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Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Obama actually increasing personnel in Iraq

September 2009
US forces are not withdrawing from Iraq.
Well, its soldiers are. But not civilian contractors. Despite President Barack Obama’s pledge to withdraw US troops from the war-torn country, the US is planning to award contracts to protect US installations at a cost to taxpayers that could near $1 billion.
In fact, the Multi-National Force-Iraq just awarded [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

The Iraqi who threw his Shoe at George W. Bush: “My Flower” to Bush, the Occupier

September 21st, 2009; GlobalResearch.ca:
The Story of My Shoe
by Mutadhar al-Zaidi

Mutadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi who threw his shoe at George Bush gave this speech on his recent release.
In the name of God, the most gracious and most merciful.
Here I am, free. But my country is still a prisoner of war.
Firstly, I give my thanks [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Blackwater, CIA’s ‘extrajudicial’ hired assassins

NewYork Times- The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.

Blackwater security contractors flew over Baghdad in 2007. For years, Blackwater played a significant role in [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

US soldier gets life for 14 year old Iraqi girl rape and murder of her family

A former US soldier convicted of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her and her family, has been jailed for life,
after a jury failed to agree on a death sentence.
Steven Dale Green, 24, was convicted two weeks ago of the crimes near Baghdad, where he and his unit were serving in 2006.
The jury of [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Breaking- Iraq war briefings headlined with biblical quotes, reports US magazine

One of the top planners of the US war in Iraq gave President George Bush secret intelligence briefs headlined with biblical quotations, in a bid to boost his standing with the deeply religious president but one that risked sparking a conflagration in the Muslim world if the papers leaked.
In the days surrounding the March 2003 [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Iraqi soldier fatally shoots 2 U.S. troops, wounds 3 near Mosul

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — An Iraqi soldier fatally shot two American soldiers and wounded three others on Saturday, the U.S. military said. The incident took place at a combat outpost just south of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where there has been a strong presence of anti-U.S. militants, and it underscored the dangers for U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces in that city.

A second gunman also fired on other U.S. soldiers at the outpost and fled…