Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,073
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$517,858,523,902
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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A Human Rights Crime
 
By Jimmy Carter
 
The world must stop standing idle while the people of Gaza are treated with such cruelty.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19885.htm
 
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Lebanon Descends Into Chaos
 
Rival Leaders Order General Strike
 
By Robert Fisk:
 
You could hear gunfire crackling across Beirut all morning. To top it all, soaring price increases – even of basic food – is creating a little revolution in the hearts of many Lebanese.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19883.htm
 
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Neocons and the Truth: Bitter Enemies to the End
 
By Glenn Greenwald
 
This isn’t just a matter of documenting guilt with regard to what happened with Iraq. The Washington Post’s David Ignatius today became just the latest establishment spokesman to warn (or celebrate) that “judging from recent statements by administration officials, there is also a small, but growing, chance of conflict with Iran.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19886.htm
 
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Wanted Terrorist Honored In Miami
 
By Carol J. Williams
 
A dinner with 500 fellow Cuban exiles honors the militant and former CIA operative, now 80 and still wanted in Venezuela on terrorism charges.
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19882.htm
 
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Brutal Attack By Philadelphia Police
 
 Video
 
 Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey who saw the video, said, “On the surface it certainly does not look good. Click to view
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19882.htm
 
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At least 31 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
A parked car bomb exploded near a police patrol in the Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad, killed seven people, including three policemen, police said. The attack wounded 19 civilians.
www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL0891018220080508
 
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At least 7 killed in Sadr City :
 
Gun battles between Shia fighters and US occupation forces in Baghdad’s Sadr City have killed seven people and wounded 20 others, security and medical officials have said.
tinyurl.com/6yztc6
 
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Iraqi Soldiers Warn People To Flee Sadr City:
 
The residents say soldiers using loudspeakers are telling people to go to nearby soccer stadiums. But most residents still have not left.
www.kktv.com/news/headlines/18760884.html
 
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Iraqi government prepares for ‘big push’ into Shiite enclave:
 
“Iraqi and US military preparations are underway to move into Sadr City,” Asma al-Musawi, a member of al-Sadr Bloc, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
tinyurl.com/3wr46x
 
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Highlights of proposed Iraq war funding bill:
 
Lawmakers will cast separate votes on three components: war funding, Iraq war policy restrictions, and unrelated domestic add-ons.
www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_9183587
 
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Iraq’s Industry minister opens door to reimbursing US:
 
Senior Iraqi official says some of the country’s reconstruction costs might be reimbursed
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=158712
 
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Iran Confirms Mosque Blast As Bombing; Mastermind Arrested:
 
Iran said on Wednesday that a blast in a mosque that killed 13 people in the southern city of Shiraz last month was indeed a bombing and that the suspected mastermind had been arrested.
tinyurl.com/3klujb
 
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Iran Blames U.S., Britain for Mosque Explosion That Killed 12:
 
“The blast … was caused by a bombing by a terrorist group with links to Western countries, especially Britain and America,” the ISNA news agency quoted Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354540,00.html
 
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Iran offers nuclear deal but refuses to stop enrichment:
 
Iran said yesterday that it is to present the international community with a new package of proposals aimed at breaking the diplomatic deadlock over the country’s nuclear programme.
tinyurl.com/4rzuan
 
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Ahmadinejad calls Zionist regime a ‘stinking corpse’:
 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here on Thursday labeled the Zionist regime as a “stinking corpse” and said those who think they can revive the corpse of this fabricated and usurper regime are in mistaken.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-203/0805083448175250.htm
 
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Obama says US will always stand by Israel:
 
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama congratulated Israel in honor of its 60th Independence Day, saying that the United States will always stand by Israel to ensure that it can defend itself against the threats of terror and violence, from Gaza to Tehran.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3540975,00.html
 
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Israeli attack kills 2 in Gaza :
 
A Palestinian woman was killed by an Israeli tank shell during a n attack on the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a Palestinian medical official said.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080508/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgaza
 
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Hamas says it still awaits Israeli response to ceasefire offer:
 
The spokesman, Ismail Radwan, warned that “Hamas’ patience will not last forever.” The Palestinian factions accepted the Egyptian offer while the Israeli answer is expected next week.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/08/content_8131432.htm
 
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Olmert ‘may quit over scandal’ :
 
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, is likely to step down, or at least have his duties as prime minister suspended as bribery allegations against him are probed.
tinyurl.com/5b4kkk
 
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Hezbollah: Lebanon has declared war on us:
 
“The decision is tantamount to a declaration of war … on the resistance and its weapons in the interest of America and Israel,” Hassan Nasrallah said in a news conference aired live on television Thursday.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24521469/
 
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Lebanon violence spreads beyond Beirut:
 
Fighting between Shia supporters of Hizbullah and Sunni supporters of the Lebanese government has spread from Beirut to other parts of the country.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/08/lebanon
 
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Bush extends Syria sanctions :
 
George Bush, the US president, has said he is extending sanctions against Syria following Washington’s charge that Damascus has been building a nuclear reactor with North Korea’s help.
tinyurl.com/673exa
 
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At least 23 killed in Somalia fighting :
 
Armed resistance ambushed an Ethiopian occupation convoy near the village of Garsani, about 300km north of Mogadishu, late on Wednesday. At least 13 civilians and eight Ethiopian soldiers were killed in the fighting, witnesses said on Thursday.
tinyurl.com/5gcadg
 
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12 including three foreign soldiers killed in Afghan bombings, clashes:
 
Twelve people including three foreign soldiers were killed in a spate of bombings and gun battles in Afghanistan, including one firefight between police and opium growers, officials said Wednesday.
www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=16585&ccid=11
 
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Six Taliban including two commanders killed in occupied Afghanistan:
 
The insurgents died during a clash that erupted after a group of Taliban militants attacked a unit of Afghan police forces in Bala- Esar area of Turi district in western Ghor province on Thursday morning
tinyurl.com/4v2cvo
 
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Russia warns Georgia over Abkhazia :
 
Russia has threatened to send more troops to the Georgian separatist province of Abkhazia if Georgia adds to its own military presence in the region, Russian news agencies have quoted the defence ministry as saying.
tinyurl.com/6e2hwy
 
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Gorbachev: US could start new Cold War:
 
Mikhail Gorbachev has accused the United States of mounting an imperialist conspiracy against Russia that could push the world into a new Cold War
tinyurl.com/48q4jj
 
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Putin confirmed as Russian PM :
 
Many Russians believe that Putin will still exercise formidable power despite no longer being the country’s president.
tinyurl.com/5l9glw
 
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Ecuador says Colombia committed ‘crimes against humanity’ in raid on rebel camp:
 
The forensic evidence showing that the three were shot in the back is “undeniable,” Interior Minister Fernando Bustamante told the Gamavision television news program.
tinyurl.com/4cm4xu
 
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Venezuela proposes oil-for-food fund:
 
‘We will devise a formula based on the price of oil and the level of production that would allow for the creation of a special oil-for-food fund, taking into consideration the means of each country,’ Maduro said at the summit, which involves countries of Central America, the Caribbean and Venezuela.
tinyurl.com/46n5jf
 
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US says: Ex-Guantanamo prisoner carried out Iraq suicide attack:
 
The U.S. transferred al-Ajmi to Kuwaiti custody from Guantanamo in 2005. A Kuwaiti court later acquitted him of terrorism charges.
tinyurl.com/4pjs4o
 
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Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors :
 
In Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, new torture claims were leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib “ghost” detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released without charge.
ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=42280
 
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Drama fills Guantanamo war court but sound remains off:
 
The Pentagon took its new $12 million war court complex out for a test run Wednesday with the arraignment of an alleged al Qaeda propagandist – and the state-of-the-art facility failed.
www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/36247.html
 
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“Torture Team”:
 
British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House Role in Sanctioning Torture
tinyurl.com/3nxtop
 
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FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter:
 
Gag Order Lifted on Internet Archive, Allowing Founder to Speak Out for First Time
www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/05/06
 
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Video: Brutal Attack By Philadelphia Police: 
 
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey who saw the video, said, “On the surface it certainly does not look good.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19884.htm
 
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200 Arrested in Massive Show of Civil Disobedience Over Police Acquittals in Killing of Sean Bell:
 
On Wednesday, demonstrators halted traffic at six busy intersections in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
www.democracynow.org/2008/5/8/200_arrested_in_massive_show_of
 
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Bill Targets Oil Firms and OPEC:
 
Democratic leaders in Congress unveiled energy legislation yesterday targeting big oil companies and members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. The package drew sharp criticism from Republicans, oil firms and foreign policy experts.
tinyurl.com/53t74o