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BRITISH Army officers in Iraq are being handed stashes of up to £100,000 in cash for “operational expenses” without formal controls on how it is spent.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14634.htm



Sinister Events in a Cynical War

Here are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator found in the car of the two SAS special forces men "rescued" from prison in Basra on 19 September? If true, what were they planning to do with them?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10425.htm

Michael Schwartz considers some of the just-under-the-radar-screen realities of the situation in Iraq and provides a guide to understanding what is likely to be a flood of new Iraqi developments - "a few enduring, but seldom commented upon, patterns central to the dynamics of the Iraq war, as well as to the fate of the American occupation and Iraqi society."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082106M.shtml

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4991/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The debate is over: By any definition, Iraq is in a state of civil war. Indeed, the only thing standing between Iraq and a descent into total Bosnia-like devastation is 135,000 US troops -- and even they are merely slowing the fall. The internecine conflict could easily spiral into one that threatens not only Iraq but also its neighbors throughout the oil-rich Persian Gulf region with instability, turmoil and war.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082006Z.shtml

It’s the occupation, not the fundamentalism.
https://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html


From Information Clearing House

The Marine officer who commanded the battalion involved in the Haditha killings last November did not consider the deaths of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, unusual and did not initiate an inquiry, according to a sworn statement he gave to military investigators in March.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14618.htm



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

Bush is under election-year pressure to start bringing some troops home this year, but a spasm of violence in Baghdad has forced commanders to move some American forces from other parts of Iraq into the capital.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081806M.shtml

April 4 was Smith's first and only day in Iraq. The Army private from Brookfield, N.Y., was returning from a shooting range when the Humvee he was riding in struck a roadside bomb. The explosion took both of his legs from the knee down and nearly killed him.

https://www.newhouse.com/archive/gifford081706.html


From Information Clearing House

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4948/


Informant: jensenmk

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