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Irak-Krieg

Kamal Sayid Qadir wrote an article criticising the US backed government in Iraqi Kurdistan and now he has been jailed for 30 years.

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=8100

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Starmail - 11. Jan, 11:19

Ali Fadhil: "How US troops destroyed my family home"

Audio: Iraqi journalist Ali Fadhil, who was seized in his home by US soldiers two days ago, describes his ordeal.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio/Guardian/audio/2006/01/10/090106fadhil.mp3

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Starmail - 11. Jan, 11:18

So, Mr Bremer, where did all the money go?

At the end of the Iraq war, vast sums of money were made available to the US-led provisional authorities, headed by Paul Bremer, to spend on rebuilding the country. By the time Bremer left the post eight months later, $8.8bn of that money had disappeared. Ed Harriman on the extraordinary scandal of Iraq's missing billions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11523.htm

Starmail - 11. Jan, 11:15

Iraq as a Killing Ground

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt152.html

Starmail - 11. Jan, 11:06

Iraqi 'Democracy' Brings Bleak Days

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0110-11.htm

Starmail - 11. Jan, 10:37

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2006

THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF THE IRAQ WAR

http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/Cost_of_War_in_Iraq.htm

Starmail - 10. Jan, 22:09

Iraqi widows feel lost in land that cannot provide

Behind the daily bloodshed and attacks that make headlines across the world, there is a growing population of widows.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAB438952.htm

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Starmail - 10. Jan, 10:06

How Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003?

30,000? No. 100,000? No.

By ANDREW COCKBURN

President Bush's off-hand summation last month of the number of Iraqis who have so far died as a result of our invasion and occupation as "30,000, more or less" was quite certainly an under-estimate. The true number is probably hitting around 180,000 by now, with a possibility, as we shall see, that it has reached as high as half a million.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11508.htm

Starmail - 10. Jan, 10:01