Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,193,619"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,003
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$505,856,280,833
 
See the cost in your community
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The Secret American-Iranian Security Deal In Iraq
 
How it connects to McCain’s visit to Israel
 
By Roads To Iraq
 
Ahmadinejad offered to calm the situation in Iraq, using the three days attacks-free visit to Iraq as a demonstration of what can Iran do, the second offer is to accept the long term Iraqi – American agreement.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19608.htm
 
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US Moves Towards Engaging Iran
 
By M K Bhadrakumar
 
The coming few weeks are going to be critical in the standoff between the United States and Iran as the upheaval in the Middle East reaches a turning point. And all options do remain on the table, as the George W Bush administration likes to say, from military conflict to a de facto acceptance of Iran’s standing as the region’s dominant power.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19610.htm
 
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Anti-war Campaigners Have To Change Electoral Tactics
 
By Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill
 
Neither Clinton nor Obama has a real plan to end the occupation of Iraq, but they could be forced to change position.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19609.htm
 
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This Is Not China
 
 7 Minute Video
 
 New York Police Beat Tibetan Protesters Outside UN:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19611.htm
 
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Latest violence leaves 55 dead across occupied Iraq:
 
At least 55 people have died in two days of fighting between Shiite militias and U.S.-Iraqi forces in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, officials said today. Some 300 people were reported wounded in the clashes
tinyurl.com/2jc4l5
 
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Clashes claim 14 lives in Sadr City :
 
Fourteen people have been killed and more than 140 wounded in clashes between security forces and Sadrists in Baghdad’s Sadr City
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=49005&sectionid=351020201
 
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US airstrike kills 5 civilians, including Iraqi judge:
 
US forces acknowledged that civilians had been struck during a battle with suspected al Qaeda Sunni Arab militants which included strikes from fixed-wing aircraft.
www.stuff.co.nz/4452862a12.html
 
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British soldier killed in Iraq, Ministry of Defence says:
 
The soldier was not killed in Basra or the south-east of Iraq, where the majority of British troops are based.
tinyurl.com/33np54
 
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Iraqi PM orders Basra militants to surrender:
 
The Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, today gave Shia fighters in Basra three days to surrender their forces.
tinyurl.com/2d34w9
 
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Sadr calls on Maliki to leave Basra :
 
Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has asked Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to leave Basra, calling for negotiations in the southern port city.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=49039&sectionid=351020201
 
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Across Iraq, battles erupt with Mahdi Army:
 
The US blames the latest attacks on rogue Mahdi Army elements tied to Iran, but analysts say the spike in fighting with Shiite militants potentially opens a second front in the war when the American military is still doing battle with the Sunni extremists of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
www.csmonitor.com/2008/0326/p01s13-woiq.html
 
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US Military Says Iran Behind Latest Violence In Iraq:
 
Iran is behind the violence raging in Iraq by providing training to those firing rockets in Baghdad and by not doing enough to rein in lawless gunmen in Basra, the U.S. military charged Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/3b5vev
 
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Olmert: We still opt for Iran attack :
 
Israel’s prime minister Ehud Olmert says the Zionist regime has not changed its position on a possible military attack against Tehran.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=49083&sectionid=351020104
 
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Olmert threatens ‘painful’ steps against Hamas, rules out truce :
 
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed Wednesday that Israel would take ‘painful’ measures against Hamas, and ruled out any possibility of talks toward a cease-fire.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/968747.html
 
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Safed chief rabbi calls on state to exact ‘revenge’ against Arabs :
 
“It’s time to call the child by its name: Revenge, revenge, revenge. We mustn’t forget. We have to take horrible revenge for the terrorist attack at Mercaz Harav yeshiva,” referring to the incident in which eight students were killed earlier this month.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/968729.html
 
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US admits to Suez canal killing :
 
Mohammed Fouad was buried on Tuesday amid expressions of anger against the Egyptian government and the US.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7314225.stm
 
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Egypt snub to Syria on Arab summit :
 
Egypt is to send only a low-level delegation to the upcoming Arab League summit in Damascus.
tinyurl.com/3b69gz
 
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Car bomb in Afghan market kills eight:
 
Taliban insurgents have vowed to intensify attacks on Afghan and foreign troops countrywide, launch a wave of suicide bombings and attack supply lines from Pakistan this year in their campaign to overthrow the pro-Western installed Afghan government.
tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1663642
 
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Three Policemen Killed In Afghanistan Attacks: Officials:
 
Three policemen have been killed in separate bomb and gun attacks across insurgency-hit Afghanistan with two other officers seized by Taliban militants, officials said Wednesday
tinyurl.com/38ymp4
 
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New ‘sheriff’ in Pakistan, US told:
 
Pakistan’s new civilian rulers made it clear in a series of meetings with US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher that major changes were under way in relations between Washington and a country many regard as a linchpin in the war on terror.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23435750-25837,00.html
 
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Sharif Says Pakistan to Fight Terrorism on Own Terms :
 
``Pakistan cannot be made a killing field for the interests of others,’’ Sharif told reporters yesterday after meeting with U.S. government officials in Islamabad, the capital.
tinyurl.com/3bqnxx
 
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US waives Pak aid restrictions:
 
Mr Bush has exempted Pakistan from a law that limits funding to countries where the head of state was deposed by a military coup, as President Pervez Musharraf had done in Pakistan.
tinyurl.com/2obvde
 
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39 Aid groups deem occupied Somalia too risky :
 
It came as seven people were killed in a battle on in Jowhar between fighters associated with the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) and Ethiopian troops supporting the interim Somali government.
tinyurl.com/37gevo
 
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Chavez condemns ‘warlike’ McCain :
 
Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has warned that relations with the US could worsen if John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate, wins this year’s election
tinyurl.com/368lts
 
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Clinton Lied: Clinton’s Bosnia claim row:
 
2 Minute Video:
 
Hillary Clinton has been challenged over claims she came under sniper fire while visiting Bosnia.
tinyurl.com/39bhwn
 
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House price slump in US dashes hope of end to credit crisis:
 
The price of the average home was 11 per cent lower than a year ago, the S&P Case-Shiller index showed yesterday, as repossessed homes flood the market – and economists predict that the price adjustment may belittle more than half over.
tinyurl.com/3bppuy
 
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Down day on Wall Street;
 
Stocks tumbled Wednesday as weak economic news, spiking commodity prices and a bearish analyst note on investment firm earnings gave investors a reason to bail after the recent advance.
tinyurl.com/3yv5sr