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Das sei ganz "human", sagt ein Pentagon-Sprecher.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/113991

Two Iraqi officials say the U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about three years later.

http://tinyurl.com/6dtvad



Cleric may end cease fire if no US withdrawal timetable released Friday

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will call on his fighters to maintain a cease-fire against American troops but may lift the order if a planned Iraq-U.S. security agreement lacks a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces, a spokesman said Thursday.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cleric_may_end_cease_fire_if_0807.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Sadr
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawal

It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be? - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

By Cindy Sheehan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20454.htm



Vote for Bush? Pay Up

Did you help put America's worst prez into power? Time to make amends

By Mark Morford
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20453.htm



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By Anna Badkhen

The U.S. signed up legions of sketchy Iraqi fighters to help stop sectarian violence. Now, most may lose their security jobs -- but remain armed and angry.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20449.htm



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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20452.htm



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MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence was passed to the US but was buried by the White House, according to a new book.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4466512.ece


From Information Clearing House



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US Senators Want Iraq to Spend Oil Revenue on Reconstruction

Higher oil earnings could give the government in Baghdad a budget surplus of up to $50 billion - a windfall that has been noticed by senior senators in both U.S. political parties.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-06-voa53.cfm?rss=topstories


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Playing Politics With Iraqi Oil Money

Truthout's Matt Renner reports: "Republicans and Democrats have been in an uproar over a new report that examines the amount of money the government of Iraq has been taking in and where they have been spending it. However, according to a leading Iraq economy scholar, the report is being misinterpreted and the political fall-out could be extremely harmful. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, released on Tuesday, shows that the government of Iraq has spent less money than the United States in reconstructing vital infrastructure despite a growing surplus in Iraq's treasury.... Antonia Juhasz, a fellow with Oil Change International and author of the forthcoming book 'The Tyranny of Oil,' takes issue with many conclusions being drawn from the GAO report. 'Pinning the failure of reconstruction and the poor functioning of the Iraqi government on the Iraqi government is obscene,' Juhasz told Truthout."

http://www.truthout.org/article/playing-politics-with-iraqi-oil-money



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Gun-at-the-head Diplomacy

This War Came From a Think Tank

By Jochen Boelsche

It was in no way a conspiracy. As far back as 1998, ultra right US think tanks had developed and published plans for an era of US world domination, sidelining the UN and attacking Iraq. These people were not taken seriously. But now they are calling the tune.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2041.htm



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The Killing Fields

Video by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

One Baghdad's killings fields on the edge of Sadr City. The scene of thousands of sectarian murders over the last three years, it is a desolate and evil place: 'Only the killers and the killed ever come here' says Abdul-Ahad. Here in the thousands of unmarked graves lie the victims of militia gangs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20448.htm



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http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Suskind_Bush_ordered_fake_letter_linking_0805.html


Informant: Geraldo Cienmarcos

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Book Says White House Ordered Iraq-WMD Forgery

Mike Allen reports for Politico.com: "A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in 'The Way of the World,' to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery - adamantly denied by the White House - was designed to portray a false link between Hussein's regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war. The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official 'that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.'"

http://www.truthout.org/article/book-says-white-house-ordered-iraq-wmd-forgery



Suskind Stands by White House WMD Forgery Claim

According to MSNBC.com: "Despite adamant denials by both the White House and the CIA, journalist Ron Suskind Wednesday stood by his allegation that the Bush administration concocted a fake letter purporting to show a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida as a justification for the Iraq war. 'It's all on the record,' Suskind told Meredith Vieira on TODAY. Two former CIA officers denied that they or the spy agency faked an Iraqi intelligence document, as they are quoted as saying in Suskind's book 'The Way of the World,' published Tuesday. 'I never received direction from George Tenet (CIA director at the time) or anyone else in my chain of command to fabricate a document as outlined in Mr. Suskind's book,' said Robert Richer, the CIA's former deputy director of clandestine operations."

http://www.truthout.org/article/suskind-stands-by-white-house-wmd-forgery-claim

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New Book Claims Bush White House Used Forged Documents In Case For Iraq War

By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent

According to the book, the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations was responsible for fabricating the documents. The book goes on to say that the British intelligence agency MI6 recruited Saddam Hussein's intelligence chief, Tahir Abd al-Jalil al-Tikriti, and questioned him in Amman two months before the war, and then handed him over to the CIA.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20433.htm



Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act

By Steve Watson

Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20440.htm



The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened?

By Ron Suskind

A secret that has been judiciously kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is new, never reported in any way.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20456.htm



Suskind releasing transcript of 'forgery' source

Author Ron Suskind, whose new book charges that the Bush administration ordered the CIA to forge a letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence linking Iraq to al Qaeda, will now be releasing a transcript of the interview with one of his primary sources to defend himself against charges of inaccuracy.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Suskind_to_release_transcripts_of_intel_0808.html


From Information Clearing House

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'Way Of The World,' Fabricating A Case For War
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/dcca8fcd8fcb6137?hl=en

RON SUSKIND: THE LIE
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/9b18aea467131eed?hl=en

HARDBALL: RON SUSKIND INTERVIEW
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/8832ecce119d286e?hl=en

The Forged Iraqi Letter What Just Happened?
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/4d9ca25208abd2db?hl=en

How Tenet Betrayed the CIA on WMD in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/10/10920/

Congress Dennis Kucinich Applauds Investigation of Claims by Suskind
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0813-07.htm



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