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Hundreds of Iraqis set alight US and Israeli flags on Wednesday as they celebrated the impending pullout of American forces from the country in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah.

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Iraq s leader becoming a new 'dictator,' deputy warns

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is amassing dictatorial power as U.S. troops leave the country, risking a new civil war and the breakup of the nation, his deputy warned Tuesday.

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Former Ambassador: 'US to control Iraq oil always'

American troops will not go far from Iraq - they will be re-deployed to next door Kuwait. 'This is just a re-shuffle of the cards. Americans could always come back because the bases will be kept intact, while 20,000 personnel means that most of the staff will be there,' Ranjit Singh Kalha said.

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From Information Clearing House

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In Wake of US Occupation Remains a Devastated Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/14-3

US Weapons Makers Set to Profit from Iraq s Destroyed Forces
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/14-9

As Iraq War Nearly Ends, So Should Afghanistan War
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/12/14-4

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Malaise visible as US military declares war 'over' in Iraq
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10754/

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Secret Accounts of Iraq Massacre Found in Junk Yard

Michael S. Schmidt, The New York Times News Service: 'The Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and gave secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America s time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha ... Four-hundred pages of interrogations, once guarded as secrets of war, were supposed to have been destroyed as the last American troops prepare to leave Iraq. Instead, they were discovered ... at a junkyard outside Baghdad.'

http://www.truth-out.org/secret-accounts-iraq-massacre-found-junk-yard/1323961138



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