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He is a former Sunni Arab mujahid from Ramadi who until recently was fighting the US occupation. He has only a secondary education and is married with two wives. Now he is praised even by urban, secular, highly educated Shi'ites as a "conscious man", or "the kind of man we need now in Iraq".

https://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IE05Ak01.html



Mr Bush, your sheikh is dead

Some may call it divine providence, some may call it Allah's bidding; in the end it was up to real Iraq to intervene and shatter the "surge is a success" story sold to US and world public opinion by President George W Bush and his top man in Iraq, General David Petraeus.

https://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II15Ak03.html



An assassination that blows apart Bush's hopes of pacifying Iraq

Last week George Bush flew into Iraq to meet Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, leader of Anbar province. This week General David Petraeus told the US Congress how Anbar was a model for Iraq. Yesterday Abu Risha was assassinated by bombers in Anbar.

https://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2961318.ece


From Information Clearing House



A special investigative report from inside Iraq
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18412.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anbar
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pepe Escobar

By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad

"Be careful," warned a senior Iraqi government official living in the Green Zone in Baghdad, "be very careful and above all do not trust the police or the army."

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17645.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

By PAULINE JELINEK
Associated Press Writer

In the first internal military study of battlefield ethics in Iraq, officials said Friday they also found that only a third of Marines and roughly half of soldiers said they believed that noncombatants should be treated with dignity.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17648.htm

By AFP

A survey of US combat troops deployed in Iraq has found that one in 10 said they mistreated civilians and more than a third condoned torture to save the life of a comrade, a report said Friday.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17647.htm

By United Press International

Some 133 Iraqi lawmakers from different political blocs, calling themselves the "free deputies," signed a document demanding a scheduled withdrawal of the U.S.-led multinational troops from their country, according to the Sadrist bloc in Parliament.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17644.htm

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/04/953/

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Victory vital in Iraq : US Republican hopefuls

A packed field of Republican White House hopefuls vowed to pursue victory in Iraq and castigated anti-war Democrats Thursday, in their first head-to-head showdown of the 2008 campaign.

https://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=174464


From Information Clearing House

Michael Winship writes, "While maintaining that the Iraq invasion brought down 'an abusive totalitarian regime with a history of sponsoring and supporting regional terrorism,' the report admits that the war 'has been used by terrorists as a rallying cry for radicalization and extremist activity that has contributed to instability in neighboring countries.'"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407D.shtml

There are a million ways to vent your anger in Baghdad. In this episode of Hometown Baghdad, Adel chooses graffiti. Hometown Baghdad was shot by an all-Iraqi crew and tells the stories of three young people trying to survive in Baghdad.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3043.shtml

https://www.counterpunch.org/ferner05032007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Ferner

Pottsville Republican & Herald

05/03/07

Defiant Democratic leaders in the House are considering a proposal that would pay for the Iraq war at least through July but could cut off funding after that if the Iraqi government does not meet certain political and security goals, congressional officials said Thursday. The bill would be a direct challenge to President Bush, who has demanded Congress fund the war without strings attached...

https://tinyurl.com/3x7fle


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp