A comprehensive examination of the U.S.-led agency that oversaw the rebuilding of Iraq has triggered at least 27 criminal investigations and produced evidence of millions of dollars' worth of fraud, waste and abuse...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20040730/ts_latimes/iraqfundsarefocusof27criminalinquiries
http://tinyurl.com/4fkzn


From Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6581.htm


Informant: Dian Davies

http://ppoopp.host.sk/war/index.htm


Informant: Ace

http://www.counterpunch.org/ferner07282004.html


Informant: V

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FG28Ak01.html


From Information Clearing House

On Thursday, while the media and political worlds were focused on the report of the Sept. 11 commission, the Army inspector general released a 300-page summary of an investigation of "detainee operations" in Iraq and Afghanistan. The probe concluded that the crimes did not result from Army policy and were not the fault of senior commanders but were "unauthorized actions taken by a few individuals."...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6552.htm

Forty British parliamentarians have asked U.N Secretary-General Kofi Annan to seek the opinion of the U.N.'s International Court of Justice on the legality of the Iraq war...

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5766556


From Information Clearing House

"We shot a man with his hands up," he said, "We even shot women and children."...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6556.htm

Scott Ritter / International Herald Tribune

WASHINGTON (July 22, 2004) -- The battle for Iraq's sovereign future is a battle for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. As things stand, it appears that victory will go to the side most in tune with the reality of the Iraqi society of today: the leaders of the anti-U.S. resistance. In the aftermath of the first Gulf War, Saddam Hussein's regime shifted toward an amalgam of Islamic fundamentalism, tribalism and nationalism that more accurately reflected the political reality of Iraq. Thanks to his meticulous planning and foresight, Saddam's lieutenants are now running the Iraqi resistance...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85999:740526