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Shiite rallies mark anniversary of Baghdad’s fall
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18019333/


Informant: ranger116

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Iraq: Hundreds of thousands protest U.S. occupation

Hundreds of thousands of chanting Iraqi Shias burned and stamped on US flags at an anti-American rally called by "firebrand" cleric Moqtada Al Sadr on the fourth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein.

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Huge Protest in Iraq Demands U.S. Withdraw
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/10/421/

US-run detention camps in Iraq have become a breeding ground for extremists, where Islamic militants recruit and train supporters. Prisons have long served as an incubator for radicals, and mass roundups by the US military after the 2003 invasion are now blamed for antagonizing Iraq's Sunni Arab population and feeding the insurgency.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907P.shtml



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Video Diary: Brains on Campus Adel, Hometown Baghdad

Recently a series of short documentaries made by Iraqis and filmed in Iraq began appearing on a website called Hometown Baghdad. When the web documentary project is completed, there will be 45 'webisodes', each one presenting something rarely captured in the blur of daily headlines about Iraq: humanity. Electronic Iraq will be posting Hometown Baghdad episodes daily with our other Iraq Diaries.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2979.shtml



WAR EVERY DAY (EIRAQ BLOG)
Soldiers with Mental Health Problems Shipped to Iraq

Columbus, Georgia's Fort Benning is notorious for its involvement in training foreign soldiers, most notably some of the worst human rights offenders in the Latin America of the 80's and 90's. Today Fort Benning is in the news for a different kind of game: commanders at Fort Benning are reportedly ordering soldiers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress disorder back to Iraq. From training foreign soldiers to torture to forcing tortured soldiers back into a war in a foreign land. It's a disgraceful legacy.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2990.shtml



Out How? Juan Cole on Withdrawing from Iraq

Juan Cole has an interesting article in the Nation this week. In "How to Get Out of Iraq," he argues that "Bush is profoundly in error to think that continued US military occupation can forestall further warfare. Sunni Arabs perceive the Americans to have tortured them, destroyed several of their cities and to be keeping them under siege at the behest of the joint Shiite-Kurdish government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. American missteps have steadily driven more and more Sunnis to violence and the support of violence. The Pentagon's own polling shows that between 2003 and 2006 the percentage of Sunni Arabs who thought attacking US troops was legitimate grew from 14 to more than 70."

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2991.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole

Free Market News Network
by Dave Lindorff

04/06/07

Despite polls showing that 6 in 10 Americans want the U.S. out of Iraq asap, the best that this crew can come up with is a call — not binding, of course — for the president to pull out the troops by next spring or even summer. That would be over a year from now, and more than five years (!) into this criminal and incredibly stupid war. At the rate things have been going, it would also be perhaps 1000 more dead Americans, 14,000 more gravely wounded Americans, and 100-150,000 more dead Iraqis later. And in offering this limp request, Congress is in the process of approving the appropriation of another $122 million in spending on the War in Iraq and the War in Afghanistan. This is action?

https://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/154/7278/lindorf.asp?nid=7278&wid=154


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Hendersonville Times-News

04/08/07

In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation’s ’shocking’ mismanagement of his country — a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had ‘turned their backs on their would-be liberators.’ ‘The corroded and corrupt state of Saddam was replaced by the corroded, inefficient, incompetent and corrupt state of the new order,’ Ali A. Allawi concludes ….

https://tinyurl.com/2gon7c


From Information Clearing House

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Details of Shocking US Missteps in Iraq

In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the US occupation's "shocking" mismanagement of his country. A performance so bad that by 2007 Iraqis had "turned their backs on their would-be liberators." "The corroded and corrupt state of Saddam was replaced by the corroded, inefficient, incompetent and corrupt state of the new order," Ali A. Allawi concludes in "The Occupation of Iraq," newly published by Yale University Press.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907K.shtml

https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070406/ts_alt_afp/usiraqpoliticssheehan


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News of the future operations can be revealed just three days after four soldiers, two of them women, were killed in a carefully planned ambush in Basra, taking the British forces death toll in Iraq to 140.

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Pawns in a losing game: Britain's policy in tatters

Fifteen British hostages are freed, at cost unknown. Meanwhile, six soldiers pay with their lives in Basra. Raymond Whitaker, Anne Penketh and Angus McDowall ask: just what are our soldiers dying for?

https://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2432474.ece


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A local hospital source and a resident said six people, including two children and a woman, were killed in the missile strike on a home in the centre of the city, 110 miles south of Baghdad.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070407/wl_nm/iraq_dc


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