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In the past month, as a new security crackdown in Baghdad began, U.S. occupation forces arrested another 1,000 Iraqis, bringing to 18,000 the number of detainees jailed in two U.S.-run gulag's in that country.

https://snipurl.com/1glar


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

Sen. John McCain said that the buildup of U.S forces in Iraq represents the only viable option to avoid failure in Iraq and that he has yet to identify an effective fallback if the current strategy fails.

https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4715987.html


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War Plan B And Situation B

by Elizabeth Spiro Clark, TomPaine.com

McCain insists no retreat, no surrender, but also no way to win.
https://ga3.org/ct/V120pgF11mHt/



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

Dick Cheney says he is "willing to bet" that Democratic lawmakers will back down and approve a war-spending bill that doesn't call for U.S. troops to leave Iraq.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070415/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq


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

By Dr. César Chelala

Despite all evidence, some political leaders continue to insist that the situation is improving, as though the brutal TV images of the war did not exist, as if it were a fantasy invented by evil spirits. The chasm between the people's view of reality and that of their leaders has rarely been greater.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17532.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraqi+civilian+deaths
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chelala

By Greg Mitchell

For the entire war in Iraq, the press has been kept largely in the dark concerning the number of civilians killed by our forces, and what happened in the aftemath. Now several hundred files posted online reveal some of the true horror while raising questions about lack of compensation.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17535.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greg+Mitchell

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6089/


Informant: jensenmk

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

As violence in Iraq continues to add to the largest refugee crisis in the Middle East in half a century, World Vision has launched a combined advocacy and relief effort to assist children and families fleeing to neighboring countries. Some 2 million Iraqis have left their volatile homeland.

https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/477686/117616420237.htm


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Troops in Iraq were visibly angry when they found out they were being forced to spend an extra three months in the country, said U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston), who was in Iraq yesterday.

https://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=194531


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Yesterday's NYTimes had a story about the US government paying up to but hopefully no more than $2,500 for every Iraqi killed.

https://snipurl.com/1ge8y


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