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An anti-war organization launched by a 22-year-old Marine and a 29-year-old sailor has accumulated 1,028 signatures from active-duty and Reserve troops calling for an end to the war in Iraq, which has lasted nearly four years. The signatures will be delivered to lawmakers on January 16th.


https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011507C.shtml



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Efforts to avoid a repeat of uproar over the Government ousted leader's rowdy execution were thwarted when his half-brother's head was severed by the noose.

https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15195259.htm



Anger at Saddam's half-brother's beheading

Iraqi Shiites, oppressed by Saddam Hussein, welcomed the hanging of two of his aides on Monday though some also joined Sunni Arabs in expressing shock that his half-brother’s head was ripped off by the noose.

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16633276/



Saddam's aides were tortured by executioners, defence team claims

The defence team of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Wednesday charged that two former Saddam aides were 'killed and tortured' and not executed as claimed by the Iraqi authorities.

https://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1247785.php/


From Information Clearing House

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Saddam's Half Brother, Top Aide Hanged

Two top aides to Saddam Hussein were hanged before dawn Monday, and the head of one of them - the former Iraqi dictator's half brother, Barzan Ibrahim - was severed from his body during the execution, a government official said.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011507D.shtml

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Sunnis blast hangings

York News-Times

01/15/07

The Iraqi government’s attempt Monday to close a chapter on Saddam Hussein’s repressive regime — by hanging two of his henchmen — left many of Saddam’s fellow Sunni Muslims seething after the former leader’s half brother was decapitated on the gallows. A thickset Barzan Ibrahim plunged through the trap door and was beheaded by the jerk of the thick beige rope at the end of his fall, in the same the execution chamber where Saddam was hanged a little over two weeks earlier.

https://tinyurl.com/y97ymc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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SECOND IRAQ HANGING ALSO WENT AWRY
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/world/middleeast/16hang.html


Informant: NHNE



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

Signs so far have unnerved some of the Americans working on the plan. - First among these is a Shiite-led government that has been so dogmatic in its attitude that the Americans worry that they will be frustrated in their aim of cracking down equally on Shiite and Sunni extremists, a strategy Bush has declared central to the plan.

https://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/15/news/policy.php


From Information Clearing House



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By Christopher King

Christopher King explores the phenomenon of the American peasant - that segment of US society which, through suspension of all critical faculties and indifference to the truth, defy logic and evidence by supporting the war against Iraq.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16179.htm

https://www.commondreams.org/views07/0115-30.htm



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https://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0115-02.htm



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Christian Science Monitor

01/12/07

For President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, the clock is already ticking. It appears to face time pressure on at least two fronts. On Capitol Hill, the patience of the Democratic-controlled Congress for the proposal to dispatch 21,500 more US troops to the country is clearly limited. It’s possible that the antipathy of many lawmakers towards the plan could foreshadow a resolution of disapproval — or even attempts to limit funds for the war. In Iraq, the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is supposed to move new Iraqi forces into Baghdad within weeks. If these Iraqi units don’t materialize, the US may be forced to reevaluate its strategy, according to administration officials. Thus by early next month the political and military context for the US troop buildup could look very different than it does today...

https://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0112/p25s04-uspo.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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