Baghdad insists a full timetable for US troop withdrawal must be part of any security pact deal.
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Tim Spicer, the former British soldier who is said to be effectively running the ’second biggest military service in Iraq’, has hired Schillings to help him block publication of a new book by Craig Murray.
(Via Septic Isle.)
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British soldiers are accused of forcing a boy of 14 to carry out an act of oral sex on a fellow male prisoner in Iraq.
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The Ministry of Defence agrees to pay almost £3m to Iraqis abused by British forces in Basra.
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muse
Kristof has an op-ed in NYT today about the importance of educating Iraqi refugees. I worked with a couple of Iraqi families seeking refugee status from UNHCR in Egypt, and their anger and frustration is not something I’m likely to forget. This situation is a huge disaster thats only going to get worse, since it doesn’t seem to be anyone’s concern in the US.
Leaving Iraq is a great blog that tries to keep this issue alive by compiling various news items. Check it out.
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thabet
Sometime ago, the Organization of Islamic Countries released a report on anti-Muslim hatred in Europe.
But why don’t they release reports on issues that affect their own countries, such as the evisceration of ancient Christian communities in Iraq?
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Wikileaks has some information on a sensitive (but unclassified) 219 page US military counterinsurgency manual.
The manual advocates the use of “paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions [and] political parties”.
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Patrick Cockburn’s Muqtada: Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq is reviewed at The New Republic.
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Only Somalia and Burma outrank Iraq in Transparency International’s latest worldwide corruption index.
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A US marine in Iraq has been removed from duty following claims that he handed out coins inscribed with biblical verses in Arabic.
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Iraqi clerisy call for referendum on proposal to indefinitely station US troops in Iraq.
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Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric has been quietly issuing religious edicts declaring that armed resistance against U.S.-led foreign troops is permissible.
Juan Cole has more.
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aziz
President Bush shows his solidarity to the families of soldiers killed in Iraq by giving up golf. He also blames India for the global food crisis (provoking a pointed response about American fat).
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aziz
The Iraq War is the first American war since the Revolutionary War to be financed entirely on credit - and will end up costing as much as World War II.
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Mayday protests against the war by longshoremen in the Northwest. Ports of Seattle and Tacoma completely shut down.
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A study of American media coverage of the run up to the Iraq invasion concludes (pdf): “Bush administration officials were the most frequently quoted sources, the voices of anti-war groups and opposition Democrats were barely audible, and the overall thrust of coverage favored a pro-war perspective.”
Via The Monkey Cage.
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The United States wants Iraq to agree on the following: allow the US to imprison Iraqi citizens unilaterally; give American contractors immunity from Iraqi law; and allow the US military to conduct operations without permission from the Iraqi government. Oh, and they’d like Iraqis to foot the bill too.
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Exhibition exposes modern tragedy of Babylon.
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aziz
Today’s Morning Edition on NPR has a fantastic, fair but critical, piece on the testimony yesterday.
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The Republicanists are seriously freaked out about the 100 years in Iraq meme. Their “defense” is actually more damning: when exactly do they think that an occupation of Iraq with no American troops “injured or harmed or wounded or killed” will begin?
UPDATE: More at Nation-Building, including a summary of yesterday’s testimony by Petraeus and Crocker.
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