http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/18/nwar118.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/18/ixnewstop.html


From Information Clearing House

Video ITV
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8732.htm

Another Blair government would be a danger to democracy, former BBC director general Greg Dyke has said at a Lib Dem campaign news conference.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4504975.stm


From Information Clearing House

Secret documents indicate Blair support for military action a year before invasion took place.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8728.htm

Der volle Text des vom Pentagon stark geschwärzten Berichts über den Vorfall, bei dem der italienische Agent Calipari getötet und die Journalistin Sgrena verletzt wurde, verrät einige interessante Einzelheiten.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20014/1.html

04/28/05

Belgian doctors sent an Iraqi girl home on Thursday after treating her for leg wounds caused by a bomb during the U.S. invasion -- and sent the 51,570 euro ($66,650) bill to the U.S. embassy. 'We haven't heard from them yet,' said Bert De Belder, coordinator of the humanitarian agency Medical Aid for Third World which brought the girl to Belgium. ... De Belder said he sent the bill to the U.S. embassy because international law dictated that an occupying force was responsible for the well-being of the country's people." [editor's note: about time -- as the signs say at better flea markets everywhere, "you break it, you bought it" - TLK]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2819953.htm

from Reuters


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/03/05

Tony Blair's hopes of keeping Iraq off the election agenda were dashed yesterday by the killing of the 50th British soldier in hostile action since the conflict began two years ago, renewed violence on the streets and accusations from the brother of the murdered British hostage Ken Bigley. Writing in The Independent Paul Bigley claims Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, privately urged him to issue a public apology to Mr Blair to avoid criticism of the Government damaging the Prime Minister's bid for a third election victory...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=635191

from Independent [UK]


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/02/05

Disputing the conclusions of a U.S. report into the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence agent, an Italian investigation released late Monday found that stress and inexperience among U.S. soldiers played a role in the shooting. Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari, 50, was killed in the March 4 incident shortly after he secured the release of journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who had been held by insurgents in Iraq. U.S. soldiers opened fire on their vehicle as it approached a checkpoint en route to Baghdad International Airport...

http://tinyurl.com/blyfw

from CNN


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp