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By Bob Fertik

What I have learned is that as the administration authorized harsh interrogation in April and May of 2002 -- well before the Justice Department had rendered any legal opinion -- its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at pre-empting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa'ida.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22616.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/13-10

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Haditha massacre

A legal snafu could clear the way to freedom for the Marine sergeant perhaps most responsible for the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in the infamous Haditha massacre of 2005.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/haditha-killings-marine-trial/story?id=10171003


From Information Clearing House



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http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/63348193a9baa46e?hl=en

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The "Suicide" Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi: Why The Media Silence?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/13-13



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/12-6



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Jeremy Rogalski, KHOU-TV: "Take Houston's heat on a miserable summer day and add 40 degrees, making temperatures 130 or more. Next, add an extra 100 pounds of life-protecting gear to your body: bulletproof vests, guns and ammunition. And then imagine not having enough water around to drink. Stories of short supplies have haunted the US military throughout the war in Iraq - things like inadequate body armor or unshielded Hummers. But while many soldiers say they had good access to water and even Gatorade, the 11 News Defenders discovered that others, stationed all over the country and during all phases of this desert war, say something else was often missing."

http://www.truthout.org/051209T?n

By DOUGLAS JEHL

A high Qaeda official in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10887.htm



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American soldiers opened fire and killed a 12-year old boy after a grenade hit their convoy in Mosul on Thursday.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/67862.html


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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Throughout history, those who collaborate with the occupiers of their country tend to end up hung out to dry, or dead. The occupation of Iraq is no different - collaboration and the poison fruits that come of it are on full display for the history books once again. Only now, the rapidity with which this is happening is staggering."

http://www.truthout.org/050709J?n



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The British occupation of southern Iraq has ended in unmitigated disaster with the withdrawal of UK troops leaving Basra in a much worse condition than they found it, according to former British Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn.

http://www.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory/?NewsId=464605&IdLanguage=3


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