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[Breaking News] Iraq government releases 1st official death toll report; says ...: AP Exclusive: Secret tally has 87,000 Iraqis deadBAGHDAD ”” At least 87,215 Iraqis have been killed in violence since 2005, according to a previously undisclosed Iraqi government tally obtained by The Associated Press. Combined with tallies based on hospital sources and media reports since the beginning of the war and a review of available evidence by the AP, the figures show that more than 110,000 Iraqis have died in violence since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

[Nation] AP News in Brief | Washington Examiner: NEW YORK (AP) — The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with al-Qaida that went nearly all the way to the top, to an Osama bin Laden confidant believed to be the terrorist group's leader in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated Press.

[e-IR] e-IR » Public War, Private Soldiers: “Private Military Companies:”¨Options for Regulating Private Military Services in the United Kingdom.” BASIC Occasional Paper, September 7, 2005.

[TPMCafe] Israeli Ambassador Loses It -- Bashes Goldstone And All Critics of ...: One might nonetheless observe that if an Israeli is so paranoid about Holocaust denial in Arab countries that he believes doing something about it must dominate the world's agenda (never mind malnutrition, disease, recession, climate change, nuclear proliferation etc.) that he might also stop to think that if Israel finally allowed the Palestinians to have their state (60 years after Israelis, with plenty of terrorists among them, got theirs) instead of bombing them every time an election rolls around, that that bunch of relatively proximate Arabs might at least be better able to do something on its own about Holocaust denial. Palestinians might have an easier time improving schools, where students could learn the true history of Jews in World War II, instead having so much of their youngsters' schooling effectively in the hands of religious suicide squads in bomb shelters.

[AlterNet] Flush with Profits from the Iraq War, Military Contractors See a ...: and African Union peace operations than all but a handful of countries." Von Sponeck says he believes the use of such companies in warfare should be barred and has harsh words for the institution for which he spent his career working: "The United Nations, including the U.N.

[The Media Freedom Foundation] The Media Freedom Foundation » Analysis of Project Censored: Are ...: This means that when the New York Times chooses to cover the updates on celebrity deaths, marriages, or divorces, and ignores the ACLU’s release of military autopsy reports proving that the US was torturing prisoners to death in Iraq and Afghanistan (Censored Story #7, 2007), that is censorship.  It is censorship even if most of the New York Times journalists didn’t know about the ACLU report; they certainly should have””it was an AP release!  The ACLU report was only covered in a dozen or so newspapers (not the Times) and went widely unnoticed.  For a story this important to go virtually unreported implies a degree of overt censorship.

[Breaking News] Double suicide bombing kills at least 17 people in northern Iraq ...: BAGHDAD - At least 10 people were killed and 30 injured in a suicide bombing attack on a restaurant in the northern Iraqi town of Sindshar Thursday, security sources said. According to the sources, two men burst into the restaurant in the predominantly Kurdish-populated town and detonated explosive belts attached to their bodies.

[Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1] All Infrastructure Spending Is Not Created Equally - Reason Magazine: Theprivate sector has repeatedly shown its ability to provide newdesigns, using new materials, to speed up the delivery oftransportation infrastructure when they've been allowed. It's timeto give state and local governments more freedom to test the waterswith private capital and incentivize innovations that meet realneeds identified on the local and regional levels.

[Investor's Iraq Forum - Iraq Dinar Forum, Iraq Investments, Iraq Stock Exchange, Iraq Bank, Iraq News, Iraqi Dinar] U.S. Commander in Iraq: Al Qaeda Remains Combat Power - Investor's ...: The Mosul bombing, like another Friday on the fringes of the ethnically tense city, targeted ethnic minorities, indicating that insurgents are seeking out relatively undefended targets to maximize casualties as the strapped Iraqi army focuses its efforts on more central areas.

[Small Wars Council] GEN McCaffrey on Strategic Challenges - Small Wars Council: Despite its substantial budget surplus and international assistance, Iraq has not spent the resources it set aside for reconstruction efforts essential to its economic recovery. As table 2 indicates, Iraq has spent about 12 percent, or $2 billion, of the $17.2 billion it allocated for reconstruction activities in the oil, electricity, and water sectors.

[Breaking News] US commander says al-Qaida remains a combat threat; greater danger ...: Several top defense officials have identified the split between Iraq’s majority Arabs and the Kurdish minority as probably a greater long-term threat to Iraq’s stability than the more familiar Sunni-Shiite conflict. Defense Secretary Robert Gates went to the Kurdish self-rule area in the North to make the case that both sides have limited time to resolve their differences before U.S. troops leave in 2011.

[NPR Blogs: Blog of the Nation] The State of Iraq: Really? - Blog of the Nation Blog : NPR: Even Exon having made record proffits and sought out and recieved record tax breaks has now been awarded 2 billion additional dollars by the Bush manipulated Supreme Court. We as Americans bear a terrible responsibility for our own troubles and troubles half way around the world.

[SWJ Blog] Plan B in Iraq (SWJ Blog): Instead of capitalizing on existing Iraqi power structures and working through local institutions, interim US administrators drafted short-sighted policies such as de-Baathification and the demobilization of the Iraqi military which only helped sow the seeds of a powerful insurgency. Instead of leveraging interagency expertise and planning in advance for the complex political and cultural geography, planning initiatives such as the Free Iraq Project were brushed aside in favor of traditional military war plans (as detailed by former senior State Department Advisor David Phillips in his book, Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco).

[Breaking News] Roadside bomb kills Iraqi soldier in Baghdad, wounds 7 other people: BAGHDAD - An Iraqi high-ranking official escaped unhurt in a bomb explosion Tuesday, an interior ministry source said. Ammar Aziz Muhammad Ali, undersecretary of Higher Education Ministry, escaped unhurt when a roadside bomb went off near his convoy in the Nidhal Street in Baghdad central district of Karrada, the source said, requesting anonymity.

[Zionistgoldreport's Weblog] Bob Chapman's Latest Forecast « Zionistgoldreport's Weblog: That, combined with a large, ongoing presence in Iraq and continued reliance on private contractors for virtually every aspect of military support, remains a recipe for staggering out-of-control expenditures. Surely we can draw some lessons from the Iraq debacle and set aside money to care for our veterans, crack down on fraud and profiteering, and account for the true costs of the war in the budget so the American taxpayer can see what we are paying for.

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