World-News

Iraq has overtaken Afghanistan as an ideal training ground for Jihadists to export their battle across and beyond the Middle East, experts say.

http://tinyurl.com/2h6tc8


From Information Clearing House

Anti-war activists should be heartened that U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) is hosting a U.S. tour of two Iraqi labor leaders, providing people in this country a civilians-eye view of the Iraq war.

http://tinyurl.com/2xjr9h


From Information Clearing House

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070702/brechersmith


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news

The wife of a soldier missing in Iraq could face deportation, her lawyer told a television station. Army Specialist Alex Jimenez, who has been missing since his unit was attacked by insurgents in Iraq on May 12, had petitioned for a green card for his wife Yaderlin, whom he married in 2004, Boston's WBZ-TV reported on Tuesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062007M.shtml

Asia Times
by Ali al-Fadhily

06/19/07

The US military’s attempts to win hearts and minds of tribal leaders in Iraq’s bloody al-Anbar province with armor, arms, vehicles and cash have taken a deadly toll. Instead of reducing violence, the divide-and-conquer strategy has increased resistance to the US occupation and increased tensions within the local community...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF20Ak03.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Anbar

Defiance Crescent News

06/19/07

The Army is considering whether it will have to extend the combat tours of troops in Iraq if President Bush opts to maintain the recent buildup of forces through spring 2008. Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren testified Tuesday that the service is reviewing other options, including relying more heavily on Army reservists or Navy and Air Force personnel, so as not to put more pressure on a stretched active-duty force...

http://tinyurl.com/y3sfyo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=combat+tours

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's probe into prewar intelligence has again postponed a hearing, scheduled for today, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who refuses to testify publicly despite a panel subpoena.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061907S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=prewar+intelligence
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=subpoena

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/19/1965/

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Building a Resistance to the 2008 Iraq War Supplemental Funding Bill

CounterPunch
by Jeff Leys

06/19/07

On August 6, Congress begins its month long recess. August 6 also marks the start of Year 62 After Hiroshima-the one and only time that nuclear weapons were used. And it marks Year 17 After Iraq Sanctions, when the brutal economic sanctions regime against Iraq was first imposed by the international community.On August 6, the Occupation Project will launch a reinvigorated campaign of sustained nonviolent civil disobedience / civil resistance to end Iraq war funding. Office occupations-both legal and extralegal-will commence at the offices of Representatives and Senators who refuse to publicly pledge to vote against any additional funding of the Iraq war. Occupations will continue at least through the end of September...

http://www.counterpunch.org/leys06192007.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+War+Supplemental
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeff+Leys

Der Lohn der Söldner
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25529/1.html

US commanders in Iraq are rejecting a recommendation by Army mental health experts that troops receive a one-month break for every three months in a combat zone, despite unprecedented levels of continuous fighting and worsening risks of mental stress. Instead, commanders are trying to give troops two to three days inside heavily fortified bases after about eight days in the field, said Brigadier General Joseph Anderson, chief aide to the ground forces commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061907P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mental+stress