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The Shiite vice president's comments came just a day after the influential US Senate Foreign Relations committee rejected President George W. Bush's plan to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq.

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Iraqi drivers are terrified of running into impromptu checkpoints where heavily armed men in civilian clothes may drag them out of their cars and kill them for being the wrong religion. Some districts exchange mortar fire every night. This is mayhem beyond the comprehension of George Bush and Tony Blair.

https://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2183852.ece


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Channel 4 News has obtained footage of brutality by mainly Shi'a troops in Iraq, egged on by US soldiers.

We see a joint patrol of US and Iraqi troops in Baghdad, where our camera captures the pretty brutal treatment meted out by the newly trained Iraqi soldiers to three suspected insurgents caught in a car, all to the accompaniment of laughter, whoops and egging on from the US soldiers who watch from their Humvee.

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"I cannot stand the constant military raids in my home"

By Lina Massufi

"My life has been like hell over the past three months. US and Iraqi soldiers have raided my house more than 12 times. "My husband, Khalil, was killed during the US invasion in 2003 when he drove through a closed road and soldiers shot him dead.

https://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/101/2/

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We Gave War A Chance

Bush had his say. Now the stage belongs to the anti-war movement which was, after all, right from the start.

https://ga3.org/ct/ep20pgF1Am0_/

Reporters Without Borders today welcomed the international warrant issued by a Madrid judge yesterday for the arrest of three US soldiers for the "murder" of Spanish cameraman Jose Couso of the privately-owned television station Telecinco, who was killed on 8 April 2003 when a US tank fired a shell at a Baghdad hotel used by the international media. "We hope that judge Santiago Pedraz's decision to issue an international arrest warrant for the three US soldiers responsible for firing the shell that killed Couso means they will finally be required to explain their actions before a court," the press freedom organization said.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2861.shtml

In the first step toward what some believe could eventually lead to a constitutional crisis, a key Congressional committee approved a non-binding resolution here Wednesday formally dissenting from President George W. Bush's plan to send some 21,000 more troops to Iraq. The 12-9 vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which came less than 14 hours after Bush appealed in his State of the Union address for Congress to give his plan "a chance to work", sets the stage for a broader debate next week when a majority of the full Senate is also expected to voice its disapproval of the president's course, albeit possibly in a somewhat milder form. Wednesday's resolution, which drew the backing of all the Democrats on the Committee, as well as its one Republican co-sponsor, Sen. Chuck Hagel, declared that deepening U.S. military involvement in Iraq at this time is "not in the national interest of the United States."

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2857.shtml



ANTI-WAR GROUPS PLAN SURGE ON WASHINGTON

Peace activists from around the United States will converge on Washington Saturday for what organizers hope will be the largest demonstration to date against the Iraq war. "We expect a turnout in the six figures," said Tom Andrews, a former Democratic congressman who now runs the group Win Without War, which is organizing the march along with True Majority, Working Assets, the RainbowPUSH Coalition, the National Organization for Women and the national umbrella group United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ). UFPJ's Leslie Cagan told IPS that the level of energy in the antiwar movement has spiked since the November election, when voters ended Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. "The voters of this country figured out that they could use the November elections as a vehicle to voice their opposition to the war," Cagan said. "What happened there was that the voters gave Congress a mandate to end the war in Iraq and bring the troops home." That success at the polls gave antiwar citizens more optimism that a large demonstration might make an impact, she said.

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Japan's defence minister has called the US war on Iraq a "mistake" and said he never supported it.

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The Democratic-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee dismissed President Bush's plans to increase troops strength in Iraq on Wednesday as "not in the national interest,'' an unusual wartime repudiation of the commander-in-chief. The vote was 12-9 and largely along party lines.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6368629,00.html



Text of Iraq Resolution

Following is the text of the non-binding resolution on the Iraq war that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved on Wednesday by a 12-9 vote:
https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq_resolution


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