A former prisoner held by the United States military with senior officials of Saddam Hussein's ousted Iraqi regime charged on Wednesday that fellow detainees had been tortured, some of them to death.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1856378,00.html


From Information Clearing House

An international team has agreed to review Iraq's parliamentary elections, announcing Thursday that members would travel to Iraq in response to protests by Sunni Arab and secular Shiite groups that the polls were tainted by fraud. The announcement came after the Sunni and secular Shiite groups refused to open discussions with the Shiite religious bloc leading in the elections without a full review of the contested results, despite a UN observer's endorsement of the December 15 vote.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122905R.shtml

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3853/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3850/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Iraq's government has sharply raised the price of fuel and other petroleum products this month, sparking discontent and protests and worrying international observers who say the increases could hurt millions of poor Iraqis and throw the country into further turmoil.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122805H.shtml

"I see Iraq gradually becoming three regions that will one day become independent," said Jafar Mustafir, a close adviser to Iraq's Kurdish interim president, Jalal Talabani, and the deputy head of Peshmerga for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two major Kurdish parties. "I see us moving toward the end of Iraq."

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/world/13495252.htm


From Information Clearing House

Robert Scheer asks: Why is it not bigger news that those infamous Iraqi female scientists once routinely referred to in the media as "Dr. Germ" and "Mrs. Anthrax" have been quietly released from imprisonment in Iraq without any charges being brought by their US captors?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122805L.shtml

I heard that the US was planning an embassy in Baghdad that would cost $1.5 billion, as expensive as the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero, the proposed tallest building in the world. I saw a headline in the Los Angeles Times that read: ‘After Levelling City, US Tries to Build Trust.’

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11389.htm