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By TONY SWINDELL

In Iraq, our descent into hell, our "Apocalypse Now" moment, has begun. First there was Gitmo, then the global rendition program, then Abu Ghraib, then the pulverizing of Fallujah, and now trigger-happy raids that are filling multitudes of sandy graves with men, women and children.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12948.htm

U.S. private security contractors shot dead an Iraqi ambulance crewman as the ambulance approached a site in northern Baghdad where the contractors' armoured vehicle had been hit by a roadside bomb, a U.S. military spokesman said.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0231011.htm


From Information Clearing House

A $243 million program led by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to build 150 health care clinics in Iraq has in some cases produced little more than empty shells of crumbling concrete and shattered bricks cemented together into uneven walls, two reports by a federal oversight office have found.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050106K.shtml

Iraq Concerned Over Turkish Invasion

So far, the Turkish military was said to have penetrated 10 kilometers into Iraq in the operation against the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK.

http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2006/april/04_30_1.html



Kurdistan: Dangerous Passage

Could another front be opening in the Iraq war? Over recent weeks, some 200,000 Turkish troops, backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, have massed along the mountainous border with Iraq. Trucks passing from Turkey, ferrying the imported goods and foodstuffs that are the lifeblood of the Kurdish economy, have slowed from 1,000 a day to just a couple of hundred.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12555396/site/newsweek/



‘Don’t attack us or else,’ Kurdish guerrillas warn Iran

Lodged in northern Iraq in an area flanked by NATO member Turkey and Washington’s foe Iran, elements of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have accused Teheran of attacking their encampments.

http://tinyurl.com/geu86


From Information Clearing House



Iran 'attacks Iraq Kurdish area'

Iraq has accused Iranian forces of entering Iraqi territory and shelling Kurdish rebel positions in the north. Iranian troops bombed border areas near the town of Hajj Umran before crossing into Iraq, the defence ministry in Baghdad said on Sunday.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12888.htm

By Robert Fisk

The Americans, my interlocutor suspected, are trying to provoke an Iraqi civil war so that Sunni Muslim insurgents spend their energies killing their Shia co-religionists rather than soldiers of the Western occupation forces. "I swear to you that we have very good information," my source says, finger stabbing the air in front of him.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12885.htm

Pictures you won't see in the US media, published on a Latin American website: http://www.voltairenet.org/article136827.html

Hope you can put this on your HP or/and blog, spread far and wide.

Yumi


Informant: Martin Greenhut