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An offer of aid could be your own death sentence, an Iraqi reporter writes.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article15038.htm

By New Zealand Herald

Captive Iraqis were beaten with iron bars, kicked, starved, and forced to drink their own urine during abuse which led to the death of a prisoner, the first court martial of British troops accused of war crimes was told yesterday.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article15039.htm

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UK soldier 'enjoyed' Iraqis' pain

A British soldier "enjoyed" hearing Iraqis call out in pain as they were kicked and punched while in a detention centre, a court martial has heard.

https://snipurl.com/wqgr


From Information Clearing House

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5119/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5122/


Informant: jensenmk


From ufpj-news

"The core of the problem is that if Iraq is divided, definitely there will be civil war and definitely neighboring countries will be involved in this," Abdullah Gul said. "The Middle East can't shoulder this. It's too much."

https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4197045.html


From Information Clearing House

What the occupiers of Iraq still refuse to accept is that the resistance is supported and protected by Iraqis.

https://tinyurl.com/lr4le


From Information Clearing House

Ahmad, a local doctor who withheld his last name for security purposes told IPS. "This city has been facing the worst of the American terror and destruction for more than two years now, and the world is silent."

https://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34756


From Information Clearing House

https://www.fcnl.org/action/2006/lam0914.htm


Informant: Martin Greenhut

Chris Floyd writes: "It may look and feel like a farce right now, but one day some future Shakespeare might write it as a tragedy: the fall of a powerful, popular leader broken on the wheel of war. For make no mistake: if not for the criminal folly of the Iraq invasion, British Prime Minister Tony Blair would not have been unceremoniously shoved toward the exit last week by his own party, including some of his fiercest loyalists."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091406J.shtml

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday that most leaders in the Middle East believe the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and its aftermath ``a real disaster'' for the region.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6077492,00.html


From Information Clearing House