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Shiites in Iraq protest US occupation, answering al-Sadr's call

Demonstrators in Baghdad's Sadr City district chanted "no to America, no to the occupation." A statement from al-Sadr's office has called the negotiations "a project of humiliation for the Iraqi people."

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/30/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Protests.php



Shiite clerics step up opposition to security deal

New waves of dispute have risen between Iraqi political forces in Baghdad as the Iraqi and US authorities aim to reach a long-term strategy by July 31.

http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iraq/10217144.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Pepe Escobar

AP report says Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani on verge of issuing fatwa against occupying US troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20000.htm



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By Shamus Cooke

If he is eventually elected President, the contradiction between Obama's public anti-war face and his real pro-war beliefs will produce incredible shock and disappointment in millions of people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19995.htm

Alive in Baghdad: Remembering the Iraqi husbands and children who have died due to war.

http://tinyurl.com/4htvng

Ein Experte macht einmal wieder den Einmarsch in den Irak, der eigentlich auch für billiges Öl sorgen sollte, für die teuren Preise verantwortlich.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/108435



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Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Spencer Ackerman writes for The Washington Independent, "Across 29 California ports, as many as 25,000 longshoremen - members of the firebrand International Longshore & Warehouse Union - refused to show up for work in protest of the US military presence in Iraq. Activity at the ports was significantly diminished on May 1 - the international day of labor solidarity. Labor historians interviewed by The Washington Independent were hard-pressed to remember the last antiwar labor strike of this magnitude."

http://www.truthout.org/article/working-class-weary-war



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James Rainey for The Los Angeles Times reports, "The House of Representatives moved Thursday to crack down on a Pentagon program that Democrats say planted false and overly optimistic news stories about the Iraq war, using military analysts who appeared regularly on television."

http://www.truthout.org/article/house-aims-pentagon-propaganda-iraq-war



Audit: Iraq Contracts Skirted Fraud Rules

The Associated Press: "An internal audit of some $8 billion paid to US and Iraqi contractors found that nearly every transaction failed to comply with federal laws or regulations aimed at preventing fraud, in some cases lacking even basic invoices explaining how the money was spent."

http://www.truthout.org/article/audit-iraq-contracts-skirted-fraud-rules

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Spending On Iraq Poorly Tracked

By Dana Hedgpeth

The inspector general for the Defense Department said yesterday that the Pentagon cannot account for almost $15 billion worth of goods and services ranging from trucks, bottled water and mattresses to rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns that were bought from contractors in the Iraq reconstruction effort.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19978.htm



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Alexandra Zavis and Saif Rasheed report for The Los Angeles Times: "A local Iraqi police chief today accused the U.S. military of killing seven Iraqi civilians, including at least one child, in a helicopter strike in northern Iraq. The military said the adults were members of a bombing network, but it added that two children were killed in the clash."

http://www.truthout.org/article/iraq-police-chief-says-us-killed-seven-civilians

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US Airstrikes Surge in Iraq, and Civilian Deaths Follow
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/23/9141/



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