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Andrew E. Kramer, of The New York Times: "A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies to develop some of the largest fields in Iraq, American officials say. The disclosure, coming on the eve of the contracts' announcement, is the first confirmation of direct involvement by the Bush administration in deals to open Iraq's oil to commercial development and is likely to stoke criticism."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-advised-iraqi-ministry-oil-deals



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+E.+Kramer

In These Times' James Foley: "US military tries to pacify grieving Iraqis with condolence payments."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-price-one-iraqi-life

Hannah Allam of McClatchy Newspapers, "Senior Iraqi government officials said Saturday that a U.S. Special Forces counterterrorism unit conducted the raid that reportedly killed a relative of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, touching off a high-stakes diplomatic crisis between the United States and Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-raid-kills-maliki-relative-crisis-grows-over-us-iraq-agreement

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Relative of Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki shot dead by US soldiers

Authorities Sunday said the relative was shot dead Friday in a raid by U.S. soldiers in Hindiya, east of the holy city of Karbala.

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php?sid=376601


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+raid
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=counterterrorism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hannah+Allam

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt343.html



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/engelhardt

The pact will allow US bases in the country, even though they may fly the Iraqi flag. Many Iraqis fear that the US wants a long-term presence. "We very much see these arrangements as transitional," Satterfield said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/28/iraq.usforeignpolicy


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+base

It Was Oil, All Along

For Truthout, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write: "Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire and ashes. And now the bottom line turns out to be ... the bottom line. It is about oil."

http://www.truthout.org/article/it-was-oil-all-along

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Was the Iraq Invasion for Oil After All?
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0701-11.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moyers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Winship
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy

By Brkic Sulejman

Here in Tokyo, Japan, 3 peace activists, Toshiyuki Obora, Nobuhiro Onishi and Sachimi Takada were found guilty on April 11, 2008 by the Supreme Court of putting anti-war fliers into the mail boxes of the families of the Japanese soldiers who were dispatched to Irak on the orders of Uncle Sam.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20189.htm

CNN

06/25/08

Police said a U.S. airstrike killed a family of six in northern Iraq, but the U.S. military described it as an attack targeting insurgents that killed one ‘armed terrorist.’ Police said Tuesday night’s strike, just north of Tikrit, also wounded four people. Police said a man went outside and fired warning shots after hearing people moving around his house. U.S. troops thought it was hostile fire and responded...

http://tinyurl.com/4umxzz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=airstrike

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0624-24.htm



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