US military initiative that pits civilians against Al-Qaeda fighters, accusing it of creating new militias in the war-weary nation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071004/pl_afp/iraqunrestsecurity


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