http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9891709/


Informant: beefree

Britain's involvement in the Iraq war has "partly radicalized and fueled" the rise of home-grown terrorism, London's former ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, says.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505X.shtml

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3588/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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General calls use of 152nd 'inexcusable' :

"Three years in . . . it's inexcusable to have brought a maintenance company over there to do anything but maintenance," Libby said. "It's particularly galling to me when I strip myself of full-time mechanics and they get there and they're in a tower."

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/051104general.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Independent [UK]

10/02/05

Tony Blair's plans for tough new anti-terror legislation have been subjected to a damning critique by Amnesty International, as MPs prepare to debate the measures today. In a submission to MPs, Amnesty International denounced the proposals to increase police powers of detention and make a new offence of the glorification of terrorism. It called them 'ill-conceived and dangerous,' amounting to an attack on 'the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law'...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article324062.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Spectator
by Patrick Devenny & Robert McLean

11/01/05

At home, Britons were stunned by the graphic footage of their soldiers being assaulted in a city thought to be 'safe,' especially in comparison to the blood-soaked urban areas of the Sunni Triangle which dominate news coverage emanating out of Iraq. The violent imagery was only the latest and most troubling indication of the British military's failure in Basra and its environs, a disastrous turn of events which seemed unthinkable two years ago, when British troops were welcomed into Basra with relatively open arms. The root of this failure stems from the very strategy that was once lauded as the antidote for insurgent violence...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8953


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3558/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Lance Corporal Mike Hoffman, member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, discusses his combat with under-equipped Iraqi soldiers. Fueled by military justifications that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction, had been assisting al Qaeda, was partly responsible for 9/11, and was an imminent threat to the United States and Iraq's neighbors, Corporal Hoffman went to war. Now he poses the question: How many more US troops are we willing to lose for such an unsuccessful war?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102805D.shtml

Celeste Zappala and Anne Roesler write that in Iraq, another soldier teetered on consciousness, drew the last breath and was gone. And all the hopes that rode on him and all the prayers that followed him from all the people who loved him are done.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102805J.shtml

' "Our political program will focus more on getting the Americans out of Iraq," Hussein al-Falluji, a prominent Sunni who took part in talks on the constitution, told Reuters. "Our message to the American administration is clear: get out of Iraq or set a timetable for withdrawal or the resistance will keep slaughtering your soldiers until Judgment Day." '

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10787.htm

The U.S. is now in fact feeding violence in Iraq by using the country’s disparate sectarian, ethnic and religious factions in a way that will eventually help it realize some of its aims of coming to Iraq.

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=opinion\2005-10-23\567.htm


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