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Who's Really Running Iraq?

By PATRICK COCKBURN

The success of 'the Surge' is becoming almost received wisdom in the US. This is strange since, if the US strategy did win such an important victory, why do America generals need more soldiers, currently 147,000 of them, in Iraq than they did before 'the Surge' started?

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Nusayf Jassim, a resident on Samarra, 125 kilometers north of Baghdad, told AFP that U.S. soldiers had raided his home in search of insurgents and in the ensuing gunfire his mother and two brothers were killed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080730/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestusmilitarycivilians


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By Bennet Kelley

The Iraqi's have rejected this invitation to be an American colony as "arrogant" and an affront to their sovereignty, but the White House is playing hardball and recently cost the Iraqi's $5 billion by blocking the transfer of certain Iraqi currency reserves out of the declining dollar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20380.htm



Defeated in Iraq?

By Mike Whitney

Look for it at the pawn shops, the homeless shelters, and the growing number of empty sub-divisions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20384.htm



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Susan Schmidt and Glenn R. Simpson, of The Wall Street Journal: "Influential former Pentagon official Richard Perle has been exploring going into the oil business in Iraq and Kazakhstan, according to people with knowledge of the matter and documents outlining possible deals. Mr. Perle, one of a group of security experts who began pushing the case for toppling Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein about a decade ago, has been discussing a possible deal with officials of northern Iraq's Kurdistan regional government, including its Washington envoy, according to these people and the documents."

http://www.truthout.org/article/perle-linked-kurdish-oil-plan

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Richard Perle mischt bei Ölgeschäften mit Irak mit

Einer der maßgeblichen Antreiber zum Irak-Krieg scheint nun zu bestätigen, dass es beim Irak-Krieg um das Öl und die Geschäfte ging.

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Government Inspector Estimates: Bowen estimated up to 20 percent "waste" _ or more than $4 billion _ from the $21 billion spent so far in the U.S.-bankrolled Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund.

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Military Wasted Millions in Iraq, Inspector Bowen Says

Parsons Corp., one of the largest construction contractors in Iraq, and the Pentagon wasted millions of U.S. tax dollars because of poor oversight and building practices, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction said in a new report.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=awLWws6g.cwA&refer=us



U.S.-Iraq memo opens door to future turmoil

The United States is moving into legal no-man's land because the president refuses to ask the U.N. Security Council to renew the annual resolution that provides the legal foundation for the presence of our troops in Iraq. If this resolution is allowed to expire Dec. 31, it would create a legal vacuum — a vacuum that can't be filled by a presidential memo.

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Audit Find Millions Wasted in Iraq Reconstruction Contract

Agence France-Presse: "Millions of dollars were likely wasted on a $900 million army contract to build courthouses, prisons, police and other security facilities in Iraq, an audit released Monday has found."

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The statement — which called the man and two women killed "law abiding citizens of Iraq" — reversed earlier military claims that they were suspected militants who shot at a parked American convoy.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/27/africa/ME-Iraq-Civilians-Killed.php


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Bush Forced al-Maliki to Back Down on Pullout in 2006

Analysis by Gareth Porter

It appears that Bush is making the usual dominant power mistake in relations to al-Maliki. He may have been a pushover in mid-2006, but the circumstances have changed, in Iraq, in the U.S.-Iraq-Iran relations and in the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20372.htm



Iraq, US agree no foreign troops after 2011: PM

By Salam Faraj

Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday Washington and Baghdad have agreed there will be no foreign forces in Iraq after 2011, setting a timeline for a US withdrawal from the war-torn country. Maliki stressed however that despite "significant progress", there are "still points of disagreement crucial to both sides" in the proposed security pact that will decide the future of US forces in Iraq. The White House, too, stressed on Monday there was no final accord with Baghdad on the controversial issue.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20617.htm



Iraq's Maliki Says U.S. Pact Must Include Pullout Date

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said there can be no security agreement with the U.S. unless there is a "specific deadline" for the withdrawal of American troops. Mr. Maliki also said that unless some clauses in the draft agreement under discussion are changed, it will be "difficult" for the pact to be adopted. He didn't identify all those clauses. But the prime minister told tribal leaders Monday that he cannot grant "open immunity" to Iraqis or foreigners because that would violate the "sanctity of Iraqi blood."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20613.htm

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Maliki Demands "Specific Deadline" for US Troop Pullout

Leila Fadel, McClatchy Newspapers: "Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki said Monday there would be no security agreement between the United States and Iraq without an unconditional timetable for withdrawal - a direct challenge to the Bush administration, which insists that the timing for troop departure would be based on conditions on the ground."

http://www.truthout.org/article/maliki-demands-specific-deadline-us-troop-pullout



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The Real News Network: Iraq Events Moving Out of US Control
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0728-06.htm



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