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Agence France-Presse reports that David Walker, the head of the Government Accountability Office, has called into question the accuracy of a Pentagon report that states "US military statistics ... show a huge dip in sectarian violence in Iraq under the current troop surge strategy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090907Y.shtml



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For Western publics this is a sanitised war. Iraq is too dangerous for news teams to record properly the daily shootings, bombings and executions.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article2402969.ece


From Information Clearing House

Marie Colvin and Sarah Baxter

AMERICAN forces are paying Sunni insurgents hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to switch sides and help them to defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2413200.ece


From Information Clearing House

An independent US government auditor on Friday cast doubt on US military statistics expected to show a huge dip in sectarian violence in Iraq under the current troop surge strategy.

http://tinyurl.com/22dgyc


From Information Clearing House



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The US military brought a new weapon into the fight in Iraq, announcing the Army's first-ever use of a drone aircraft to kill "enemy fighters" in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/yoqbgx


From Information Clearing House

Interview with Mikey Weinstein

Last month, the Pentagon pulled the plug on a plan to dispatch so-called "freedom packages" to U.S. troops in Iraq that included Bibles, proselytising materials in English and Arabic, and an apocalyptic computer game in which "soldiers for Christ" battle satanic "Global Community Peacekeepers".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18334.htm



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From NBC's Ken Strickland and Mike Viqueira

It's clear now that Democratic leaders on both sides of the Capitol are moving towards dropping their insistence on a end date deadline for completing troop withdrawal from Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18331.htm



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David M. Herszenhorn reports in Saturday's edition of The New York Times that "leading Democrats in the House and the Senate maneuvered Friday to portray" a report about the status of the Iraq war General David Petraeus is scheduled to discuss before Congress Monday as wholly unreliable because the Bush administration has cherry-picked the data to support its "political objectives."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090807Y.shtml



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Ray McGovern writes for Truthout, "Indeed, over the past several weeks, the president has been punctuating virtually every other public sentence with 'General Petraeus' or 'David.' It is as though Bush is expecting what might be called a 'Petraeus ex machina' to extricate himself from the deep hole Cheney and he have dug together."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090707R.shtml



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