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Anna Badkhen, The Christian Science Monitor: "As though recoiling from her own memories, Khalida shrank deeper into her faded armchair with each sentence she told: of how gunmen apparently working for Iraq's Interior Ministry kidnapped her, beat and raped her; of how they discarded her on a Baghdad sidewalk. But her suffering did not end when she fled Iraq and became a refugee in Jordan's capital, Amman. When Khalida's husband learned that she had been raped, he abandoned her and their two young sons."

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By Jeremy R. Hammond

The terms of the agreement effectively allow the U.S. to continue to control billions of dollars of proceeds from the sale of exported Iraqi oil held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It also contains numerous loopholes that could allow the continuing long-term presence of U.S. military forces and would effectively maintain U.S. jurisdiction over crimes committed by American soldiers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21301.htm



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Ein Expertenbericht für den US-Kongress kommt zum Ergebnis, dass die mysteriösen Beschwerden von US-Veteranen wahrscheinlich auf präventiv eingesetzte Medikamente und Pestizide zurückzuführen sind.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29191/1.html

Passage of the US-Iraq security pact under the terms both countries' leaders have advocated could violate the constitutions of both countries, specialists told a congressional subcommittee yesterday. - They instead pressed for an extension of the United Nations mandate authorizing US troop involvement in Iraq, which expires Dec. 31.

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Iraqis hold protest against US pact

Thousands of followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, a prominent Shia leader, have protested in central Baghdad against a security pact with the United States.

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Mahdi Army warns of new insurgency in Iraq if US troops stay until 2011

At one point the effigy of the outgoing US President, dressed in a black suit and carrying a suitcase labelled "security agreement", was hoisted up a parapet where the Saddam statue once stood in Firdous Square.

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Iraq war illegal, bring on the trial

A senior British law lord, former Lord Chief Justice Lord Bingham, stated yesterday in a speech at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London that the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 was "a serious violation of international law".

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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "It's the ultimate argument, the final bastion against withdrawal, and over these last years, the Bush administration has made sure it would have plenty of heft. Ironically, its strength lies in the fact that it has nothing to do with the vicissitudes of Iraqi politics, the relative power of Shiites or Sunnis, the influence of Iran, or even the riptides of war. It really doesn't matter what Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki or oppositional cleric Muqtada al-Sadr think about it. In fact, it's an argument that has nothing to do with Iraq and everything to do with us, with the American way of war (and life), which makes it almost unassailable."

http://www.truthout.org/112008U



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Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "The Bush administration's push to nail down a bilateral agreement governing the future US presence in Iraq faces serious stumbling blocks. Despite the agreement's near-unanimous passage in the Iraqi cabinet, fueled by deepening pressure from the Bush administration, it faces firm opposition from legal scholars and US Congress members, who say it undermines President-elect Barack Obama's powers and illegally bypasses Congress, and from Iraqi parliamentarians, who are not satisfied with its withdrawal provisions."

http://www.truthout.org/111908J



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Former senior law lord condemns 'serious violation of international law'.
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Straw defends his role in Iraq war after ex-law lord brands conflict 'illegal'

Lord Goldsmith and Lord Chancellor Jack Straw defended their actions after Lord Bingham, the former senior law lord and one of Britain's most respected judicial experts, described the military action by Britain and the US as a " serious violation of international law".

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Das irakische Kabinett bestätigt das Abkommen über die amerikanischen Militärstützpunkte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29147/1.html

Never Forget

Marc Ash, Truthout: "When they say to you that 'mistakes were made,' never believe that. Mistakes are always made, but mistakes did not lead us on the road to Baghdad. We were taken to Iraq by those who knew exactly, precisely what they were doing. Or believed so anyway. Do not be persuaded to believe that 'bad intelligence' was the problem and war was the unfortunate result. No one who made this war believed themselves what they told the nation. They knew quite well and they went anyway. And they took us with them."


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