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Iraqi police reportedly left when the Shia fighters arrived and began emptying the facility. According to witnesses, they made off with generators, computers, furniture and even cars, saying it was war booty - and were still in the centre yesterday evening.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2898446.ece


From Information Clearing House

By AP

Governor's Call For U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq Greeted With Standing Ovation At National Guard Conference.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18258.htm



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

How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle_


Informant: bigraccoon

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The Great Iraq Swindle
Matt Taibbi, writing for Rolling Stone, explains "how Bush allowed an army of for-profit contractors to invade the US Treasury."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083007C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Taibbi

Walter Pincus reports for The Washington Post, "Former interim Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi, who is trying to put together a new coalition to replace the current Baghdad government headed by Nouri al-Maliki, said yesterday that a powerful Washington lobbying firm is working on his behalf, funded by an Iraqi whom he cannot identify."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707C.shtml

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All The Makings of A US-Allawi Coup
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3454



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Allawi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+Pincus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arianna+Huffington

Larry Beinhart writes for Alternet, "George Bush and other Iraq War supporters have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the killing fields of Cambodia - an odd comparison considering that the US has direct responsibility for that holocaust."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707B.shtml



Iraqi Insurgents Taking Cut of US Rebuilding Money

Hannah Allam reports for McClatchy Newspapers, "Iraq's deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against US troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in US rebuilding funds that they've extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Beinhart

by Larry Beinhart, AlterNet

Bush's use of the Cambodian genocide to justify staying in Iraq ignores key facts.
http://ga3.org/ct/Td20pgF14RKm/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Beinhart

The Associated Press reports the "US troop buildup has brought violence in Baghdad down from peak levels, but the death toll from sectarian attacks nationwide is running nearly double the year-ago pace. Some of the recent bloodshed appears to be the result of militants drifting into northern Iraq, where they have fled after US-led offensives. Baghdad, however, still accounts for slightly more than half of all war-related killings - the same percentage as a year ago, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707K.shtml



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

Naples Daily News

08/26/07

GOP Sen. John Warner, who wants U.S. troops to start coming home from Iraq by Christmas, said Sunday he may support Democratic legislation ordering withdrawals if President Bush refuses to set a return timetable soon. ‘I’m going to have to evaluate it,’ Warner said. ‘I don’t say that as a threat, but I say that is an option we all have to consider’...

http://tinyurl.com/25gec5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Warner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP

U.S. forces have rebranded one of the main insurgent groups in Iraq and now use the term "concerned local nationals" to refer to a group that once claimed responsibility for killing scores of Americans.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GRA542904.htm


From Information Clearing House

Iraq has become a cellular nation, dividing and redividing, where the constituency for chaos now outnumbers the constituency for compromise.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/24/asia/assess.php


From Information Clearing House