Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,199,782"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,039
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$513,122,420,610
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Rice: Muqtada a Coward
 
Najaf Tense; Veterans Depressed, Unemployed
 
By Juan Cole
 
Rice has her ‘bring’em on moment’ in Iraq, talking trash to the Mahdi Army and calling Muqtada al-Sadr a ‘coward.’ Muqtada al-Sadr eluded Saddam Hussein for 4 years after Saddam killed his father and two elder brothers; and in 2004 he twice took on the US military. He may be a lot of things, but he is not a coward.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19780.htm
 
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Behind Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
 
By David Barstow
 
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19782.htm
 
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Pentagon Propaganda & Antiwar Analysts
 
By The Nation
 
The article reports that most of the news organizations either didn’t know or didn’t care about their paid analysts taking direction from the administration while claiming to neutrally assess its policies; or taking expensive trips paid by the administration; or meeting secretly with senior administration officials and plotting military or political strategy; or competing for military contracts.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19781.htm
 
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Iraqis Pay?
 
The Arrogance of the USA
 
By Enver Masud
 
The war ended with the toppling of Saddam’s statue, the Iraqis want them out, and now the occupiers, having destroyed much of Iraq, have the arrogance to ask Iraqis to pay for the occupation and reconstruction.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19779.htm
 
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“Hero” John McCain as Phony and Collaborator
 
What Really Happened When He Was a POW?
 
By Alexander Cockburn
 
McCain is probably the most unstable man ever to have got this close to the White House. He’s one election away from it. Republican senator Thad Cochrane has openly said he trembles at the thought of an unstable McCain in the Oval Office with his finger on the nuclear trigger.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19777.htm
 
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Reverend Jeremiah Wright
 
Religious Freedom Versus State Religion, Ethics, Politics and Strategy
 
By James Petras
 
The sustained vituperative attack and the feeble apologetic defense of Reverend Wright’s brilliant, eloquent and substantive sermon in defense of human dignity speaks to the basic ethical, political and strategic issues of our epoch.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19778.htm
 
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Clash between resistance fighters, Ethiopian troops kill 81 in occupied Somalia:
 
Sporadic street fighting between Ethiopian occupation troops and Islamic fighters trying to bring down Somalia’s shaky government has killed 81 people in the past two days, the head of a local human rights group said.
tinyurl.com/3zgtjb
 
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Iraq: At least 72 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
The two hospitals in Sadr City said on Monday they had received 14 dead and 55 wounded since Sunday morning.
www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL2153294420080421
 
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40 militia kills after Sadr “threat” :
 
It said that the operation was carried out by a “combined force of more than 300 Iraqi Army, Iraqi police and Iraqi special weapons and tactics personnel, advised by US special operations forces.” US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Baghdad on Sunday to strengthen the Iraqi government’s efforts to isolate Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who has threatened an “open war” on security forces.
www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=15725&ccid=11
 
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US jets drop bombs on Sadr City :
 
US warplanes have dropped bombs on east Baghdad district of Sadr City where hundreds of civilians have already been killed in air strikes.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=52498&sectionid=351020201
 
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Iraq to confront militias after Sadr “threat” :
 
Zebari’s rebuke of Sadr followed a weekend of fierce fighting in the cleric’s east Baghdad stronghold of Sadr City, described by the U.S. military as the “hottest” in weeks.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080421/ts_nm/iraq_dc
 
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al-Sadr’s followers refuse to disband militia in Iraq:
 
Followers of “hardline” cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raised the stakes Sunday in the showdown with Iraq’s government, refusing to disband their militia as the U.S. military reported an “uptick” of fighting in the Iraqi capital
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD905OPMG0
 
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U.S. risks deepening role in Iraqi Shi’ite feud : –
 
The Bush administration’s support for the Iraqi government crackdown on Shi’ite militias risks drawing the United States into a dangerous confrontation between rival Shi’ite sects, analysts warn
www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20080421-0836-usa-iraq-shiites.html
 
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Secretary of State Rice Mocks Muqtada al-Sadr as a Coward :
 
Rice, in the Iraqi capital to tout security gains and what she calls an emerging political consensus, said al-Sadr is content to issue threats and edicts from the safety of Iran, where he is studying
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351885,00.html
 
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Iran deplores civilian deaths in Basra, Sadr City, urges US to stop air strikes:
 
Iraqi religious leader Moqtada Sadr protested to Iraqi government against military operations on his followers, al-Mahdi Army. He warned the the Iraqi government of public uprising if the operations continue in the two Shia cities of Basra and Sadr City.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0804202079122445.htm
 
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U.S., Iran agree: al-Sadr’s out:
 
In the Iraqi government’s fight to subdue the Shiite militia of Muqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Basra, perhaps nothing reveals the complexities of the Iraq conflict more starkly than this: Iran and the United States find themselves on the same side.
tinyurl.com/create.php
 
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Air Force must do more for war occupation, Gates says:
 
Gates complained in a speech at the Air University on Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., that getting the Air Force to send more surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to Iraq and Afghanistan has been “like pulling teeth.”
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24238978/
 
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Rice fails to clinch Arab commitments on Iraq :
 
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Sunni-led Arab allies on Monday to try to persuade them to back Iraq’s Shiite leadership but failed to clinch any concrete commitments on debt relief or diplomatic presence.
tinyurl.com/4y8kt2
 
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Presstitute and war pimp
 
Iran groups offering extra aid to Iraq rebels:
 
A US general said on Sunday that the increasingly sophisticated attacks carried out by Shiite extremists in Iraq were evidence they were getting extra aid from Iranian groups in the country.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080420/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestiranus
 
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15 Taliban killed in clashes, Afghan Defense Ministry says:
 
It also says another four militants have been killed in a clash in neighboring Kandahar province.
news.findlaw.com/ap/i/1104//04-21-2008/20080421002005_16.html
 
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British occupation force soldier killed by mine in Afghanistan:
 
The soldiers were providing security to a supply convoy returning to the British military base in Helmand, southern Afghanistan. The base is known as Camp Bastion.
tinyurl.com/4dgzol
 
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The Terrible Plight of Afghan Children:
 
The U.S. military alone spends $100 million a day fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan while the total spending by all donors is only $7 million a day, aid groups say.
abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=4695501&page=1
 
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Pakistan To Release Pro-Taliban Militant Leader:
 
In an apparent effort to negotiate peace with Islamic militants in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, the Pakistani government on Monday ordered the release of a pro-Taliban leader, the Associated Press quoted a prison official as saying.
tinyurl.com/4xtpnf
 
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Pak tests 2nd N-missile in three days:
 
The Shaheen-II or Hatf-VI surface-to-surface nuclear capable missile, which has a range of 2,000 km, was launched for the first time by the army’s Strategic Forces Command to mark the culmination of a field training exercise.
tinyurl.com/43wtq2
 
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Eight killed in Israeli attack on occupied Gaza:
 
At least eight Palestinians were killed Sunday after Israeli forces launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=25477
 
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Hamas offers truce in return for 1967 borders:
 
No Israeli response, but U.S. rejects it as ‘no change’
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24235665/
 
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Carter: Include Hamas in peace bid :
 
Jimmy Carter, the former US president, has called for Hamas to be included in peace negotiations, saying they are willing to “live as a neighbour next door in peace” with Israel if Palestinians approve a deal.
tinyurl.com/4w7ev8
 
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Carter: Hamas will accept Israel’s right to live in peace:
 
“There’s no doubt that both the Arab world and Hamas will accept Israel’s right to exist in peace within 1967 borders,” Carter said.
tinyurl.com/3u3dql
 
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A Palestinian being treated in an Israeli hospital :
 
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) on Monday said the Shin Bet security service has recently tightened its policy of issuing permits to cancer patients from Gaza seeking treatment in Israel, Army Radio reported
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/976720.html
 
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Mugabe minister accused of gun threats:
 
Zimbabwe’s health minister armed himself with a Kalashnikov and threatened to kill opposition supporters forced to attend a political meeting unless they voted for President Robert Mugabe in a second round of the presidential election, according to witnesses.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/21/zimbabwe
 
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Nigeria rebels attack Shell oil pipelines, defy US:
 
Nigerian rebels attacked two Royal Dutch Shell oil pipelines in the Niger Delta on Monday after a raid last week hit production, in what they called an act of defiance against major consumer the United States.
africa.reuters.com/country/NG/news/usnBAN158410.html
 
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Shell cuts Nigeria oil exports :
 
Oil producer Royal Dutch Shell says it has been forced to cut exports from southern Nigeria after attacks on its pipelines.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D8C540B0-929B-4405-986D-327B65D3438B.htm
 
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Ethiopia breaks ties with Qatar :
 
Ethiopia has broken diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing the Gulf state of supporting armed opposition groups across the Horn of Africa region.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/341C52D3-0960-4508-9491-7F4DC2B67668.htm
 
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Ex-Cleric Wins Paraguay Presidency, Ending a Party’s 62-Year Rule :
 
A former Roman Catholic bishop and self-styled champion of the poor on Sunday broke the 62-year grip on the presidency by the ruling party here, the longest-serving political party in the world.
tinyurl.com/3mon7h
 
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Ecuador could suspend US accords:
 
Ecuador could suspend some military accords with the United States to block what it calls U.S. ideological influence in its armed forces, Defense Minister Javier Ponce said Sunday.
tinyurl.com/4p9x2o
 
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Ecuador’s Leader Purges Military and Moves to Expel American Base:
 
Chafing at ties between American intelligence agencies and Ecuadorean military officials, President Rafael Correa is purging the armed forces of top commanders and pressing ahead with plans to cast out more than 100 members of the American military from an air base here in this coastal city.
tinyurl.com/3qupyb
 
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Senator Hillary Clinton Must Explain The Praising of a Group of KKK Supporters:
 
Senator Clinton should be careful where she throws bricks?
www.blackcommentator.com/274/274_clinton_udc.html
 
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Dollar falls on Bank of America results; euro up:
 
The dollar fell on Monday after unexpectedly weak profits from Bank of America dampened investors’ optimism that U.S. financial companies may escape the pinch of the crisis in global credit markets.
www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2143927320080421
 
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Bush, Harper, Calderon Defend Trade Amid Backlash:
 
President George W. Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico are using a summit meeting today in New Orleans to defend free trade and $930 billion in cross-border commerce against a political backlash. It won’t be easy.
tinyurl.com/4bmcql