Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq  “1,252,595"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,138
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$544,507,752,171
 
See the cost in your community
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Putin Walks into a Trap
By Mike Whitney
The Georgian army had no chance of winning a war with Russia or any intention of occupying the territory they captured. The real aim was to lure the Russian army into a trap.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20508.htm
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Will American Insouciance Destroy the World?
By Paul Craig Roberts
The neoconned Bush Regime and the Israeli-occupied American media are heading the innocent world toward nuclear war.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20507.htm
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U.S. Puts Brakes on Israeli Plan for Attack on Iran Nuclear Facilities
By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent
The American administration has rejected an Israeli request for military equipment and support that would improve Israel’s ability to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20499.htm
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‘Where Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?’
By Scott Ritter
At what point in time will it become clear that a crime against America has been committed, not by any foreign terrorist group, but rather the highest officials in the land, those entrusted with safeguarding the Constitution? If the rule of law is to have any meaning today, Congress has no choice but to institute proceedings mandated by the Constitution against those high officials who have committed high crimes and misdemeanors against the American people.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20501.htm
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“The Neocons Are Dying to Nuke Iran”
An interview with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
By Kathy Sanborn
What was your wake-up call, Dr. Roberts, to the fact that the current administration was determined to take away the civil liberties of Americans?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20502.htm
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Why Russia’s Response to Georgia was Right
By Sergei Lavrov
For some of those witnessing the fighting in the Caucasus over the past few days, the narrative is straightforward and easy. The plucky republic of Georgia, with just a few million citizens, was attacked by its giant eastern neighbour, Russia. Add to this all the stereotypes of the cold war era, and you are presented with a truly David and Goliath interpretation – with all its accompanying connotations of good and evil. While this version of events is being written in much of the western media, the facts present a different picture.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20505.htm
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Sympathy For The Aggressor
By LARRY DERFNER
Now that Georgia has lost the war, the world is saying that President Mikheil Saakashvili made a “miscalculation” by starting it. Again, the world is wrong. Starting a war of conquest that kills and maims thousands of people is not a miscalculation, it’s a horrible, detestable crime. The world should save its sympathy for South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20506.htm
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Prisoner No. 650
By AIJAZ ZAKA SYED
Just when you think Uncle Sam’s war has no more surprises to spring on an unsuspecting world, he comes up with yet another gem. Take the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who grew up in the U.S. and went to top universities including the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20503.htm
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Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Press
Credit and Credibility
By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY
Most of the killings of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan are ignored because US military media releases are published unquestioningly by the world’s newspapers. The words of US “officials” go straight into print without question and are presented as incontrovertible fact.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20504.htm
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Pakistan Kills 150 Rebels in Six-Day Battle in Tribal Region:
Pakistan’s security forces killed more than 150 militants in six days of fighting in the northwestern region of Bajaur, near the Afghanistan border, which the U.S. describes as a haven for Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters.
tinyurl.com/5ho64e
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Tribal clash claims 26 more lives in Pakistan’s tribal region:
 At least 26 people were killed and 35 others wounded as sectarian clashes continued for the seventh day in Pakistan’s tribal region on Wednesday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/14/content_9283906.htm
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24 Killed as attack ‘destroys Pakistan bases’:
At least 24 people were killed in northwestern Pakistan when four missiles or bombs hit two compounds used by armed groups operating along the Afghanistan border
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/08/200881362554173554.html
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US Missile strike kills 10 militants in Pakistan:
A SUSPECTED US missile strike on an “Islamist training camp” in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan killed at least 10 militants, security officials said today.
www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24176188-38197,00.html
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Aid workers killed in Afghanistan:
Three female international aid workers have been killed in an ambush in southern Afghanistan, according to a provincial governor.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/08/20088139251345245.html
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NATO force denies Afghan civilian casualty report:
 The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has denied reports it killed more than a dozen civilians in an air strike to the northeast of the capital.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/afghan_violence_dc
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Afghan senators call for govt control over foreign troops:
Afghan senators demanded Tuesday that international troops operating in Afghanistan be brought under the country’s law to make them accountable for mounting civilian casualties.
tinyurl.com/6c2t7e
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Lebanon bomb kills 15 in attack on army:
At least 15 people including nine soldiers were killed in Lebanon on Wednesday, according to security sources, in the deadliest attack on the army since a battle with al Qaeda-inspired militants last year.
tinyurl.com/59gfaf
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Russian tanks pressed deeper into Georgia:
Russian tanks rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday then pressed deeper into Georgia territory, smashing an EU-brokered truce designed to end six-day conflict that has uprooted 100,000 people and scarred the Georgian landscape.
tinyurl.com/6s7cpo
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Georgian President’s Accusations Grow:
President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia, who has appeared repeatedly on Western television during the days of conflict with Russia, made frantic and apparently overstated warnings on Wednesday that Russian troops were poised to enter the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
tinyurl.com/6rm4wb
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Russian forces sink Georgian ships:
The attack on Wednesday follows a day of dramatic developments in the Russia-Georgia conflict amid what appears to be an escalation of military action on the ground.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/08/2008813153517926662.html
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Russia: US Allowed Georgia to Attack:
“It is hard to imagine that (Georgian President Mikheil) Saakashvili embarked on this risky venture without some sort of approval from the side of the United States,” Churkin told Russian NTV television on Wednesday.
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=96083
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Russia: US must choose Moscow or ‘project Georgia’:
Russia’s foreign minister said on Wednesday the United States had to choose between partnership with Moscow and the Georgian leadership which he described as a “virtual project.”
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3582207,00.html
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Tension mounts between US and Russia as Russian tanks move deeper into Georgia:
As Russia continued flexing its military muscles even after agreeing to a ceasefire that technically ended a war that humiliated Georgia, tensions continued to mount between Russia and Western nations such as the U.S. The United States displayed its first concrete response to the armed conflict in Georgia by canceling its upcoming joint military exercises with Russia.
tinyurl.com/5pvtvd
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Bush orders U.S. military to help Georgian “civilians”:
President Bush said Wednesday he is dispatching U.S. military personnel to Georgia in a “vigorous and ongoing” mission to provide humanitarian aid to victims of the fighting between Russian and Georgian troops.
tinyurl.com/5ljcmn
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Israel and U.S. Send Aid to Georgia, as Battles Ensue :
A U.S. C-17 military cargo plane, loaded with supplies, already is on the way, and Bush said that Russia must ensure that all lines of communication and transport, including seaports, roads and airports, remain open to let deliveries and civilians through.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20500.htm
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Georgia’s Israeli arms point Russia to Iran:
With the eruption of fighting between Russia and Georgia, Israel has found itself in an awkward position as a result of its arms sales to Georgia. Israel is now caught between its friendly relations with Georgia and its fear that the continued sale of weaponry will spark Russian retribution in the form of increased arms sales to Iran and Syria.
www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JH14Ak02.html
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Report: Syria taking preventive steps, fearing Israeli strike:
Syria’s leadership fears that a drill conducted Tuesday by the Israel Defense Forces in the Golan Heights may develop into a military offensive against Damascus, the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Watan reported Wednesday.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1011235.html
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Israel clears troops who killed Reuters cameraman:
 The military advocate-general told the international news agency in a letter sent on Tuesday that troops could not see whether Fadel Shana was operating a camera or a weapon but were nonetheless justified in firing a shell packed with darts that killed him and eight other Palestinians aged between 12 and 20.
africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnLD610739.html
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Iraq”; At least 7 killed in another bloody day of : US occupation:
A U.S. soldier and an Iraqi interpreter were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in northwestern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSANW22158020080813
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Four killed, 23 injured in blasts in Mosul – police:
Four Iraqis were killed and at least 23 others injured in two separate bobby-trapped vehicles’ blasts in Mosul northern Iraq on Wednesday.
www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/
ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1931130&Language=en
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Deaths in Algeria suicide blast:
At least eight people have been killed in a sucide bombing in Algeria, local radio has reported.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/08/20088108261163803.html
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Paraguay’s 300.000 landless families wait for new president:
Land distribution promises to become the main immediate challenge for Paraguay’s elected president Fernando Lugo who takes office on Friday. An estimated 300.000 peasant families are expecting to be given a lot of land and their organizations are impatient.
www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=14236&formato=HTML
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Bolivian opposition mulls Morales’s offer for talks:
The conservative governors of the states of Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni and Pando — all regions seeking autonomy from the leftwing government of Morales — and the governor of Chuquisaca, were discussing the option in the city of Santa Cruz
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=246763