World-News

The report, which was funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, documents evidence that DU munitions were fired at light vehicles, buildings and other civilian infrastructure. ''The use of DU in populated areas is alarming,'' it says, adding that many more contaminated sites are likely to be discovered.

http://is.gd/8PRIAi



How the US Exported its 'Dirty War' Policy to Iraq, with Fatal Consequences

By Murtaza Hussain

Pentagon officials at the highest levels oversaw torture facilities during the war in Iraq. The allegations are decidedly gruesome: rooms used for interrogating detainees stained with blood; children tied into extreme stress positions with their bodies beaten to discoloration.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34221.htm


10 years on: the elephant in the room the media still won t mention

Iraq was a war crime

Op-Ed

News reports list ''failures'', ''setbacks'' and ''lessons'' for ''the West'', but there s never a line of background saying the people who started the war are now criminally liable.

http://is.gd/wolnuf



Iraq May Be Broken, But It Is Our Political Class That Is Bankrupted

By George Galloway

To briefly recap; a huge right-wing conspiracy was mounted 10 years ago to manufacture a case to wage aggressive war (pace Nuremberg, the ''ultimate crime'') upon Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34236.htm



How the US Public was Defrauded by the Hidden $ Cost of the Iraq War and Occupation

Even now, the US is paying billions to private contractors

By Michael Boyle

The Bush administration masked the cost of the war with deficit spending to ensure that the American people would not face up to its costs while President Bush was in office.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34251.htm



Britain s Role In Shaping Iraq

By Patrick Cockburn

British leaders were blood-thirsty. After the revolt of 1920, TE Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, wrote to the London Observer to say: ''It is odd that we do not use poison gas on these occasions.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article998.htm



CIA ratchets covert operations in Iraq to fight al Qaeda

U.S. intelligence indicates that this al Qaeda affiliate is giving assistance to the Syrian-based rebel group, the al-Nusra Front, that currently controls parts in northern Syria, UPI says.

http://is.gd/SxDOYq



Iraq fears return of sectarian war, this time with added political dimension

Shias and Sunnis increase attacks amid concern Syria war could raise violence to levels of deadliest period in nation s history.

http://is.gd/bIUEnk


From Information Clearing House

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Why We Invariably Turn to the ''Experts'' Who Were Never Right When It Comes to Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/08-0



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