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Sectarian violence continues to claim the lives of a large number of Iraqi civilians in Sunni Arab and Shi'ite neighborhoods of Iraq's capital, despite the coalition's new Baghdad security plan, the UN said today. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) also said that for the first time since it began issuing quarterly reports on the human rights situation in Iraq, the latest report (1/1-3/31) did not contain overall mortality figures from Iraq's Ministry of Health because it refused to release them.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507C.shtml



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The unfolding civil war and inter-sectarian violence in Iraq is deepening a humanitarian crisis of refugees, a Congressional Research Service report has found. An estimated four million refugees have been displaced, or 13 percent of the Iraqi population.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507B.shtml



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UN-Organisation kritisiert irakische Regierung scharf und warnt, dass sich auch die humanitäre Situation schnell weiter verschlechtert.

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25149/1.html

Cañon City Daily Record

04/25/07

Vice President Dick Cheney accused Democratic leader Harry Reid on Tuesday of personally pursuing a defeatist strategy in Iraq to win votes at home — a charge Reid dismissed as President Bush’s ‘attack dog’ lashing out. The particularly harsh exchange came just hours after Bush said he would veto the latest war spending bill taking shape in Congress, which includes a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CNN

04/24/07

The Pentagon’s bolstering of its ground forces in Baghdad by borrowing money and people from its sister services is further straining a stretched Air Force, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley said Tuesday. The result, Moseley said, is people being assigned to jobs they weren’t trained for. He cited Air Force airmen being used to guard prisoners and serve as drivers and cited one instance in which a female Air Force surgeon was assigned typing chores...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Jeff Slocum is a 41-year-old chief master sergeant in the United States Air Force. He's spent the last 21 years in the military and has been stationed in Europe, Korea, Honduras and the Middle East. He's now an engineer at Pope Air Force Base near Fayetteville, North Carolina. He loves his work, has enormous faith in the military and believes in serving his country. Until recently, he planned to spend his entire life in military service. But the events in Iraq have forced Slocum to question the viability of that plan and ultimately to change his life course. "First and foremost, we should never have gone into Iraq," says Slocum.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407S.shtml

Video Report

Jasim Al-Azzawi looks at the high hopes and broken dreams of Iraq.
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From Information Clearing House

Video

"There's going to be redeployment," Murtha insisted. "It's just a matter of when."
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From Information Clearing House



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A Democrat-led congressional panel has approved a war-funding bill that sets a tentative March 31, 2008 deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq despite a promised veto by the president.

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From Information Clearing House