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https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/10/1086/



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https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/10/1104/



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

In the run-up to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon planned to create a "Rapid Reaction Media Team" (RRMT) designed to ensure control over major Iraqi media while providing an Iraqi "face" for its efforts, according to a "white paper" obtained by the independent National Security Archive.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051007H.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe

Richard Clarke, former national security adviser to four presidents including President Bush, said the United States will deal with Iraqi "revenge terrorists" on American soil for the remainder of his years and for the lifespans of many who attended his Clark College appearance on Monday evening. "Al-Qaida terror cells have multiplied much faster since the 9/11 terror attacks and subsequent American offensive in Afghanistan," Clarke said. "The United States let al-Qaida off the ropes to invade Iraq."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051007E.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Clarke

11 Republican members of Congress gave Bush a blunt warning on his Iraq policy at a private White House meeting this week, explaining candidly that conditions needed to improve markedly by fall or more Republicans would desert him on the war.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051007J.shtml

The River Tigris has long been a symbol of prosperity in Iraq but since the US-led invasion in 2003, this amazing watercourse has turned into a graveyard of bodies. In addition, the water level is decreasing as pollution increases, say environmentalists.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3069.shtml

Robbers, Terrorists, insurgents, militiamen...'call them what you want,' says Adel in this episode of Hometown Baghdad. 'It's like a standard job now, to kill people.' Talking about people you saw or heard were killed today, he adds, is 'something really ordinary.' Iraqis will suffer civil war, says another Hometown Baghdad contributor, Saif, 'Until each side will lose. In civil war, nobody wins.'

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3068.shtml

According to the UN, in terms of raw numbers, the nearly two-and-a-half million Iraqi refugees displaced because of the war is a bigger crisis than Darfur. Listen to Jerome McDonnell interview Electronic Iraq contributor Noah Merrill on the Iraq refugee crisis. Merrill recently spent six weeks in Jordan, where the refugee crisis is acute. He will return this summer.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3065.shtml