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[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] At UK's Iraq inquiry, Gordon Brown says invasion justified _ ...: Ex-UK minister: postwar planning for Iraq lackingLONDON ”” British officials worried before the invasion of Iraq that the Americans weren't putting enough thought into postwar planning, the head of Britain's defense ministry at the time said Tuesday. Former Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon told an official inquiry into the war that planning was not as "detailed and comprehensive as we would have liked."He acknowledged the aftermath of the 2003 invasion "did not go as well as we wanted it to go."Britain is holding its third and widest-ranging inquiry into the conflict, which triggered huge protests and left 179 British dead before the country's troops withdrew from Iraq last year.

[Arab News Blog] Arab News Blog » War Reporting: after the fall of Saddam when journalists could get out into all parts of Iraq fairly freely, but as the violence mounted and journalists were targeted in the struggle access to many parts of Iraq or to many Iraqis became much more difficult.  For years, journalists (even those not living in the Green Zone) were forced either to huddle down in offices and rely on stringers, or else go out into the field with the military as embeds.  Both routes offered useful perspectives, but neither is perfect. 

[The Daily Colonial] The Daily Colonial » Blog Archive » Bullets and Bylines: Kalb ...: Chandrasekaran recently returned from Marja, a danger zone where the experience of trudging across land under heavy gunfire reminded him of the battlefront experience circa World War II. He said that reporters in Afghanistan are severely impeded by the dangers of the work, in a country where vast, volatile areas are closed off to any journalist who values their life.

[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] In UK's Iraq inquiry, Gordon Brown says that going to war in Iraq ...: UK's Brown faces questions over Iraq warLONDON ”” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended the decision to invade Iraq, saying Friday before an inquiry on the war that deposing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do. In testimony before a looming national election, Brown praised the sacrifice of those who died and immediately addressed a critical question: Did he agree with Britain's choice of going to war?"It was the right decision and it was for the right reasons," he said.

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Biden-Cheney Duel on Talk TV: and that the Bush mishandled it from the outset by taking its “eye off the ball.” That, he said, left the U.S. in a more dangerous position in Afghanistan, the al-Qaida stronghold where Osama bin Laden and his cohorts plotted the Sept 11 terror attacks.

[Entertainment Daily] UK's Blair promises autobiography “The Journey” will offer an ...: Publisher Random House paid an estimated 5 million pounds ($7.5 million) for Blair’s personal account of his time in power, after a bidding war that Washington literary power-broker Robert Barnett ”” an attorney whose clients include President Barack Obama, his predecessor George W. Bush and both Bill and Hillary Clinton ”” described as among the most fierce in memory.

[JimMacMillan.Net] Iraq War Diary - January 30, 2005: Election Day; Birthday in Mosul ...: Car bombs were unlikely today, since “no-roll” enforcement, communicated on local television and radio and in newspapers, meant that nobody would be driving besides the Army and the Iraqi forces, thus making it pretty hard for insurgents to roll up on a site unnoticed. Still, barricades, barbed wire and lots of other secret military ops would have made it impossible to get close to the polls for anybody who tried.

[SNP Tactical Voting] SNP Tactical Voting: Jim Murphy's Altar Boy Error: For me, Jim Murphy's move was always foolish given the Iraq War alone. Countless civilian deaths, their lives rendered almost meaningless, sacrificed for so little gain in the face of international condemnation for not following through with the weapons inspections and consensual UN approach.

[The Common Ills] Attacks on press freedoms and the elections « The Common Ills: Most outlets rely on Iraqi journalists to be stringers and eyes and ears as well as to be the co- or sole reporter on news reports but many of the Iraqis cannot register as journalists due to threats that might follow as a result of their occupation being known. This has seriously curtailed a great deal of coverage news consumers would otherwise be receiving.

[Committee to Protect Journalists] Protective bylines, and why they're necessary - Blog - Committee ...: Theyhave asked that they not be connected to an American news organization. In order to indicate where the information is coming from, however, we wantedreaders to know that it is coming from a person on site where the eventsdescribed were happening.

[TED Blog] TED Blog: TED Fellow Sean Gourley published in Nature: If we look at the war in Iraq and take a random sample of 2,500 attacks, we find that there are on average ~1,800 attacks that kill 1 person, ~30 attacks that kill 5 people and ~1 attack that kills 20 people. Of particular interest is when we take this same sample of 2,500 attacks from any modern war, we see a very similar ratio emerge.

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