World-News

The editors of The New York Times write, "A new report from Congress’s investigative arm provides a powerful fresh dose of nonpartisan realism about Iraq as President Bush tries to spin people into thinking that significant - or at least sufficient - progress is being made."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083107C.shtml

Eric Schmitt and James Glanz report for The New York Times, "An American-owned company operating from Kuwait paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to American contracting officers in efforts to win more than $11 million in contracts, the government says in court documents."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083107A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Schmitt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Glanz

Rob Woollard reports for Agence France-Presse, "A US Marine was ordered to execute a room full of Iraqi women and children during an alleged massacre in Haditha that left 24 people dead, a military court heard Thursday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083107K.shtml



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

Prime minister rebuts U.S. senators, French official; says U.S. troop surge is not responsible for improved security.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_6748376



Propaganda about the surge

Audio

MP3: Dahr Jamail, unembedded independent journalist, discusses the absolute humanitarian catastrophe that the U.S. has created in Iraq, the fact that all the propaganda about the surge is "working," is a bunch of lies, Dahr measures the fate of Nouri al-Malaki's government in the face of the proposed Allawi coup.

http://dissentradio.com/charles/2007-08-22dahrjamail.mp3



U.S. report finds Iraq failing on goals

The White House on Thursday played down a congressional report showing Iraq had achieved few of the political and security goals set by Washington, saying the standards were too high to meet.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30248200.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Allawi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail

My Story

By Army National Guard Spc. Eleonai "Eli" Israel

Two months ago, I took a stand that changed my life forever. As a Soldier, a JVB Protective Service Agent, and a Sniper with the Army who had been in Iraq for a year (running over 250 combat missions), I refused to continue to be a part of the occupation. I regret nothing. This is my story.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18279.htm

By Arianna Huffington

As we all await the Petraeus Report on the state of the surge, we may also need to be anticipating the Allawi Coup.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18277.htm



Behind Allawi's Bid for Power

By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball

Over time, CIA officials pushed Allawi as a more acceptable and reliable potential successor to Saddam than Ahmed Chalabi, a rival Iraqi exile (and Allawi relative) whose ambitions to succeed Saddam were heavily promoted by neoconservative intellectuals and civilian Pentagon aides to former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18281.htm



Some see 'coup' as Iraq's best hope

In the lobbies of luxury hotels and the apartments of exiles, an assortment of Iraqi politicians has been spending the summer vacation plotting a new Iraqi coup.

http://tinyurl.com/24u64w


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Allawi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalabi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arianna+Huffington
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Isikoff

By Chris Floyd

It is now obvious that one impetus behind the "surge" was to accelerate the "ethnic cleansing" of Iraq. Given the manifest failure to establish a strong central government to serve as a client state, the conquerors now find it easier to deal with separate ethnic enclaves, which can police themselves, shake out their own internal conflicts (however bloodily) and thus establish some kind of solid leadership that can cut deals and guarantee investments.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18278.htm



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6667/


Informant: jensenmk

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