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Eight or more civilians died in British custody: Legal chief tells of killings and torture in early days of invasion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/16/baha-mousa-inquiry


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MSNBC

03/14/10

Investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases in six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions — involving banks, land deals, loan payments, casinos and even plastic surgery — made by some of the Americans involved in the nearly $150 billion program. Some of the cases involve people who are suspected of having mailed tens of thousands of dollars to themselves from Iraq, or of having stuffed the money into duffel bags and suitcases when leaving the country, the federal investigators said...

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Morgue officials confirmed the deaths and said the bodies of Aseel al-Obeidi and her husband were riddled with bullets in Wednesday's shooting in the Tobchi neighbourhood.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100311/world/ml_iraq_journalist_killed


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2.8 million Iraqis remain internally displaced

Seven years after the March 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq remains deeply divided. There are few prospects of durable solutions for the approximately 15 per cent of the population who are displaced inside and outside Iraq. It is thought that there are almost 2.8 million internally displaced people

http://snipurl.com/umunu



Disturbing story of Fallujah's birth defects

Six years after the intense fighting began in the Iraqi town of Fallujah between US forces and Sunni insurgents, there is a disturbingly large number of cases of birth defects in the town.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8548961.stm



"After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was Fallujah."

The United States Takes the Matter of Three-headed Babies Very Seriously.

By William Blum

The BBC correspondent - saw children in the city who were suffering from paralysis or brain damage, and a photograph of one baby who was born with three heads. He added that he heard many times that officials in Fallujah had warned women that they should not have children.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25152.htm


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The Cost of War: Disturbing Story of Fallujah's Birth Defects
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/04-4



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Army Considers Continuing KBR Monopoly in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/29-2

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KBR at last on trial

The Nation
by Karen Houppert

03/29/10

Five years after alerting authorities that she was gang-raped in Iraq, KBR/Halliburton employee Jamie Leigh Jones will finally get her day in court. On Wednesday, after fighting tooth-and-nail in the lower courts to keep the case from going to trial, KBR announced that it was dropping its Supreme Court appeal in the case. (The company actually withdrew its petition to the court on March 11, according to KBR spokesperson Heather Browne. This was less than two weeks after it was awarded a new $2.3 billion logistics contract by the Army.) Jones, who says she was raped by coworkers and then imprisoned in a shipping container for three days by KBR staffers who wanted to keep her complaint quiet, had been barred from pursuing her sexual harassment case in the courts by a provision in her employee contract: The fine print said all such issues must be resolved via the company’s own binding arbitration process...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100412/houppert


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Another KBR Employee Says She Was Raped While Working for the Military Contractor in Iraq

Matt Corley, Think Progress: "In 2007, former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones revealed that she had been gang-raped by her co-workers while working in Baghdad, and then left by the company in a 'shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water.' Since Jones went public, several more female KBR employees have come forward with allegations of rape. ABC News reports today that "another female ex-employee of KBR has come forward to claim that she was raped while working for the military contracting company in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/another-kbr-employee-says-she-was-raped-while-working-military-contractor-iraq60164



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The former White House political adviser blames himself for not pushing back against claims that President George W. Bush had taken the country to war under false pretenses, calling it one of the worst mistakes he made during the Bush presidency.

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/935-documented-lies-rove-book-insists-iraq-war-justified/


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By Michael Savage

An invasion of Iraq was discussed within the Government more than two years before military action was taken - with Foreign Office mandarins warning that an invasion would be illegal, that it would claim "considerable casualties" and could lead to the breakdown of Iraq, The Independent can reveal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24898.htm

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Special Relationship? Why Britain's Affair With the U.S. Is Over

By CATHERINE MAYER

If anyone still doubts that George Bush and Tony Blair were the closest of allies, the text of a July 2002 note from the U.K. premier to the U.S. President, revealed in a new book, should dispel any lingering skepticism. "You know, George, whatever you decide to do [about Iraq], I'm with you," Blair assured his friend.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25098.htm



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Video banned from Congress testimony: "Iraq for Sale"
http://snipurl.com/ui5hf


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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/23-9



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Holding a prisoner by a clump of hair, a bare- chested British soldier poses for the camera in an 'appalling' display of abuse in Iraq.

http://snipurl.com/ue1si


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