World-News

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/16/1226/



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

There's no accurate count of the missing since the war began. Iraqi human rights groups put the figure at 15,000 or more, while government officials say 40 to 60 people disappeared each day throughout the country for much of last year, a rate equal to at least 14,600 in one year.

https://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17218755.htm


From Information Clearing House

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/15/1195/

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Former Soldier, Now a Professor, Loses His Only Son to a War He Actively Opposed

The father, a longtime military man, from West Point to Vietnam to the first Persian Gulf war, became an early public critic of the war in Iraq, writing frequently and potently about its causes and effects. On Sunday, two soldiers came to Professor Bacevich's home with the kind of news that a military man knows is always possible: First Lt. Andrew J. Bacevich, 27, the son, had been killed by a bomb while on patrol in Balad, Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051607T.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+J.+Bacevich

The capture of thousands of new suspects under the three-month-old Baghdad security plan has overwhelmed the Iraqi government's detention system, forcing hundreds of people into overcrowded facilities, according to Iraqi and Western officials.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051507C.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees

by Bill Weinberg, New American Media

Some of the most under-reported deaths in Iraq are those of minorities being victimized in organized campaigns.

https://ga3.org/ct/6720pgF17zHr/



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

Idaho Press-Tribune

05/14/07

Senate Democrats are staging a dramatic anti-war vote this week, with moderates collaborating behind closed doors on legislation that could call on President Bush to rethink his war strategy. Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday that members will decide whether to cut off money for the Iraq war next year, as well as consider a softer proposal calling for troops to leave this fall...

https://tinyurl.com/3cx4ds


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ending+war+funding
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid

The collapse of Iraq had created a refugee crisis, and that crisis was threatening to precipitate the collapse of the region.

https://snipurl.com/1klpl


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nir+Rosen

Video

As many as one in eight Iraqi children die before reaching the age of five.
https://snipurl.com/1klpk


From Information Clearing House