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"Children today are much worse off than they were a year ago, and they certainly are worse off than they were three years ago," said Dan Toole, director of emergency programs for the United Nations Children's Fund.

http://www.620ktar.com/?nid=46&sid=541998



Traumatised Iraqi children suffer psychological damage

UNICEF is increasingly concerned that the number of vulnerable children in Iraq has outstripped the country's capacity to care for them.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/4ef14e3c0bd5ad74baf903a1b1ad849c.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Two main US allies in the Middle East, Saudia and Egypt, are the most likely to fall under suspicion of supporting the insurgency. While suspicion falls on some Iranians, they appear to be cleared quickly and released.

http://www.juancole.com/2007/07/egyptian-sudanese-jihadi-volunteers.html


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Britain expects to withdraw 500 of its 5,500 troops from southern Iraq within weeks and will then assess how soon it can remove the remainder of its forces, Defence Secretary Des Browne said on Monday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16419966.htm


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The U.S. military's top general said Monday that the Joint Chiefs of Staff is weighing a range of possible new directions in Iraq, including, if President Bush deems it necessary, an even bigger troop buildup.

http://tinyurl.com/3y6q4z



Top U.S. Official Asks Congress Not to Put Limits on Iraq Mission

A top Bush administration official urged Congress on Sunday to drop its efforts to limit the American troop mission in Iraq, at least until a more definitive progress report comes in September, and he appeared to try to set lower expectations for what the report would show.

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Iraq is on the verge of deeper disaster, and the violence that kills hundreds of people every week will only get worse in the months ahead, the country's first post-Saddam prime minister said on Monday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16763220.htm


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By Robert Fisk

'Rebellions can be made by 2 per cent active and 98 per cent passively sympathetic'.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18016.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/16/2574/



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Senator John W. Warner (R-Virginia) said yesterday that the Congressional resolution approved in October 2002 that gave President Bush authority to use force in Iraq needs to be changed because it no longer covers what US forces are doing or will do in the future.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071607K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+W.+Warner

CNN

07/15/07

The White House is holding firm on its Iraq strategy in the face of yet another effort to curb the mission, proposed this time by moderate Republicans the Bush administration can ill afford to lose. President Bush’s national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said Sunday the administration’s ‘very orderly process’ for reviewing its Iraq plans should be allowed to play out despite a hurry-up initiative from two respected GOP senators...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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