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The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, made a surprise visit to Baghdad yesterday to reassure Iraqi leaders that the Obama White House would refrain from withdrawing its troops from urban areas if renewed violence continued to worsen.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/26/clinton-iraq-us-army-withdrawal


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Force must be an option - Blair

Tony Blair has said the case for using military force to topple oppressive regimes is as strong as it ever was - despite events in Iraq and Afghanistan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8013827.stm



Tony Blair Calls on World to Wage War on Militant Islam

Mr Blair was speaking almost ten years to the day since he gave an address in Chicago at the height of the Kosovo crisis when he set out what he described as a "doctrine of international community" that sought to justify intervention, including military intervention, not only when a nation's interests are directly engaged but also where there exists a humanitarian crisis or gross oppression of a civilian population.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6153607.ece


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The tortured Iraq-al-Qaida connection

The Bush administration used torture, not to defuse ticking time bombs, but to generate a false justification for the Iraq war.

http://snipurl.com/gn7kv



The Consequences of Torture

With this week's myriad revelations on torture, the prospective targets of prosecution and impeachment have suddenly grown from the so-called Bush 6 to potentially dozens of officials, lawyers, and interrogators who brought us waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions, and "walling," Here's a look at the odds each group involved, from President Bush himself to mid-level lawyers, face of court proceedings.

http://snipurl.com/gn7nh



Obama legal team wants to limit defendants' rights

Supreme Court case is stark example of the White House seeking to limit rights.
http://snipurl.com/gn7p5



Canada 'must press US over Khadr'

A Canadian federal court has ordered the government to press the US for the return of a young Canadian being held at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/04/200942319176319436.html


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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "The US occupation of Iraq, which has become the full responsibility of President Barack Obama, is once again a bloodbath. Not that it had ceased to be violent, brutal and chaotic, for not one day has passed since the US invasion of Iraq was launched that hasn't found several Iraqis being senselessly slaughtered."

http://www.truthout.org/042409A



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British soldiers 'tortured and murdered 20 Iraqis, then covered it up with firefight claim'

They were taken away to a camp where they were beaten with a rusty tent pole, punched, slammed against walls, denied water, blasted with loud music, and forced to strip naked in the presence of a woman, the court heard. The next day, only nine men from the group captured remained alive - and 20 corpses were returned to their families.

http://snipurl.com/ghc1t



Army officer: Report cites Abu Ghraib 'scapegoats'

Col. Janis Karpinski said Tuesday that "from the beginning, I've been saying these soldiers did not design these techniques on their own." She told CBS's The Early Showthat servicemen and women stationed in Iraq "were following orders."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-04-22-abu-ghraib-report_N.htm



Major Charles Burney Confirms Torture Was Carried Out to Get False Iraq-al Qaeda Link

The Senate Armed Services Committee report does a very good job of describing the process by which Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld drove prisoner interrogation techniques into the realm of torture.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/41949


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Matthew Lee And Mike Baker, The Associated Press: "Armed guards from the security firm once known as Blackwater Worldwide are still protecting US diplomats in Iraq, even though the company has no license to operate there and has been told by the State Department its contracts will not be renewed two years after a lethal firefight that stirred outrage in Baghdad. Private security guards employed by the company, now known as Xe, are slated to continue ground operations in parts of Iraq long into the summer, far longer than had previously been acknowledged, government officials told The Associated Press."

http://www.truthout.org/042109N



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Human Body Parts

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "In Iraq, time leaves bloody marks upon each day of the ongoing US occupation. The policies of the Obama administration, adopted from the Bush administration, continue to wreak their havoc on the Iraqi people."

http://www.truthout.org/041709R



Book Tells of Female US Soldiers Raped by Comrades

Christine Kearney, Reuters: "Female US soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have more to fear than roadside bombs or enemy ambushes. They also are at risk of being raped or sexually assaulted by fellow soldiers. 'The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq,' a book based on 40 in-depth interviews, recounts the stories of female veterans who served in combat zones and tells of rape, sexual assault and harassment by male counterparts."

http://www.truthout.org/041709WA



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