World-News

By Daniel Tencer

A former CNN Iraq correspondent suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder says his employers wouldn't run footage he filmed of what he describes as a war crime by US troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26400.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/16-3

Conditions in Iraq Don't Match the Spin
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/09/17-0



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UN experts have rapped the United States for its failure to prosecute private security personnel over violations in Iraq, citing a case against two US firms which was dismissed after they claimed immunity.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/15/3011868.htm?section=justin


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/13

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They died for Iran

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

09/16/10

More than 4,400 Americans have died during the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Nearly 32,000 Americans have been wounded. And despite what President Obama says, it’s not over yet. What did those men and women sacrifice for? Some war critics say it was in vain, but that’s not true. It was for Iran. Iran is the big winner in Operation Iraqi Freedom (and now Operation New Dawn)...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1009e.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Gwynne Dyer

Blair has never publicly acknowledged that Saddam was actually an enemy of radical Islam: admitting that would drain the last dram of logic from his justification for invading Iraq. So he only talks in general terms about fighting "radical Islam" and hopes that the more ignorant part of the public will think that includes the Iraq war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26345.htm



War Criminal

Blair to Receive Human Rights Award

By The Press Association

Tony Blair is to receive an award for his global human rights work.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26354.htm



Nelson Mandela 'felt betrayed by Tony Blair over decision to join Iraq invasion'

Furious phone call to cabinet minister in protest at military action.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/12/nelson-mandela-tony-blair-peter-hain-iraq-invasion


From Information Clearing House



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Stephen Zunes, Truthout: "With all the attention on the supposed withdrawal of US combat forces, it is important to acknowledge the forces that got us into this tragic conflict in the first place. It was not just George W. Bush.... The responsibility for the deaths of over 4,400 American soldiers, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the waste of nearly one trillion dollars of our national treasury and the rise of terrorism and Islamist extremism that has come as a result of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq rests as much in the hands of the members in Congress who authorized the invasion as it does with the administration that requested the lawmakers' approval."

http://www.truth-out.org/iraq-the-democrats-war63120



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Threat Level

09/09/10

A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed. The documents constitute the ‘biggest leak of military intelligence’ that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit British organization that is working with WikiLeaks on the documents. The documents are expected to be published in several weeks...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/iraq-war-docs/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/09-3



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Gareth Porter, Truthout: "In an interview on the PBS NewsHour last Wednesday, Joe Biden was unwilling to contradict the official narrative of the Iraq war that Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush surge had turned Iraq into a good war after all. That interview serves as a reminder of just how completely the Democratic Party foreign policy elite has adopted that narrative. The Iraq War story line crafted by Petraeus and the new counterinsurgency elite in Washington assures the public that U.S. military power in Iraq brought about the cooperation of the Sunnis in Anbar Province, ended sectarian violence in Baghdad and defeated Iranian-backed Shi'a insurgents. In reality, of course, that's not what happened at all."

http://www.truth-out.org/biden-and-false-iraq-war-narrative63044

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Petraeus Spin on IED War Belied by Soaring Casualties
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2249?akid=173.124981.ig0wU4&t=12



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Liberty For All
by LP staff

09/06/10

Following President Obama’s ‘end of our combat mission’ speech, Libertarian Party chairman Mark Hinkle released this statement: ‘President Obama needs to stop lying. In his speech, he repeated the ridiculous and false claim that the U.S. combat mission is over in Iraq. He seems to think that if he keeps talking about the war in a nice way, then the war isn’t really happening’...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4811


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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