Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,197,469"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,032
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$510,325,770,443
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Petraeus Points To War With Iran
 
 By Patrick J. Buchanan
 
The neocons may yet get their war on Iran.  Ever since President Nouri al-Maliki ordered the attacks in Basra on the Mahdi Army, Gen. David Petraeus has been laying the predicate for U.S. air strikes on Iran and a wider war in the Middle East.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19715.htm
 
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Do Satellite Photos Show Iran Ballistic Missile Facility?
 
By Arthur Bright
 
New report says site is being used to develop missiles with 4,000 mile range.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19716.htm
 
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Are The US And Iran Backing The Same Horse?
 
 4 Minute Video
 
 Raed Jarrar on why both Iran and the US are supporting the same players in Iraq
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19717.htm
 
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Cheney on the Warpath Again?

By Dan Froomkin
 
Vice President Cheney went on right-wing talk radio yesterday with a dramatic new argument for preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons, casting the Iranian leadership as apocalyptic zealots who yearn for a nuclear conflagration.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19719.htm
 
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Body Of War
 
Phil Donahue, discusses his new documentary called “Body of War.”
 
Video and Transcript
 
 This documentary tells the story of a former Iraq war soldier, Tomas Young and follows his physical rehabilitation and his decision to actively protest the Iraq war.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19714.htm
 
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The Black Death of Financial Collapse
 
By James Cumes
 
The financial and economic crisis now upon us is by far the most menacing of the past century – even more so than the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is not just a “subprime” crisis; it is systemic – affecting the entire financial system.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19718.htm
 
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At least 27 killed as US occupation grinds on: 
 
A suicide car bomb killed three Iraqi police and wounded five near Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1124535720080411
 
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Many killed as U.S. planes blast Sadr City, PM tells Bush to pull out GIs:
 
Military officials said yesterday that 15 militants were killed in four separate clashes during the night while Iraqi police said two more men were killed yesterday morning in the air strike on a building, targeted by missiles after a number of oxygen cylinders were spotted on the sidewalk outside.
tinyurl.com/477b9q
 
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New US air strikes kill 12 in Iraq:
 
Six insurgents were killed by US aircraft in the southern port of Basra early Friday, hours after a Hellfire missile fired from a drone killed six militants in the Iraqi capital, US and British military officials said.
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=225001
 
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Al-Sadr spokesman says U.S. occupation to blame for aide’s death :
 
Officials say the aide (Riyadh al-Nouri) was assassinated today in the holy city of Najaf (NAH’-jahf). The killing threatens to raise tensions amid a violent standoff between al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia and the U.S.-backed Iraqi government.
www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=8152826
 
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Iraq: Curfew in Najaf after murder of al-Sadr aide :
 
According to Hayder al-Jibari, from the Sadr local office, security forces opened fire on the al-Sadr aide as he returned home and fled in an unmarked vehicle.
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2063746856
 
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No Congress approval needed for Iraq troop deal: US official:
 
Iraq and the United States are set to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to legitimize US operations in Iraq beyond the end of the year, when the United Nations resolution governing their presence expires.
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jhESc6FsTEzL1aF3c0ezZ100cvmg
 
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Leaders’ mistakes legitimized occupation:
 
An Iraqi politician held “some leaders” responsible for the UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution “legitimizing” U.S. occupation of Iraq
tinyurl.com/6ztf8k
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran Gates:
 
Iran Boosts Support for Militias :
 
Iranian support for militias in Iraq has grown, top U.S. defense leaders said Friday, asserting that recent battles in Basra gave the Iraqis an eye-opening view of Iran’s increased negative role there.
tinyurl.com/5kglyy
 
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Iran cleric rejects Bush’s accusations on Iraq:
 
An influential Iranian cleric on Friday rejected President George W. Bush’s accusations that Iran was arming and funding Shi’ite militias in Iraq to kill American soldiers, state radio reported.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080411/ts_nm/iran_usa_cleric_dc
 
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Iran triggering Shiite “backlash” in Iraq, US ambassador claims:
 
“The Iranians are not going to take over Iraq,” Ambassador Ryan Crocker told reporters after his testimony this week before Congressman who voiced concern about Iran’s influence, especially in recent fighting.
tinyurl.com/69vy3e
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert:
 
US shifts focus on its main adversary in Iraq to ‘special groups’:
 
 There is little doubt that Shiite extremists fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces have received Iranian weapons, although Iran’s government denies supplying them.
tinyurl.com/5gs95y
 
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Navy ship fires warning flare at Iranian boat in Persian Gulf:
 
The official says there were no signs any boat was armed.
tinyurl.com/626ntu
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran: :
 
Spy photos ‘show Iran missile site’:
 
The imagery has pinpointed the facility from where the Iranians launched their Kavoshgar 1 “research rocket” on February 4, claiming that it was in connection with their space programme.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23522062-2703,00.html
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert: :
 
Concern about Iran is mounting:
 
Concerns also have been growing over the unpredictable consequences of a possible attack on Israel by the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/33306.html
 
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Iran condemns Israel’s insolent, outrageous, unprovoked threats:
 
“ … I wish to inform you that the Israeli regime has continued with its insolent, outrageous and unprovoked threats against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” read a letter that Iran’s Ambassador and permanent representative to the UN Mohammad Khazaee sent to the UN Security Council President Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0804117398190735.htm
 
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8 Palestinians, including a 12-year-old, killed in Israeli attack on Gaza:
 
The attack started early Friday when Israeli aircraft killed two Hamas resistance fighters in a strike near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, Hamas said.
tinyurl.com/64j4la
 
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‘Israel is digging tunnels into Gaza’:
 
Israel is digging tunnels under the Gaza Strip in order to kidnap major figures in the Palestinian “resistance,” Hamas Interior Minister Said Siam alleged Thursday in an interview with the London-based Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat.
tinyurl.com/5u245z
 
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Afghan Bombing Kills Up to 8 Civilians, Including 3 Children :
 
The circumstances of the bombing were unclear. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, but a spokesman for the group denied that civilians were in the area.
tinyurl.com/638cap
 
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US shamed by Mandela terror link :
 
A bill has been introduced in the US Congress to remove from databases any reference to South Africa’s governing party and its leaders as terrorists.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7340248.stm
 
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Haiti food riots ease but critics demand PM’s head:
 
Taxis, vendors and shoppers returned to the debris-strewn streets of the Haitian capital on Thursday after the president appealed for an end to food riots, but the government came under fire from opposition politicians for not doing enough.
tinyurl.com/693mdb
 
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Brazil Sends 14 Tons of Food To Haiti Following Riots: –
 
Brazil is sending tons of food to Haiti to feed hungry residents following days of food riots in the impoverished nation.
tinyurl.com/5pa9mp
 
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Chávez seizes sugar plantations:
 
The farms in Lara state were taken over by army units at the request of the Chávez government’s National Land Institute, or INTI. The institute in recent years has handled takeovers of thousands of acres of underused farmland and turned them over to worker cooperatives.
tinyurl.com/5m75k5
 
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Chavez emboldens workers with takeover precedent:
 
His vice president, Ramon Carrizalez, said “the worker comes first” in Chavez’s Venezuela.
tinyurl.com/5s64yk
 
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Report says Russia to sell 3 submarines to Venezuela in deal with Chavez:
 
 Interfax cited an unnamed military official as saying that the subs would be diesel-electric models, of the “Varshavyanka” class, known under NATO terms as a Kilo-class sub.
tinyurl.com/6kr9zg
 
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Ecuador military crisis to test Correa:
 
Correa fired his defence minister on Tuesday and three top military commanders quit in protest a day later after the president claimed their intelligence units shared data with the United States during a border crisis with Colombia in March.
tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1705221
 
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Colombia’s Plata Says Rejecting Trade Accord Same as Sanctions :
 
 In an unprecedented move, lawmakers voted 224-195 yesterday to deny President George W. Bush’s request that Congress vote on the pact within 90 days, upending over 30 years of trade consensus between the U.S. executive and legislative branches
tinyurl.com/6e6evp
 
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Obama weighs in on Colombia trade flap:
 
Clinton, who is battling Obama for the Democratic nomination, this week accepted the resignation of Mark Penn as her campaign’s top strategist after revelations he had met with Colombian officials to promote the trade agreement.
africa.reuters.com/commodities/news/usnN11196571.html
 
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Gas, diesel prices hit new record:
 
U.S. retail gas prices extended their record run Thursday, adding to the pain consumers feel every time they fill up. Experts predict prices will rise even higher as peak summer driving season approaches.
tinyurl.com/5lzwxk