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Der Irak versinkt in Grausamkeit, die die Welt anstecken könnte: tägliche Anschläge, Foltern bis zum Tode, bei lebendigem Leib Verbrennen, ethnische Säuberungen.

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24061/1.html

As the death toll from a series of devastating car bombs in a Shiite district here rose today to more than 200, a powerful legislative bloc loyal to firebrand Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr threatened to withdraw from the government if Iraq’s prime minister attends a scheduled meeting with President Bush in Jordan next week.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112406A.shtml

An inquiry into alleged multi-million dollar bribes paid to export wheat to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is set to recommend criminal charges against several senior executives.

https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5059736.html


From Information Clearing House

The US involvement in Iraq will pass another sad milestone on Sunday, when it overtakes the length of America's engagement in World War II.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061123/pl_afp/usiraqwarwwiihistory_061123172950


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The prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, was forced to choose between his US protectors and an essential pillar of his coalition, when Moqtada al-Sadr declared his intention to walk out, potentially bringing down the government, if Mr Maliki went ahead with a meeting with President George Bush in Jordan next week.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1956567,00.html


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Iraq Quickly Heading Toward Full-Scale Civil War

Revenge-seeking Shiite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left Friday prayers, drenched them with kerosene and burned them alive, and Iraqi soldiers did nothing to stop the attack, police and witnesses said. The fiery slayings in the mainly Sunni neighborhood of Hurriyah were a dramatic escalation of the brutality coursing through the Iraqi capital, coming a day after suspected Sunni insurgents killed 215 people in Baghdad's main Shiite district with a combination of bombs and mortars. The attacks culminated Baghdad's deadliest week of sectarian fighting since the war began more than three years ago.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112506Z.shtml



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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/11/02/do0201.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/11/02/ixopinion.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Funeral processions began Friday for the more than 160 people who were killed by car bombs and mortars in Baghdad's largest Shiite district. Hundreds of men, women and children beat their chests, chanted and cried as they walked beside vehicles carrying the caskets of their loved ones. "There is a full-scale sectarian war in the country that the media has not been able to fully project to the world," says Bassam Ali, a political analyst from Arbil.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112406Z.shtml

CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn

11/23/06

The way you end a slaughter is by no longer feeding it. Every general, either American or British, with the guts to speak honestly over the past couple of years has said the same thing: the foreign occupation of Iraq by American and British troops is feeding the violence. Iraq is not on the 'edge of civil war.' It is in the midst of it. There is no Iraqi government. There are Sunni militias and Shia militias inflicting savagery on each other in the awful spiral of reprisal killings familiar from Northern Ireland and Lebanon in the 1970s. Iraq has become Chechnya, headed into that abyss from the day the US invaded in 2003. It's been a steep price to inflict on the Iraqi people for the pleasure of seeing Saddam Hussein die abruptly at the end of a rope...

https://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11232006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Whether the U.S. military departs Iraq sooner or later, the United States will be hard-pressed to leave behind a country that does not threaten U.S. interests and regional peace, according to American and Arab analysts and political observers.

https://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/16082761.htm


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