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11Aug

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Afghanistan, Iraq

ZIONATION OF IRAQ AND INDIANIZATION OF AFGHANISTAN

NOVANEWS Israelization of Iraq and Indianization of Afghanistan August 9, 2010 by Michael Leon War Forever? By Engr. Mansoor A. Malik in Opinion Maker Rumsfeld’s Pentagon had novel ideas of their own. With people like Dick Cheney in the White House to oil his ego and his boss the President who knew only childhood cowboy’s tricks, had a free hand to think and act on his own. The somber and popular Secretary of State, Gen Collin Powell was made to look like a comedian in a Greek Tragedy Drama. The checks and balances which the US Congress had put in place after the Vietnam War debacle was conveniently set aside after the 9/11 fiasco and the Pentagon’s young Turks like Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and other likeminded skewed intellectuals in their Policy Planning committee was unleashed t...

8Aug

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Iraq

HOW MANY IRAQIS DID WE 'LIBERATE' FROM LIFE ON EARTH?

NOVANEWS August 7, 2010 by Michael Leon Photo: DVIDSHUB; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t - Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S. invasion based on bald-faced, well-crafted lies. “When the history of this period is written, the liberation of Afghanistan and the liberation of Iraq will be remembered as great turning points in the story of freedom.” President George W. Bush, Fort. Bragg, North Carolina, June 28, 2005 - By: Robert Naiman, t r u t h o u tIs there a man or woman in America today who is willing to stand at noon in the public square and claim that demands to bomb, invade, and occupy other people’s countries have anything to do with human liberation? If such people can be found, let them answer a few simple questions about the US invasion ...

8Aug

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Iraq

IRAQ: KORT JENSEN ANOTHER SUICIDE

NOVANEWS Another casualty of war, another suicide; Will no one blame the war? August 7, 2010 by Michael Leon Leah Hogsten at The Salt Lake Tribune - Kort Jensen's wife, Laura Becherini Jensen, weeps as she gives her tribute to her late husband. After two combat tours in Iraq, where he was wounded twice and received a Bronze Star for valor, Kort Jensen came home a broken man. Jensen killed himself on July 31 following a years-long struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder. - Another soldier’s suicide underscores the VA’s enormous challenge: Keeping veterans alive, as the U.S. Army last week in a maddeningly obtuse report blames “high risk behavior” of troops at home and “erosion of adherence to existing Army policies and standards.” … ”[Iraq war veteran Kortney Jensen] was never t...

4Aug

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Iraq, USA

OBAMA SPEECH ON IRAQ

NOVANEWS In Speech on Iraq, Obama Reaffirms DrawdownAugust 2, 2010 posted by Michael Leon President Obama’s appearance before the Disabled American Veterans group draws attention to the transition in Iraq - Doug Mills NYT - “As a candidate for president, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end,” Mr. Obama told a convention of Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta on Monday. “Shortly after taking office, I announced our new strategy for Iraq and for a transition to full Iraqi responsibility. And I made it clear that by August 31, 2010, America’s combat mission in Iraq would end. And that is exactly what we are doing — as promised and on schedule.” - By Peter Baker ATLANTA — Nearly eight years after he denounced what he called a “dumb war” in Iraq and nearly two years aft...

2Aug

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Iraq

JULY DEADLIEST MONTH FOR IRAQIS SINCE 2008

By Sameer N. Yacoub BAGHDAD – July was Iraq’s deadliest month in more than two years, according to new official figures, suggesting that a resilient insurgency is successfully taking advantage of a months long deadlock in forming a new government. The figures released late Saturday show that 535 people were killed last month, the highest since May 2008 when 563 were killed, heightening concerns over Iraq’s precarious security situation even as the U.S. troops are reducing their numbers. Iraq has been mired in a political deadlock for nearly five months since a March parliamentary election failed to produce a clear winner. The political impasse further deepened this weekend, when a Shiite bloc nominally allied with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s coalition publicly announced its rejection ...

25Jul

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Iraq

AMERICAN WAR CRIME'S: FALLUJAH VS HIROSHIMA

NOVANEWS http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/toxic-legacy-of-us-assault-on-fallujah-worse-than-hiroshima-2034065.html Patrick Cockburn: Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima' The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about battle 24 July 2010 Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study. Iraqi doctors in Fallujah have complained since 2005 of being overwhelmed by the number of babies with serious birth defects, ranging from a girl born with two heads to paralysis of the lower limbs. They ...

23Jul

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Iraq

STATE DEPT PLANNING TO FIELD A SMALL ARMY IN IRAQ

NOVANEWS July 22, 2010 by Michael Leon U.S. Dept of State By Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Can diplomats field their own army? The State Department is laying plans to do precisely that in Iraq , in an unprecedented experiment that U.S. officials and some nervous lawmakers say could be risky. In little more than a year, State Department contractors in Iraq could be driving armored vehicles, flying aircraft, operating surveillance systems, even retrieving casualties if there are violent incidents and disposing of unexploded ordnance. Under the terms of a 2008 status of forces agreement, all U.S. troops must be out of Iraq by the end of 2011, but they’ll leave behind a sizable American civilian presence, including the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad , the largest in the ...

19Jul

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Iraq, USA

AMERICA LOWERS THE FLAG: IRAQ'S UNQUIET PEACE

NOVANEWS The title of the article is nonsensical. This isn't about any kind of 'peace'. Rather, Iraq is a "barely floating wrech". Racheli. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/america-lowers-the-flag-iraqs-unquiet-peace-2029634.html Patrick Cockburn: America lowers the flag: Iraq's unquiet peace On 14 June, this year an interpreter for the US army called Hameed al-Daraji was shot dead as he was sleeping in his house in Samarra, a city 60 miles north of Baghdad. In some respects there was nothing strange about the killing, since 26 Iraqi civilians were murdered in different parts of the country on the same day. As well as working periodically for the Americans since 2003, Mr Daraji may have recently converted to Christianity and unwisely taken to wearing a crucifix around his...

26Mar

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Iraq, Lebanon

BEING AN IRAQI IN LEBANON

NOVANEWS The Iraq war has produced nightmares for generations: When one mentions refugees in Lebanon, one usually thinks about the estimated 300,000 Palestinians who live here in appalling social and economic conditions. But an estimated 50,000 Iraqis have sought refuge in Lebanon in the last few years, most of them without legal status and in constant fear of arrest. Like Jordan and Syria, Lebanon does not have a refugee law and accordingly treats most Iraqis as illegal immigrants, regardless of their need to be protected as refugees. See: www.mideast.foreignpolicy.com

22Mar

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Iraq, Palestine Affairs, Syria

UN CLOSES PALESTINIAN CAMP ON SYRIA-IRAQ BORDER

NOVANEWS DAMASCUS, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The United Nations has closed one of two Palestinian refugee camps on the border between Iraq and Syria after finding shelter elsewhere for its 1,300 residents, a U.N. report said on Wednesday. The Palestinians started fleeing to what became camps near the Syrian border in 2006 as a result of persecution and attacks on their community in Iraq by mostly Shi'ite militia. The refugees gathered in areas near al-Tanf and al-Waleed border points, living under what U.N. officials have described as treacherous conditions. Syria refused to allow most of the refugees to reside permanently on their territory, saying other countries of the region, including Israel, should also bear responsibility for them. A report by the United Nations Higher Commissioner for ref...