Iraqi cleric's followers burn U.S. flags to mark war's anniversary
Associated Press BAGHDAD — American flags were set on fire today to chants of "no, no for occupation" as followers of an anti-U.S. Shiite cleric marked the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war. In five other Iraqi cities, supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr also either marched or stood in protest ...
AP Impact: Pentagon boosts spending on PR
By Chris Tomlinson WASHINGTON (AP) — As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing money spent on winning what it calls "the human terrain" of world public opinion. In the process, concerns have been raised that this is spreading propaganda at home in violation of federal ...
Iraqis Stream to the Polls Amid Tight Security
No Major Violence Amid Elections Seen as Test of Iraq's Stability as U.S. Role Diminishes By Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post BAGHDAD, Jan. 31 -- Iraqis streamed passed police cordons and barbed wire as they went to the polls on Saturday to vote in their first elections in four years, ...
Boots of fallen soldiers bring home impact of war
By John Carlson / StarPress MUNCIE -- The military boots are lined up in orderly ranks in the lobby of Ball State University's Letterman Building. Advertisement For all their similarities in appearance, however, differences abound. Among the 149 pairs, there are scuffed boots and shiny ones, black ones and camouflaged ...
Iraq Election Highlights Ascendancy of Tribes
In Anbar, Clans Are Coddled, Cultivated By Anthony Shadid / Washington Post RAMADI, Iraq -- In rugged western Iraq, once the bastion of the insurgency against the American occupation and now a freewheeling arena of electoral politics steeped in payola, the conversation in the tribal guesthouse in Anbar province was ...
Iraq willing to see US troops leave early
By Robert H. Reid / Associated Press BAGHDAD – Iraq is willing to have the U.S. withdraw all its troops and assume security for the country before the end of 2011, the departure date agreed to by former President George W. Bush, the spokesman of the Iraqi prime minister said. ...
Rights group: Israel uses white phosphorus in Gaza
By Jason Keyser / Associated Press JERUSALEM — Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel's military has fired artillery shells with the incendiary agent white phosphorus into Gaza and a doctor there said the chemical was suspected in the case of 10 burn victims who had skin peeling off their ...
Bush shoe-thrower appears before Iraqi judge
BAGHDAD (AFP) — The Iraqi journalist who became an instant media star for hurling his shoes at US President George W. Bush appeared on Wednesday before a judge investigating the incident, his brother said. Muntazer al-Zaidi, 29, a television reporter who relatives and colleagues said acted because he "detested" Bush ...
By Theresa Hogue / Corvallis Gazette-Times When Benjamin Lewis was 17, he joined the Marine Corps’ delayed entry program, looking for a new direction in his life. He had dropped out of school and was struggling. The military seemed like a good option.After two deployments to Iraq, and an honorable ...
Bomb attacks kill 8, wound dozens across Iraq
By Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press BAGHDAD – Bombs killed at least eight people Sunday across Iraq and wounded dozens of others, officials said. Syria's president blamed the U.S. military presence for Iraq's instability and called on U.S. troops to leave. In the northern city of Mosul, a roadside ...
Suspect Soldiers: Troubled histories follow some troops to Iraq war
Bee investigation finds the military let in applicants with risky backgrounds -- with sometimes tragic results By Russell Carollo / Sacramento Bee Before Army Sgt. 1st Class Randal Ruby was accused in Iraq of beating prisoners and of conspiring to plant rifles on dead civilians, he amassed a 10-year criminal ...
Journalist Charges Censorship by U.S. Military in Fallujah
By Dahr Jamail / IPS SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 3 - U.S. journalist Zoriah Miller says he was censored by the U.S. military in the Iraqi city of Fallujah after photographing Marines who died in a suicide bombing. On Jun. 26, a suicide bomber attacked a city council meeting in Fallujah, ...
'Special Weapons' Have a Fallout on Babies
By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* / IPS FALLUJAH, Jun 12 - Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say. The new cases, and the number of deaths among children, have risen after "special weaponry" was used in the ...
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
Kucinich.House.gov Washington, Jun 10 - Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio In the United States House of Representatives Monday, June 9th, 2008 A Resolution INDEX Article I Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq. Article II Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the ...
Iraqis say Marines handed out Christian coins
BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S. Marine handed out coins promoting Christianity to Muslims in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, outraged Sunni officials said Friday. The U.S. military responded quickly, removing a trooper from duty pending an investigation. Tens of thousands of Shiites, meanwhile, took to the streets in Baghdad ...
Aguirre finds fault in permits for facility
Sanders halts work at Blackwater site By Tanya Mannes / San Diego Union-Tribune OTAY MESA – Mayor Jerry Sanders yesterday ordered work to stop on Blackwater Worldwide's proposed military training facility in Otay Mesa. The mayor was prompted by a legal opinion issued earlier in the afternoon by San Diego ...
IRAQ: Food Crisis Hits Fallujah
By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* / IPS FALLUJAH, May 12 - Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah. "This is a country that was damned by the Americans the moment they stepped on our soil," Burhan Jassim, a farmer ...
By Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail* / IPS DAMASCUS - More than a million Iraqis were lucky enough to flee into Syria. But in this relatively safe haven, there is no getting away from poverty. Mohammad Saleem ran a successful supermarket in Baghdad. "I was leading a comfortable life with ...
Five Years On, Fallujah in Tatters
By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* / IPS FALLUJAH - Fallujah remains a crippled city years after the November 2004 U.S.-led assault. Unemployment, and lack of medical care and safe drinking water in the city 60 km west of Baghdad remain a continuous problem. Freedom of movement is still curtailed. ...
How Iraq spawned wider terrorist chaos
As experts long warned, Islamic militants steeped in urban warfare against U.S. troops in Iraq have expanded their violent campaign beyond Iraq's borders. By James Martin / Salon Apr. 14, 2008 | On the outskirts of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, the jagged ruins of Nahr el-Bared rise over the Mediterranean ...
War Protesters Halt Traffic, Recall Dead
By Sarah Karush / Associated Press WASHINGTON — Protesters blocked traffic and government buildings in Washington, acted out a Baghdad street scene in Syracuse, N.Y., and banged drums in a parade through San Francisco on Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.In other, more somber ...
War Stories Echo an Earlier Winter
By Steve Vogel / Washington Post Grim-faced and sorrowful, former soldiers and Marines sat before an audience of several hundred yesterday in Silver Spring and shared their recollections of their service in Iraq. The stories spilled out, sometimes haltingly, sometimes in a rush: soldiers firing indiscriminately on Iraqi vehicles, an ...
US/IRAQ: "We Reacted Out of Fear, and With Total Destruction"
By Dahr Jamail / IPS SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Mar 14 - Hart Viges joined the U.S. Army the day after Sep. 11, 2001, in the belief that he could help make the world a safer place. The term "haji" is used by U.S. soldiers in Iraq to degrade and dehumanise ...
IRAQ: 'Not Our Country To Return To'
By Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail / IPS DAMASCUS, Mar 3 - More Iraqis continue to flee their country than the numbers returning, despite official claims to the contrary. Thousands fleeing say security is as bad as ever, and that to return would be to accept death. "Return to Iraq?" ...
Iraq unveils flag without Saddam's stars
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press BAGHDAD - A new Iraqi flag — stripped of the three green stars of Saddam Hussein's toppled Baath party — was hoisted over the Iraqi Cabinet building Tuesday in a symbolic break with the past nearly five years after the U.S.-led invasion. It marked ...
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