Iraq
« Previous EntriesU.S. to fund pro-American publicity in Iraq
Friday, October 3rd, 2008$300 million media program meant to 'engage and inspire' local population By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus | MSNBC.com The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three years to produce news stories, entertainment programs and public service advertisements for the Iraqi media in an effort to "engage and inspire" the local population to support U.S. objectives and the Iraqi government. The ...
tagged Iraq
Blackwater Machine Gun Found in Raid on Iraqi Insurgents
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Incident Was Kept Secret and Raises More Questions About the Firm's Iraq Operations By Brian Ross | ABCNews.com An M4 machine gun sent to Iraq by the Blackwater private security firm somehow disappeared from the company's storage facility in Baghdad and was later discovered during a US military operation, apparently against suspected insurgents, people familiar with the situation have told ABC News. The incident, in 2006, has been kept secret until ...
tagged Iraq
Winter Soldier: Eye Witness Accounts of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008By John Stauber | Two years ago public revulsion against the Bush Administration's unnecessary and disastrous attack and occupation of Iraq resulted in the Democratic Party taking control of the US Congress. But Nancy Pelosi and the new political leadership backed down before President ...
tagged Afghanistan and Iraq
YOUTHS BEATEN AND RAPED IN BRUTAL IRAQ PRISONS
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008By Jonathan Steele in Baghdad | Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, and subject to frequent sexual abuse by guards, current and former prisoners say. At Karkh juvenile prison, Omar Ali, a 16-year-old who has spent more than three years ...
tagged Iraq
IRAQ: U.S. Blamed for Increasing Iranian Influence
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Inter Press Service | Haider returned from Iran recently, with enough money to pay for his wedding and a new car. He was trained to join Badr, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Many more come where he recently came from. Badr is being trained ostensibly to defend Shia leaders, under increased attacks from militant groups. Dawa is a Shia dominated party, ...
tagged Iraq
Leaked: US-Iraqi agreement
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Translated by Raed Jarrar | I read about a leaked copy of the US-Iraqi agreement a few days ago when a radio station in Iraq mentioned some of its details, then it was mentioned in some Arab newspapers like Al-Qabas and Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. A couple of days ago, one Iraqi website (linked to an Iraqi armed resistance group) published the leaked draft on their web page for less ...
tagged Iraq and USA-News
US out of Iraq by … “2011″
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008By PATRICK COCKBURN | The United States is moving towards ending its military control of Iraq by agreeing to withdraw combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns by June next year and from the rest of Iraq by 2011, according Iraqi and American negotiators. The withdrawal of US troops to bases outside the cities, towns and villages would make the Iraqi government, whose security forces number half a ...
tagged Iraq
Could Iris Scans Stop a New Iraq Insurgency?
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008By Noah Shachtman | Iraq's government and Sunni militias appear to be headed for a showdown. One of the things that just might keep a full-blown insurgency from erupting again, a leading expert in the region says, is a set of databases of fingerprints and irises, built by the U.S. military -- and fed with data from Saddam. The extra troops get all the credit, ...
tagged Iraq
U.S. Soldiers Executed Iraqis, Statements Say
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008By PAUL VON ZIELBAUER | In March or April 2007, three noncommissioned United States Army officers, including a first sergeant, a platoon sergeant and a senior medic, killed four Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots to the head as the men stood handcuffed and blindfolded beside a Baghdad canal, two of the soldiers said ...
tagged Iraq
Documents reveal PR push for Iraq war preceded intel findings
Monday, August 25th, 2008By Nick Juliano | New documents from within the Bush administration and US intelligence community during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq reveal that the White House began assembling a case for war before it had compiled the intel that ostensibly formed the basis of that case. A new report on the documents from George Washington University's National Security Archive also presents compelling evidence that the Bush administration pressured ...
tagged Iraq
US Colony Iraq Subsidizes Military-Industrial Fraud
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Corporate-government fraud has gotten a major boost ever since Iraq became the latest colony of the failing American Empire. "Iraq is fast becoming one of the United States' top customers for military sales," reports USA Today in an article called "Iraqis buy billions in U.S. arms." http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/ 2008-08-18-iraqtanks_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip "Since January 2007, Iraq has spent $3.1 billion on U.S. weapons. That number looks likely to grow exponentially as Iraq uses its vast unspent reserves of ...
tagged Iraq
Iraq wants to put torturers on trial
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Iraq's human rights ministry says wants torturers not to be included on amnesty lists. BAGHDAD - Iraq's human rights ministry says it wants to put on trial torturers who benefit from complete immunity despite proven cases of abuse in Iraqi prisons."We call on the government and judicial authorities to ensure the protection of prisoners, to punish torturers and not to include them ...
tagged Iraq and Torture
The Secret Deal For Iraq’s Oil
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008The Public Record | Four months before the United States invaded Iraq, the Department of Defense was secretly working with Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, Halliburton Corp., on a secret deal that would give the world's second largest oil services company total control over Iraq's oil fields, according to interviews with Halliburton's most senior executives. Previously undisclosed Halliburton documents obtained by The Public Record confirm that controlling the world's ...
tagged Iraq and Oil
Blackwater guards face prosecution over killing of 17 Iraqi civilians
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008By James Bone | Six Blackwater Worldwide security guards have been notified that they could face prosecution in America for shooting dead 17 civilians in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square in an infamous incident that provoked fury in Iraq. The Blackwater employees have reportedly been sent “target letters” by US prosecutors telling them that they could face charges for opening fire at the crowded intersection on September 16 last year. The move ...
tagged Iraq
Record Number of US Contractors in Iraq
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Some 190,000 private personnel were working in the Iraq theater as of early this year, a new report says. By Peter Grier | Washington - The American military has depended on private contractors since sutlers sold paper, bacon, sugar, and other small luxuries to Continental Army troops during the Revolutionary War. But the scale of the use of contractors in Iraq is unprecedented in US history, according to a ...
tagged Iraq
« Previous Entries
Free Newsletter
Loading ...Related News
- US Above The Law
- China Drop Iraq’s Debt In Hope Of $700m Oil Deal
- US lawmaker accuses Bush of secrecy over Iraq deal
- Record Number of US Contractors in Iraq
- The Neo-Con Runaround
Latest Headlines
- Number of juveniles held at Guantanamo almost twice official Pentagon figure
- AP lifts ban on military photos
- The GOP Judge Who Bolted on Gitmo
- Debate on War Crimes and Torture: Should High Government Officials Be Investigated and Prosecuted
- Obama’s Cellphone Account Breached by Verizon Employees
- Judge removes Guerra as prosecutor for 5 of 9 criminal cases involving Vice President Cheney
- Contractors in Iraq could face charges in earlier incidents
- Iraqi protesters burn George Bush effigy
- The Third Clinton Administration
- Antisemitism: A Web of Denial
Archive