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Iraqi soldiers attempting to retake parts of Sadr City deserted their positions, ignoring pleas from their U.S. advisers, military officials said.

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212142410.shtml



US jets drop bombs on Sadr City

US warplanes have dropped bombs on east Baghdad district of Sadr City where hundreds of civilians have already been killed in air strikes.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=52498&sectionid=351020201



Iran deplores civilian deaths in Basra, Sadr City, urges US to stop air strikes

Iraqi religious leader Moqtada Sadr protested to Iraqi government against military operations on his followers, al-Mahdi Army. He warned the the Iraqi government of public uprising if the operations continue in the two Shia cities of Basra and Sadr City.

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0804202079122445.htm



US snipers accused of targeting civilians in Sadr City

Residents, doctors of Baghdad's Sadr City say US snipers deliberately shoot civilians in feet, stomachs.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=25503


From Information Clearing House

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Iraqi Troops Again Abandon Position

The Associated Press reports from Baghdad: "A company of Iraqi government troops in Sadr City retreated when they came under attack from Shiite militiamen who used the cover of a sandstorm, police said Friday." And, Michael R. Gordon, writing for The New York Times, reports, "Trying to stem the infiltration of militia fighters, American forces have begun to build a massive concrete wall that will partition Sadr City, the densely populated Shiite neighborhood in the Iraqi capital."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041808B.shtml



GIs in Sadr City Under Fire From Friends and Foes

Leila Fadel of McClatchy Newspapers reports: "Three weeks after US troops were ordered into the sprawling Shiite Muslim slum of Sadr City to stop rockets from raining down on the US Embassy compound in Baghdad's Green Zone, they're caught in crossfire between Shiite militiamen and the mostly Shiite Iraqi army."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041908A.shtml



The New Walls of Baghdad

Steve Niva writes for Foreign Policy In Focus, "The explosion of walls and enclaves reinforced by aerial violence across Iraq suggest that the primary counterinsurgency lessons being followed by the US military in Iraq today derive less from the lessons of 'Lawrence of Arabia' than from Israel's experiences in the Occupied Palestinian Territories over the past decade."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208N.shtml

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Sadr City wall is US's latest contribution to Iraq's deepening civil war
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7361/


Informant: jensenmk

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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadr+City
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What I heard at the Petraeus-Crocker hearings

Center For Individual Freedom
by John Cornyn

04/10/08

America’s top military commander and chief diplomat in Iraq reported Tuesday that we are making significant progress there. They added that we cannot afford to squander our gains by losing our resolve. But was anybody really listening? Just this morning, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said the following on the Senate floor: ‘Is the war in Iraq making America safer? By all accounts, the answer…is ‘no’’...

http://tinyurl.com/6grjyr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Crocker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid

CNN

04/15/08

U.S. diplomats may be forced to serve in Iraq next year if enough qualified candidates do not apply for certain jobs, the State Department warned employees Tuesday. A similar threat to call up diplomats last year drew fire among foreign service officers. Many of them objected to being forced to work in a war zone, even though Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Iraq was the department’s priority...

http://tinyurl.com/5gznp9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

"When it comes to Iraq, there is no daylight between John McCain and George W. Bush. They are joined at the hip," Biden, a Democrat, said in excerpts of remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday at Georgetown University.

http://tinyurl.com/3kx5u6


From Information Clearing House



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The announcement Monday on the ministry's Web site is a major move that could bring foreign oil companies en masse into Iraq since the third-largest oil sector in the world was nationalized three decades ago.

http://tinyurl.com/63bs4c



Iraq May Be Required To Pay For Its Own Destruction: Iraq's financial free ride may end

From the fiercest foes of the war to the most steadfast Bush supporters, they are looking at Iraq's surging oil income and saying Baghdad should start picking up more of the tab.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iraq_free_ride_over


From Information Clearing House



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

At the low end of estimates of the cost of the war - $120 billion a year - the money would cover the projected cost of Clinton's universal health care plan. It could pay for Obama's less inclusive health care plan and his proposal to bail out homeowners with troubled mortgages.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/14/america/14warcosts.php


From Information Clearing House

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/12/151937/351/893/494404


From Information Clearing House



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/14/8265/



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2008/04/for_the_american_military_iraq.html


Informant: Kev Hall



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