David S. Cloud and Ned Parker The Los Angeles Times July 6, 2011 Keeping U.S. troops in Iraq after the departure deadline would require accord of Iraq’s deeply divided government. The Iraqis have not made a formal request for U.S. troops to stay. Reporting from Washington and Baghdad— The White House is prepared to keep [...]
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U.S. willing to leave 10,000 troops in Iraq past year’s end, officials say
Posted: July 6, 2011 in Iraq, US News0
Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
Posted: April 18, 2011 in Iraq, US NewsPaul Bignell The Independent April 18, 2011 Plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world’s largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. Iraq’s burgeoning oil industry: Click HERE to upload graphic (160k) The papers, revealed here for the first [...]
CNBC March 9, 2011 BAGHDAD – A government spokesman says a bomb has hit Iraq’s largest oil pipeline, halting exports to Turkey in an insurgent strike that could lead to millions of dollars in losses. Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said gunmen planted the bomb on the Beiji pipeline Wednesday evening near the town of [...]
Cordula Meyer Spiegel December 9, 2010 Contrary to what many people believe, the Iraq war provided few advantages for the US oil industry. The diplomatic cables show that, in most cases, it was competitors to the Americans who often did better in the country. Only one US company truly profited: Halliburton. During the first bidding [...]
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: Iraq War “Based On a Series of Lies”
Posted: October 27, 2010 in Iraq, US News, War on TerrorWashington’s Blog October 27, 2010 In his recently published memoir, “Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior,” General Hugh Shelton, who served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001, called the Iraq war “unnecessary” and said that the Bush team went to war “based on a series of [...]
The Raw Story September 13, 2010 Tens of thousands of detainees are being held without trial in Iraqi prisons and face violent and psychological abuse as well as other forms of mistreatment, Amnesty International said on Monday. The London-based human rights watchdog estimates 30,000 people are held in Iraqi jails, noting several are known to [...]
Kate Brannen Army Times August 23, 2010 As the final convoy of the Army’s 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Lewis, Wash., entered Kuwait early Thursday, a different Stryker brigade remained in Iraq. Soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division are deployed in Iraq as members of [...]
John L Allen Jr The National Catholic Reporter August 23, 2010 Ambassador James Nicholson, who represented the Bush administration to the Vatican when the war in Iraq began seven years ago, has often told the story of hosting a delegation of Iraqi bishops in Rome shortly after the 2003 invasion. When Nicholson greeted the bishops [...]
Patrick Cockburn The Independent August 23, 2010 Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study. Iraqi doctors in [...]
Dan De Luce Yahoo News August 20, 2010 WASHINGTON (AFP) – US troops will still be in combat and taking on Islamist militants in Iraq even as the American military moves to an “advise and assist” role with a smaller force, officials said Thursday. The withdrawal of the last US combat brigade on Thursday was [...]
