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« Previous EntriesUS 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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As many U.S. contractors as troops in Iraq
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Army Times | The U.S. has about the same number of private contractors in Iraq as uniformed service members, a new congressional report says — a history-making ratio that presents problems in keeping track of all the workers and highlights the difficulties of supporting extended military operations without a larger force. The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan analytical arm of Congress, issued a report Monday that provides the first ...
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Auditors Question Blackwater Contracts: But Is It Really $107 Million?
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008By Elizabeth Olson | Blackwater Worldwide, the contractor whose provision of private security in Iraq has been under scrutiny, and its affiliated companies may have improperly obtained more than $100 million in contracts meant for small businesses, according to federal auditors. A report by the Small Business Administration's inspector general, issued in July, found that Blackwater and its affiliates, including Presidential Airways, won 39 contracts in the fiscal years 2005, ...
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Report: US using ‘money as a weapon’ in Iraq
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008US program has spent $2.8 billion using 'money as a weapon' in Iraq AP A U.S. Army program in which soldiers pay cash to Iraqis to help with expenses, large and small, has spent $2.8 billion in five years, The Washington Post reported Monday. The Post reviewed records of the Commander's Emergency Response Program, which was intended for short-term humanitarian relief and reconstruction. The field manual laying out the guidelines for the ...
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Iraq demands ‘clear timeline’ for US withdrawal
Sunday, August 10th, 2008Iraq's foreign minister insisted Sunday that any security deal with the United States must contain a "very clear timeline" for the departure of U.S. troops. A suicide bomber struck north of Baghdad, killing at least five people including an American soldier. Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told reporters that American and Iraqi negotiators were "very close" to reaching a long-term security agreement that will set the rules for U.S. troops in Iraq ...
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Iraqis: Deal close on plan for US troops to leave
Thursday, August 7th, 2008AP | BAGHDAD - Iraq and the U.S. are near an agreement on all American combat troops leaving Iraq by October 2010, with the last soldiers out three years after that, two Iraqi officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. U.S. officials, however, insisted no dates had been agreed. The proposed agreement calls for Americans to hand over parts of Baghdad's Green Zone — where the U.S. Embassy is located — ...
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Iraq’s oil-fueled surplus could hit $80 billion, report says
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Iraq is raking in more money from oil exports than it is spending, amassing a projected four-year budget surplus of up to $80 billion, U.S. auditors reported Tuesday. Leading members of Congress, noting that Washington is paying for reconstruction in Iraq, expressed outrage at the assessment. One called the findings "inexcusable." "We should not be paying for Iraqi projects while Iraqi oil revenues continue to pile up in the ...
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George Tenet And White House Admit Iraq Intelligence Chief Told Them Iraq Had No WMD
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Ron Suskind was on NPR this morning to discuss his new book The Way of the World, which alleges Iraq's intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush told the US before the war that Iraq had no WMD. NPR asked George Tenet and the White House for comment, and, remarkably enough, they both essentially admitted this was true. SUSKIND: What we now know from this investigation is that a secret ...
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Suskind: Bush ordered fake letter linking Iraq to 9/11
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008By David Edwards and Nick Juliano | A blockbuster new book from investigative journalist Ron Suskind adds another revelation to the growing canon demonstrating the lengths to which President Bush and members of his administration lied, misled and deceived the American people to pursue its invasion of Iraq. Bush allegedly ordered the CIA to forge a handwritten letter from the head of Iraq's intelligence service to Saddam Hussein that ...
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New Book Claims Bush White House Used Forged Documents In Case For Iraq War
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Haaretz | The Bush administration used forged documents that it presented as evidence of Saddam Hussein's complicity in the September 11 terrorist attacks, and which were later used as a pretext to launch the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003, according to a newly released book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind. In "The Way of the World," Suskind writes that documents cited by the administration allege that Hussein's regime permitted ...
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Did McCain’s foreign-policy advisor profit from the Iraq war?
Monday, August 4th, 2008By Mark Benjamin | As recently as last year, John McCain's senior foreign-policy and national security advisor, a neoconservative who played a leading role in pushing for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, was trying to use his role in promoting the Iraq war to make money off Iraqi oil. In a confidential memo, a company called World Strategic Energy, for which top McCain aide Randy Scheunemann was an executive consultant, ...
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