World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/25/7872/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dead+US+troops

Reuters reports: "Tensions are simmering again in once bloody Anbar province, Washington's prize good news story for security in Iraq. Along the main road through Anbar's second city of Falluja, a former insurgent stronghold and scene of fierce battles with US forces in 2004, markets and car workshops are re-opening for business. But many say that growing anger at a lack of jobs, basic services and political progress threatens to shatter peace in the western province, which makes up about a third of Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032508O.shtml



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

The Associated Press reports: "Fresh off his eighth Iraq visit, Sen. John McCain declared Monday that 'we are succeeding' and said he wouldn't change course - even as the US death toll rose to 4,000 and the war entered its sixth year."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032508L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=4%2C000
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain

Ann Wright, John Brown and Brady Kiesling, writing in The Huffington Post, say: "Five years ago this month, the three of us left the US Foreign Service in opposition to the war on Iraq. We were not pacifists. We were professional, non-partisan diplomats bound by our oath of loyalty to the US Constitution. Our job was to build effective relationships with key figures outside the United States. We used our language skills, respectful curiosity, and understanding of local politics to promote US national interests as our president and secretary of state directed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032408D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ann+Wright
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anniversary

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul446.html



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/paul

Some don't know why they were arrested, and many are held for months without seeing a judge. Justice officials deny the accusations, but evidence points to deep-rooted problems.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/mayfaire/latimes109.htm



Schoolgirl in Baghdad

Noor Salman is 16-year-old Iraqi girl living in Baghdad. She writes about her experiences of life in the five years since the US-led invasion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19589.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

By Michael Isikoff

They show terror plots, but raise new questions about some U.S. claims.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19585.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Isikoff

By Maddy Sauer

Defector Says He Never Claimed Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19594.htm



THE REAL STORY OF 'CURVEBALL'

How German Intelligence Helped Justify the US Invasion of Iraq:

Five years ago, the US government presented what it said was proof that Iraq harbored biological weapons. The information came from a source developed by German intelligence -- and it turned out to be disastrously wrong. But to this day, Germany denies any responsibility.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,542840,00.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Curveball
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=weapons+of+mass+destruction
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maddy+Sauer

Terry J. Allen, of In These Times, reports, "While Congress runs out the clock on President Bush's Iraq War, some Vermont legislators hope to spark a state-by-state movement to quickly withdraw National Guard troops and stanch the flow of blood and treasure."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032408M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vermont
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Terry+J.+Allen

Amarillo Globe News

03/23/08

Joan McDonald believes her son was a casualty of the war in Iraq, but the Army says that while he did suffer a severe head wound in a bomb blast, the cause of his death is undetermined, keeping him off the casualty list. She and her family are demanding more answers in the death of Sgt. James W. McDonald...

http://tinyurl.com/2toqeg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp