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A US Army general concluded the Marine Corps chain of command in Iraq ignored "obvious" signs of "serious misconduct" in the slayings of two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042107G.shtml

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Marines Granted Immunity In Haditha Deaths

Military prosecutors have granted immunity to at least seven Marines connected to an attack that killed 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, the deadliest criminal case against U.S. troops in the Iraq war.

https://snipurl.com/1hlia


From Information Clearing House



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

Army Specialist Paul Thurman stepped forward Friday as one of the 18 soldiers whose cases were cited by six senators in a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting a review of alleged improper handling of traumatic brain injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder and ungrounded personality disorder discharges.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042107Z.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=traumatic+injuries
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=traumatic+disorder
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=personality+disorder

Pentagon lawyers abruptly blocked mid-level active-duty military officers from speaking Thursday during a closed-door House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee briefing about their personal experiences working with Iraqi security forces.

https://govexec.com/dailyfed/0407/042007cdam2.htm


From Information Clearing House

United States lawyers will arrive in Fiji next month to take evidence from a former Fijian soldier who claims to have witnessed American private security guards shooting Iraqi civilians for target practice.

https://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=31652


From Information Clearing House

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"It is interesting to hear the gentleman say 'we,' we fight, we aren't going to give up," he said. "Let me tell you something, we aren't fighting this war. It's the troops overseas, and when I talk to the families, when I go to the hospitals, I see the results of this war."

https://snipurl.com/1hepo


From Information Clearing House



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

Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.

https://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17104704.htm


From Information Clearing House

Anti-war liberals worried about party unity are reluctant to mount opposition to war spending legislation in the House even if it does not set a firm date for troop withdrawal.

https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-04-20-us-iraq_N.htm


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+funding

It said the concrete wall, including barriers as tall as 3,5m, "is one of the centrepieces of a new strategy by coalition and Iraqi forces to break the cycle of sectarian violence" in Baghdad.

https://snipurl.com/1hepe



Sunnis, Shiites unite to oppose divisive wall

A US military brigade is building a five-kilometre concrete wall to cut off one of Baghdad's most restive Sunni districts from the Shiite neighbourhoods that surround it, raising concern about the further Balkanisation of Iraq's most violent city.

https://snipurl.com/1hepj



Anger in Baghdad as Americans finish wall

American forces have completed construction of a concrete wall around the Baghdad district of Adhamiya despite protests from the Iraqi prime minister and local residents who claim that they are now at the mercy of militants.

https://snipurl.com/1j4xz


From Information Clearing House

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US-Built Baghdad Wall Turning Iraqis Into "Caged Animals"

American military commanders in Baghdad are trying a radical new strategy to quell the widening sectarian violence by building a 12-foot-high, three-mile-long wall separating a historic Sunni enclave from Shiite neighborhoods. A doctor in Adhamiya, Abu Hassan, said the wall would transform the residents into caged animals.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042107E.shtml

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BRussells Tribunal calls US wall-building in Iraq 'a war crime'
https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6135/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baghdad+wall

"Mehr als 270 Todesurteile"

Nach Darstellung der Menschenrechtsorganisation Amnesty international sollen die Behörden im Irak "seit der Wiedereinführung der Todesstrafe im August 2004" mehr als 270 Menschen zum Tode verurteilt und mindestens 100 Menschen hingerichtet haben. Mindestens 65 Todesurteile sollen allein im vergangenen Jahr vollstreckt worden sein. "Damit zählte der Irak 2006 nach China, Iran und Pakistan zu den vier Ländern mit den weltweit meisten Hinrichtungen", kritisiert die Organisation.

https://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15794



"Geld an Familien geschickt"
Deutschland will offenbar Flüchtlinge in den Nord-Irak abschieben

Der Freitsaat Bayern hat angekündigt mit der Abschiebung von Flüchtlingen in den Nord-Irak zu beginnen. Das Vorgehen wurde nach Darstellung der Organisation "Pro Asyl" auf der vergangenen Innenministerkonferenz erörtert und ist offenbar auch mit dem Bundesinnenministerium abgestimmt. In einem Schreiben vom 17. April fordert das Bayerische Innenministerium die Ausländerbehörden offenbar dazu auf, Listen über Rückkehrkandidaten aus dem Nord-Irak zu estellen. Dabei sollen alle Straftäter und "Gefährder" erfasst werden. Nach Angaben des Bayerischen Flüchtlingsrats werden als Straftäter alle Personen definiert, die zu einer höheren Geldstrafe als 50 Tagessätzen verurteilt worden sind. Von dieser Regelung seien viele Iraker betroffen, die entgegen der Bestimmungen des Wirtschaftsembargos, Geld an ihre Familien geschickt hätten.

https://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15793