World-News

The pressures on Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair are now immense. The sheer scale of the bloodshed and chaos their invasion unleashed - coupled with the dissembling that preceded it - has undermined their credibility and destroyed their popularity. The latest US polls show only one in five Americans believes Washington is winning in Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103006E.shtml



Pentagon Has No More Plan B

Le Nouvel Observateur's veteran Iraq correspondent Sara Daniel reports that the Pentagon has no new strategy option available after the failure of the latest tactic to secure Baghdad, while Gerard Dupuy says any delay in US withdrawal from Iraq merely postpones the inevitable.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103006H.shtml

The American military has not properly tracked hundreds of thousands of weapons intended for Iraqi security forces, and has failed to provide spare parts, maintenance personnel, or even repair manuals for most of the weapons given to the Iraqis.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103006N.shtml

Mr Mutaira said that if one of the detainees had fallen asleep, he would be woken and asked to repeat his footballer nickname. “If we were not able to recite our respective nickname we would be kicked and beaten.

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2425247,00.html


From Information Clearing House

In private, al-Maliki criticizes U.S. policy

The Iraqi prime minister sharply criticized U.S. policy during a private meeting with the U.S. ambassador Friday, pointing to American failure to either reduce violence or give his government authority over security matters.

https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/28/MNGV3M1SB51.DTL



Why Iraq's Leader Balks at U.S. Demands

Interview: An expert on Shi'ite politics explains why Maliki feels let down by the U.S. ? and why Iran should be seen as an ally, not an oponent, in the effort to stabilize Iraq?,

https://www.time.com/time/world/printout/0,8816,1551743,00.html


From Information Clearing House



"Not America's Man in Iraq," Premier Says

Iraq Prime Minister Nouri Maliki told the US Ambassador Saturday that he's "not America's man in Iraq." Maliki criticized what he called the patronizing US tone toward the Iraqi government and warned US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad to respect Iraq's sovereignty, two of the prime minister's advisors said.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102806X.shtml



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

Blame and Run?

"So Iraq looks into the abyss of a civil war, Iraqis and Americans and Brits continue to die in record numbers, everyone agrees there is no military solution, but there is no evidence of any other strategy," writes William Fisher. "My guess is that this president is so messianicly consumed with 'victory' there that he will remain in his 'State of Denial' and leave it to his successor to clean up his mess - as JFK did to LBJ, as LBJ did to Nixon, and as Nixon did to Jerry Ford."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102706R.shtml

https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDg4M2NlZjdkMWY0M2EyMzUwZDE3OTc1YmQwYTgxNjY=


Informant: ranger116

https://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1027-03.htm



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

https://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1027-04.htm



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

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5237/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news