World-News

Contradictory accounts persisted Friday about adawn US raid on a village near Baquba which media reports said killed at least 25 civilians and wounded 40 others, while the US claimed the target was against people involved in criminal activity.

http://snipurl.com/1rth3


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Diyala
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raid

At least 17 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, have been killed in a US air raid, Iraqi officials and witnesses say.

http://snipurl.com/1rth2


From Information Clearing House

Nancy A. Youssef and Renee Schoof report for McClatchy Newspapers, "Four and a half years after the nation's top military leaders saluted and fell in behind President Bush's pre-emptive invasion of Iraq, their replacements are beginning to question the mission and sound alarms about the toll the war is taking on the Army and the Marine Corps."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100507A.shtml



Saving the Military From Itself

William Astore writes for TomDispatch.com: "It's time to save the military from itself. I say this as a retired Air Force officer who served for twenty years, my last three in a 'joint' assignment, working closely with Army, Marine, and Navy officers and enlisted men and women."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100507E.shtml



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

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

10/05/07

The rising political firestorm over the Blackwater massacre runs up against a legal firewall in the form of an edict issued by Paul Bremer, former U.S. viceroy, that forbids US military personnel (including private contractors) from being charged by Iraqi authorities or tried in Iraqi courts. It was one of his last acts, one that put the lie to the American proclamation of Iraqi ’sovereignty.’ The crisis will come when Iraqi demands for justice collide with the reality of Iraq’s de facto status as a U.S. colony. In the event of a showdown over this case — and over the larger issue of sovereignty — the Americans will either go to war with the government they hailed as the vanguard of the region’s democratic transformation, or else pack up their gear and go. I’m betting on the former...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11711


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Bremer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin

Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, 27, of Meriden, Conn., is charged with the unpremeditated murder of 17 Iraqis in Haditha in 2005. The former squad leader allegedly directed his Marines in an assault that left 24 men, women and...

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_7083513?nclick_check=1


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wuterich
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha

Under the cloak of freedom, the U.S. exempted Blackwater and other contractors from Iraqi law -- and destroyed its own democratic credibility.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/04/private_military_in_iraq/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercenaries
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal

Little is actually being done to attend to the needs of what now amounts to nearly 5 million refugees.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002392.php


From Information Clearing House



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

Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson criticized his rivals on Thursday for failing to support an immediate and complete U.S. troop pullout from Iraq, saying it is time to "get all our troops out".

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04330090.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Richardson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pullout+Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/03/4275/



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

U.S. must give up its dominant position if there is to be solution
http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=071003A&e=59



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge