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Two more former Iraqi officials to be hanged tomorrow
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/world/middle-east/article2122121.ece



Iraq urged to reprieve Saddam aides

Louise Arbour, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, has appealed to Iraq not to execute two senior aides to Saddam Hussein.

https://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3F045FA2-5DE9-4202-B350-7AE125867201.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

Mr. Maliki said he would like to leave office before his four-year term is up. He said he will not seek a second term.

https://www.voanews.com/english/2007-01-03-voa37.cfm?rss=middle



Rattled America will find it can't spin itself out of this one

GEORGE Bush will be hard put persuading three, four or five thousand American soldiers, marines and reservists who have already been there to go back to Iraq this year, to face 4 million Sunnis displeased by the Saddam hanging. Hard put too to persuade Nuri al-Maliki to stay in office, and stay alive, till they get there.

https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/01/04/1167777215118.html


From Information Clearing House



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https://tinyurl.com/yzd398



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

When US forces killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, six months ago in a village near here, they hoped security would improve in this strategic province just north of Baghdad. Instead, security has collapsed in Diyala province, which now ranks as one of Iraq's most troubled regions. Insurgent attacks have more than doubled in the last year.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010307E.shtml



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Special Comment About "Sacrifice"

Keith Olbermann states: "The former labor secretary, Robert Reich, says Senator John McCain told him that the 'surge' would help the 'morale' of the troops already in Iraq. If Mr. McCain truly said that, and truly believes it, he has either forgotten completely his own experience in Vietnam ... or he is unaware of the recent Military Times poll indicating only 38 percent of our active military want to see more troops sent ... or Mr. McCain has departed from reality."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010307A.shtml

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Keith Olbermann: Senseless 'Sacrifice' in Iraq Must End
https://www.commondreams.org/views06/0103-61.htm



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General Casey's strategy in Iraq was to transfer responsibility for security to the Iraqis and begin a gradual withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Bush seems all but certain not only to reverse the strategy that General Casey championed, but also to accelerate the general's departure from Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010207R.shtml

https://www.commondreams.org/views06/0102-51.htm
https://vcnv.org/wrapped-around-a-bullet

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Wrapped Around a Bullet

Kathy Kelly writes: "Although we have paltry financial means compared to the weapons makers who wield so much influence on Capitol Hill, we do have resources. We have our bodies. We have our determination. We have our compassion for Iraqi people and for US soldiers. We have our concern for future generations, who will not only have to live with the consequences of this violence, but who will also live on a planet spoiled by global warming, in no small part because we spent our resources on war instead of on developing clean energy sources. These are the grains of sand that will stop the cogs of war from turning. Now is the time for seriously strategizing about the best ways, in our hometowns, to engage in sustained civil disobedience at the offices of elected representatives, demanding that they vote against the supplemental spending bill."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010407K.shtml

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5509/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

https://www.lewrockwell.com/barnwell/barnwell67.html



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