World-News

In the United States, where public attention span is low but the capacity for denial high, Iraq's daily carnage no longer commands headlines. American public discourse long ago shifted to the domestic political implications of Iraq for George W. Bush et al.

http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/272533


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=carnage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haroon+Siddiqui

The admission has revived allegations that the former attorney general was pressured to revise his opinion that an invasion could be illegal without an explicit UN resolution.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/13/iraq-iraq


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/09-5



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Graff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ahmed+Rasheed

By Scott Horton

Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an "utter failure" that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country... Allawi found fault with American management of Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 as well as the government of present Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21633.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Allawi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sectarian
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Horton

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29457/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Horvath

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/29-6



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brian+Stelter

U.S. contractors, bound to no legal accountability, are continuing to administer highly questionable treatment of prisoners in Iraq. This is an eyewitness account.

http://tinyurl.com/7b4ykl



US Special Forces Execuation

Video Report

A killing in Iraq puts a spotlight on U.S. special operations. Was it an accident or something more? CNN's Michael Ware reports.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21568.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=U.S.+contractors
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=U.S.+special+operations

The GAO report indicates that US military officials do not know what happened to 30% of the weapons the United States distributed to Iraqi forces from 2004 through early this year.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH17Ak01.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GAO
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Isenberg

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/26-4



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole

Adam Ashton, McClatchy Newspapers: "The families of three men who were killed last week during a search of a grain warehouse want to press charges against American soldiers under the terms of a new security agreement between the US and Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/122308T



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+pact
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Adam+Ashton