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The Observer UK's Peter Beaumont writes: "Iraq is facing a hidden healthcare and social crisis over the soaring number of amputations, largely of lower limbs, necessitated by the daily explosions and violence gripping the country."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072907D.shtml

The third woman to die in Iraq, Army Specialist Alyssa Peterson, 27, from Flagstaff, Arizona, was reported as having died from a "non-hostile weapons discharge." A reporter who dug further, Kevin Elston, found that she committed suicide on September 15, 2003, after becoming distraught from working in an interrogation unit known as "the cage."

http://tinyurl.com/244q8q


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An Iraqi man alleges he was betrayed after helping British intelligence officials who handed him to U.S. CIA agents for torture in a secret prison.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/87952.html


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British troops get set to retreat from Basra

As U.S. troop levels are peaking in Baghdad, British force levels are heading in the opposite direction as the troops prepare to withdraw completely from the city center of Basra, 300 miles to the south.

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6490057



US fears that Brown wants Iraq pull

Behind the scenes, however, American officials are picking up what they believe are signals that a change of British policy on Iraq is imminent.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2159281.ece


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Crimes Against Peace

Video

Do any of the charges of illegality we've been hearing about have any legal basis at all? And why should we even care about international law anyway?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18090.htm

By Bettmann / Corbis

Of all the scandals to come out of the Iraq war - Abu Ghraib, Haditha, the gang-rape and murder of 14 year old Abeer Qassim Hamza - the most dishonorable to date is the Bush administration's refusal to protect Iraqis who risked their lives by working as translators, interpreters, drivers for the US army.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18083.htm



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

The New York Times' James Glanz reports: "Iraq’s national government is refusing to take possession of thousands of American-financed reconstruction projects, forcing the United States either to hand them over to local Iraqis, who often lack the proper training and resources to keep the projects running, or commit new money to an effort that has already consumed billions of taxpayer dollars."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072807D.shtml



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

Relations between the top United States general in Iraq and Nouri al-Maliki, the country's prime minister are so bad, that the Iraqi leader made a direct appeal for his removal to President George W Bush.

http://tinyurl.com/2qxm8c


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

Iraq is in the throes of its worst political crisis since the fall of Saddam Hussein with the new democratic system, based on national consensus among its ethnic and sectarian groups, appearing dangerously close to collapsing, say several politicians and analysts.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0727/p01s05-wome.html


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"As imagined these last months, withdrawal turns out to be a very partial affair that will leave sizeable numbers of American occupation forces in Iraq for a long period. If anything, the latest versions of 'withdrawal' have been used as cudgels to beat upon real withdrawal types," writes Tom Engelhardt for TomDispatch.com.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072707F.shtml



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