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Steven R. Hurst reports for The Associated Press: "The military and diplomatic public relations machines are running full bore. The message: 'Things are getting better, but we need more time.' Pushing that assessment most eloquently and fervently is Ambassador Ryan Crocker, a career diplomat and one of the State Department's most seasoned Middle East hands."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081007M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ryan+Crocker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+R.+Hurst

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6571/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

It doesn't say that America "lost." According to the conservative NY Sun, "A commission formed to assess the Iraq war and recommend a new course has ruled out the prospect of victory for America."

http://tinyurl.com/yvsueu


From Information Clearing House

The US military cannot account for 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to the Iraqi security forces, an official US report says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6932710.stm


From Information Clearing House

Rents are high, schools cost money, and under-the-table jobs pay little. A survey of 100 Iraqi families this spring found that 64 percent were surviving by selling off their assets.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/09/asia/refugees.php


From Information Clearing House

Iraq's energy ministry is using a Saddam-era decree to crack down on trade unions and stifle dissent against foreign exploitation of the country's vast oil reserves, the Basra-based oil workers' union claims.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2141676,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

While some welcome the increased security, many complain that it is a form of collective punishment against a town which is synonymous with the insurgency against U.S. forces in Iraq's western Anbar province.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09563395.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

Sharratt was accused of killing three Iraqi brothers in response to a roadside bombing in the Iraqi city.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-08-09-voa58.cfm?rss=united


From Information Clearing House



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

The lawyer for a Georgia soldier charged with the premeditated murder of an detainee in Iraq said Wednesday that the detainee had already been shot when a platoon sergeant then ordered Army Spc. Christopher P. Shore to shoot and "finish him off."

http://tinyurl.com/247quy


From Information Clearing House