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The forced migration, called "a human tragedy unprecedented in the country's history" in the latest Iraqi Red Crescent report, has uprooted communities from homes they have occupied for decades. In Baghdad, the focus of US military action, there are a million displaced people in a population of four million.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2993310.ece


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US military snipers operating in Iraq are "baiting" Iraqis by scattering items like detonation cord, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then ambushing and killing those who pick them up.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22471872-2,00.html


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Sudarsan Raghavan and Steve Fainaru report for The Washington Post, "Senior Iraqi officials repeatedly complained to US officials about Blackwater USA's alleged involvement in the deaths of numerous Iraqis, but the Americans took little action to regulate the private security firm until 11 Iraqis were shot dead last Sunday, according to US and Iraqi officials."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407A.shtml



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

Alissa J. Rubin and Andrew E. Kramer report for The New York Times: "In an interview with The Associated Press in his New York hotel suite ahead of his appearance at the United Nations General Assembly, he [Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki] said: 'The Iraqi government is responsible for its citizens, and it cannot be accepted for a security company to carry out a killing. There are serious challenges to the sovereignty of Iraq.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407J.shtml



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The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

09/23/07

It must always be remembered that Iraq represented no serious threat to the United States, and that our national leaders knew that critical fact before the invasion began in 2003, just as many ‘ordinary’ citizens did. Thus, the invasion and the continuing occupation represent an unforgivable series of monstrous war crimes. Yet our national conversation discusses only American losses, American costs, and American deaths. When the costs to Iraq and to Iraqis are mentioned, they are given a distant second place, if that. As far as Americans are concerned, this is all about us, and only about us...

http://tinyurl.com/2gmuwo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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We need to follow the South African government's lead under former President Nelson Mandela by assembling a courtlike body after the Bush administration leaves office, calling on key administration officials and key staff within the CIA, State Department, Pentagon, etc., to give testimony on the run-up to the Iraq war. And, like South Africa, grant immunity to those who request it prior to their testimony.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/oped/ci_6977033

Blackwater and the Bush Legacy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20892483/site/newsweek/



Decadent perversity

No matter the horrors of Iraq, Bush clings to his faith in victory, and a new biography discloses how he releases his anxiety by humiliating his aides.

http://snipurl.com/1r53d


From Information Clearing House



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

By Kim Sengupta

Six days ago, at least 28 civilians died in a shooting incident involving the US security company Blackwater. But what actually happened? Kim Sengupta reports from the scene of the massacre.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18448.htm

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Stop Blackwater: Nationwide Events Commemorate 17 Innocent Lives Lost in Blackwater's Nisour Square Massacre -- "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday"
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/09/11-24



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The Associated Press writes: "The Senate blocked legislation Friday that would have ordered most US troops home from Iraq in nine months, culminating a losing week for Democrats who failed to push through any anti-war proposal."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092307G.shtml