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A top UN official warned on Friday of "very grave" humanitarian problems in Iraq, including a lack of food and the internal displacement of more than two million people.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080404/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestun_080404114856


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The Bush administration is backing a corrupt and incompetent government in Iraq, Sen. Carl Levin told reporters Friday, setting a tough tone for next week's hearings with the top U.S. commander in Iraq.

https://tinyurl.com/4h3nf2



Dem leaders plead with Bush not to hand off occupation to next president

"We believe there is still time for you to recognize that a change in strategy is necessary to repair the grave damage done to our nation's security," the Democrats wrote.

https://tinyurl.com/45kdxm


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Following al-Sadr's announcement, American tanks reportedly surrounded the Shia stronghold of Sadr City on Friday, while American troops were also put on high alert in order to "avoid" new clashes.

https://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2039101212


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Thousands protest Iraqi government raids

Pepe Escobar: Sadr calls for massive demonstrations against occupation on April 9th.
https://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1289&thisview=item



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By Jacob G. Hornberger

The killing of those children and their families is just one example of how U.S. foreign policy has engendered anger and hatred for the United States, which produces the threat of terrorist retaliation, which brings about the "war on terrorism," which results in more interventions, more massive military spending, and ever-increasing loss of liberty at home.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19676.htm



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Truthout's Maya Schenwar reports: "While the battle of Basra raged last week, a series of talks between the Bush administration and the US-backed Maliki government rolled forward. These negotiations may have at least as many implications for Iraq's future as the violence on the ground."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040408J.shtml



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U.S. troops killed five Iraqi policemen and wounded 11 people during a predawn military operation in the city of Hilla, 100 km south of Baghdad, a city police source said on Thursday.

https://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/03/content_7913464.htm


From Information Clearing House

By William E. Odom, LT General, USA, Ret.

Let me emphasize that our new Sunni friends insist on being paid for their loyalty. - Remember, we do not own these people. We merely rent them.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19671.htm



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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/03/8076/



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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+N.+Levey

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/03/8078/

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KBR's Rape Problem

Karen Houppert, reporting for The Nation, writes, "As news broke of the rape of yet another US military contractor employee in Iraq [see 'Another KBR Rape Case' at thenation.com], the Senate Foreign Relations Committee convened a hearing April 9 to demand that the Justice Department explain why it has failed to prosecute a single sexual assault case in the theater since the Iraq War began."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041808D.shtml



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