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Spain's Supreme Court is to rule whether the former prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, can be prosecuted for the country's involvement in the US-led invasion of Iraq.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/03-8



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/03/30-0



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283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops, and an Army of Mercenaries

By Jeremy Scahill

In the latest episode of Occupation Rebranded, it was revealed that the administration intends to reclassify some combat forces as "advisory and assistance brigades." While Obama's administration is officially shunning the use of the term "global war on terror," the labels du jour, unfortunately, seem to be the biggest changes we will see for some time.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22318.htm



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercenaries
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
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Time to wake up from it.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski226.html



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/kwiatkowski

BETWEEN $US3 billion and $US5 billion have been wasted in the US-effort to rebuild Iraq since 2003, the US official assigned to oversee reconstruction efforts in that country said today. Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, warned politicians on Capitol Hill that mistakes made in trying to rebuild Iraq were being repeated in Afghanistan.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,25244033-1702,00.html?from=public_rss


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Change... What Change?

By Gareth Porter

Despite President Barack Obama's statement at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina Feb. 27 that he had "chosen a timeline that will remove our combat brigades over the next 18 months," a number of Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs), which have been the basic U.S. Army combat unit in Iraq for six years, will remain in Iraq after that date under a new non-combat label.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22293.htm



Welcome to Pipelineistan

By Pepe Escobar

Our good ol' friend the nonsensical "global war on terror", which the Pentagon has slyly rebranded "the Long War", sports a far more important, if half-hidden, twin - a global energy war. I like to think of it as the Liquid War, because its bloodstream is the pipelines that crisscross the potential imperial battlefields of the planet.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22292.htm



US general: American forces may not leave key Iraqi cities

The top US ground commander in Iraq says that while Iraqi forces have made huge strides, Iraqi officials are likely to ask for US help in the key cities of Baquba and Mosul, meaning that American troops may stay there after the deadline for redeployment to major bases. Senior military commanders say US troops will also likely stay on in the southern city of Basra.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0327/p01s02-wome.html



Iraq: Poor sell kidneys just to survive

Despite Iraq's massive wealth - it has among the largest oil reserves in the world - poverty is rife. A 2007 study by the United Nations found one-third of Iraqis lived in poverty, with five per cent of the population in extreme poverty.

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090327/FOREIGN/967836593/1011/NEWS


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USA Today

03/22/09

When the ‘Arctic Warriors’ Stryker Brigade left for Iraq from nearby Fort Wainwright late last year, commanders told soldiers who were suffering medical problems that they would also go to war. Spc. Mark Oldham was on a plane to Iraq by Dec. 5 despite being declared unfit because he passes out during training and requires a 30-day heart-monitor exam, his medical records show...

http://tinyurl.com/dgeda4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

By Lieven De Cauter

The truth is that we want to forget this humanitarian disaster, because the West is responsible. Of course, in the first and last instance the administrations of Bush and Blair, but also the Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary, Poland and Italy were part of the coalition and hence accessory while Antwerp was a vital transit port for the invasion. Therefore also Europe bears a heavy responsibility.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22267.htm



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Tony Perry, The Los Angeles Times: "Lawyers for the widow and young sons of an Iraqi man allegedly killed by a drunken employee of the former Blackwater Worldwide security firm after a Christmas Eve party in Baghdad have filed a damage suit in federal court in San Diego."

http://www.truthout.org/032109B



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