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This week, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton of Missouri and Rep. David Price of North Carolina, both Democrats, asked the Government Accountability Office to provide details on the use of private security contractors in Iraq. Skelton and Price want to know how many such contractors are working there, for what purpose and under what legal authority.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042807D.shtml



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Amnesty International is appalled by the killing of Du'a Khalil Aswad, aged about 17, who was stoned to death - for a so-called honour crime. She was killed by a group of eight or nine men and in the presence of a large crowd in the town of Bashika, near the city of Mosul. Some of her relatives are said to have participated in the killing.

https://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140272007


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The former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration officials pushed the country to invade Iraq without "serious debate" about whether Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat.

https://snipurl.com/1ihdb


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Tenet Book Blames White House for "16 Words"

George Tenet and his top aides warned senior White House officials in late 2002 that allegations about Iraq's attempt to acquire yellowcake uranium from Niger were unreliable and should not be cited in public presentations by any member of the executive branch, the ex-CIA chief claims in a new book.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042907A.shtml



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It's difficult to decide which is more frightening- car bombs and militias, or having to leave everything you know and love, to some unspecified place for a future where nothing is certain.

https://snipurl.com/1ihd5


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"Basra is lost, they are in control now. It's a full-scale riot and the Government are just trying to save face," said Private Paul Barton.

https://snipurl.com/1ihd4


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The Iraqi government has refused to provide the United Nations with civilian casualty figures for its latest report on the hardships facing Iraqis, the U.N. said.

https://www.spokesmanreview.com/nation_world/story.asp?ID=186594


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By Ramzy Baroud

The plundering of Iraq's wealth, first by the UN and now by Iraq's new Green Zone czars, is the biggest, most shameful financial-political scandal of our times.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17610.htm



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By Lt. Col. Paul Yingling

In 2007, Iraq's grave and deteriorating condition offers diminishing hope for an American victory and portends risk of an even wider and more destructive regional war.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17613.htm

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18348452/


Informant: ranger116

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Cheney had eye on Iraq long before 9/11

In his book, former CIA director says aides to Cheney and Rumsfeld inserted 'crap' into public justifications for war.

https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4756983.html


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Senator Durbin kept silent on prewar knowledge

The Senate's No. 2 Democrat says he knew that the American public was being misled into the Iraq war but remained silent because he was sworn to secrecy as a member of the intelligence committee.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17615.htm



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https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/27/789/



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