13/12/07

Iraq snapshot
By Common Ills(Common Ills)
As he was due to return to Iraq for a second tour shortly, Wilkerson attempted an appeal but was told that the appeal would be decided while he was in Iraq. At that point, he self-checked out. At the end of the article, Wilkerson speaks …
thecommonills.blogspot.com/2007/12/iraq-snapshot_13.html

British Soldier Killed In Iraq
A British soldier has died as a result of injuries sustained in a road traffic accident in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has said.The soldier, a member of 1st Battalion The Scots Guards, was travelling in a Warrior Armoured Vehicle when …
news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1296990,00.html?f=rss

Republicans Don’t Even Talk About Iraq
By Moira Whelan
So given that the the Gallup Poll released two days ago said that 36% of Americans cited Iraq as their top issue, and that the issue “ranks as the top voting issue for Republicans, independents, and Democrats,” one can only assume that …
www.democracyarsenal.org/2007/12/republicans-don.html

The Manama Dialogue: Iraq and the Neighborhood
By Seth Weinberger(Seth Weinberger)
The fourth plenary session of the Manama Dialogue, “Iraq and the Neighborhood,” had three speeches: Vecdi Gonul, the Minister of Defense from Turkey; Bob Ainsworth, the Minister of State for the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom, …
securitydilemmas.blogspot.com/2007/12/
manama-dialogue-iraq-and-neighborhood.html

Update on Economy Memo Taking Iraq Off the Table
By Matt Stoller
Well the memo that went out today was just a compilation of polling on the economy – we weren’t trying to link back to Iraq in the document itself – just compiling polling, which we do for the caucus usually once or twice a week, …
www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2757

The Secular Left in Iraq
By jwalker@reason.com (Jesse Walker)
The [Iraq Freedom Congress] was formed in 2005, bringing together trade unions, women’s organizations, neighborhood assemblies and student groups around two demands: a secular Iraqi state and an end to the occupation. …
www.reason.com/blog/show/123928.html

Benn and the Iraq debate
By Oliver Kamm
The Spectator reports on the latest Intelligence Squared debate, which presented three positions on the future of Iraq. Benn and the more talented figure of Rory Stewart presented the case that Allied forces should leave Iraq as soon as …
oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2007/12/benn-and-the-ir.html

Top US Officials in Iraq Condemn Car Bombings in Amarah
Voice of America – USA
By VOA News Top American officials in Iraq have “strongly condemned” Wednesday’s car bombings in the mainly Shi’ite southern city of Amarah that killed at …
voanews.com/english/2007-12-13-voa8.cfm

Iraq: Sunnis, Sadrists Attack US Security Pact
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty – Prague,Czech Republic
The nonbinding agreement paves the way for the removal of Iraq from Chapter 7 status in 2008, which deems the country a threat to international security and …
www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/12/2C4
F103F-5B73-4926-827D-1A6701C35B26.html

Troops discover mass grave in Iraq
CNN International – USA
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqi soldiers have found a mass grave of mutilated bodies in a restive region north of Baghdad, a local security official told CNN …
edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/me
ast/12/13/iraq.main/?iref=mpstoryview

Iraq And Afghanistan: The Story of “Must” vs. “Can”
Campus Progress – Washington,DC,USA
Since 2001, the raging battles in Iraq have served to deplete our nation’s military resources, stretching our military and our brave servicemen and women to …
campusprogress.org/newswire/2307/ir
aq-and-afghanistan-the-story-of-must-vs-can

A push to track suicides among recent veterans
Newsday – Long Island,NY,USA
AP December 13, 2007 WASHINGTON – Parents of an Iraq war veteran who committed suicide, and members of Congress yesterday questioned why there’s not …
www.newsday.com/news/nationworl
d/ny-usiraq135498829dec13,0,2355943.story

Max Bergmann: NSN Iraq Daily Update 12/13/07
By Max Bergmann(webmaster@huffingtonpost.com)
Diplomatic posts at the State Department in Washington and US embassies worldwide will be cut by 10 percent next year because of heavy staffing demands in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Director General Harry Thomas. …
www.huffingtonpost.com/max-bergmann/
nsn-iraq-daily-update-12_b_76627.html

Triple Car Bombs in Iraq’s South Kill 41
The Associated Press –
Amarah, a Shiite militia stronghold about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, has seen violence among rival groups vying for control in Iraq’s oil-rich Shiite …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYe
FwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD8TFVVC81

Cable attacks ‘disaster’ of Iraq
BBC News – UK
Acting Liberal Democrat leader Vincent Cable has said the “real disaster” for Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the “continuing tragedy” in Iraq. …
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7140465.stm

Bomb carnage in Iraq’s south
The Australian – Sydney,Australia
AMARA, Iraq: Twin car bombs killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 150 in the southern Shia city of Amara yesterday, dealing a blow to British and …
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/
story/0,25197,22917076-2703,00.html

Iraq praises Syrian cooperation in boosting security
Africasia – London,UK
“There is better security cooperation on the part of Syria to help the Iraqi government to police the (Syria-Iraq) border and to prevent the movement of …
www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.ph
p?area=mideast&item=071212162814.n65u0srr.php

Car Bombings in Southern Iraq Kill 40, Injure 100
Chosun Ilbo – Seoul,South Korea
Iraq’s southern Shi’ite-majority areas have been largely free from large-scale attacks. But fighting among rival Shi’ite factions in the region has …
english.chosun.com/w21data/html/
news/200712/200712130030.html

Ahmadinejad told the truth — Bush is the liar
Tehran Times – Iran
Right after the failure of intelligence in Iraq, we reformed the intelligence community.” But whether or not the intelligence agencies are reformed, …
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=159106

Our view on war in Iraq: Surge’s success holds chance to seize the …
USA Today – USA
Iraq remains a violent place, but the trends are encouraging. US and Iraqi casualties are down sharply. Fewer of the most lethal Iranian-made explosive …
blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/12/our-view-on-war.html

Intraparty Feuds Dog Democrats, Stall Congress
Wall Street Journal – USA
30, 2008, but it has opened party divisions over funding the Iraq war and lawmakers’ home-state projects. After enjoying an early rise, Congress’s approval …
online.wsj.com/article/SB119750838630
225395.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Turnaround in Iraq: Bush Deserves ‘Praise’
By William Kern
Now that things are going better there, doesn’t President Bush deserve more credit for sticking to his guns and resisting calls to withdraw from Iraq? According to this op-ed article from Brazil’s leading business daily, …
themoderatevoice.com/media/journalism/16488/
turnaround-in-iraq-bush-deserves-praise/

Market blasts kill 40 in Iraq
Gulf Daily News – Manama,Bahrain
Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki called the bombings a “desperate attempt” to
draw attention away from recent security gains across Iraq. …
www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Artic
le=202810&Sn=WORL&IssueID=30268

Iraq: Refugees in Syria and Jordan
By Amira Al Hussaini
Iraqi Faiza Al Arji updates us on the situation of Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan in this post.
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13
/iraq-refugees-in-syria-and-jordan/

News & Views 12/12/07
By dancewater(Cervantes)
In a bid to curb frequent absences of its members, Iraq ‘s 275 MPs decided to recycle unused attendance allowances in this way. The displacement committee said it would use the money to buy food, blankets, hygiene kits and clothes, …
warnewstoday.blogspot.com/2007/12/news-views-121207.html

UPDATE 2-INTERVIEW-Iraq, Syria speed oil link restart -minister
Reuters UK – UK
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis DAMASCUS, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Iraq and Syria have agreed to speed up reactivation of an oil pipeline from north Iraq to the …
uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL1264378020071212

Only One Thing Unites Iraq: Hatred Of The US
By Patrick Cockburn 57 per cent of Iraqis believe that attacks on US forces are acceptable.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18871.htm

Bombings strike Iraq, Lebanon
USA Today – USA
In Lebanon, a car bomb killed one of the nation’s top military generals. Brig. Gen. Francois Hajj, killed in the blast along with at least two others, …
blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/12/bombings-strike.html

Iraq car bombs kill 33 as Britain poised to return Basra
AFP –
AMARA, Iraq (AFP) — Four car bombs killed at least 33 people in Iraq on Wednesday, including 28 in the southern city of Amara, as Baghdad said it would …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRyX74BmKWfXGEuKnSXs5QrBKD3w

Iraq car bomber targets 2 prominent politicians
Newsday – Long Island,NY,USA
Both politicians were out of Iraq at the time. The blast was in an area bordering the US-protected Green Zone in western Baghdad, close to buildings …
www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/n
y-uspoll125496934dec12,0,2810097.story

Iraq requests UN permit one-year extension of MNF in the country
Tehran Times – Iran
BAGHDAD (rttnews) — On Tuesday, Iraq sent a letter to the UN Security Council asking for permission to extend the tenure of US-led multinational forces, …
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=159091

Sorting out Bush, Iraq, Iran
Cincinnati Post – OH,USA
In the last few months, it has been possible for me to write several columns about hopeful signs in Iraq. Our own casualty numbers are down, …
news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20071212/LIFE03/712120370/1008/LIFE

Bush, GOP Prevail on Host of Hill Issues
The Associated Press –
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats prepared Wednesday for major concessions on Iraq war funding, children’s health insurance, tax policies, …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpA8m6qc1n
B7SmRWmVuS-qvsFqaAD8TG6LSO0

12/12/07

Three Car Bombs Kill at Least 46 in Iraq:
Three powerful car bombs exploded one after the other in a southern provincial capital on Wednesday, killing at least 46 and injuring 149, the most devastating attack in the nation since August, said police.
snipurl.com/1v6nj
 
Another 21 killed as US occupation grinds on :
U.S. forces killed 14 “gunmen” and detained 12 others during operations on Tuesday and Wednesday, in central Iraq, the U.S. military said.
www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID
/SSHN-79TG9M?OpenDocument

Iraq rejects permanent U.S. bases: adviser 11 Dec 2007 Iraq will never allow the United States to have permanent military bases on its soil, the government’s national security adviser said, calling the issue a “red line” that cannot be crossed. 
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071211/ts_nm/iraq_bases_dc

Sgt. shot unarmed Iraqi, soldier says 11 Dec 2007 An Army sergeant kicked and shot an Iraqi ‘insurgent’ who lay bleeding from nearly two dozen gunshot wounds, then after he was dead told fellow soldiers to say the man had been armed, a private at the scene testified Tuesday. Sgt. Leonardo Trevino is charged with premeditated murder, attempted murder, assault and obstruction of justice in the suspected June incidents in Muqdadiyah, Iraq. [Gee, looks like a letter of reprimand could very well be in the sergeant’s future. War crimes just don’t rank too high on the Bush regime’s crime and punishment scale. —LRP]
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212/ap_on_re_us/soldier_charged

Clinton Calls for Investigation Into Gang-Rape Allegations —Woman Says She Was Gang-Raped and Then Held Incommunicado by KBR 12 Dec 2007 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is calling for a formal government investigation into allegations that a young female American contractor was gang-raped in Iraq and then held incommunicado in a large shipping container by her American employer, KBR, then a subsidiary of Halliburton.
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3989078

Woman claims Halliburton-KBR rape cover-up 12 Dec 2007 A Texas woman who claims she was raped by male colleagues working for Halliburton-KBR in Iraq is suing after the US government failed to bring charges. Jamie Leigh Jones, 22, alleged she was attacked by several men inside Baghdad’s Green Zone two years ago and then held in a shipping container for 24 hours. Her captors then threatened her if she sought medical treatment abroad.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xm
l=/news/2007/12/11/wtexas111.xml

DOJ Questioned About ‘05 Iraq Rape Case 11 Dec 2007 The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to give a full account of its investigation into the alleged rape of a female contract worker in Iraq two years ago. Jamie Leigh Jones, a former Conroe resident, filed a federal lawsuit in May against Halliburton Co., its former subsidiary, KBR Inc., and others claiming she was raped by co-workers while working for a Halliburton subsidiary at Camp Hope, Baghdad, in 2005.
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ilYz6v1yfg
xCsfcPZ84qLbMJrY_gD8TFHU080

Bomb carnage in Iraq’s south 13 Dec 2007 Twin car bombs killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 150 in the southern Shia city of Amara yesterday, dealing a blow to British and Iraqi claims of achieving stability in the south. Amara health department director-general Zamil Shia’a al-Oreibi said the bombers killed 27 people and there were 10 children among the 151 wounded.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story
/0,25197,22917076-15084,00.html

Three Car Bombs Kill at Least 46 in Iraq 12 Dec 2007 Three powerful car bombs exploded one after the other in a southern provincial capital on Wednesday, killing at least 46 and injuring 149, the most devastating attack in the nation since August, police said.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2007/12/12/AR2007121200341.html

Iraq, Inc.: How much will it cost us if we never leave?
By Sheldon Liber
We are not going to pull out of Iraq this year, next year, in 10 years or perhaps 100 years. Not unless we are chased out (although some locals are trying). It is true that we may reduce our forces over the next four or five years to a …
www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/12/12/iraq-inc-
how-much-will-it-cost-us-if-we-never-leave/

Iraq snapshot
By Common Ills(Common Ills)
Information on war resistance within the military can be found at The Objector, The GI Rights Hotline [(877) 447-4487], Iraq Veterans Against the War and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all …
thecommonills.blogspot.com/2007/12/iraq-snapshot_12.html

Triple Car Bombs Kill at Least 46 in Iraq
www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121207A.shtml
Sudarsan Raghavan, writing for The Washington Post, reports: “Three powerful car bombs exploded one after the other in a southern provincial capital on Wednesday, killing at least 46 and injuring 149, the most devastating attack in the nation since August, said police.” Also from Iraq, The Associated Press’s Peter Graff reports, “Iraq will never allow the United States to keep permanent military bases on its soil, the government’s national security adviser has said.”

Douglas Macgregor | Will Iraq’s Great Awakening Lead to a Nightmare?
www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121207E.shtml
Retired Army Colonel, Douglas Macgregor, writes from Mother Jones: “American casualties in Iraq have declined dramatically over the last 90 days to levels not seen since 2006, and the White House has attributed the decline to the surge of 35-40,000 U.S. combat troops. But a closer look suggests a different explanation.”

US: Disputed in Iraq, Blackwater Now Splits California Town
www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14842

US: Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14841

CBS’s Smith: Halliburton & US ‘Covering Up A Terrible Crime’ Again
By Kyle Drennen
On Wednesday’s CBS “Early Show,” co-host Harry Smith introduced a segment on a woman alleging she was sexually assaulted by Halliburton employees in Iraq and declared, “Halliburton, the company with $2 billion in Iraq contracts, …
newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2007/12/12/cbs
-s-smith-halliburton-u-s-covering-terrible-crime-again

Gang rape cover-up by Halliburton?
By Jessica
In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her …
feministing.com/archives/008230.html

Halliburton/KBR Cover Up Gang Rape
A Texas woman filed a federal lawsuit in May against Halliburton and its former subsidiary KBR, stating that she was drugged and gang-raped by a group of her co-workers in the KBR camp in the Green Zone in Iraq in 2005. …
feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=10706

(KBR/Halliburton) Iraq contract worker seeks hearing on alleged …
Source: [b]CNN/AP[/b] HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to give a full account of its investigation into the alleged rape of a female contract worker in Iraq two …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3099299

Slovakia leaves Iraq, sends more troops to Kosovo, Afghanistan
Xinhua – China
On the other hand, the government will reinforce its contingent in Kosovo and Afghanistan. Slovakia will send another 50 troops to Afghanistan next year so …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/12/content_7232211.htm

Afghanistan: Contractor Database
By Adil Nurmakov
Carl Robichaud reviews the Windfalls of War report, an investigation of US contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, puvlished by the Center for Public Integrity.
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/
12/afghanistan-contractor-database/

Center on Public Integrity updates its contractor database
By Carl Robichaud
The Center for Public Integrity has just updated its Windfalls of War report, an investigation of US contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. The original report, published in 2003, won the George Polk Award for journalism. …
www.afghanistanwatch.org/2007/12/center-on-publi.html

Triple Car Bombs in Iraq’s South Kill 41
The Associated Press –
Amarah, a Shiite militia stronghold about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, has seen violence among rival groups vying for control in Iraq’s oil-rich Shiite …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYe
FwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD8TFVVC81

Cable attacks ‘disaster’ of Iraq
BBC News – UK
Acting Liberal Democrat leader Vincent Cable has said the “real disaster” for Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the “continuing tragedy” in Iraq. …
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7140465.stm

Bomb carnage in Iraq’s south
The Australian – Sydney,Australia
AMARA, Iraq: Twin car bombs killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 150 in the southern Shia city of Amara yesterday, dealing a blow to British and …
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,22917076-2703,00.html

Iraq praises Syrian cooperation in boosting security
Africasia – London,UK
“There is better security cooperation on the part of Syria to help the Iraqi government to police the (Syria-Iraq) border and to prevent the movement of …
www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.ph
p?area=mideast&item=071212162814.n65u0srr.php

Front Row: As Iraq shifts, candidates do, too
By Rhonda Stewart
For months, Democratic candidates had excoriated the Bush administration for starting the war in Iraq and jousted over who would withdraw US troops more quickly. Republicans gritted their teeth and supported President Bush’s decision to …
www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007
/12/front_row_trading_places_on_ir.html

ABC’s Boston Legal: Iraq Spending Could ‘Convert Every Car to Run …
By Brent Baker
Tuesday night on ABC’s farcical drama, Boston Legal, the firm represented a client suing the National Guard for failing to protect his pizza shop from a flood because the soldiers were deployed in Iraq, providing a chance for lawyer …
newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2007/12/12/abcs-boston-legal
-iraq-spending-could-convert-every-car-run-ethanol

Mapping Iraq’s Concerned Local Citizens programs
There are Concerned Local Citizens groups in 12 of Iraq’s 18 provinces, and in many of the provinces, the groups are still forming. “There are currently almost 300 CLC groups throughout Iraq… There are 1800 former CLC members who are …
www.longwarjournal.org/archives/200
7/12/mapping_the_concerne.php

Carcieri visits Iraq
By Not For Nothing
Carcieri arrived in Iraq on Tuesday, December 11th, as part of a bipartisan delegation. While in Iraq , the Governor has visited members of the Rhode Island National Guard and has received briefings from United States military officials …
thephoenix.com/notfornothing/PermaLink,guid,
ea0d1812-8b0e-4efb-a895-cd5dc1c13bfa.aspx

Revisiting Iraq’s Salience
The latest Washington Post poll does give some support to those who think the significance of the Iraq issue is in decline. Still, it’s pretty scant support. This poll still has Iraq essentially tied with “economy/jobs” as the most …
matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2
007/12/revisiting_iraqs_salience.php

OPERATION ENDLESS OCCUPATION
Michael Schwartz explains the consequences of the Bush surge—and what the U.S. really has in store for Iraq.
www.socialistworker.org/2007-2/656/656_04_Occupation.shtml

Iraq: A muslim woman gives us a raw glimpse of the spirit of the …
By Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Recently, CNA had the opportunity to send a writer to the Anbar Province of Iraq to cover the experiences of a Catholic chaplain working in the trenches. What follows is his recounting of the amazing encounter he had with this apostle …
wdtprs.com/blog/2007/12/iraq-a-muslim-woman-gives-us-a-raw
-glimpse-of-the-spirit-of-the-early-churchs-martyrs/

Jamie’s Chronology
Pajamas Media – El Segundo,CA,USA
January, 2004- I started working for Halliburton at their headquarters in Houston. July 15, 2005- I signed a contract to work in Iraq for patriotic reasons …
pajamasmedia.com/2007/12/the_jamiehtm_file.php

US military says Iraq is the priority
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
“Our main focus, militarily, in the region and in the world right now is rightly and firmly in Iraq,” Mullen said before the House Armed Services Committee. …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-
usafghan12dec12,1,3248341.story?coll=la-headlines-world

Big military changes in a still shaky Iraq
Philadelphia Daily News – Philadelphia,PA,USA
By ROBERT BURNS AP WASHINGTON – The US military in Iraq is undergoing its biggest changeover in senior commanders since Gen. David Petraeus launched a new …
www.philly.com/dailynews/national/20071212
_Big_military_changes_in_a_still_shaky_Iraq.html

GOP not budging and Democrats face need to cut spending
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
But after months of battling the White House over the Iraq war and domestic spending priorities, Democrats appear to be boxed into a corner. …
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=
/c/a/2007/12/12/MNSHTS7H3.DTL

The Gang Rape of Jamie Jones and the KBR/Halliburton Cover-Up
Ted Poe, a Republican, who immediately called the State Department, citing a real emergency in rescuing an American citizen. That she was being rescued from an American company, a subsidiary of Halliburton, is the crowning irony. …
www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=26683

Houston Woman Raped by Halliburton Employees
By Michigan Redneck(Michigan Redneck)
It is regarding a woman that worked for a Halliburton partner, KBR. About two years ago she was working in Iraq and was allegedly raped. I hate to jump to conclusions, strike that, I do jump to conclusions. …
michiganredneck.blogspot.com/2007/12/
houston-woman-raped-by-halliburton.html

Lawmakers ask Justice to detail KBR rape case inquiry
Houston Chronicle – United States
Jamie Leigh Jones, of Conroe, is one of two women who reported being attacked while working in Iraq for Halliburton’s former subsidiary KBR in 2005. …
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5371018.html

The Criminal Side Of KBR/Halliburton
By jobsanger(jobsanger)
That is especially true of Halliburton and its subsidiaries like KBR. Halliburton got a sweetheart deal from the White House to reap windfall profits from the Iraq war, and they’re not about to let anyone or anything interfere with …
jobsanger.blogspot.com/2007/12/crim
inal-side-of-kbrhalliburton.html

News & Views 12/11/07
By dancewater(Cervantes)
Photo: A woman takes her dead son into her arms, as she grieves for her six-year-old son, Dhiya Thamer, who was killed when their family car came under fire by unknown gunmen in Baqouba, capital of Iraq ‘s Diyala province, 60 kilometers …
warnewstoday.blogspot.com/2007/12/news-views-121107.html

Iraq snapshot
By Common Ills(Common Ills)
Olivia Chow moved, — That the motion be amended by replacing the words “the war in Iraq” with the words “a war not sanctioned by the United Nations”; and by deleting the words “and/or there has been no criminal or military warrants …
thecommonills.blogspot.com/2007/12/iraq-snapshot_11.html

Iraq
By Ruth(Ruth)
Forum with Michael Krasny yesterday featured a discussion on the puppet government in Iraq and one of the guests was Raed Jarrar. If you missed the program, and are interested in the discussion, use the link but be warned that a Hoover …
ruthsreport.blogspot.com/2007/12/iraq.html

CRS — Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan …
By Shirl Kennedy
Since October 2001, improvised explosive devices (IEDs, roadside bombs, and suicide car bombs) have been responsible for many of the combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.1 Vehicle-borne IEDs and car bombs are now used to strike police …
www.docuticker.com/?p=18299

Only hatred of US unites Iraq
Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA
As British forces come to the end of their role in Iraq, what sort of country do they leave behind? Has the United States turned the tide in Baghdad? …
seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/343168_iraq12.html

Iraq: insurgents hit oil refinery?
World War 4 Report – Brooklyn,NY,USA
At least two Islamic militant Web sites assailed al-Maamouri and broadcast old audio clips of the slain “al-Qaeda in Iraq” leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi …
www.ww4report.com/node/4794

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE WE KILLING IN IRAQ?
By The Radical(The Radical)
There are no slogans expressing his disgust at the death squads of the Baathists and Iranian-backed Shia militias, nor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq…The best justification for Haw’s morality is that if …
radicalopinions.blogspot.com/2007/12/how
-many-people-are-we-killing-in-iraq.html

DOJ Questioned About ‘05 Iraq Rape Case
The Associated Press –
Jamie Leigh Jones, a former Conroe resident, filed a federal lawsuit in May against Halliburton Co., its former subsidiary, KBR Inc., and others claiming …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ilYz6v1y
fgxCsfcPZ84qLbMJrY_gD8TFHU080

“VIDEO: State Department Intervenes To Rescue American From …
Brad Blog – USA
… being held captive for by Halliburton in Iraq for 24-hours in a shipping container without food and water after she reported being gang raped in 2005, …
www.bradblog.com/?p=5428

Breaking Zubaydah
Slate – USA
Rape in the Green Zone: Jamie Leigh Jones, a 22-year-old woman from Texas, says that she was gang-raped by her coworkers from KBR, then a Halliburton …
www.slate.com/id/2179780/nav/fix/