Free Iraq

Globalist Think Tanks Call For Balkanization Of Iraq: Long term agenda to divide and conquer presented as final solution
 

US scholars propose a divided Iraq: The three main spheres proposed in the report would be Shia, Sunni and Kurdistan. Iraqi Kurds already control Kurdistan.
 

U.S. troops naturalized in Iraq
 

US Taxpayers' Money at Work: Photos of Israel's demolitions of Palestinian homes
 

Plague of bioweapons accidents afflicts the US: Deadly germs may be more likely to be spread due to a biodefence lab accident than a biological attack by terrorists.
 

President Defends War on July 4th: "If we were to quit Iraq before the job is done . . .." (blah, blah, blah)
 

The United States of Israel: The 4th of July is supposed to be a celebration of U.S. independence. But no one can honestly claim that the U.S. is independent of Israel and its immensely powerful domestic lobby. Certainly not the Congressional Black Caucus, all of whose members voted for a resolution charging Iran with "genocide" because of a deliberately misquoted statement by the Iranian president. Israel's interests override the truth every time. The pro-Israel lobby terrorizes presidential candidates, threatening them with political death if they utter a hint of criticism of the regime. Happy Independence Day.
 

Iraq, the new Israel: Lame-duck US President George W Bush, last week in a speech at the US Naval War College, made it official: Israel is the model for Iraq, although Iraq is rather more like Palestine.

The endless Palestinian tragedy - the cancer at the root of every problem in the Middle East - now has officially spread to Mesopotamia. The disease is man-made. Not that the White House is losing any sleep over it. Bush may even have had a Nero-like impulse to add fuel to the burning of Rome, ie Baghdad: after all, the Zio-con objective is to encourage civil war in Iraq on a divide-and-rule basis.

...[R]eal life - or survival in the heart of darkness - remains bleak. Most areas in Baghdad are "red" or "dark pink" - meaning the odds of one seeing the sun rising day after day range from 10% to a maximum of 30%. The National Association of British Arabs, in a report by Dr Ismail Jalili to the House of Lords Commission on Iraq, has detailed only part of the horrendous, systematic decimation of Iraq's intelligentsia: 830 documented assassinations since 2003, including 380 academics and doctors, 210 lawyers and judges, and 243 journalists.

Washington's Holy Grail - or Benchmark Supreme - remains the Oil Law. Only 24 of 37 Iraqi cabinet ministers have approved the made-in-Washington draft of the law - which should have been presented for discussion in Parliament this Wednesday. The Kurds have already leaked that they are against it - the terms, not the law in itself. The Sadrists, virtually all Sunni parties and the overwhelming majority of Iraq's population - if they had access to the text - are against handing over the nation's wealth to Anglo-American Big Oil.
 

G7 Play Thermonuclear Chess with Putin
 

Al-Qaeda, the eternal covert operation: British “terror” incident latest product of “war on terror” propaganda: It is a well-established and deliberately unaddressed historical fact that the CIA created “radical Islam” and Islamic “terrorism” during the Cold War. It is also a documented fact that the US, its allies, and their intelligence agencies (CIA, Pakistan’s ISI, Britain’s MI-6, etc.) have -- from the 1970s to the present day -- continued to use and guide terrorist groups, including “Al-Qaeda,” as intelligence and propaganda assets. “Islamic terrorism” is a manufactured weapon of Western geostrategy, serving Anglo-American interests.

Planned covert operations and false flag operations using “terrorists” in direct and indirect military-intelligence roles are of imperial design. Such operations (exemplified by 9/11), and their predictable propaganda results (“the war on terrorism”) are now routine events.
 

U.S. helicopter forced down in Iraq, one killed
 

Baghdad killings 'rise sharply'
 

Dumb “al-Qaeda” Doctors
 

U.S. use of drones surges over Iraq
 

Baghdad car bomb kills 17 at wedding
 

Construction Woes Add to Fears at Embassy in Iraq
 

In outsourced U.S. wars, contractor deaths top 1,000
 

Smell of burning insulation fills new, $700 million US Baghdad embassy, as switch thrown for the first time: The first signs of trouble . . .emerged when the kitchen staff tried to cook the inaugural meal in the new guard base on May 15. Some appliances did not work. Workers began to get electric shocks. Then a burning smell enveloped the kitchen as the wiring began to melt.
 

Senator accuses Bush of being 'brain dead'
 

Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month
 

I am Australian. I am, and have always been, ashamed (devastated?) by our government's stand on Iraq.

Having read your work on, I think, "the Yellow Press" and done my homework, I knew absolutely that there were no WMD.

But then, our government under the despicable John Howard, lies to us about everything.

However, when the Minister for Defence made his "boo-boo", one brave newspaper asked us to write in and say what we thought. Nearly every post was anti-war and anti-Howard.

Iraq has been, and always will be, in my heart. I read Riverbend's blogs constantly, and am saddened that she now rarely blogs and has to leave Iraq. I read your blog and others, and wish you'd put more of what you say in Iraqi in English.

I try to tell people about the death toll, about the assassinations of academics, the horrors generally.

There is nothing else I can do. I feel impotent and so sad that we are part of this inhumane invasion because our government decided to follow Bush. Daphne
 

Trade Bank of Iraq appoints British adviser Sir Claude Hankes (04/07/07)

This turned out to be Sir Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a prominent British business executive and patron of the British Museum who also served as an adviser in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein and headed the Iraqi Governing Council's fraud investigation into the United Nations-administered oil-for-food program.


Hankes's lawyer, Ludovic de Walden, told the London court in November that it was "abundantly clear" that his client's dish and the one sought by Bulgaria were two different objects. De Walden produced an invoice, dated July 7, 1998, showing that Hankes had bought a 12th-century silver dish for ?200,000 from Sam Fogg, a well-known London dealer.

Mr. Hussein Al-Uzri

al-Uzri smiles genially as he tosses his shiny
black German MP5K submachine gun onto the
beige couch of his office, which overlooks the garden
of his villa in Baghdad’s well-to-do al-Mansour
neighborhood. Behind high walls in the driveway
below, his driver and two bodyguards, all wielding AK-47
Kalashnikovs, wait in an armored Toyota SUV. Polite but clearly
in a hurry, the tall, black-haired Iraqi ensconces himself behind his desk for a quick chat. He has just a few minutes to
spare before he must race off for a rendezvous across town.
Al-Uzri is not a militiaman or a rebel leader. A member of a
prominent Shiite family, the 55-year-old returned to Iraq for
the first time in 44 years in June 2003, two months after the
ouster of Saddam Hussein. He now serves as a senior adviser
on banking to the interim Iraqi government: His pressing appointment across town — a nerve-racking 30-minute trip — is
with Finance Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi.
“The priority for banks is to bring their balance sheets up to
standards, then to restructure them to automate,” says al-Uzri
affably. “That, and a lot of training.” He has an MBA from Indiana University and has worked for international banks in
Beirut and Bahrain as well as London.
Al-Uzri is just one of scores of advisers to the interim government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi who tote guns along
with their briefcases. Who can blame them? Attempts to assassinate government officials occur so often in Iraq that they barely make news. On August 23, Iraq’s Environment and Education ministers narrowly escaped separate bomb attacks; five
bodyguards were killed. All cabinet-level officials and central
bank governor Sinan al-Shabibi travel in miniconvoys of armored
SUVs.
“It’s been getting worse,” says al-Uzri, since Izzadine Saleem,
president of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, was
killed on May 17 in a suicide blast right outside the entrance
to the green zone, the heavily protected enclave that encompasses the U.S. embassy, which occupies one of Saddam’s opulent former palaces.
The government of Prime Minister Allawi, a 59-year-old
neurologist who opposed Saddam from exile in the U.K. and
promotes an image of toughness, has vowed a fight to the finish
against the disparate rebel bands that are trying to thwart efforts to rebuild Iraq. Confronting unrepentant Saddam loyalists, often spurred on by foreign and local Islamic extremists, Allawi has ordered the newly formed army, the Iraq National Guard, and police forces to show no mercy. Recently, battles with Shiite extremists have raged from the holy city of Najaf to the slums of Sadr City, Baghdad’s poor, predominantly Shiite sector. Despite determined offensives by U.S. forces working close-

http://donaldkirk.com/files/Institutional_i.pdf
 

Iraqi Deaths Due to U.S. Invasion: 969,038
 

10-foot-deep trench will protect Iraqi city of Karbala
 

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm


interesting
 

At least 105 killed in Iraq village blast
 

Iraq town digs for bodies after bomb kills 150
 

Bone Dance: A Late Ephiphany at the New York Times: But no matter what form the inevitable withdrawal (or partial withdrawal) takes, one thing is almost certain: the Bushists will rain mountains of fire and death on Iraq before the pullout, in a spate of frenzied attacks and offensives and air strikes that will be billed as "cracking down hard on the terrorists before handing over responsibility for security to our Iraqi allies" or some such -- but will in fact be a harsh and brutal act of revenge on the Iraqis for making America look bad.

UPDATE: About that "grand compromise," it looks like the White House is laying the groundwork -- through the ever-reliable news pages of the increasingly schizoid NYT -- for a few cosmetic changes that will lower some of the political heat it's getting from worried Republicans in Congress, who are suddenly afraid that the war of aggression they have enthusiatically cheered for years might now cost them their cozy perches at the public trough. Read the story here -- if you can make your way through the self-serving spin coming at you from all directions. ...
 

The New York Times and the crisis of American imperialism in Iraq: The New York Times, considered the most authoritative organ of the US ruling elite, outlines a crisis of historic proportions and describes a level of irresponsibility, incompetence and criminality in the White House that has no precedent. A serious response, from the standpoint of the interests of American imperialism, would begin with the demand that the current government resign, or that Congress initiate immediate impeachment proceedings against both Cheney and Bush. That would be the prerequisite for the “candid and focused” conversation on the war which the newspaper claims to desire.

But the Times proposes nothing of the kind. In fact, it proposes no measures to hold any of those responsible for dragging the country into an “unnecessary” war accountable. This, above all, is what gives its entire pronouncement an aura of unreality.
 

Army Misses Recruiting Goal For Second Straight Month
 

New gov't bill: Israel won't compensate Gazans - Ministerial Committee for Legislative Affairs approves bill recognizing Gaza Strip as foreign entity. If proposal is backed by Knesset, State will not see itself responsible for paying compensation to Gaza residents injured in IDF activities. Bill contradicts High Court ruling from December 2006
 

Iraqi 'leaders' warn of catastrophe if US goes
 

Rest easy . . .
No troop pullout imminent
 

Sheehan challenges Pelosi to back Bush impeachment
 

Sheehan may challenge Pelosi in 2008 election
 

Iraq outposts plan may be flawed: Some troops say the shift of forces to Baghdad neighborhoods is not achieving its goal: to increase street patrols and build trust.
 

Plans for no-confidence vote against Maliki
 

Whose bombs? How to understand the attempted but largely failed terrorist plots uncovered since last Friday (June 29)? Police officers on June 29 dismantled two “car bombs” made from gas canisters, gasoline and nails, parked in central London’s major theatre and shopping districts. A day later, two men rammed a Jeep Cherokee, filled with flammable material, into a terminal entrance at Glasgow airport. The series of attempted attacks follows hot on the heels of an attempted al-Qaeda attack in the United States earlier in June. [ . . . ]

If ever there was a resource-driven strategy of tension, this is it; and the fear being ratcheted up in the US and UK is its direct corollary. While the British police and intelligence services are congratulating themselves on having rounded up the terrorists and thus quelled the threat for now, the US government is actively fostering the source of the threat in the Middle East because of its antipathy toward Iran. Given Britain’s close alliance with the US in the ‘War on Terror,’ the question must be asked, how precisely involved is the British government in this self-defeating strategy that consciously compromises civilian life?
 

The end of Maliki? It is clear Washington and Tehran are battling it out in the Green Zone.

All I can say is that things are coming to a boil in Iraq. Things WILL be determined by the end of the summer.
 

EVERY word TRUE -
Video (16 min.), Dr. Dahlia Wasfi - Life in Iraq Under U.S. Occupation
 

More staged terrorism planned to prevent Ron Paul from winning
 

Turkey Masses 140,000 Troops On Iraq Border
 

"They Have Destroyed Everything": Terms of Debate on Iraq
 

Have the Tigris and Euphrates Run Dry? Two of the largest rivers of the region run through Iraq, so why are Iraqis desperate for lack of water?

The U.S. company Bechtel, whose board members have close ties to the Bush administration, was to carry out reconstruction and rehabilitation of Iraq's water and electrical infrastructure. But it left the country without carrying out most such tasks.

The average household in Iraq now gets two hours of electricity a day. About 70 percent of Iraqis have no access to safe drinking water, and only 19 percent have sewage access, according to the World Health Organisation. Unemployment stands at more than 60 percent.

Many Iraqi professionals blame the occupation, and companies that it brought in, such as Bechtel.

Amidst all this, the government is funding study of agricultural practices.

"The government is spending huge amounts of money on research into agriculture and irrigation," Dr. Muath Sadiq, a researcher in agricultural reform in Baghdad told IPS. "I think that is simply a way to steal more money from the government budget."

The research is not much good, he said, because the real problem "is clearly the shortage in electricity and fuel. To be more precise, the reason is the occupation and the corrupt governments it brought to the country."
 

George Bush's Ass-Based Foreign Policy
 

The Correct Way to Affix a Stamp
 

Saddam's deputy tells his followers Americans are facing defeat in Iraq
 

Report: Wars costing $12 billion a month (And that's just the money we know about.)
 

Parasitic imperialism: Dependence on, or addiction to, war and militarism for profitability makes U.S military imperialism (that is, imperialism driven by military capital, or arms conglomerates, vis-à-vis non-military transnational capital) a most dangerous kind of imperialism. Under the rule of the past imperial powers, the conquered and subjugated peoples or nations could live in peace—imposed peace, to be sure—if they respected the interests and the needs of those imperial powers and simply resigned to their political and economic ambitions.

Not so in the case of the U.S. military-industrial empire: the interests of this empire are nurtured through “war dividends.” Peace, imposed or otherwise, is viewed by the beneficiaries of war dividends inimical to their interests as it would make justification of continued increases of their share of national resources (in the form of Pentagon appropriations) difficult.

Of course, tendencies to build bureaucratic empires have always existed in the ranks of military hierarchies. By itself, this is not what makes the U.S. military-industrial complex more dangerous than the military powers of the past. What makes it more dangerous is the “industrial,” or business, part of the Complex. In contrast to the United States' military or war industries, arms industries of past empires were not subject to capitalist market imperatives. Furthermore, those industries were often owned and operated by imperial governments, not by market-driven giant corporations. Consequently, as a rule, arms production was dictated by war requirements, not by market or profit imperatives, which is the case with today’s U.S. armaments industry.
 

Flux in Iraq military, diplomatic developments
 

Breaking: Mortar and rocket barrage hits Green Zone
 

Breaking: Maliki threatens Allawi
 

At least 3 killed in Green Zone barrage: Attacks against the Green Zone have increased in recent months, adding to the concern over the safety of key Iraqi and international officials who live and work in the zone.

In a report last month, the United Nations office in Baghdad said the "threat of indirect fire" — meaning rockets and mortars — into the Green Zone had increased, adding that the barrages had become "increasingly concentrated and accurate."

Attacks against the zone have also renewed concern about security at the new U.S. Embassy, which is due to open this year within the protected area. The embassy will be the world's largest and most expensive foreign mission, though it may not be large enough or secure enough to cope with the chaos in Iraq.
 

Bush stands behind current Iraq policy: Bush's comments came as the White House scrambled to respond to growing opposition to the war.

"I wouldn't ask a mother or a dad — I wouldn't put their son in harm's way if I didn't believe this was necessary for the security of the United States and the peace of the world," Bush said. "I strongly believe it, and I strongly believe we'll prevail."
 

'Crack in the Dike': White House in 'Panic Mode' Over GOP Revolt on Iraq
 

The Israeli police state: The Palestinians in the Occupied Territories live under a Pinochet-like regime. They can and do disappear in the middle of the night. They are blindfolded, cuffed, beaten, humiliated, taken to unknown locations with no information given to them or their families, tortured physically and psychologically and incarcerated indefinitely, often without charges and regardless of whether they are guilty of anything. It is arbitrary and it can happen to anyone. ...

Israel is not a nice country. It is a powerful police state founded on pathological paranoia with only a veneer of civility, carefully crafted and maintained for the consumption of those who still believe in the myth of Israeli democracy. Mainstream Israelis live in a fictional bubble that separates them from reality. If there is a democracy there, only this select group enjoys it -- just like the conformist white population in old South Africa. Supporting Israel now is the same as claiming that South Africa under apartheid was an acceptable democracy. It also means abandoning the Palestinians, just like the world abandoned black South Africans (and white dissidents) for 45 long years.
 

Official: Report will say none of Iraq’s goals met: Draft, coming out this week, expected to accelerate debate on withdrawal
 

Ex- convicts, addicts & mentally incompetent may get DoD clearance (Mentally incompetent cleared? Nothing new here.)
 

'Accidents' of War: ... [W]e are almost guaranteed that, either this winter or in the spring of 2008 (as the presidential election looms), some kind of drawdown, surely to be headlined as a "withdrawal" plan, will begin and that significantly lower levels of troops will be supported by a rise in air strikes – and in Iraq, unlike Afghanistan, this means the bombing not of peasant villages but of urban neighborhoods.

This, in turn, means that we should prepare ourselves for a rise in "incidents," in "mistakes," in the "inadvertent" or "errant" death of civilians in escalating numbers. Whether in Vietnam, Afghanistan, or Iraq, the formula, with a guerrilla war, is simple and unavoidable: Air Power = Civilian Deaths. Or put another way, "Incidents" 'R Us.

... If we want to "withdraw" from Iraq (or Afghanistan) via the Gates Plan, we should at least be clear about what that is likely to mean – the slaughter of large numbers of civilians "including women and children." And it will not be due to a series of mistakes or incidents; it will not be errant or inadvertent. It will be policy itself. It will be the Washington – and in the end the American – consensus.
 

Marine shot bound and gagged Iraqi, court martial told
 

Posted as a tribute to goodness -
Arturo Toscanini: Remembering the Maestro: Music Master, Anti-Fascist
 

Bush Administration Prays For More Dead Americans
 

'Arrowhead' Becomes Fountainhead of Anger: Ongoing U.S. military operations in Diyala province have brought normal life to an end, and fuelled support for the national resistance.

Baquba, 50km northeast of Baghdad, and capital city of the volatile Diyala province, has born the brunt of violence during the U.S. military Operation 'Arrowhead Ripper'.

Conflicting reports are on offer on the number of houses destroyed and numbers of civilians killed, but everyone agrees that the destruction is vast and the casualties numerous.

The operation was launched Jun. 18 "to destroy the al-Qaeda influences in this province and eliminate their threat against the people," according to Brig. Gen. Mick Bednarek, deputy commanding officer of the 25th Infantry Division.

But most Iraqis IPS interviewed in the area say the operation seeks more to break the national Iraqi resistance and those who support it. Adding credibility to this belief is the fact that the U.S. operational commander of troops involved in the operation told reporters Jun. 22 that 80 percent of the top al-Qaeda leaders in Baquba fled before the offensive began. [ . . . ]

A man wearing a mask, who appeared to be a resistance fighter, spoke with IPS just outside Baquba on condition of anonymity.

"Hundreds were killed and thousands evicted from the city while the so-called al-Qaeda fighters survived," he said. "Americans must be told that we will never stop killing their sons who came to kill us unless they leave our country in peace."
 

River's abundance of corpses ruins Iraqis' appetite for carp
 

20 Rockets, Mortar Shells, Hit Green Zone; Kill 3: The Green Zone was originally supposed to be the safe place in Iraq, with the area outside it (everything else) called the "Red Zone." The US Embassy in Baghdad appears to have forgotten what the phrase "Green Zone" means, since a spokesman there told the LAT, "There's fire into the Green Zone virtually every day, so I can't draw any conclusions about the security situation based on that . . ."

Let me draw the conclusion. If you've got fire into the friggin' Green Zone every day, then we can draw the conclusion that the security situation in Baghdad sucks big time. When you've got people killed and a large number of people wounded in the one place in Iraq that was supposed to have a "permissive" security environment, then security in general is the pits.

Now you might say that we can't draw many conclusions from the events of a single day. And, being able to lob mortar shells over a wall doesn't speak to that much organization. But then what about these two nuggets in the LAT story?

1) "There were about 39 attacks [on the Green Zone] in May, compared with 17 in March, according to a U.N. report."

2) "Tuesday's attack came the same day gunmen kidnapped Iraqi Police Col. Mahmoud Muhyi Hussein, who directs security inside the Green Zone . . .
 

Saving Al Qaeda: Collective Punishment and Curious Policy in the "Surge": From Fallujah, the curiously untouched "al Qaeda" leaders -- including the one-time Bushist bogeyman, Zarqawi -- spread mayhem elsewhere while American forces were attacking hospitals, raining chemical weapons on residential areas, and driving 300,000 people from their homes in the city. In similar fashion, the curiously untouched terrorist leaders from Diyala are obviously raising murderous hell elsewhere -- perhaps in previously peaceful Amerli, where more than 150 people were killed last week in one of the worst terror bombings of the war. (Terror bombings by the asymmetricals, that is; the state terror bombings that began with the first shock-and-awe "decapitation raids" and continue to this day have of course killed far more Iraqis.)

... The Bushists may well have been sincerely self-deluded in their belief that they could grab Iraq's oil on the cheap, plant bases all over the country, stick a strongman on the throne, and be thanked by the Iraqis for it. But they have learned their lesson now. They know the only chance they have left of accomplishing their war aims -- the bases, the "Oil Law" -- lies in keeping those cowed, weak, deeply unpopular collaborators in office. Unbridled violence aids this objective, for it "justifies" the continuing presence of the American military -- which is the sole prop for the only kind of regime that would give away the nation's oil and accept foreign bases on its soil.

If this is indeed the "reasoning" behind the otherwise inexplicable policy of embittering the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people while arming violent groups and letting terrorist chieftains roam free, then this too is ultimately a delusion. In the end, sooner or later, the Iraqis will kick the Americans out of their country. There will be no bases, no "Oil Law" written by Washington lobbyists. The Bushists' war of aggression has come to ruin just as Hitler's did. The only question is how much more blood and treasure these rabid dead-enders will waste before their inevitable defeat.
 

Wednesday: 136 Iraqis, 1 GI Killed; 33 Iraqis Wounded
 

Chertoff's 'gut feeling'
 

Official: Iraqis Turning Surge Into "Joke"
 

Interim Assessment of the Highly Successful Destruction of Iraq Due: As we know, or should if we read history, the 1916 Sykes-Picot Accord was as much about stealing oil as creating a Zionist state in the Middle East, the latter a pet project of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, known fondly in Israel as HaNadiv HaYdu’a, the “Famous Benefactor,” for spending over $50 million on settlements, a foothold that would eventually usher in the state of Israel.

It can be stated with a fair degree with accuracy the invasion of Iraq was not simply about Israel’s “security,” . . . but is also about oil, or rather the effort to keep an appreciable amount of oil out of circulation and thus drive up prices. As James Paul notes, attacking Iraq — and possibly Iran soon enough — was also intended to break up OPEC, an organization hated by neocons, considering it has made a few Arabs wealthy.
 

Curiouser and Curiouser: The Comeback Kids of Al Qaeda
 

Sheehan: Distinct Chance Of Staged Attack, Martial Law
 

Video (1 hr. 22 min.), Freedom Next Time: An Evening with John Pilger and Amy Goodman


(I shall ever remember John Pilger's 2000 documentary - following - which was my first taste of reality, as opposed to propaganda, regarding the effects of UN enforced sanctions on Iraq.)
Video (1 hr. 15 min.), Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq
 

'A dead Iraqi is just another dead Iraqi... You know, so what?'
 

Take Iran out of Iraq ... and the Arab Gulf
 

After GOP vote against Israel funds, pro-Israel Dems warily watch ranks
 

Bush finds no way out of Iraq as approval ratings plunge
 

"Mr Chertoff to the White Courtesy Phone": The Enterprise has sailed into the gulf and here is an interesting detail… just like the twin towers (which were facing billions of dollars of refurbishing expense which would have provided a major problem had they remained around to need that refurbishing) The Enterprise is on it’s last legs. Well, I’m not suggesting anything…
 

Giuliani, the Likud Candidate?
 

West will fail in Iraq & Afghanistan, says ex-CIA operative
 

The petrol is the property of the people of Iraq, and we shall sever the hands which cedes it to the US!
 

Growing trend to delegitimize Israel worries Jewish leaders
 

Senate panel cuts off funds to Cheney
 

Nobel laureate calls for removal of Bush
 

U.S troops raid Baghdad Shiite district: Angry residents of the Amin district — many of them Shiites who fled to Baghdad from Baqouba, where U.S. troops are waging an offensive against insurgents — accused U.S. helicopters of striking buildings during the fight with gunmen and killing civilians. The U.S. military did not immediately comment on the fighting.
 

'Spectacular attacks' in Iraq expected
 

Iraq Report May Mean Longer U.S. Surge