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[Crisis Group] International Crisis Group - 82 Iraq's Provincial Elections: The ...: An eclectic assortment of opposition parties hope to capitalise on the councils’ failings and on popular distaste for the extreme decentralisation advocated by the principal ruling parties, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and the Kurdistan Alliance. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Islamic Call (Daawa) Party is hoping to take advantage of the government’s surprising military and political achievements in 2008, which have persuaded many Iraqis to see Maliki more as a national leader than, as in 2006 when he came to office, a narrow sectarian chief.

[MediaAlternatives Blog] A Lesson in “Doublespeak”: If so tell me why these troops were rescued instead of prosecuted for stirring sectarian tension in Iraq before the civil war started. They were captured with a car full of C4 and IEDs dressed in .

[CitizenSugar] Rape Used to Recruit More Than 80 Female Suicide Bombers | Iraq ...: Talking to people who lived there and visited there many Iraqis say that these people don't even put up the "Islamic Jihad" story over there. They know they are killing innocent people in markets and prayer and not anyone from the west, not that a majority of Iraqis dislike the west.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | But What If Torture Works?: "How do you feel about waterboarding or other enhanced interrogation techniques?" asked the unit commander." The hypocrisy of the official U.S. discussion of torture is nothing short of breathtaking. This "enhanced interrogation technique" used to be referred to, in a much less terrifying incantation as "Chinese water torture" when applied to Korean War vets, and "diabolical Asians" was how bamboo shoots under the fingernails was regarded as part of the Japanese MO.The attachment of electrodes to the genitals also falls under this category, though at Abu Ghraib (also with its slavering Dobermans held inches from the :interviewee") we are reassured that no actual torture took place.

[freedetainees.org] freedetainees.org » Some worried about detainee transfer to Iraq: Robert Kenyon, who runs Camp Cropper, said many of those 3,000 men will go free unless the United States can persuade Iraqi judges to loosen their traditional rules that require two witnesses or a confession to convict someone. The United States argues that forensic evidence such as bomb residue and fingerprints should be accepted to prosecute detainees, some of whom were rounded up years ago in military operations.

[New Articles on frontpagemag.com] FrontPage Magazine: As evidences are forthcoming following the arrests of some Pakistani nationals including one Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab who was apprehended from the besieged Taj Mahal hotel, the needle of suspicion pointed strongly at the Pakistan-based and Kashmir-centric Islamist group, Lashkar-e-Toiba (Army of the Pure). Even though this LeT denied any hand in this carnage, its footprints are quite evident.

[News and Opinion Blog of Blogs] Michael Coren on Richard Williamson: Yes he's a lunatic, but an ...: The Vatican made it clear in an official statement that Williamson must “distance himself in an absolutely unequivocal and public manner from his positions regarding the Shoah,” and Pope Benedict has yet again declared that the Holocaust was, without question, a unique and historic evil ”” something it is his responsibility as Pope to do.

[HONOR KILLINGS] HONOR KILLINGS IN THE WEST: How can a person go from being a cold blooded efficient executioner on the one girl, relatively efficient in terms of target and shooting, to being unable to kill Sarah with the same dispatch?  We have absolutely no reason to believe it was because the act of shooting somehow traumatized him, and rendered him so distracted that he could not have killed the girls in the same manner, could not have killed Sarah with the same dispatch he killed Amina.

[Blogs Of The Day] Top Posts « WordPress.com: Iraq to investigate execution video - commentators >sectarian lynching. :: aljazeera:Saddam's execution has provoked protests around the world TUESDAY, JANUARY 02, 2007 21:42 MECCA TIME, DUBAI :: News und Tourismus.

[Palashbiswaskl's Weblog] DEEP IMPACT: They are also unaware of the DEEP IMPACT of Citizenship Amendment Act, development and Deportation drive, Twin TERROR acts and the war Against terrorism. Blind Nationalism has justified already the WAR HYPE, RECESSION and BAILOUT, ILLUMINITI and worldbank gangsters and RULING Imposters, Indo US Nuclear deal and Strategic realliance in US lead!

[pw] Positive News from Iraq -- IGNORE THIS POST!!!24!!: The security plan to protect the voting process will be undertaken by Iraqi forces while the Multi-National Force (MNF)’s role will be confined to logistical support, a senior security official said on 9 January. The provincial council elections are scheduled to be held on January 31 in 14 out of the country’s 18 provinces as no elections will be held in Kirkuk and the three autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region’s provinces of Arbil, Duhuk and Sulaimaniya.

[neo-neocon] neo-neocon » Blog Archive » Iraq: suppose they gave a victory and ...: It was a country in which a large number of people were employed by the state to make cigarettes, and in which long-standing fault lines in Islam and society were exploited to keep people suspicious of each other, watched by the secret police who routinely whisked people off to torture houses, whence they were never seen again, in which the environment was devastated, sometimes by neglect, sometimes to destroy a people (eg.

[zomblog] Victory in Iraq · zomblog: What happened when the FAO did its follow up study is they found out that MOST of the Iraqis they’d interviewed in their child mortality study had LIED (namely, the first time the FAO asked them if their baby had died the interviewees said “yes”, and when the FAO asked them the same question later, they said “no”), and that the study method is therefore completely, totally and utterly invalid. It CANNOT be relied on to produce accurate numbers.

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