World-News

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4517/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

For the first time since the conflict began, fewer than four-in-ten Americans believe the war with Iraq was worth fighting.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/11939


From Information Clearing House

A senior U.S. officer has been working to restore the morale of some 600 Ugandan guards, most of them serving abroad for the first time, following the allegations that they were sexually abused while working with the U.S. forces in Iraq.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/12/content_4539340.htm


From Information Clearing House

The spiralling violence in Iraq has led to sustained "sectarian cleansing" with many families forced to take refuge in squalid camps.

http://tinyurl.com/pytap


From Information Clearing House

In the 'new Iraq' beloved of Bush and Blair, women can be arrested just for complaining.

http://tinyurl.com/k597h


From Information Clearing House

Most of our kids did not volunteer to go to Iraq to guard special contractors or kill innocent people to cushion the retirement of the CEO of Exxon. And, newsflash, our recruiters are still lying to our young people telling them that if they enlist they won't have to go to Iraq and other despicable lies.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article13019.htm

Bloody battles were fought on the streets of Basra last night after a British helicopter crashed in the city, reportedly killing four airmen and drawing an Iraqi crowd shouting "Victory to the Mahdi army."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050706D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra

"US planes bombed a house in Aziziyah area of Ramadi city centre, killing 13 civilians," Ali al-Obeidi, a medic at the Ramadi hospital told AFP, adding that four people were wounded.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12944.htm