World-News

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/25467


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



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

CNN

08/05/07

U.S. forces will probably be in Iraq for a ‘protracted period’ to support the country’s year-old government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday. ‘We anticipate trying to work out with the Iraqi government an arrangement whereby there would be a residual presence of U.S. forces at some fraction of the current level that would be a stabilizing and supporting force in Iraq for some protracted period of time,’ he told CNN’s ‘Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer’...

http://tinyurl.com/ynvy77


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/05/2989/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amitabh+Pal

Power supplies in Baghdad have been sporadic all summer and now are down to just a few hours a day, if that. The water supply in the capital has also been severely curtailed by power blackouts and cuts that have affected pumping and filtration stations.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6827777,00.html



Baghdad Misery Index: 117 Degrees, No Water

Jamil Hussein, 52, a retired army officer in northeast Baghdad, said his house has been without water for two weeks, except for two hours at night. He says the water smells and is unclean. Two of his children have severe diarrhea a doctor attributed to drinking what tap water was available, even after it was boiled.

http://www.tbo.com/news/nationworld/MGBSEG65W4F.html



The Secret Behind the Sanctions

How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0808-07.htm


From Information Clearing House

By Richard Norton-Taylor

It is now chillingly clear: MI6's pre-Iraq warnings were swept aside by an obsessed White House.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18121.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Norton-Taylor

By Dr. Mohammed

When will I die? That's the question circling in my head when I awake on Wednesday. I'm sweating, as usual. My muscles ache from another long night of no electricity in weather only slightly cooler than hell. As I dress for work, other questions assail me: How will I die? Will it be a shot in the head? Will I be blown to pieces? Or be seized at a police checkpoint because of my sect, then tortured and killed and thrown out on the sidewalk?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18120.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6544
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6545


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The Washington Post's Sudarsan Raghavan reports: "Inside a brightly lit room, the walls adorned with memorials to 23 dead American soldiers, Lt. Colonel Robert Balcavage stared at the three Sunni tribal leaders he wanted to recruit. Their fighters had battled US troops. Balcavage suspected they might have attacked some of his own men. An hour later, he signed up some of America's newest allies."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080407A.shtml