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Nowhere is safe. Insurgents struck in the heart of the Green Zone yesterday, one of the most heavily defended places in Baghdad. The symbolism - and the bloody message - was clear with this attack on the home to the US-imposed democracy.

https://snipurl.com/1ge8s



The most secure place in Iraq?

Ordinary people undergo a full body search. Dogs sniff for explosives, luggage and equipment are opened. Electronic vehicle scanners screen large cars and lorries.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6552229.stm



The spectre of Saigon looms over Baghdad

That someone was able to pass through the security checks yesterday with explosives sufficient to inflict so much death and destruction means that the "green zone" can no longer be considered impregnable.

https://snipurl.com/1ge8v


From Information Clearing House

By Pepe Escobar

There were hundreds of thousands, perhaps more than a million Iraqi nationalists, waving Iraqi flags - with no room for a religious divide - responding to Muqtada's call for "Occupation out!" The Shi'ite million-man march proved once again Sadrists rule the Shi'ite street - and are the most powerful political force among Iraqi Shi'ites.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17527.htm



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Die US-Bürgerrechtsorganisation ACLU hat vom Pentagon aufgrund eines FOIA-Antrags Dokumente über Schadensersatzforderungen von Angehörigen getöteter Zivilisten in Afghanistan und im Irak erhalten, die einen Einblick in die Gefahren für Zivilisten erlauben, denen sie durch US-Soldaten ausgesetzt sind.

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25070/1.html



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In a memo to party leaders, Representative Rahm Emanuel said that as long as Democrats continue to ratchet up the pressure on Bush, the president loses ground. If Bush continues to refuse to negotiate, his "continued insistence on a blank check for the war will only further damage his standing with the American people." Emanuel said he believes Democrats should continue to push to negotiate with the president.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041307K.shtml

Newly released documents have made public hundreds of claims for damages by Iraqi civilians requesting compensations for the death and injury of family members as a result of operations by Coalition Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ACLU, which filed the Freedom of Information Act request for the documents, points out that the Defense Department has instituted numerous policies to limit the dissemination of information about casualties. The newly released documents show that the families of more than 500 Iraqi civilians killed by U.S. soldiers have asked for compensation for their dead relatives but only a third have been granted it.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2998.shtml



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Video

In this installment of the Hometown Baghdad project, we get a brief but intimate and powerful glimpse at the emotional impact of Iraqis leaving friends behind in Baghdad for the relative security of another country. Millions of Iraqis have done it. Some predict more than a million more will flee this year.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2984.shtml

by Robert Parry, Consortiumnews.com

Bush's refusal to set an Iraq withdrawal date encourages the insurgency.
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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry

Quotes of Iraqis describing the layers of violence in their country, pulled from a recent Red Cross report, construct a powerful first-hand narrative.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3001.shtml

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, lagged behind her main competitors, as well as some lower-tier candidates, in a straw poll taken after a virtual town hall meeting on Iraq.

https://snipurl.com/1g9sg


From Information Clearing House



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

The British and US policy towards Iraq has "spawned new terror in the region", a think tank report has said.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6542567.stm


From Information Clearing House