World-News

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/10/4445



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Zunes

Foreign security guards killed two women when they opened fire on a car in the centre of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, witnesses and Iraqi security officials said.

https://snipurl.com/1rz4c



Iraq Seeks Blackwater Ouster

Iraqi authorities want the U.S. government to sever all contracts in Iraq with Blackwater USA within six months. They also want the firm to pay $8 million in compensation to families of each of the 17 people killed when its guards sprayed a traffic circle with heavy machine gun fire last month.

https://snipurl.com/1rz4e


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercenaries
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater

The editors of the Los Angeles Times write: "The 'coalition of the willing' is over. One by one, its members have ceded the bloodstained ground to the battling Iraqis and the unyielding US president. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's decision Monday to halve the vestigial British military force in Basra was inevitable; backing the US in Iraq has become a political albatross for governments all over the world."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100907B.shtml

https://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1008-06.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+casualties

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/09/4418



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/09/4413/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU

David Morgan reports for Reuters, "The Bush administration's cautious approach to Iraqi refugees offers little hope for those trapped in a growing humanitarian crisis that could begin to breed Islamist militancy if left unchecked, experts say."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100907M.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=refugees
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Morgan

Charlotte Observer

10/09/07

Iraqi authorities want the U.S. government to sever all contracts in Iraq with Blackwater USA within six months. They also want the firm to pay $8 million in compensation to families of each of the 17 people killed when its guards sprayed a traffic circle with heavy machine gun fire last month...

https://tinyurl.com/2fj8lw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/08/4389/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cynthia+Tucker