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What Crocker and Petraeus didn’t say
(Adam Kokesh of IVAW protesting at Petraeus Hearings) By Nancy A. Youssef and Leila Fadel McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The Bush administration’s top two officials in Iraq answered questions from Congress for more than six hours on Monday, but their testimony may have been as important for what they didn’t say as for what they…
US Accused of Using “Kangaroo Court” to Try Men Accused of Role in 9/11 Attacks
By Andrew Gumbel, The Independent UK The United States military announced yesterday that it was bringing death penalty charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other men suspected of orchestrating the September 11 attacks, and intended to try them under the Bush administration’s much-criticised military tribunal system, which is subject only to partial oversight by…
Iraqis on “Success” and “Progress” in Their Country
By Dahr Jamail, Tom Dispatch This March 19 will be the fifth anniversary of the shock-and-awe air assault on Baghdad that signaled the opening of the invasion of Iraq, and when it comes to the American occupation of that country, no end is yet in sight. If Republican presidential candidate John McCain has anything to…
Marine tells of order to execute Haditha women and children
by Rob Woollard, AFP A US Marine was ordered to execute a room full of terrified Iraqi women and children during an alleged massacre in Haditha that left 24 people dead, a military court heard Thursday. The testimony came in the opening of a preliminary hearing for Marine Sergeant Frank Wuterich, who faces 17 counts…
