Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,205,025"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,064
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$516,601,762,935
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Ex-Iraq Commander Accuses Bush Administration of ‘Gross Incompetence’
 
By John Byrne
 
In a new memoir set to be published May 6, the former commander of US forces in Iraq provides new intimate details of the goings-on at high levels of the Bush Administration in the first year of the Iraq war.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19861.htm
 
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A Strangled People
 
By Sami Abdel-Shafi in Gaza City
 
The bold claims about Middle East peace from London ring hollow in the empty streets of Gaza.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19862.htm
 
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Turkey ‘kills 150 Kurdish rebels’ :
 
“According to initial estimates, this operation allowed us to neutralise more than 150 terrorists,” the army said in a statement on its website.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7382150.stm
 
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PKK: None killed during Turkish air strike:
 
A spokesman for the Kurdish rebel PKK said that none of its fighters were killed during the Turkish air strike in northern Iraq
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3538975,00.html
 
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At least 27 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
Two rockets landed near the al-Sadr hospital in Sadr City, wounding 20 people including women and children, and incinerating or damaging 11 ambulances, police and hospital sources said.
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0333826320080503
 
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Iraq: 14 “rebels” killed in US air attack, hospital struck:
 
A US air strike damaged a hospital in the Iraqi capital’s violent Shia stronghold of Sadr City on Saturday, injuring 20 people, as American forces claimed to have killed 14 militiamen.
tinyurl.com/5weo7u
 
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Iraq Family Describes How US Occupation Forces Killed Their 2 Year Old Son:
 
Hussein’s mother recounted being buried in rubble and crawling around the home, looking for her children.
abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=4775808&page=1
 
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Iraq’s Shiite clerics deeply divided on militia crackdown:
 
Shiite clerics offered sharply different visions Friday in the showdown between government forces and Shiite militias – one predicting that armed groups will be crushed in Baghdad and another calling for the prime minister to be prosecuted for crimes against his people.
tinyurl.com/65hby8
 
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Iraq delegation says Iran backs militant crackdown :
 
Iran supports the Iraqi government in its fight against militants, the head of a delegation from Iraq’s ruling Shi’ite alliance said on Saturday after returning from a visit to Tehran.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080503/ts_nm/iraq_iran_dc
 
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Iran won’t talk to US on Iraq till attacks stop: report:
 
A senior Iranian official said on Saturday Tehran saw no need for more talks with the United States about Iraqi security until what he described as U.S. attacks on Iraqis stopped, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported.
tinyurl.com/6fmt53
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert::
 
United States is drawing up plans to strike on Iranian insurgency camp:
 
The US military is drawing up plans for a “surgical strike” against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue with attempts to destabilise Iraq, western intelligence sources said last week.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3868063.ece
 
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Top cleric vows crushing response if Iran attacked :
 
A top cleric on Friday vowed that Iran would deal a knock-out blow to what he called maniacs in the United States and Israel if they ever attacked the Islamic republic reported by AFP.
tinyurl.com/66kqly
 
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Blast kills British occupation force soldier in Afghanistan :
 
The soldier was killed after the vehicle he was travelling in hit a mine during a routine patrol near southern Helmand province’s Naw Zad district
tinyurl.com/5athyz
 
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US to send 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan;
 
The United States is considering sending an extra 7,000 troops to Afghanistan next year to make up for a shortfall in contributions from NATO allies, The New York Times reported yesterday.
tinyurl.com/5bpmuj
 
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Afghans back Pakistan’s plan of talks with Taliban;
 
Afghanistan backs Islamabad’s plan to hold talks with the Pakistani Taliban, the government said on Saturday, but urged its neighbour not to allow the militants space to regroup and launch raids across the border.
in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINISL15202520080503?rpc=401&
 
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Deal Struck on Pakistan Judges:
 
The coalition government of Pakistan has agreed to reinstate the country’s chief justice and 60 other judges deposed last year under a controversial order by President Pervez Musharraf, a move that could threaten Musharraf’s tenuous grip on political power.
tinyurl.com/6z9jk8
 
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Musharraf agrees to surrender powers:
 
Legal aides of President Pervez Musharraf are giving final touches to a bill to indemnify his controversial November 3, 2007 action of imposing a quasi martial law and sacking of 60 judges by taking all political players in parliament on board, political sources said yesterday
tinyurl.com/5wgzds
 
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Hamas says Quartet calls on Israel to stop settlements “not enough” :
 
“What is needed is to make practical decisions that oblige the Israeli occupation to stop settlements in the West Bank and lift the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip,” said Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas spokesman in Gaza.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/03/content_8096101.htm
 
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Quartet opens door to ending Hamas isolation:
 
The big powers have formally acknowledged for the first time that the policy of isolating Hamas through an economic blockade of Gaza is not working.
tinyurl.com/6g69pz
 
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Interview-”Torture is terrorism”, ex-Guantanamo man tells US:
 
“My last message to the U.S. administration is that torture will not stop terrorism — torture is terrorism.”
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL02898954
 
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Bush Requests $70 Billion More For Iraq:
 
The $70 billion is for fiscal 2009, and the pending $108 billion is for fiscal 2008. If Democrats decide to start adding domestic funding items — over the objections of the White House — this supplemental spending bill could easily top $200 billion.
tinyurl.com/6zd7w4
 
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The Pentagon’s $1 Trillion Problem:
 
The Defense Department has spent billions to fix its antiquated financial systems. So why does the Pentagon still have no idea where its money goes?
tinyurl.com/3jnxf4
 
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McCain: Iraq War Was For Oil:
 
“You have seen an ad campaign that is mounted against me that says I wanted to stay and fight in Iraq for a 100 years,” McCain said to a crowd at a Jewish Community Center. “My friends, it’s a direct falsification
firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/974014.aspx
 
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Bolivians vote Sunday; 1 country or 2?:
 
Morales has called the referendum a move to split up this nation of 9.1 million and to thwart his government’s efforts to rewrite Bolivia’s constitution so that its indigenous majority wins more political power
www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/35678.html
 
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US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank pump an extra $82bn into banking system:
 
The Fed and the ECB lined up with the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to mount a third phase of joint operations to curb the transatlantic credit squeeze endangering the world economy
tinyurl.com/6xxmz2