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President Bush is asking for another $1.2 billion for rebuilding and jobs in Iraq. But with so much uncertainty, the committee chairman wants the government auditors to return in two months with estimates on how much money has been wasted in Iraqi reconstruction.

https://www.voanews.com/english/2007-01-19-voa32.cfm?rss=politics


From Information Clearing House

The cost of the Iraq War in addition to costing thousands of American and Iraqi lives is bleeding the American treasury at dangerous levels.

https://www.btimes.com/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=75516&sID=35


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From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty on Thursday to shooting a defenseless Iraqi grandfather dragged from his house in the middle of the night in what his squad informally called "Operation Vigilante."

https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18183724.htm


From Information Clearing House

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor

"Sick or injured children who could otherwise be treated by simple means are left to die in hundreds because they do not have access to basic medicines or other resources," the doctors say. "Children who have lost hands, feet and limbs are left without prostheses. Children with grave psychological distress are left untreated," they add.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16231.htm



The Letter

'Sick or injured children, are left to die in hundreds': We ask that all the revenues from Iraq's oil now pass directly to the Iraqi people, and that illegal contracts entered into by the Coalition Provisional Authority are revoked.

https://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2165471.ece


From Information Clearing House

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Put me down on Maliki's side. It is he who is taking the real risk here – with his life. It is he who is likely to learn what Kissinger meant when he observed that in this world, while it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, to be a friend is fatal.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16222.htm



Shiites Will Resist Efforts To Destroy Them Says Moqtada Al-Sadr

By AKI

Iraqi Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr said he has never trusted prime minister Nouri al-Maliki nor his predecessor Iyad Allawi, whom he described as the brains behind a US-backed plot to destroy him and his militia.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16225.htm



Main Aide of Muqtada Al-Sadr Arrested

An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, however, denied the government knew in advance about the raid.

https://tinyurl.com/ysuug7



Sadr fears for life in security crackdown

Moqtada al-Sadr has moved his family to a secure location because of fears he will become the target of a security sweep of Baghdad, it was reported today.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1994458,00.html


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maliki
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Buchanan

https://www.commondreams.org/views07/0119-26.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rosa+Brooks

https://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/opinion/19krugman.html


Informant: NHNE



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Krugman