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Agence France Presse reports, "Anti-war Democrats on Thursday accused President George W. Bush of plotting to lace a potentially pivotal report on his Iraq troop surge strategy with 'White House spin.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081707A.shtml



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Independent [UK]

08/16/07

One of the more improbable partnerships in the anti-war movement delivered its message last night when a video featuring Ian Brown, the former Stone Roses singer, and the Irish pop star Sinead O’Connor was screened. The video, Brown’s creation, is entitled Illegal Attacks and tells the story of a British soldier in Iraq who gets caught up in a night operation in which a mother and father are taken hostage. Directed by Colin O’Toole, it will be posted on the Stop the War Coalition website...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2871522.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNN

08/16/07

The number of coalition military deaths in the war in Iraq has reached 4,000. The gloomy milestone was reached as a U.S. general said there has been a rise in insurgents booby-trapping houses. Most of the fatalities throughout the Iraq war — 3,702 — have been U.S. military service members. The nearly 300 others hail from countries, such as Italy, Poland and Ukraine, that have supported the U.S. effort, which began in March 2003...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0815-07.htm

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ACLU Obtains New Details of Possible "Cover-Up" of Iraqi Prisoner Abuse

The documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, also reveal that an Army investigator found that the conditions of prisoners held in isolation at Abu Ghraib qualified as torture.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/31305prs20070815.html


From Information Clearing House



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Cindy Sheehan
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3217/

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3198/

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Backspin for War

The Convenience of Denial

By Norman Solomon

The man who ran CNN's news operation during the invasion of Iraq is now doing damage control in response to a new documentary's evidence that he kowtowed to the Pentagon on behalf of the cable network. His current denial says a lot about how "liberal media" outlets remain deeply embedded in the mindsets of pro-military conformity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18203.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3199



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Zachary Coile of the San Francisco Chronicle reports: "Californians want Congress to move swiftly to end the Iraq war, with nearly 6 in 10 state voters saying lawmakers should set a deadline to start withdrawing US troops by spring, according to a Field Poll released today. The poll also found new signs that even President Bush's base is abandoning him on the war: 40 percent of California Republicans now favor pulling out some or all troops from Iraq and 30 percent want the Democratic-led Congress to pass legislation to require the president to do so."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607N.shtml



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MSNBC

08/15/07

The top American commander in Iraq said Wednesday he was preparing recommendations on troop cuts before he returns to Washington next month for a report to Congress, and believes the U.S. footprint in Iraq will have to be ‘a good bit smaller’ by next summer. But he cautioned against a quick or significant U.S. withdrawal that could surrender ‘the gains we have fought so hard to achieve’...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20273857/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The German news magazine Der Spiegel says, "It's no secret that Iraq is a politically, ethnically and religiously fractured country. But a new study released in Berlin on Wednesday argues that federalism remains the country's last, best hope. Otherwise, it may fall apart completely."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081507S.shtml