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The past year of dizzying violence in Iraq has produced thousands of Iraqis like Ms. Rashid - sad-eyed seekers caught in an endless loop of inquiry and disappointment. Burdened by grief without end or answers, they face a set of horrors as varied and fractured as Iraq itself.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907E.shtml

View the first three episodes of Hometown Baghdad, a documentary web series following the lives of a few Iraqi 20-somethings trying to survive in Baghdad. See what life is like in a war zone.

https://www.hometownbaghdad.com/

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Forsaking Our Morality

by C. Welton Gaddy, TomPaine.com
https://ga3.org/ct/Bd20pgF1BzQU/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Welton+Gaddy

Peace demonstrators are ready for at least a thousand candlelight vigils around the US today and are demanding an end to the war in Iraq four years after it began. Between 25,000 and 30,000 people marched in New York's streets Sunday, braving near-freezing temperatures in a second day of national rallies marking the fourth anniversary of the war.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907K.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=March+17

A series of anti-war demonstrations in countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Spain and Britain occured ahead of the fourth anniversary of the US-led war in Iraq.

https://snipurl.com/1dbzw



VIDEOS: March on the Pentagon

A portion of the march leaving from the Mall next to the Lincoln Memorial across the Memorial Bridge.

https://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/138323/index.php


From Information Clearing House

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Anti-war activists march on Pentagon

Washington Post

03/18/07

Thousands of demonstrators protesting the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq marched on the Pentagon yesterday, jeered along the way by large numbers of angry counter-protesters. Organizers billed the antiwar rally as marking the 40th anniversary of the 1967 march on the Pentagon. At times, verbal clashes during the cold and blustery day demonstrated that the bitter divisions of four decades ago sparked by Vietnam are very much alive in the debate over Iraq...

https://tinyurl.com/272r4e


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=March+on+the+Pentagon
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=March+17
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam

Both the Pentagon and the Iraqi government have gotten the message that Congress is losing patience with the war, said Gates.

https://snipurl.com/1dbzv


From Information Clearing House

Caritas Internationalis and Caritas Iraq say that malnutrition rates have risen in Iraq from 19 percent before the US-led invasion to a national average of 28 percent four years later.

https://snipurl.com/1dbzs


From Information Clearing House

Video

The Panorama special called A Good Kicking investigates the torture of seven Iraqi civilians in 2003 while held in British custody in Basra. One man, a hotel receptionist called Baha Mousa, died and had 93 injuries on his body. soldier, who asked to have his identity protected, told Panorama: "What I saw in that cell wasn't interrogation. It wasn't detention. It was torture as far as I am concerned. It was brutal. It was barbaric."

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17344.htm



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

By Gethin Chamberlain

TONY Blair could face the prospect of an International Criminal Court investigation for alleged coalition war crimes in Iraq.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17347.htm