World-News

Ahmed Rasheed and Wisam Mohammed of Reuters report: "Twenty people were killed in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City on Wednesday, security sources said, despite vehicle bans aimed at preventing unrest from spreading on the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040908R.shtml



Battle in Sadr City

Bill Moyers Journal: "Just back from being under fire in Sadr City this week, award-winning journalist Leila Fadel, Baghdad bureau chief for McClatchy, gives viewers on-the-ground analysis of the latest events and a close-up look at the state of the war."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041608U.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadr+City
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anniversary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moyers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leila+Fadel

The latest battles in Basra, Iraq's largest city and a vital oil port, provide ample examples of misleading and manipulative practice in corporate journalism today. One commonly used tactic is to describe events using self-styled or "official" terminology, which deliberately confuses the reader by giving no real indication or analysis of what is actually happening.

http://tinyurl.com/3n2pcv


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ramzy+Baroud

By AFP

"If history can take me back, I will kiss the statue of Saddam Hussein which I helped pull down," Khalil told reporters on the fifth anniversary of the statue's toppling.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19701.htm



Yes, The Occupation Has Begun

This Was Media Manipulation on a Grand Scale?

The photographs tell the story...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=toppling+Saddam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anniversary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=media+manipulation

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/040908b.html

Congressional Authority to Limit U.S. Military Operations in Iraq
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/8dd516d0ad97c794?hl=en


Informant: Duane Roberts



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

First it was the 'dead enders,' then it was al-Qaeda in Iraq, now it's the 'Special Groups' – but when will it end?

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12663


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/09/8176/

It's Time to Challenge Gen. Petraeus
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/09/8169/

Petraeus Testimony Contradicts What Troops on the Ground Report, Say Iraq Veterans Attending Hearings
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0409-06.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IVAW
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Andrews

Maddy Sauer reports for ABC News, "Yet another woman has come forward saying she was brutally raped in Iraq while working for the U.S. contractor Kellogg Brown Root (KBR)."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040908E.shtml

 

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

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

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

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maddy+Sauer

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/ad260aba74342949?hl=en



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

The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

04/08/08

General David Petraeus’ testimony Tuesday and Wednesday of this week will be another chapter in U.S. foreign policy’s long-running ‘is the surge working?’ debate. The General and Ambassador Ryan Crocker will offer up some good news counterpoints to the not-so-good news out of Basra from the last weekend of March. But in the ways that matter, there’s no need to debate in the present tense — the surge isn’t working, it’s already worked, and the question is what the Democrats plan to do about it. To evaluate the surge, you have to consider its goals...

http://tinyurl.com/5kmrnv



A convenient culprit

Guardian [UK]
by Dilip Hiro

04/08/08

Early reports suggest that in his testimony to a congressional committee today, General David Petraeus will claim that the Iranians assisted the Mahdi Army militia to fight the forces of Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki in the recent week-long battle in Basra. He is expected to offer this “evidence” to oppose any reduction in US troops in Iraq.This is the latest instance of Washington dangling the Iranian menace to persist in its disastrous course in Iraq, starting with its illegal invasion of the country on false pretences...

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/dilip_hiro/2008/04/a_convenient_culprit.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Did Petraeus part ways with the neocons?

The Real Story examines General Petraeus' testimony and the contending forces in Iraq.

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1314&thisview=item



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ryan+Crocker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mahdi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthew+Yglesias
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dilip+Hiro

Lieberman was in typical form this morning, prefacing his questions with high-flown, melodramatic praise for Petraeus.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/08/lieberman-tells-petraeus_n_95634.html


From Information Clearing House



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