Saddam's nephew escapes Iraqi prison
• APA nephew of Saddam Hussein serving a life sentence for financing insurgents and possessing bombs escaped from prison Saturday in northern Iraq with the help of a police officer, authorities said.
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WAR: About that War
AUSTRALIA WITHDRAWS TROOPS FROM IRAQ BY JUNE, 2007
• The OrstrahyunThe Australian Defence department vetoed plans by Donald Rumsfeld for Australian troops to be embedded with Iraqi Army units. Australia does not intend to have its current 750 troops stationed in Iraq through the second half of 2007.
Kurdish Leader Rejects Iraq Report
• CNNKurdish leader Massoud Barzani, a longtime Washington ally, has angrily rejected the Iraq Study Group's recommendations, warning that any delay in deciding the fate of an oil-rich region claimed by the Kurds would have "grave consequences.**
U.S. Soldiers in Iraq: 'I Don't Want to Live My Life Like This'
• APSoldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment were skeptical they'll be going home anytime soon, despite a high-level U.S. panel's recommendation that most combat troops leave Iraq by early 2008. "There's no way we
Foley Page Boy Abuse Report a 'whitewash'
• ABC News blogCalling the report a "whitewash," the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, said the "House ethics committee has proven itself yet again to be entirely incapable of investigating wrongdoing by Members of Congres
Controversy over Iraq air strike
• AFPControversy has broken out over a US air strike that killed around 20 Iraqis, with the military branding them "Al-Qaeda terrorists" while locals displayed the corpses of children. The US military said coalition forces called in an air strik
No Middle Ground
• by Spencer Ackerman (American Prospect)The trouble is that the Iraq Study Group is ultimately providing false hope for an extended war. Its assessment is appropriately bleak. But take a closer look. First, the commission isn't actually calling for withdrawal. Second, the commissioners
Bush Appears Cool to Key Points Of Report on Iraq
• Washington PostPresident Bush vowed to come up with "a new strategy" in Iraq but expressed little enthusiasm for the central ideas of a bipartisan commission that advised him to ratchet back the U.S. military commitment in Iraq and launch an aggressive ne
Uneasy Havens Await Those Who Flee Iraq
• NY TimesMs. Reyahi is one of nearly two million Iraqis who have fled the vicious chaos of their country since the American invasion nearly four years ago, flooding neighboring states, especially Jordan and Syria, but also Lebanon and Egypt.
Saudis reportedly funding Iraqi Sunnis
• AP[Support our trOOPS, don't buy gas.] Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials
Survivors honor Pearl Harbor victims
• APOne by one, aging survivors from ships sunk 65 years ago in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor laid wreaths under life preserver rings honoring their ships. Nearly 500 survivors bowed their heads at 7:55 a.m., the minute planes began bombing the har
Serious use for Silly String
• APIn an age of multimillion-dollar high-tech weapons systems, sometimes it's the simplest ideas that can save lives. Which is why a New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String to Iraq.
Iraq Study Group: How Big a Change?
• by William D. Hartung (AntiWar)Despite some early headlines suggesting that the Iraq Study Group would be calling for a withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq by the beginning of 2008, a look at the fine print suggests otherwise. An exercise in "bait and switch" than
Senator Feingold says Iraq report 'completely misses the point'
• Raw Story (video link)"We need an Iraq policy that is guided by our top national security priority – defeating the terrorist network that attacked us on 9/11 and its allies. Unless we set a serious timetable for redeploying our troops from Iraq, we will be unable to
Iraq war costs could top $1 trillion
• WASHINGTON (Reuters)The Democratic co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group said on Wednesday that America's ability to resolve the crisis in Iraq is narrowing and the costs could rise to more than $1 trillion.
Leading Democrat calls for more boots on the ground
• NewsweekIn a surprise twist in the debate over Iraq, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the soon-to-be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said he wants to see an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops as part of a stepped up effort to “dismantle the militias
Civil war? No, that'll be much worse, Iraqis say
• ReutersEnraged citizens going from house to house, street to street, killing their neighbours of decades, with security forces powerless to stop them -- that is the nightmare many Iraqis fear if the country sinks into civil war.
The Pavlovian State <br>(You Are the Dog)
• by Lew Rockwell (LRC)There's been much talk about the Rumsfeld memo written before his departure. But there's been little talk of the strange specifics in the memo, specifics which provide profound insight into the workings of the imperial state.
Iraq Study Group Policy Report 2006
• PDF, 160 pagesRead it for yourself.
The Stability Problem, Solved
• by Patrick J. Buchanan (AntiWar)During last summer's Israeli-Hezbollah war, Condi Rice assured us we were witnessing the "birth pangs of a new Middle East." Condi may be right. That new Middle East appears to be one in which US influence is waning and America is on th
The Iraq Study Group Rides to the Rescue – of the Empire
• by Tom Engelhardt (Tom Dispatch)George Bush insisted there would be no "graceful exit" or withdrawal from Iraq. The Times, said that, "despite a Democratic election victory that was strongly based on antiwar sentiment, the idea of a withdrawal seems to be fading as a
The Coming Clash Over Iraq Policy
• by Ivan Eland (Independent Institute)In an effort to set the stage for selling their withdrawal policy to the American people, both Democrats and Republicans are now blaming the Iraqis for not being able to govern themselves peacefully.
Census Counts 100,000 Contractors in Iraq
• Washington PostThere are about 100,000 government contractors operating in Iraq, not counting subcontractors, a total that is approaching the size of the U.S. military force there, according to the military's first census of the growing population of civilians
Baghdad's moving crews on the front lines of sectarian violence
• McClatchy NewsEvery morning, Saif Daham runs Baghdad's sectarian gantlet in a gray flatbed truck piled with televisions, air conditioners, baby clothes and anything else his customers can grab before gunmen force them from their homes. He's shuttled Shi
Bush's meeting with a murderer
• Tom PainePresident George Bush meets with Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, the turbaned leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a Shiite fundamentalist party that is strongly tied to Iran. In so doing, the president is meeting with someone who,
Amid Hints Bush Will Change Policy, Clues He Won’t
• NY TimesIs President Bush ready to abandon his declaration that American forces cannot begin to leave Iraq until the Iraqis demonstrate that they are capable of defending themselves?
Bush doubts Iraq in civil war
• UPIBush told interviewer Brit Hume. "...some would argue that the fact that 90 percent of the country -- let me just say this -- most of the country outside of the Baghdad area, is relatively peaceful."
Bush meets with Iraqi Shiite leader
• Raw StoryThe meeting took place after weekend reports of a memo penned by outgoing Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that called for major adjustments to the approach in Iraq.
Saudis and Iran prepare to do battle over corpse of Iraq
• Daily TelegraphThe gulf's 2 military powers, Sunni-Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, are lining up behind their warring religious brethren in Iraq in a potentially explosive showdown, as expectations grow that America is preparing a pull-out of its troops.
Blair seeks US deal for withdrawal of troops
• Daily TelegraphTony Blair is to meet President Bush in Washington to try to forge a joint plan for a phased withdrawal of British and US troops from Iraq, starting next spring. Sources in London say the two men will discuss how to co-ordinate policy statements on I
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