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The Obama administration is moving ahead with the sale of nearly $11 billion worth of arms and training for the Iraqi military despite concerns that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is seeking to consolidate authority, create a one-party Shiite-dominated state and abandon the American-backed power-sharing government.

http://on.msnbc.com/tSQESJ


From Information Clearing House

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Was It Worth It?
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance272.html

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Embellishing the Iraq war

Toward Freedom
by Ramzy Baroud

12/26/11

Someone ought to let mainstream news producers know that the nearly 4,500 US soldiers killed in the Iraq war were not the only victims. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have also been killed...

http://bit.ly/uz61df


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Rivals Say Maliki Leading Iraq to 'Civil War'

Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera: 'Less than 24 hours after the US military withdrew the last of its occupation forces from Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an arrest warrant for Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi on terrorism charges. Maliki, a Shia, leveled the charges against the highest ranking Sunni in the government, a move that threatens to drag the country back into sectarian bloodshed such as what occurred in 2006-2007 and led to tens of thousands of Iraqis being killed.'

http://www.truth-out.org/rivals-say-maliki-leading-iraq-civil-war/1325185878



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