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[Truthdig - Ear to the Ground] According to the Pentagon’s latest report, violence in Iraq has reached record levels in all measured categories, with an increase of attacks on U.S. troops of 32%. The 50 page document also notes a 60% increase in civilian casualties since the formation of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government.
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Truthdig - Ear to the Ground: Acclaimed actor and progressive activist Ed Asner played the lead in the first reading of a new play that dramatizes the perfidy of the Bush administration’s push for continued war in Iraq. Check out this behind-the-scenes description by writer Jayne Stahl. (via Cosmos)
[Dailywarnews.blogspot.com] Today in Iraq: It should be noted that the Swords of Righteousness Brigade is linked to the Islamic Army in Iraq and the IAI is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, itself a documented British and U.S. intelligence asset (for details, see my New Swords of Righteousness Brigades Video blog entry from earlier this month). Evidence abounds that much of the "al-Qaeda in Iraq" and Iraqi "insurgent" violence is the result on Anglo-American black ops, as the capture and subsequent release of several British SAS and American "counterinsurgency" terrorists over the past few months reveal.
[Dahrjamailiraq.com] Dahr Jamail's Weblog: that hospitals are at the edge of closing, and that a staggering percentage of the country of only 3.8 million are now refugees -- abroad, in Syria, or simply on the move and homeless in their own country. Christian areas of Lebanon are now being bombed -- for this, see a vivid, and horrifying post by Juan Cole -- and the bombing campaign is widening with, for instance, ever more central areas of Beirut being hit.
[Iraqelectionwire.blogspot.com] Iraq Elections newswire: [...] The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been under intense pressure to put an end to Shiite-Sunni violence that has killed thousands of people this year. This week, gunmen carried out two mass kidnappings in as many days, abducting 38 people from their workplaces in Baghdad ” attacks that Sunnis said were carried out by Shiite militias.
[Blog.thedemocraticdaily.com] The Democratic Daily » Blog Archive » John Kerry on Iraqi Prime ...: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called for a regional conference today, to discuss Iraqs future and quelling the sectarian violence that has torn the country apart. Al-Maliki however, “rejected U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan’s proposal that such a discussion take place outside of Iraq.”
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