Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,201,597"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,055
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$515,087,904,492
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Black Hole in Bush’s Brain
 
By Peter Chamberlin
 
The Cheney wing of the co-presidency continues to pursue every possible avenue for expanding the failed war into a regional conflagration, which could only be settled with nuclear weapons.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19829.htm
 
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Why Did Israel Bomb Syria?
 
A Must Watch – Pepe Escobar: Real News Video Report
 
The real story behind the September air strike has not been investigated.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19824.htm
 
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John McCain’s Serious Foreign Policy
 
By Glen Greenwald
 
John McCain was on a conference call with right-wing bloggers yesterday and boasted: I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas’s worst nightmare.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19827.htm
 
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John McCain’s Bid For American Jewish Votes
 
By Glenn Greenwald
 
John McCain was in South Florida yesterday bidding for Jewish votes by explicitly articulating the right-wing, fear-mongering strategy to secure this vital voting bloc: namely, exploiting the devotion which many American Jewish voters have to Israel by scaring them into believing that Barack Obama will jeopardize Israel’s security while only McCain will protect that country (by copying the Bush/Cheney approach to Israel’s enemies)
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19828.htm
 
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Reverend Wright Delivers the Knockout Punch
 
By Mike Whitney 
 
The media IS doing its job. It’s cheerleading the country to war, it is diverting attention from the main political and economic issues of the day, and it is destroying its political enemies.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19826.htm
 
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Who Is Rev Jeremiah Wright?
 
Bill Moyer’s – Video and Transcript
 
Bill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19825.htm
 
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A Corrosive Stain On The US Soul
 
By Anthony Lewis
 
I grew up believing that Americans did not torture prisoners, as Hitler’s and Stalin’s agents did. There were rogue episodes of American brutality, but to make torture a national policy? Unthinkable.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19823.htm
 
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Iraq mass graves yield 100 bodies:
 
Most of the bodies had their hands bound and gunshot wounds in the head.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080427/ts_nm/iraq_graves_dc
 
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At least 54 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
Eight people were killed and 54 others wounded including eight women and four children overnight in Sadr city
tinyurl.com/4xff68
 
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38" militants” killed in fierce fighting in occupied Baghdad :
 
US occupation forces used Abrams tanks to repel attacks on two army checkpoints, killing 22 “militants” in one clash late Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday. Sixteen other militants were killed Sunday in separate firefights.
tinyurl.com/4l4ggj
 
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Iraqi cleric rejects talks terms :
 
Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has rejected preconditions set by the government for talks to end Iraqi army attacks on his militia force.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7370161.stm
 
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Iraqi lawmakers call for end to Sadr City siege:
 
As the fighting raged, a group of 40 lawmakers gathered in the war-torn neighborhood to announce they are willing to work with Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and urged the US and Iraqi military to pull out of the area.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19822.htm
 
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Iraqi police say gunmen kill local commander of anti-U.S. occupation cleric:
 
A police official says Ali Ghalib, a commander of al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army in the Hakimiya neighborhood in central Basra, was gunned down by gunmen on a motorcycle as he was driving on Monday.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/28/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Assassination.php
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran::
 
Clear Iranian role in Baghdad violence: military:
 
“We have found many Iranian-made weapons — Katyusha and Grad rockets, and smart roadside bombs and smart bombs. We have also seized some documents and identified some people,” Atta said, without elaborating.
www.france24.com/en/20080427-clear-iranian-role-baghdad-violence-military
 
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Iran dismisses allegations over Iraq meddling, arms supply :
 
Iran on Monday dismissed as “illusive allegations” made by certain Iraqi and US officials over arms supply to Iraqi insurgents.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0804286232185939.htm
 
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Demonizing Ahmadinejad:
 
 Hitler wasn’t believed, we can’t make that mistake with Ahmadinejad:
 
“this is a very serious threat, to Israel, but more importantly, to the entire world.” He explained that he was referring to “what they [Iran] think of Israel ? the desire to destroy and wipe it off the map.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/978375.html
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert::
 
Israel’s Air Force Chief: Iran Threat Real:
 
If any country takes the words of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad more seriously than the United States, it is Israel. And that’s not surprising: Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, and Israeli intelligence estimates that Iran could be two years away from having a nuclear weapon.
tinyurl.com/6fto33
 
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In case you missed it:
 
Does Iran’s President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map :
 
An analysis of media rhetoric on its way to war against Iran – Commenting on the alleged statements of Iran’s President Ahmadinejad
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12790.htm
 
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Is Iran a nuclear threat or not? :
 
Kislyak said there is no threat from Iran. The Russian military, notably Chief of Staff Yury Baluyevsky, view the Iranian missile threat as hypothetical, unlike the very tangible U.S. interceptor missiles to be deployed in Poland.
en.rian.ru/analysis/20080428/106110339.html
 
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Russia reassures over security talks with Iran :
 
Jalili said Iran would soon present “an array of proposals” designed to deal with global problems, including comprehensive initiatives on political and security issues, and measures to promote nuclear nonproliferation.
en.rian.ru/world/20080428/106100057.html
 
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India and Pakistan snub US :
 
A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR gas pipeline project linking Iran, Pakistan and India that is bitterly opposed by Washington is set to go ahead after Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a historic first visit to meet leaders of the new coalition government in Islamabad
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23612814-25837,00.html
 
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Conservatives’ win is a lesson for US :
 
The effects left by the relentless attacks of the US administration against Iran have brought the conservatives closer together in a united stand. It could not be denied that external factors have played a role in the final results.
tinyurl.com/4qvtg6
 
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Syria says US reactor charges as fake as Iraq WMD claims :
 
“The new US campaign of lies should surprise nobody — it’s a continuation of the same policy of US pressure against Syria that’s been going on” for the past five years, the paper added.
tinyurl.com/4xpg5u
 
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What Did Israel Bomb Syria?:
 
The real story behind the September air strike has not been investigated
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19824.htm
 
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Timing suspicious in spy case:
 
Global attention was focused last week on disturbing revelations about the help North Korea had secretly provided to Syria to build a nuclear reactor that was destroyed by Israeli warplanes last year.
www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=477603
 
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Four children among 7 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza:
 
At least seven Palestinians, including a mother and her four young children, have been killed during an Israeli raid in northern Gaza, medics say.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7370502.stm
 
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UN Secretary General condemns killing of Palestinians in Gaza:
 
‘The secretary general calls upon Israel to exercise maximum care and restraint, and reminds the IDF of its responsibilities to protect civilians under international humanitarian law during its military operations,’ UN spokeswoman Marie Okabe said.
tinyurl.com/3rwx99
 
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Israel Could Make Orphans Homeless Again:
 
Nibaal Shriteh may soon be homeless. The 17-year-old Palestinian lives in a Hebron orphanage but, if the Israeli military has its way, she and 240 fellow orphans like her will be out on the streets.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42151
 
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NATO occupation force soldier among 17 killed in Afghan attacks:
 
One NATO occupation force soldier and 16 insurgents were killed, and four NATO soldiers and a dozen more rebels were wounded, in two separate attacks in the eastern and southern regions of Afghanistan, officials said on Monday.
tinyurl.com/3urrl4
 
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Attack misses Afghan president, kills 3:
 
Militants firing rockets and automatic rifles attacked the Afghan president at a ceremony in Kabul, missing their target but killing three and wounding eight others.
yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/nationworld/ci_9083221
 
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Spokesman: Pakistani Taliban quits peace talks with gov’t :
 
Maulvi Umar said Taliban representatives who were holding talks with the tribal elders, mediating between the two sides, had quit the talks due to the government’s attitude.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/28/content_8069666.htm
 
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Nicaragua hosts food crisis talks :
 
Daniel Ortega, the president of Nicaragua, has opened an “emergency meeting” to address food shortages across South and Central America.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/87B3349C-F444-4756-81CE-0C03D21783CD.htm
 
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Did Colombia’s president help plan ‘97 massacre?:
 
A jailed paramilitary fighter claims Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and his brother helped plan a 1997 massacre in a village suspected of harboring leftist guerrillas, according to sworn testimony given to the nation’s prosecutor general and obtained by El Nuevo Herald.
www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/35055.html
 
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Spain refuses to extradite Peron :
 
A court in Spain has rejected a request from Buenos Aires to extradite former Argentine president Isabel Peron, wanted in her home country for alleged human rights violations.
tinyurl.com/6d79cy
 
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Economist designated new prime minister of troubled Haiti :
 
Haitian President Rene Preval has designated economist Ericq Pierre to succeed Jacques-Edouard Alexis as the country’s prime minister. According to Haitian media reports from Monday, the designation of Pierre – a former official at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
tinyurl.com/3fufyg
 
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Oil prices hit new record high :
 
Oil prices hit an all-time high near $120 a barrel after a weekend refinery strike closed a pipeline system that delivers a third of Britain’s North Sea oil to refineries in the UK.
tinyurl.com/5ccldh