The International Community needs to Acknowledge that Iraqi people are suffering the devastating consequences due to the 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' used on the Iraqi people.

FILE OF BIRTH DEFECTS IN FALLUJAH 2009  ::  2009-10-19

The use of certain weapons has tremendous repercussions. Iraq will become a country, if it has not already done so, where it is advisable not to have children. Other countries will watch what has happened in Iraq, and imitate the Coalition Allies’ total disregard of the United Nations Charter, The Geneva, and Hague Conventions, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Some countries, such as Afghanistan, will also come to experience the very long term damage to the environment, measured in billions of years, and the devastating effect of depleted uranium and white phosphorous munitions.  

11 Iraqi Commanders Detained After Blasts

The Washigton Post  ::  2009-08-21

Iraqi lawmaker Omar al-Jubouri said the bombings were probably intended to weaken Maliki's political standing at a time when politicians are scrambling to form coalitions ahead of the elections. "Definitely what happened today was a political message," Jubouri said. "These struggles have consequences."  

CIA terror link puts rebranded Blackwater under fire again

The Guardian  ::  2009-08-21

Despite the controversies, Blackwater continues to benefit from US government contracts under Barack Obama's presidency. Under Obama the numbers of private military contractors have increased in Afghanistan by almost 30% – the company once known as Blackwater among them.  

Billions lost' to corruption in Iraq

BBC  ::  2009-08-21

The problem is that fighting corruption in Iraq is not only difficult, it's also highly dangerous. Last week one of the members of the committee that put together this anti-corruption report was shot dead in the streets of Baghdad.   

Iraqi Journalists Protesting in Baghdad Say the Government Is Trying to Censor Them

New York Times  ::  2009-08-15

One journalist in particular, Ahmed Abdul-Hussein, was the target of much of AlSaghir’s wrath. In a recent Op-Ed article in the state-owned newspaper Al-Sabah, which is loyal to Mr. Maliki, Mr. Abdul-Hussein wrote that “we know, that they know, that we know” that the party that stole the money was going to use it to bribe people in the national elections next year.  

Murders US Occupation Soldiers’ Sentences Reduced as a Reward

The NewYork Times  ::  2009-08-15

The United States Army said Friday that it had reduced the sentences of three soldiers convicted of murder in the execution-style slayings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqi detainees.   

51 US soldiers in Iraq diagnosed with swine flu

Associated Press  ::  2009-08-10

All the 51 U.S. troops diagnosed with the flu have fully recovered, while the 71 suspect cases are in isolation, said Col. Michael D. Eisenhauer, the chief of clinical operations in Iraq.  

Contractor Is Held In 2 Killings in Iraq,The drinking session that led to Danny Fitzsimons's arrest in Baghdad

Times On Line  ::  2009-08-10

The Iraqi collapsed by the compound exit, outside a white-coloured guard house, breaking a window and leaving a 5ft-long bloodstain still visible on the floor yesterday afternoon. Shouting wildly, Mr Fitzsimons then ran onto a single-lane road bordered by 15ft-high concrete blast walls on both sides, past the former villa of one of Saddam’s wives, Sajdeh, and the residence of Rafi al-Isawi, the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister.  

Graham: Don't repeat Iraq mistakes in Afghanistan, Let's not 'Rumsfeld' the war, S.C. Republican says

Greenville on Line  ::  2009-08-10

“My message to my Democratic colleagues is that we made mistakes in Iraq. Let’s not 'Rumsfeld Afghanistan,'” Graham said on CBS “Face the Nation.” “Let’s don’t do this on the cheap  

Soldier Who Didn’t Obey Is Jailed

The NewYork Times  ::  2009-08-08

“I realized that the war in Iraq had nothing to do with making Americans safer,” he told The Associated Press in an interview this week. “After I got back, I started feeling guilty about my part in the occupation.”