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[political nonsense] Gunmen operate throughout Baghdad ” killing brazenly during daytime and moving with impunity during curfew. Because there is rarely any proper investigation of the deaths by either U.S. or Iraqi authorities, it is all but impossible to determine to what extent the killers are motivated by sectarian feuds or by revenge, money or tribal quarrels.
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[Juancole.com] Informed Comment : 04/01/2004 - 04/30/2004: So, why -- the simple question is why June 30th, when in fact the most important thing, which I think was generally agreed by the panel, was getting to an election that actually has Iraqi legitimacy to it as opposed to this mad rush towards June 30th with all kinds of unanswered questions. You know, in the Afghani model, which by the way, at least to my mind, looked like an international -- I thought they had an international conference in Bonn, they had people on the ground, we have the United Nations sort of supervising how the thing worked, I see international troops fighting alongside the America side -- maybe that's not internationalization, maybe it's just Afghani, I don't really believe that.
[Littlegreenfootballs.com] Little Green Footballs: Messages may be published in our weblog, unless you request otherwise. ... The Death of an Iraqi Journalist. Read this account of the depraved torture and ...
[Afemalesoldier2.com] Grey Eagle » Blog Archive » Father No Longer Out for Revenge in Iraq: But last April 11, a year and a day after his son was killed, Johnson told his Iraq-bound Georgia National Guard unit, the 48th Infantry Brigade, he was ready to join them. They ended up at this dustblown base in Iraq’s far west, pulling escort duty for fuel convoys on the bomb-pocked desert highways from Jordan.
[Antiwar.com] Revenge of the WarBots: It can't be the grisly nature of the deaths, because American corpses have been defiled by crowds in Iraq before, most notably the incident in Mosul last November. No one seemed to think Mosul should be nuked.
[Healingiraq.blogspot.com] Healing Iraq: Anyway, Talabani stated that a new transitional or interim government will be elected by May or June 2004, according to general principles shared by the majority of Iraqis such as the respect of human rights and basic freedoms of speech, religion and worship, ensuring equality between all Iraqis, separation of the three authorities, and some degree of self adminstration by the 18 Iraqi provinces with special considerations to the present autonomous situation in Kurdistan. Also civil control of the security, police, and armed forces, and ultimately the formation of a unified democratic federal entity which recognizes the Islamic identity of Iraq but with respect to all other religious and sectarian minorities.
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