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Security forces in Baghdad have full control in only 40 percent of the city five months into the pacification campaign, a top American general said Saturday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6714881,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Companies, funded by billions of dollars in U.S. military and State Department contracts, are fighting insurgents on a widening scale in Iraq, enduring daily attacks, returning fire and taking hundreds of casualties that have been underreported and sometimes concealed, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials and company representatives.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19256869/


From Information Clearing House



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

A British general is at the forefront of a risky American strategy to turn former Sunni insurgents into "freedom fighters" battling al-Qa'eda in Baghdad.

http://tinyurl.com/3ymfqf


From Information Clearing House

US forces could be needed in Iraq for a decade to battle insurgents, the top coalition commander said yesterday while vowing a "forthright" review in September on whether a troop surge is working.

http://tinyurl.com/3axrwa


From Information Clearing House



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

The death of a hotel receptionist in British custody was first reported by the IoS. In the week that the Law Lords ruled that the Human Rights Act applies to Iraqis in British custody, Andrew Johnston reveals the shocking witness statements that shed new light on a dark chapter in an illegal war.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2666413.ece


From Information Clearing House

Mr Bush told Mr Blair that he did not have to commit soldiers and could help 'in some other way'. But the PM replied: "No, I'm with you."

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/17/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Iraq.php


From Information Clearing House

Maliki asks US troops to resist arming Iraqi tribes

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki has warned that US troops sometimes create new militias by arming Iraqi tribes, urging that such decisions be left to his government.

http://tinyurl.com/329hpq


From Information Clearing House

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Arming Sunni Militias Undercuts Iraqi Government, Critics Say

A US program to combat al Qaeda in Iraq by arming Sunni Muslims undercuts the Iraqi government and years of US policy, and is a tacit acknowledgment that the country's violence is really a civil war, some US military officials in Washington and foreign policy experts say. The program, which Bush administration officials have hailed as a sign of progress in Iraq, has sparked heated debate among military and foreign policy analysts. It is opposed by the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061807M.shtml



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

By Robert Fisk

I had seen British military brutality in Northern Ireland - I had even been threatened by British officers in Belfast - but I somehow thought that things had changed, that a new, more disciplined army had emerged from the dark, sinister days of the Irish conflict. But I was wrong. Baha Mousa, Daoud's son, had died from the injuries he received in British custody, a young, decent man whose father was a cop, who did nothing worse than work as a receptionist in a Basra hotel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17897.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baha+Mousa
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk

http://tinyurl.com/2ndyud


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news

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PLIGHT OF REFUGEES WORSENS AS SYRIA, JORDAN IMPOSE RESTRICTIONS

Scores of Iraqi men, women and children gathered on the pavement of Baghdad's central Salihiyah area waiting for the big grey bus to take them to neighboring Syria and help them flee their country's violence. Every month, tens of thousands of Iraqis flee to Jordan and Syria - the only two neighboring countries which have opened their borders to Iraqi refugees.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/aiddevelopment/Plight_of_refugees_worsens_as_Syria_Jordan_impose_restrictions.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+refugees

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6316/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news