Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Today in Iraq] War News for Thursday, June 9, 2005 Bring 'em on:...: "A militant Shiite Muslim group with close ties to Iran has gained enormous power since Iraq's January elections and now is accused of conducting a terror campaign against Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority that includes kidnappings, threats and murders. But in spite of concern among Sunni Arabs that the Badr Brigade is behind a series of brutal attacks against Sunni clerics, including cases where victims appear to have been tortured with electric drills, the group was praised by top Iraqi government officials on Wednesday. 'Today, there is a sacred mission of sweeping away the remnants of the dictatorship and defeating the terrorism, and your role with your brothers in the (Kurdish militia) is required and necessary to fulfill this sacred mission,' Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Sunni Kurd, told a meeting of Badr members.
[Blind Mind’s Eye] Private contractors in Iraq: , according to Lt Col Dave Lapan, a marines spokesman. The contractors’ vehicles were eventually stopped by metal spikes in the road. Soldiers promptly arrested the security men, including 16 Americans and three Iraqis, who were placed in a detention centre. They have since been sent home
[The Heretik] MERCENARIES AND THE WAR OF WORDS: a private army of mercenary soldiers and a mercenary media army. Commanding them both is the United States military. The dirty little secret of the war in Iraq is the presence of more than twenty thousand “contractors” who do high risk jobs for high end dollars. When they get injured, they get workman’s compensation and they get the death benefits you would get if you die on the job. You have seen pictures of these men with their black clothing and their dark glasses leading the luminaries of freedom on the march from one place to another. The average grunt has too.
[Matthewgood.org] MBLOG: Maybe someone who has some obsessive time on their hands can start a blog dedicated to how terrible and fraudulent a person I am (or maybe something that pathetic has already been done?). Yesterday Tony said something that I found very true, he said ”˜good blogging is about not giving a shit about what anyone thinks , it’s just about doing what you do’. We both agree that that’s what makes Raymi one of the best bloggers in the world.
[Stevegilliard.blogspot.com] The News Blog: I think it's best we all let each other speak freely and leave the boycotts and advertiser letters alone. But if you want to cripple his site, I'll personally write a letter to your advertisers, department heads, school newspaper and every other place I can find.
[Commonblog.com] Common Cause Blog :: Eye on Iraq: It's by no means time to draw down the U.S. presence in Iraq. Indeed, it's time for Americans to insist leaders give our troops everything they need to be successful in helping the Iraqi people recover -- from Saddam's reign, from a war that has left tens of thousands of Iraqis dead and from civil chaos that threatens to leave the fledgling government unable to take the reins from the Americans. The goal remains the same: the gradual hand-off to a new elected Iraqi government of a more stable, peaceful Iraq.
[Bodyandsoul.typepad.com] Body and Soul: On the cost of chaos: The Coalition Provisional Authority disappeared in mid-2004, afterdecreeing that contractors could not be held liable by Iraqi courts. Soif the United States cannot bring suit against fraudulent contractors,"who could do that?" asked the official, Michael F. Hertz of theJustice Department's Civil Division.
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