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[The Meatriarchy» If God Didn’t Want Me To Eat Animals, Why Did He Make Them Out Of Meat?] More Good News from Iraq: On Wednesday, Iraqi police arrested the nephew of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, believed to be a top financier of terrorism in Iraq. Some Iraqi officials believe that Yasir Sabhawi Ibrahim was the number two man in the insurgency behind Younis al-Ahmad, and ran a vast network of insurgents in Iraq.

[News Dissector Blog] Shadowboxing While Baghdad Seethes: ”Clearly, the former Iraqi dictator plans to use courtroom tactics perfected by everyone from Slobodan Milosevic to Nelson Mandela to turn the trial into a political showdown. And with little to lose given the inevitability of conviction on the basis of the evidence against him (whether in this trial or the next), he may be hoping to use the courtroom to rally support for the insurgency both within Iraq and in the wider Arab world, as well as to embarrass his enemies.

[Captain's Quarters] Zarqawi's Moneyman Gets Pinched In Baghdad: Fox News reports this morning that Iraqi security forces have arrested a nephew of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Yasir Sabawi Ibrahim, after the Syrians kicked him out of their country earlier this month. The Iraqis say that Ibrahim ran the money end of the Iraqi insurgency as well as contributed to the Zarqawi network's funding, and served as a chief liaison between the two organizations:

 [Dear_raed.blogspot.com] Where is Raed ?: In preparation for the transition of power to Iraqi hands there have been numerous conferences and discussion groups, starting at neighborhood levels and going up to more specialized discussions. This has been going on for quite a while and I know that he (my father) was invited to a couple of them to talk, I read one of the papers he wrote on forms of representation, he’s a caucus type of guy.

 [Back-to-iraq.com] Back to Iraq 3.0: Further cementing their power, the document’s federalism provisions, bitterly opposed by most Sunni politicians, would allow the formation of powerful regions - mini-states, in effect - with control of Iraq’s future oil wealth and the ability to ignore the central government in Baghdad. Sunnis say this will lead to the breakup of Iraq, with oil-rich regions in the Kurdish north and Shi’ite south and a barren desert for Sunnis in the middle.

[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: She told Zahn, "And there are a lot of very unsavory contacts, as the administration regards them, between Cuba and especially Iranians who are involved in biological weapons." Such frankly weird assertions raise questions about where in the world Miller got her so-called information. No serious intelligence professional believes that either Iran or Cuba has a significant biological weapons program, much less that a communist Latin American dictatorship was being helped by a Shiite Muslim fundamentalist state with deadly microbes.

[Electroniciraq.net] Electronic Iraq: What's New?: The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by recent incidents in which journalists have come under fire from U.S. and Iraqi forces at checkpoints near the International Zone in Baghdad. Journalists in Baghdad are expected to report from the International Zone where they attend press conferences, interview U.S. and Iraqi officials, and join military units for assignments as "embedded" journalists.

[Dahrjamailiraq.com] Iraq Dispatches: As the blood of US soldiers continues to drain into the hot sands of Iraq over the last several days with at least 27 US soldiers killed and the approval rating for his handling of the debacle in Iraq dropping to an all-time low of 38%, Mr. Bush commented from the comforts of his ranch in Crawford, Texas today, “We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq.”

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