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By Tim Shipman

A FORMER US Army torturer has described the traumatic effects of American interrogation techniques in Iraq - on their victims and on the perpetrators themselves.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17860.htm



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Across Iraq, millions of people are looking for safer places to live, and not finding them. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees reported last week that 4.2 million Iraqis have been forced out of their homes.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061007D.shtml



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From ufpj-news

"If al-Qaeda and Iran are the big winners of the war in Iraq, Israel is the strategic loser," former CIA official Bruce Riedel said in an exclusive interview with Ynet.

http://tinyurl.com/2c55z8


From Information Clearing House

BBC Video

Mark Urban reports on how the Iraq conflict appears to be eroding the morale of some British soldiers.

http://tinyurl.com/2atmf4


From Information Clearing House

This photo -- taken by embedded photojournalist Michael Kamber two weeks ago during a fateful patrol in search of missing U.S soldiers -- could well become the last visual evidence of U.S. casualties in the Iraq war.

http://tinyurl.com/28tvqz


From Information Clearing House

Nine out of 10 times, when it names a foe it faces, the U.S. military names al-Qaida in Iraq. Critics say this is overblown and possibly a diversion.

http://www.tbo.com/news/nationworld/MGBBE0KJP2F.html


From Information Clearing House

The Americans have granted these gunmen the power of arrest, allowed the Iraqi army to supply them with ammunition, and fought alongside them in chaotic street battles.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17852.htm

Three months after additional US troops began pouring into Baghdad in the most recent effort to stanch violence in Iraq's capital, military observers are fretting that the same problems that torpedoed last summer's Baghdad security plan are cropping up again.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060907D.shtml



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"The Bush administration has no love for unions anywhere, but in Iraq it has a special reason for hating them. They are the main opposition to the occupation's economic agenda, and the biggest obstacle to that agenda's centerpiece - the privatization of Iraq's oil," says David Bacon. "This week, Iraqi anger over starvation incomes and oil ripoffs boiled over."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060907A.shtml



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