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[One Hand Clapping] The Iraqi Defense Ministry said that since the beginning of April, more than 2,700 Iraqis – about half of them civilians –
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[Cake Eater Chronicles] Knock Me Over With a Feather: The London-based organization also said it recognized that many Iraqis believe U.S.-led troops also have committed grave human rights violations. But it denounced the Iraqi insurgents for a "failure to abide by even the most basic standards of humanitarian law."
[AMERICAN FUTURE] Turkish Reaction to London Bombings: Referencing Iraq, vastly overstating the number of civilian casualties, and blaming Bush and Blair for the London attacks, they claim that those who live by the sword, die by the sword.
[THE WAR IN CONTEXT:: Iraq, the War on Terrorism, and the Middle East Conflict - in Critical Perspective] U.S. death toll in Iraq surpasses 1,800 By Sameer...: At the end of one of the worst months that saw some of the highest number of killings by armed groups since the beginning of the war in Iraq in March 2003, Amnesty International denounced the armed groups' failure to abide by even the most basic standards of humanitarian law and said there can be no valid justification for deliberate killings of civilians, hostage-taking, and torture and killing of defenceless prisoners.
[Moment of Triumph] Panopticon 050802: We did not realize that the Iraqi Sunni Arabs would and could wage a years-long guerrilla war that had the potential for destabilizing the entire Middle East." Virtually everything these people said was wrong, but none of them has owned up to it. They believe that the best defense is a good offense, so their response to their miserable failure as policy wonks is to systematically harass and hound historians at Columbia University, for all the world like offended Scientologists.
[Hullabaloo] Novakula's Tea Bag The Howler notes something im...: I asked this question to a senior Bush administration official, and he said that he believed that the assignment was suggested by an employee at the CIA in the counterproliferation office who happened to be Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame. I then called another senior official of the Bush administration, and he said, Oh, you know about that?
[Broken Masterpieces] Duke in Iraq - July 30: There are two reasons why the improvements are not occurring more quickly: 1) Insurgents are purposely targeting projects that improve the quality of the Iraqis lives e.g., blowing up a water pumping station 2) Most of the reconstruction plans the US had counted on, included the work of non-governmental organizations or NGOs. Many NGOs had lined up to work on everything from medical care to education and were anxious to see the condition of the Iraqi people improve after years of neglect due to war and the greed and corruption of the leaders.
[Healingiraq.blogspot.com] Healing Iraq: The United Iraqi Coalition slate includes all the Shi'ite Islamic parties and movements currently operating in Iraq. With a total of 228 candidates, it consists of: SCIRI (Abdul-Aziz Al-Hakim), Da'wa Islamic party (Ibrahim Al-Ja'fari), Da'wa Islamic party/Iraq's organisation (Abdul-Kareem Al-Annizi), Iraqi National Congress (Ahmed Al-Chalabi), Badr organisation (Hadi Al-Amiri), Hizbollah movement (Hassan Al-Sari), Hizbollah Al-Iraq (Abdul-Karim Al-Mahud), Al-Fadheela Islamic party (Nadim Al-Jabiri), Center Assembly party (Mahmud Mohammed Jawad), Shaheed Al-Mihrab organisation (Ammar Abdul-Aziz Al-Hakeem), Islamic Work organisation (Ibrahim Al-Mutayri), Sayyid Al-Shuhadaa organisation, Future Iraq Assembly (Ibrahim Bahr Al-Uloom), Justice and Equality Assembly (Suhail Al-Jaza'iri), Fayli Kurd Islamic Union (Tha'ir Al-Fayli), Islamic Fayli Assembly (Muqdad Al-Baghdadi), Turkomen Loyalty movement (Fariad Omar), and the Islamic Turkomen Union (Abbas Al-Bayyati).
[Oregonlive.com] OregonLive.com: The Oregonian's Iraq Blog: DynCorp's Bill McGee, who became her friend in Iraq, said Klecker was loved and respected by the people she .A prolific Iraqi blogger » A soldier's blog .
[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: Maher al-Thanoon of Reuters reports that one thousand Sunni Arabs staged a demonstration outside the Green Zone (barricaded government offices) against the elected Iraqi government, which is dominated by Shiites in coalition with Kurds. They accused the Jaafari government of using torture and death squads on a sectarian basis against their community, which they called "the new Iraq of fire and steel." Al-Thanoon says, "Simulating torture, they dressed up as soldiers and used drills, wooden clubs and electric wires to act out what they said were the techniques used by government forces against them."
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