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Sari Gelzer, Truthout: "In September 2007, Blackwater Worldwide security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square. The New York Times is reporting that following the massacre Blackwater Worldwide executives bribed Iraqi officials with secret payments of about $1 million in an attempt to maintain the company's endangered ability to operate in the country. The deadly shooting marked a turning point in the Iraqi government's growing concern over the reckless actions of the security firm and led to their refusal to allow them to continue operating in the country."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/111209sg03



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Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/world/middleeast/11blackwater.html



The plunder of Iraq's oil

As the direct result of the Iraq war, major American and other transnational energy conglomerates are now gaining control over some the largest oilfields in the world.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/pers-n11.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5A842F20091109?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=401


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Ein Grund, so eine Studie, könnte sein, dass die US-Medien sehr einseitig berichten und damit die Wahrnehmung des Krieges stark beeinflussen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31458/1.html

The British oil giant BP will today take control of Iraq's biggest oilfield in the first important energy deal since the 2003 invasion. The move has created uproar among local politicians invoking resentful memories of their nation's colonial past.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6900112.ece


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By DPA

Outgoing UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei criticized the United States on Monday for using a 'false pretext' to invade Iraq, costing 'the lives of possibly hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23885.htm



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The figures were markedly higher than September, which saw a total of 203 people die as a result of violence.

http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/256358


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/28-0



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Atonement

A conscience-stricken member of the House Armed Services Committee is writing a book called "My Daddy's Not Dead Yet" in hopes it will atone for what he now considers his sinful vote to empower former President George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/print_friendly.php?ID=foa_20091026_5206


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Sixty children 'missing' after Baghdad bombing

The governor of Baghdad, Salah Abdel-Raziq, on Tuesday said that as many as 60 young children may still be buried under rubble from devastating twin bombings three days ago.

http://snipurl.com/su8gi



Largest Iraq bombing in two years may have been inside job

Sunday's twin suicide bombings in Baghdad that killed at least 155 people and wounded 500 others may have had help from within Iraq's security apparatus, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reported Monday.

http://rawstory.com/2009/10/iraq-bombing-inside-job/



The Iraqi Time Bomb

Iraq is an orphan. At times, it's like the White House has put Iraq in a box called "George Bush's blunders," and it doesn't plan on looking into the box.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20091027/cm_thenation/1096488957


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Bombs will go off in Baghdad (whether the US is there or not)

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

10/27/09

The savage suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad yesterday show how far the violence in Iraq is from being over. It is as if those who order these bombings know that they only have to repeat these atrocities every couple of months to destabilize the country. … There is no need to imagine that the slaughter in Haifa Street yesterday was because American troops withdrew from the cities of Iraq three months ago. With or without US troops, the bombers have been able to get through in Baghdad ever since they destroyed the UN headquarters in 2003...

http://counterpunch.org/patrick10272009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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