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An Iraqi rights group said that 2,405 people were killed in Iraq in the past six month, as violence spiked amid political post-election tensions, the Yaqen website reported Saturday.

http://tinyurl.com/32eczqh


From Information Clearing House

Iraq War Legal Advice Published

BBC News

In a letter to the prime minister on 30 January, 2003, Lord Goldsmith said he "remained of the view that the correct legal interpretation of resolution 1441 is that it does not authorise the use of military force without a further determination by the Security Council".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25850.htm



Blair 'needed UN support' over Iraq

Jonathan Powell assured a meeting at 10 Downing Street three months before the war began that it was unlikely that America would proceed with the invasion alone.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gkHalP9jr4TpJzh1h7WC392P0XfQ



Revealed: Tony Blair's battle with law chief after warning Iraq war would be illegal

Tony Blair's fury at being told the Iraq War was illegal was laid bare yesterday after secret memos from his Attorney General were finally published.

http://tinyurl.com/2dsysgk



US And Britain 'Did Not Believe Iraq's Weapons Programme Was A Real Threat'

By The Telegraph

Former UK diplomat Carne Ross claimed that the Government ''intentionally and substantially'' exaggerated its assessment of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in public documents.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25920.htm



Tony Blair 'intentionally talked up WMD', Iraq inquiry told

Tony Blair "intentionally" exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, the Iraq inquiry heard yesterday.

http://bit.ly/9yFfPl


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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Tony+Blair
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lord+Goldsmith

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/882.html

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Iraq: The Hidden War

Video

Iraq: The Hidden Story shows the footage used by TV news broadcasts, and compares it with the devastatingly powerful uncensored footage of the aftermath of the carnage that is becoming a part of the fabric of life in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13420.htm



Sir! No Sir!

The Suppressed Story of The GI Movement to end the war in Viet Nam

Video

A "must-see" documentary which seeks to return to the historical record the pivotal story of the GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam War.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13036.htm



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Ken+O'Keefe

By Fred Branfman

Is the suffering our leaders inflict on innocent civilians relevant to deciding whether to support our present war-making in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Would it matter if the N.Y. Times had run daily profiles and photos of Iraqi civilian victims since 2003, as it did of U.S. victims after 9/11?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25790.htm



EU states 'use outsourced torture'

Britain, France and Germany must stop using intelligence obtained through torture in third-party countries, a report from Human Rights Watch has said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/06/2010629134355923668.html


From Information Clearing House

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Witnessing against torture

CounterPunch
by Kathy Kelly

06/23/10

Many people come to the capitol every day of the year. They are free to ask questions and to make comments. But, if you raise questions and comments of a political nature, police officials believe they must enforce a law to restrict your enactment of this right, even though the Constitution insists that Congress shall make no law to abridge the right of people to assemble peaceably for redress of grievance. We believed that expression of grief and remorse for the lost lives of these three men should properly happen in a place where U.S. people mourn the loss of a president’s life. While a U.S. president possesses near-unimaginable power, the men whom we mourned suffered from unimaginable powerlessness. Earnest mourning of these lost lives was crucial for truthful recognition that the U.S. government has used torture as a means of punishment, possibly even lethal punishment, in violation of international law and basic human rights...

http://counterpunch.org/kelly06232010.html



A legal cover for torture?

CounterPunch
by Sheldon Richman

06/23/10

It’s not enough that the last gang to occupy the Executive Branch got us into two illegal wars, accumulated autocratic powers, violated our civil liberties, and tortured suspects. Now it appears that it kicked things up a notch. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) says it has unearthed ‘evidence that indicates the Bush administration apparently conducted illegal and unethical human experimentation and research on detainees in CIA custody’...

http://counterpunch.org/richman06232010.html



Under pressure, UK promises torture guidelines

Macon Telegraph

06/28/10

The British government promised Monday to quickly issue its spies a fresh set of guidelines on how to avoid being complicit in torture. The announcement addresses a legal challenge to the existing guidelines, which human rights group Reprieve said allowed British intelligence agents to gather information extracted through torture — even if they weren’t directly involved in the mistreatment...

http://tinyurl.com/2g7q4yk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Calling for Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "Today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, established by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1997, to mark the ratification of the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on June 26, 1987. As UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan explained on June 26, 1998 (when the day was first marked), 'This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable....' At the time, Annan lamented that, although over 100 States had ratified the Convention, the use of torture was 'still reported' in many of those countries."

http://www.truth-out.org/calling-accountability-international-day-support-victims-torture60786

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Britain, France, Germany Use Torture Intel: HRW
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/29-2



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Pakistan/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
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The Heritage Lake Homeowners Association, as Clauer would come to learn, had exercised its rights under Texas law to sell the home after the Clauers fell behind on their association dues by about $800.

http://tinyurl.com/2ddkg9b


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeowners+Association

The State Department is quietly forming a small army to protect diplomatic personnel in Iraq after US military forces leave the country at the end of 2011 and take their firepower with them.

http://tinyurl.com/2aehewr


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw

The probe spans five provinces and reveals a grim landscape of hazardous trash and sickened Iraqis.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7149611.ece


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+War+-+Irak+Krieg/

Details of the still-undisclosed memo began to leak out, first in a Daily Mirror article reporting that during the Bush-Blair conversation the president, shockingly, had suggested that allied forces should bomb the Arab television network Al Jazeera.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/12/news/britain.php


From Information Clearing House

http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20060627_occupation_iraq_hearts_minds/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp