Iraqi authorities have been torturing and abusing prisoners in jails across the country, current and former Iraqi officials charged.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11169.htm

The latest figures issued by the Department of Defense and other U.S. and Iraqi official sources reveal an insurgency still raging unabated in which the number of total casualties inflicted on U.S. troops is once again climbing

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051128-091236-2567r


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Military mental health workers in Iraq

By Stephen Soldz

As part of a "combat stress detachment," her job is to help soldiers cope with the horror of the battlefield -- so that they can return to it as soon as possible. - "I do ache for these guys," says Col. Levandowski. "But if you send too many (soldiers) home, the risk is that mental health will be seen as a ticket out of country."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11172.htm

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/iraq-media-offensive.html


Informant: Kev Hall

Hundreds of accounts of killings and abductions have emerged in recent weeks, most of them brought forward by Sunni civilians, who claim that their relatives have been taken away by Iraqi men in uniform without warrant or explanation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905Y.shtml

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Is the U.S. Training Iraqi Death Squads to Fight the Insurgency? :

Investigative journalist Arun Gupta was one of the first to report on the presence of death squads in Iraq back in April of this year. We interviewed him at the time, he joins us again in our firehouse studios.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/01/1526201


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Whether euphemized as "redeployment" or described frankly as withdrawal, the new strategy has moved into the mainstream. In this new context, the positions still being defended by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are beginning to look increasingly marginalized.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK29Ak01.html



A Journey That Ended in Anguish:

Col. Ted Westhusing, a military ethicist who volunteered to go to Iraq, was upset by what he saw. His apparent suicide raises questions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11160.htm



Watch The Video:

Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11157.htm



The ties that tangle Iraq and Iran:

What stands out is that Washington resorted to grandstanding in order to cover up the accelerating collapse of its regional policy in Iraq, which surely casts a shadow on the US capacity to force its will on the Iran nuclear issue.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11165.htm


From Information Clearing House

The plan is causing consternation among commanders in US air force, who say it could lead to increased civilian casualties and lead to airstrikes being used as means of settling old scores.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11156.htm

American officials are beginning to acknowledge that a judgment about when withdrawals can begin ... could well hinge on whether the new Iraqi government, scheduled to be elected in less than three weeks, issues its own call for an American withdrawal. Last week, for the first time, Iraq's political factions, represented by about 100 Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders, collectively called for a timetable for withdrawal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805L.shtml

Nobody outside the Westminster village would recognize the names of David Keogh and Leo O'Connor. One is a former Cabinet Office official, the other a researcher for an MP who lost his seat at the last election. But the crime of which they are accused concerns two men who are firmly in the public eye: Tony Blair and George Bush.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805K.shtml

We’ve all familiar now with “compassion fatigue”, when we become inured to the plight of disaster victims in uncharismatic parts of the world such as Kashmir. Well, I fear we are now developing a kind of “atrocity fatigue” over Iraq.

http://www.sundayherald.com/53063


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