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Archive for the Month of July, 2005.
Viewing Iraq War NEWS articles 76 through 104 of 104.
- Every two days for the past two years more civilians have died in Iraq than in the July 7 London bombings.
- Lawyers for the Defense Department are refusing to cooperate with a federal judge's order to release secret photographs and videotapes related to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. - Buried in the middle of a short July 14 news story about Turkey's request that Iraq extradite two Islamists held at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, The New York Times made a stunning allegation: Israeli intelligence officials are operating in Iraq. - Aware of the debilitating effect drugs had on the morale and effectiveness of GIs in the Vietnam War, the authorities are attempting to stifle a repeat in Iraq.
- An Iraqi government newspaper said Saturday that toppled President Saddam Hussein was expected to be sentenced and executed within weeks. - As the Bush Administration continues to spend billions of dollars on the war in Iraq, it tells Americans , "Don't worry, be happy."
- The mercenary model of the ancient Roman Empire is the next step for the Pentagon and PNAC's New American Military Empire ambitions. - 'Enemies of humanity' quote raises Iraq PR questions: News release quotes from unidentified Iraqis are virtually the same
- The United States had accepted Poland's plans to withdraw most of its 1700 troops from Iraq at the beginning of next year, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski says. - Two Iraqis at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison were bitten by dogs as they were being handled by sergeants who were competing to see who could scare more detainees, a witness testified Tuesday. - Talib Abu Younes put his lips to a glass of tap water recently and watched worms swimming in the bottom. - This testimony about a US guard raping an Iraqi boy is from The Taguba Report on torture and other abuses at Abu Ghraib.
- From his deputy premier's seat in the elected Iraqi government, Chalabi, 60, oversees Iraq's vast oil resources as chairman of the energy council. He presides over a board that regulates multimillion-dollar rebuilding contracts. He commands the controversial purge of former Baath Party members from government posts and the Iraqi Special Tribunal prosecuting Saddam Hussein. Until an oil minister was named, Chalabi held that job, too. - CIA officials used a sledgehammer handle to beat various prisoners in Iraq, and one official, whose name is classified, would often brag about his abuse of prisoners, according to testimony in a closed session of a military hearing.
- I have heard Iraqis make comparisons between their occupation and the US occupation of Palestine, but it wasn't until I saw families walking through the kilometer-long checkpoint, from a parking lot outside Falluja to one on the other side, that it seemed apt. Once inside, seeing the life continuing amidst the rubble, it was harder still to ignore the physical similarities. - If the topic of permanent bases in Iraq seems unfamiliar, it's because, as Hart noted, there's been barely a whisper about them in the mainstream media. While the deteriorating situation in Iraq is making headlines daily, it's been two months since any reports on the presence or construction of bases have emerged from major press outlets. - A female Iraqi engineer laments the hopeless situation in her country and calls on the nation's women to rise up and expel the American and coalition forces, describing them as arsonists who have burned their land, their property and their livelihoods. - "We have asked the US forces and many other organisations to build medical waste treatment units in Basra. They promised us, but nothing has been done so far."
- Latest information about the death of an Iraqi journalist who was investigating the activities of the death squads in Iraq, shows he was shot with his hands up in a scene which resembles an assassination zone.
- If anyone had any lingering doubts about the full extent of violence in Iraq, they need only visit Baghdad's morgue. - Hundreds of Iraqis are demonstrating in Baghdad for a second day against alleged police brutality and arbitrary arrests.
- Parliament speaker Hajim al-Hassani has warned both U.S. and Iraqi troops against the use of military force in solving the tense situation in Tel Affar. - Lawyers for Saddam Hussein said on Saturday their client was attacked by an unidentified man during a court appearance in Baghdad this week, but U.S. forces guarding him denied any such incident took place. - For hire: more than 1,000 U.S.-trained former soldiers and police officers from Colombia. Combat-hardened, experienced in fighting insurgents and ready for duty in Iraq. This eye-popping advertisement recently appeared on an Iraq jobs website, posted by an American entrepreneur who hopes to supply security forces for U.S. contractors in Iraq and elsewhere. - Thirty percent of U.S. troops surveyed have developed stress-related mental health problems three to four months after coming home from the Iraq war, the Army's surgeon general said Thursday.
- The current phase of the Mother of all Battles is more than a population attempting to kick out unwanted invaders. It is a definitive battle in the history of the world against imperialism, ethnocentrism, and deceit. - Iraq may have the world's second-largest oil reserves, but top government officials are looking into creating a coupon programme to ration fuel for winter. - The United States is developing a nuclear plan to attack military bases in Iran, said Philip Giraldi, a former CIA intelligence officer. - Things are going well in Iraq for the invaders. Well, at least for some people, such as US Vice-President Richard Cheney. He is receiving more than $US1 million ($A1.3 million) a year from Halliburton, the company of which he was CEO from 1995 to 2000, in "deferred remuneration" while he is VP. He is worth every penny.
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