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May 2007

What Congress Really Approved: Benchmark No. 1: Privatizing Iraq's Oil for US Companies 5-29

Sad day for Arabic calligraphers: Master calligrapher Khalil Al-Zahawi was killed yesterday. It is said that anyone in Iraq who wanted to be considered proficient in Arabic calligraphy had to have his seal of approval. 5-29

Security Incidents for Monday, May 28, 07

Security developments in Iraq, May 28

U.S Army Destroys a Mosque: 1 Minute Video. How the U.S. Helps Build A Resistance Movement In Iraq 5-29

Recommendations for the Iraq war initially ignored by the White House to get a second look in September. 5-29

Gunmen Kidnap Three Westerners From Baghdad Ministry 5-29

Eight GI Deaths On Memorial Day Make May Deadliest Month This Year In Iraq 5-29

"Baghdad Is A Smashed City..." 5-29

US May Negotiate With Iraqi Insurgents 5-24

US confirms body of missing soldier found in Iraq 5-24

The US has failed four of it's five listed objectives in Iraq 5-24

Bush makes another speech and yet again attempts to associate Osama Bin Laden, 9/11, and al Qaida with Iraq 5-24

Car bomb kills 27 at Iraq funeral-hospital source 5-24

With eight days still to go, May 2007 caps the deadliest six-month period for America of the entire Iraq war 5-24

Don't Think of a US Soldier, Unarmed, Abandoned in Iraq's Civil War 5-24

Iraqi Police: Body Found In US Uniform 5-23

Oppose the Theft of Iraq's Oil 5-23

Oil Law Draft in English (.pdf) 5-23

Soldiers On Search For Missing Comrades Hit By Third Roadside Bomb 5-23

One in eight: Number of Iraqis who die before their fifth birthday. The “mortality rate among Iraqi children younger than 5 rose 150 percent between 1990 and 2005.” 5-23

Traumatised Iraqi children lack needed care - U.N. 5-23

Of the few children left in school in Iraq, many of them yearn for the day for vengeance with the U.S. Mission accomplished 5-23

The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year 5-23

One building that's been built on time and on budget in Iraq: America's fortress embassy 5-23

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 22 May 2007 5-23

Military Waited Year To Fulfill "Priority 1 Urgent" Request For Bomb Proof Vehicles 5-23

Security developments in Iraq, May 23

CHRONOLOGY-Deadliest days for U.S. troops in Iraq 5-23

Bush Plans 'Second Surge' For Iraq 5-22

Air Force Prepares Members for Ground Combat 5-22

Funding them there so we don't have to fund them here: Cash From Iraq Funding Al Qaida In Pakistan. Held Over

CentCom may have stopped calling the War on Terror, the "Long War," but the Pentagon is considering keeping 30,000 to 40,000 troops in Iraq "for decades." 5-22

Iraq War Creates Ammo Shortage 5-22

The Pentagon estimates that alongside the 150,000 troops in Iraq, there are 126,000 contractors. Number of contractors killed in Iraq: 917. 5-22

Attacks targeting the national grid have plunged most of Baghdad into total darkness, the Ministry of Electricity said. 5-22

US worried that Turkey might start war in Iraq. 5-22

US worried that Iran planning attack on Iraq this summer. 5-22

Parliament Hit: Several Killed, Injured in Iraq 5-22

US media group urges Iraq not to hinder reporters 5-22

Gunmen kill eight students in north Baghdad-police 5-22

Gunmen kill Iraqi family, including infant - police 5-22

Security developments in Iraq, May 22

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 21 May 2007

US Forces Surround Villages 5-22

Imperial Ambitions Thwart Iraqis' Peace Plans: Iraq's resistance groups have offered a series of peace plans that might put an end to the country's sectarian violence, but they've been ignored by the U.S.-led coalition because they're opposed to foreign occupation and privatization of oil. 5-21

Four years after the disastrous decision by the U.S.-led provisional authority to instantly privatize all Iraqi state-owned industries - a move that resulted in the failure of many factories - an American Defense Department task force is finally launching a concerted effort to re-open idle Iraqi plants. 5-21

The new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad will be the world's largest and most expensive foreign mission. 5-21

CHRONOLOGY-Journalists killed in Iraq 5-21

Iraqi Shiite Leader Diagnosed With Lung Cancer 5-21

Dick Cheney on invading Iraq, 1991: "It would without doubt cost a lot of American lives, and it raises the very real specter of getting us involved in a quagmire trying to figure out who the hell is going to govern Iraq" 5-21

Security developments in Iraq, May 21

Video: Inside Sadr-City 5-21

Senior Iraqi government official: US 'Tried to Get Sadr to Talks to Kill Him' 5-21

Tony Blair makes final visit to Iraq, greeted with mortars in green zone 5-19

McClatchy’s Iraqi Staffers: Please America, Just Go 5-19

May 20th marks the one-year anniversary of the formation of the Maliki government. Little progress has been made on key political benchmarks 5-18

Security developments in Iraq, May 18

The Assassination of Prof. Saad Jassim Muhammad 5-18

IRAQ: Educational standards plummet, say specialists 5-18

Scientists working with the Defense Department have found evidence that a low-level exposure to sarin nerve gas — the kind experienced by more than 100,000 American troops in the Persian Gulf war of 1991 — could have caused lasting brain deficits in former service members. 5-18

Two ABC News journalists killed in Iraq 5-18

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 16 May 2007

Iraqi refugee tide strains Syrian open-door policy 5-18

Iraq is on the verge of collapse - report 5-17

The world's biggest embassy, our embassy in Baghdad, may not be big enough. 5-17

Security Incidents for Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5-17

Of Actions and Consequences, Torture and Troops 5-17

"KILL EVERYBODY" - US ARMY SPECIALIST DARRELL ANDERSON EXPOSES US POLICY 5-17

Security developments in Iraq, May 17

Insurgents destroyed a US military helicopter and damaged nine others in a mortar attack on a US airfield north of Baghdad 5-17

US says captors of three soldiers in Iraq isolated 5-16

Iraq embassy employees are complaining that they sleep in trailers that one described as "tin cans" that offer virtually no protection from rocket and mortar fire. 5-16

9 mortar rounds hit Baghdad's Green Zone 5-16

Iraq a "terrorist Disneyland" if U.S. goes: expert. POAC: Unlike the current status of a "terrorist Dollywood". 5-16

Security developments in Iraq, May 16

Security Incidents for Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Shias battle for power in Iraq’s Basra 5-16

McCain blames Petraeus for his armed escort in Baghdad 5-15

New VoteVets Ad: “Mr. President, you weren’t listening. You’re still not listening.” 5-15

Retired Army colonel, and vocal critic of Iraq war, loses son to IED 5-15

U.S. forces swept up 2,000 prisoners a month in March and April, almost twice the average from the second half of last year 5-15

IRAQ: Child mortality soars because of violence, poor health care 5-15

Security developments in Iraq, May 15

Militias continue targeting Iraqi universities 5-15

Security Incidents for Monday, May 14, 2007 5-15

Surge is failing. Solution? Surge harder. 5-14

Pentagon, State Department feuding in Iraq: “Paul Brinkley, a deputy undersecretary of defense, has been called a Stalinist by U.S. diplomats in Iraq. 5-14

About 15 percent of Iraqis have left their homes. 5-14

Disappeared without a trace: more than 10,000 Iraqis 5-14

Security developments in Iraq, May 14

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 13 May 2007

The White House confirmed yesterday that the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad is likely to meet in the next several weeks with Iranian officials about stabilizing Iraq 5-14

Residents vow to destroy U.S.-constructed sectarian walls 5-14

Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin R. "Randy" Mixon would like more combat troops. 5-13

Death squads in Iraq kill 234 men; doubling the murdered found during the same period in April. 5-13

Now in the fifth year, Bill Moyers asks and tries to answer the question: How do you make tangible the true costs of the Iraq war? 5-12

"The Iraq army is fiction" "There is no effective administration here" 5-12

Former collaborator discloses details of US-ordered assassinations, sectarian bomb attacks targeting Iraqi civilians 5-12

Attack on U.S. patrol in Iraq, 5 dead, 3 missing 5-12

Security developments in Iraq, May 12

Security Incidents for May 11, 2007

US study finds billions of Iraqi oil missing -NYT 5-12

Pentagon Breaks Pledge To Troops, Sends Them Back To Iraq After Just Nine Months At Home 5-11

Rep. Doggett: “It is not the enemy that has us pinned down in Iraq today…” 5-11

Freedom's on the march! Roll Call executive editor and Fox News contributor Mort Kondracke advocates a “winning dirty” solution for Iraq involving Saddam style suppression, ethnic cleansing, atrocities against civilians and massive refugee flows. 5-11

Cheney, Saudi king to assess Iraq policy and Iran 5-11

Military.com: "Let's get something straight. The 'fighting them over there so we won't have to fight them over here' and 'they will follow us here' mantras are a hay wagon's worth of horse digestion." 5-11

Former Los Angeles Times Baghdad Bureau Chief describes Iraq citizens as ‘hostile’ and ‘humiliated’ after four years of war. 5-11

Building “Guantanamo” in south Iraq, the biggest in the Middle-East 5-11

Security developments in Iraq, May 11

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 10 May 2007

CHRONOLOGY-Journalists killed in Iraq 5-10

The Iraq Oil Crunch: Index Timeline 5-10

IRAQ: Drug abuse among children on the rise 5-10

Security developments in Iraq, May 10

Iraqi infant mortality soars by 150 percent 5-10

Sitting on Iraq's death row is a 25-year-old woman convicted in the slayings of three relatives. She says her husband carried out the killings and fled. She confessed to being an accomplice, she says, only after being tortured in police custody. 5-10

Marine says urinated on dead Iraqi at Haditha 5-10

Strong support for torture among US military in Iraq: A corollary of occupation 5-10

A US helicopter gunship attacked a public school in Diyala Province, killing seven children and wounding another three, police said. 5-9

A U.S. soldier who fatally shot an Italian intelligence agent at an Iraqi checkpoint two years ago filmed the scene moments after firing, an Italian television channel said, showing footage from his video. 5-9

Violent Clashes between citizens and Government Guard 5-9

Dutchman jailed for 17 years over Iraq poison gas 5-9

Security Incidents for May 8, 2007 5-9

Christians are fleeing in droves from the southern Baghdad district of Dora after Sunni insurgents told them they would be killed unless they converted to Islam or left 5-9

Pictures of one of the civilians tortured by governmental guards, al-Amrya 5-9

Family members are soon expected to visit five Iranians detained by U.S. forces in northern Iraq in January 5-9

Women Under Attack: The Talibanization of Iraq 5-9

Four Iraqi journalists shot dead near Iraq's Kirkuk 5-9

IRAQ: River Tigris becoming a graveyard of bodies 5-8

Fate of Kirkuk may spell more trouble for Iraq 5-8

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 7 May 2007

Security developments in Iraq, May 8

Infant mortality in Iraq soars as young pay the price for war 5-8

How the U.S. is working to secure Iraq's oil -- one of the most important sources of petrochemical energy on the planet -- and how the Iraqis are resisting. 5-8

Monday: 1 GI, 123 Iraqis Killed; 90 Iraqis Wounded 5-8

US, Iraqi forces find Sadr City torture chamber 5-7

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 5 May 2007

Iraqi's Army Wounded Left Without Help; Country Has No Military Hospitals 5-7

“All of us believe that in the next 90 days, you’ll probably see an increase in American casualties,” Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of the Army’s Task Force Marne 5-7

Study shows U.S. troops are experiencing increasing levels of anxiety and depression with extended deployments. Quick, we need some more yellow ribbons on this SUV, STAT! 5-5

Only 40 percent of Marines and 55 percent of U.S. Army soldiers deployed in Iraq say they would report a fellow serviceman for killing or injuring an innocent Iraqi 5-5

Iraq Bans Medical Diplomas To Keep Doctors From Fleeing 5-5

Bomber kills 15 at Iraqi police recruit centre 5-5

Security developments in Iraq, May 5

British army general says Iraq’s insurgents are justified in opposing the occupation, saying that the US and its allies should “admit defeat” and leave Iraq before more soldiers are killed. 5-5

Purported tape from "dead" Qaeda leader put on Web 5-5

The Iraqi resistance kills 13 Mahdi army militiamen 5-5

Iraqi Shiites Protest Al-Jazeera 5-5

Security developments in Iraq, May 4

US military says kills two more Iraq Qaeda leaders 5-4

Iraqi Gay Activist Arrested, Tortured 5-4

Arab nations join forces with the Iraqi government in asking Bush to get of Iraq 5-4

Iraqi Parliament Planning TWO MONTH Recess 5-3

Corruption, Shoddy Work and Mismanagement Cripple Iraq Reconstruction 5-3

Baghdad Christians flee as violence against them mounts 5-3

US Forces Arrest Two in Iraq for Smuggling Weapons from Iran 5-3

4 Killed in Green Zone Rocket Attack 5-3

Wednesday: 3 GIs, 102 Iraqis Killed; 83 Iraqis Wounded 5-3

U.S. diplomats are returning from Iraq with with post-traumatic stress disorder and other “debilitating, stress-related symptoms that have afflicted many U.S. troops 5-2

A TIMELINE OF THE IRAQ WAR 5-2

Security developments in Iraq, May 2

First of all, don’t believe all this crap about Al-masri, because he is alive in a jail in Egypt, Egyptian government moved him into another prison and keep in isolation. This is the third time the "Green Zone" government announces that Al-Masri was killed 5-2

What happened at Naaman Hospital yesterday? 5-2

The Democrats' plan does almost nothing to address the second largest force in Iraq -- the estimated 126,000 private military "contractors" who will stay put there as long as Congress continues funding the war. 5-2

First Victims of Freedom: An interview with Iraqi feminist Yanar Mohammed 5-2

Classified information wrongly kept by the former head of a detention centre holding members of Saddam Hussein's regime could have been devastating to the U.S. army in Iraq, an investigation heard on Tuesday. 5-2

4,000 US Troops Arrive In Iraq 5-2

President Bush breaks out his veto crayon, takes a bite, and draws a frownie face on the Emergency Iraq Spending Bill 5-1 Headline compliments of fark.com

The 500 billion spent on Iraq could have provided a college education - tuition, fees, room and board at a public university - for about half of the nation's 17 million high-school-age teenagers 5-1

Time Is Up On Rice’s ‘Two To Three Month’ Window For Escalation 5-1

Report: Al-Qaeda Leader In Iraq Killed. According to Iraqi officials, al-Masri was killed in an "internal battle" between militants. 5-1

Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Denies Report Of Iraqi Leader's Death 5-1

Price tag for war in Iraq on track to top $500 billion 5-1

May 2006

Some think Bush isn't really running things. Another rumor is that Bush's subordinates are afraid to tell him bad news. Either way, Bush learned of Marines killing two dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians after you did. 5-31

Bush may not have known about impending Snow resignation, either 5-31

Bill Frist claims that flag burning amendment isn't "pandering" to the GOP base. 5-31

The Alito/Roberts nominations are already paying off for Bush. Exposing corruption in government leaves one open to retaliation: Justices rule that the 1st Amendment doesn't shield public-sector whistle-blowers. 5-31

Dick Cheney, one year ago: " I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." Tell that to the 1500 to 3500 more troops we just moved into Iraq 5-31

Bush taps Henry Paulson for Treasury Secretary. 5-31

The former chairman of the Kansas Republican Party is switching his affiliation to Democrat 5-31

John McCain backs out of an appearance to help fellow Republican in a close runoff race because he attacked McCain's immigration bill. 5-31

Gore: "If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right." 5-31

Reclaiming 9/11: A compelling film which has been reviewed as both frightening and mesmerizing. Run Time 104 Minutes 5-31

Zionist Democrats: The DLC and Israel 5-31

The President's New Freedom Commission On Mental Health: The Plan to Drug American School Children 5-31

Vice President Dick Cheney again refused to report his office's activities in either the classification or declassification of documents during 2005, as he has refused to disclose since 2003. 5-30

Reid Accepted Free Boxing Tickets While a Related Bill Was Pending 5-30 Scandalous you say? He voted against the people who gave him the tickets.

U.S. fights legal redress for CIA kidnapping ‘mistake’ 5-30

Bush's handlers blame their front man for their mistakes, continue business as usual 5-30

Wesley Clark: War didn't and doesn't bring democracy 5-30

Treasury sec resigns 5-30

President's Con-Game Conservatism 5-30

Convicted GOP Phone Jammer Now Teaching “Campaign School”. 5-30

Fresh from meeting President Bush at the White House, the new Iraqi ambassador went on CNN today and accused US troops of intentionally killing his cousin in Iraq without cause. 5-31

Dick Cheney, one year ago: " I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." Tell that to the 1500 to 3500 more troops we just moved into Iraq 5-31

Italy, South Korea latest to pull out of Iraq. Six more countries to follow shortly 5-31

The Pentagon now says "Iraq Insurgency steady until 2007." 5-31

Iraqi PM to strike with an iron fist those who tamper with security. 5-31

Investigators say they have found drone video from the same day when Marines allegedly killed civilians after bombing 5-31

The bad apple defense is back. 5-31

While the media spotlight shines squarely on the Haditha massacre, countless atrocities continue daily, conveniently out of the awareness of the general public. 5-31

Two Marines were severely traumatized after following orders to photograph corpses of unarmed Iraqi civilians whom members of their unit are suspected of killing, their families said Monday. 5-31

54 killed in Iraq violence 5-31

Developments in Iraq on May 31

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 29 May 2006

Iran set up for big gains in Iraq 5-30

Despite US military denials, many Iraqis believe the killing of civilians at the hands of careless or angry American soldiers is common.5-30

Iman Hassan, a 10-year-old Iraqi girl, told The Times how she had watched US marines kill her mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, four-year-old cousin and two uncles. 5-30

Marines photographed Iraq 'massacre' corpses 5-30

Iraqis flee as killings increase: Sectarian violence triggers exodus 5-30

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 28 May 2006

Baghdad violence kills 58 Iraqis, press photographer 5-30

Developments in Iraq on May 29

Iraqi PM again fails to name security ministers 5-30

Factional struggles among ruling Shi'ites could flare into civil warfare over Iraq's vital southern oilfields, officials said on Monday 5-30

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US Military Bracing For Major Scandal Over Iraqi Civilian Killings. 5-29

The killings are emerging as the worst known American atrocity of the Iraq war. 5-29

Iraq Supports Iran's 'Peaceful' Nuclear Activities 5-29

Developments in Iraq on May 29

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday 26 May 2006.

Iranian-backed militia groups take control of much of southern Iraq 5-29

Iran Pledges $1b for Iraq Projects 5-29

CBS News Team Attacked In Iraq: Two Dead, Reporter In Critical Condition. 5-29

Military Expected to Report Marines Killed Iraqi Civilians 5-26

Retired General Wesley Clark Calls For Iraq Troop Withdrawal. 5-26

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 24 May 2006

Developments in Iraq on May 26

A military judge Thursday cleared a British soldier of killing a 15-year-old Iraqi who drowned after allegedly being forced into a canal. 5-26

Iraqi forces could stand alone in 2007, new PM says 5-25

Baghdad is broken: Water runs only an hour a day, power is on for 4 hours, and sewage runs in the streets 5-25

U.S. government-run news organization 'Voice of America' has not had a correspondent in Baghdad because it‘s too dangerous to report all of the good news 5-25

Criminal probe ordered into alleged killing of Iraqi civilian by US marines 5-25

Developments in Iraq on May 25

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 23 May 2006.

A Defense Department investigation of Pentagon-financed propaganda efforts in Iraq warns that paying Iraqi journalists to produce positive stories could damage American credibility and calls for an end to military payments to a group of Iraqi journalists in Baghdad, 5-25

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 23 May 2006.

Developments in Iraq on May 24

ACTS of violence have killed nearly 2500 people and forced more than 85,000 to flee their homes in Iraq, the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq said today in a March-April report on the human rights situation. 5-24

Iraq doctor brings evidence of US napalm at Fallujah 5-24

Mutilated and killed, Iraqi boy is sectarian victim: The youngster, with a bullet hole in his head and another through the chest, was blindfold and his hands bound. He had been whipped with cables, tormented by electric drills and his body dragged through the streets behind a car. 5-24

Ramadi: Whole neighborhoods are lawless, too dangerous for police. Some roads are so bomb-laden that U.S. troops won't use them. Guerrillas attack U.S. troops nearly every time they venture out - and hit their bases with gunfire, rockets or mortars when they don't. 5-24

Nuri al-Maliki, the new Iraqi prime minister, said British troops would hand over responsibility in two provinces to Iraqi security forces by next month and that he expected US, British and other foreign troops out of 16 of the country's 18 provinces by the end of the year 5-24

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 21 May 2006

Developments in Iraq on May 23

Just like the justification for the war has repeatedly been redefined, so does the planned outcome. "Victory" is now "containment". 5-23

Hand-Picked Bush Appointee, Bernard Kerik, To Lead Iraqi Police Training Prepared For Job By Watching A&E Shows On Saddam 5-22

Developments in Iraq on May 22

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 19 May 2006.

34 die in day's Iraqi attacks; 22 other bodies discovered 5-22

It's no time to quit Iraq — we're winning!!! 5-22

Iraq's new prime minister promised Sunday to use "maximum force" if necessary to end the brutal insurgent and sectarian violence wracking the country. No word on if he plans to purchase chemical weapons from Donald Rumsfeld in order to do so. 5-22

Bush Says Iraq Will Be Terror's `Devastating Defeat' 5-22

Across central Iraq, there is an exodus of people fleeing for their lives as sectarian assassins and death squads hunt them down. At ground level, Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold on a massive scale. 5-22

"Baghdad ER" brings Iraqi horrors to US audience 5-22

Chief of the Osama bin Laden unit at the CIA: "I think Iraq is finished. We’ll just find a way to get out. I frankly don’t think we ever intended to win there." 5-18

Stores selling alcohol blown up in Baghdad 5-18

Congressman Murtha claims US Marines "killed innocent civilians in cold blood" in Haditha, Iraq last November. No firefight. No bomb. Just executing men, women, and children 5-18

Iraq's PM to present new Cabinet to Parliament on Saturday 5-18

Rumsfeld: Troop Reduction in Iraq Unlikely in 2006 5-18

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 17 May 2006

Developments in Iraq on May 18

Basra carnage escalates as one person killed every hour 5-18

An average of 70 civilians are killed in Baghdad every day 5-18

Iraqi police found eleven bodies of Iraqi citizens who were shot dead after having sustained injuries due to torture in different areas of Karbala in south of Baghdad. 5-16

After seven British deaths in a week, Basra's police chief is linked to 'terrorists" 5-16

Developments in Iraq on May 16

Iraq Sunnis Accuse US of Killing 25 Civilians 5-16

Shi'ite alliance bloc member threatened to form a new government unilaterally if rival groups did not scale back their demands. Sunnis said they may withdraw from the process entirely. 5-16

As evidence mounts that Shiite police commandos are carrying out secret killings, Sunni Arab neighborhoods across Baghdad have begun forming citizen groups to keep the paramilitary forces out of their areas entirely. 5-11

SOME 200,000 guns the US sent to Iraqi security forces may have been smuggled to terrorists, it was feared yesterday. 5-11

Iraqi judge was shot dead on Tuesday by unidentified gunmen on a main road in western Baghdad 5-10

The bodies of 11 Iraqis, including the headless corpse of a 10-year-old boy, were found dumped in the Tigris river south of Baghdad on Tuesday, police sources said. 5-10

Developments in Iraq on May 10

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 9 May 2006

Iraq War Far Less Popular Than Vietnam At Same Stage. 5-10

IRAQ: UN report cites vast under-nutrition among children 5-10

Afghanistan, Iraq Near Top Of Infant Mortality Table 5-10

A militia group with immense power in Iraq has issued names of 461 intellectuals which it says it has ordered its armed men to assassinate. 5-9

Developments in Iraq on May 9

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday 7 May 2006.

Iran's Leader Writes to President Bush 5-8

The Last Gasp of the Dollar? Iran bourse opens next week 5-8

Iran will change policies if IAEA asks: President : Iran would change its policies if asked to do so by the UN nuclear monitor the IAEA, hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in Baku, according to the translation of his comments, AFP reported. 5-8

Women in Iraq are living a nightmare that is hidden from the west. Now one has turned film-maker to give us a window on to what they endure. 5-9

Series of Attacks Kills More Than 90 in Iraq 5-8

More Iraqi Civilians Killed In Three Months Of '06 Than Any Point Since Invasion. 5-8

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday 7 May 2006.

Developments in Iraq on May 8

Bush snubs Norway's premier because of lack of enthusiasm for the war in Iraq 5-3

U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 100 "insurgents" last week in the town of Ramadi in the rebel heartland of Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. 5-3

Developments in Iraq on May 3

Strikes on Iran too risky, says US general: His comments are a rare public statement from the US military on what is the most contentious international issue of the day. 5-3

China threatens to veto sanctions against Iran 5-1

Iran 'attacks Iraq Kurdish area' : raq has accused Iranian forces of entering Iraqi territory and shelling Kurdish rebel positions in the north. Iranian troops bombed border areas near the town of Hajj Umran before crossing into Iraq, the defence ministry in Baghdad said on Sunday. 5-1

‘Don’t attack us or else,’ Kurdish guerrillas warn Iran: Lodged in northern Iraq in an area flanked by NATO member Turkey and Washington’s foe Iran, elements of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have accused Teheran of attacking their encampments. 5-1

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 2 May 2006

In the chaos of Iraq, one project is on target: a giant US embassy 5-3

Strategic Redeployment 2.0 5-3

Suicide bomber attacks Iraqi governor, 3 dead: A local government official said there was no word on the fate of governor Maamoun Sami Rasheed after the attack in the centre of the city 5-3

Billions wasted in Iraq, says US audit 5-3

Bush invaded Iraq in order to fight terrorists like Zarqawi. Bush allowed Zarqawi to escape in order to invade Iraq. Bush invaded Iraq in order to fight terrorists like Zarqawi. Why Did The President Repeatedly Refuse To Kill Zarqawi? 5-1

Colin Powell: I Told Bush, Rumsfeld They Needed More Troops In Iraq 5-1

Joe Biden recommends splitting Iraq into three separate regions and bringing troops home by 2008 5-1

Iraq Concerned Over Turkish Invasion: So far, the Turkish military was said to have penetrated 10 kilometers into Iraq in the operation against the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK 5-1

Turkish Armed Forces Strike PKK Camps in N. Iraq 5-1

'I Demand a Timetable': Moqtada al-Sadr on war, peace and occupation. 5-1

Iran 'attacks Iraq Kurdish area' : I raq has accused Iranian forces of entering Iraqi territory and shelling Kurdish rebel positions in the north. Iranian troops bombed border areas near the town of Hajj Umran before crossing into Iraq, the defence ministry in Baghdad said on Sunday. 5-1

'unknown Americans' are provoking civil war in Iraq: The Americans, my interlocutor suspected, are trying to provoke an Iraqi civil war so that Sunni Muslim insurgents spend their energies killing their Shia co-religionists rather than soldiers of the Western occupation forces. 5-1

Fallout From U.S. Strikes: In a report to be posted on the IAEA's Web site this week, the agency states that about 1,000 Iraqi men, women and children in a village near the former Tuwaitha nuclear research facility are living inside an area contaminated by radioactive residue and ruin. "I can only guess that a lot of the damage at Tuwaitha was from bombing," 5-1

2005

UK DOUBLED AIR BOMBINGS IN 2002 IN SECRET EFFORT TO GOAD SADDAM INTO WAR 5-29

Bush Opts for Civil War in Iraq: Considering reports that 80% of Sunnis support the insurgency passively if not actively, it looks as if extermination of Sunnis will be required if the US is to achieve "victory" in Iraq. 5-31

Iraq hit with new violence: The largest Iraqi-led counterinsurgency operation since the downfall of Saddam Hussein set off a violent backlash on Sunday across Baghdad. At least 20 people were killed in the capital, 14 of them in a battle lasting several hours when insurgents launched sustained attacks on several police stations and an army barracks. 5-31

"Hostile fire has killed more U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq in May than during each of the three previous months" 5-27

Police chief of northern Iraqi town killed : The police chief of the northern Iraqi town of Sharqat was killed by gunmen who ambushed his car on Wednesday, police and hospital officials said. 5-26

An Iraqi's Last Words: "USA Good": An unarmed Iraqi cooperated with American troops searching his house and said "USA good" minutes before he was shot to death, a former U.S. soldier testified Wednesday at his one-time squad leader's murder trial. 5-26

Iraq to launch huge Baghdad raids using 40,000 soldiers 5-26

Vicious Circle: The Dynamics of Occupation and Resistance in Iraq 5-26

Iraq has asked the U.N. Security Council to renew the mandate for the U.S.-led multinational force, saying it cannot yet defend itself against an armed insurgency. 5-26

US: al-Zarqawi "aides" arrested 5-26

Iraqi Christians Don't Want American Evangelicals: "Iraq’s Christians have been in existence for almost 10 times longer than the United States. The country is well aware of Christianity...." 5-26

Many Iraqi's are struggling just to survive under the American 'liberation' 5-26

Even Bob Novak says we should get out of Iraq 5-26

May on target to become one of deadliest months for U.S. troops 5-25

Eighteen U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq during the past week - 14 in the past three days alone. 5-25

Death rate for reservists in Iraq rises: At least 21 part-time soldiers and Marines have died in May 5-25

U.S. forces encircle Iraqi city in new offensive 5-25

In Iraq, efforts to catch militants fuel rage, fear U.S.-Iraqi operation nets 285 suspects with random raids 5-25

Proposal to divide Iraq into semi-autonomous states gains ground 5-25

Unseen pictures, untold stories: how the U.S. press has sanitized the war in Iraq 5-25

Iraq's biggest growth industry isn't oil, it's internal organs. 5-25

IRAQ: Tracking the Number of Contractors Dying in Iraq Proves Difficult 5-25

A series of car bombings and other attacks in Iraq on Monday killed at least 34 people killed and wounded dozens, Iraqi officials said. 5-24

Gunmen kill Iraq PM adviser 5-24

Iraq counter-insurgency chief gunned down 5-24

U.S., Iraqi Troops Detain About 300 People 5-24

Down and out with Iraqi forces: "Restoring Iraq to military self-sufficiency will require at least a decade," he says. "For that reason alone, Iraq will remain an American protectorate well into the next decade." 5-24

U.S. Presides Over Explosion of Drug Trafficking In Iraq 5-24

U.S. Soldier Accused of Murdering Iraqi Police Officer: Corporal Dustin Berg, fired three times at his Iraqi partner, Hussein Kamel Hadi Dawood al-Zubeidi, and killed him. As Berg ran away, he picked up Zubeidi's AK-47 and shot himself in the side. 5-24

Energy industry closing our military bases at home, building them overseas to protect stolen assets abroad: US military to build four giant new bases in Iraq 5-23

It’s coming apart at the seams now in Iraq. Now we have Shia fighting Shia. 5-23

Top Iraq trade official shot dead: A senior Iraqi trade ministry official has been shot dead in Baghdad, the latest in a series of assassinations of government figures, police have said. 5-23

The group in Iraq led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, linked to al-Qaida, claims to have executed an American hostage. 5-23

Guerrillas bent on toppling Iraq's new U.S.-backed government killed at least 19 people and wounded at least 110 on Monday in attacks that included bombings of a Baghdad restaurant and a regional mayor's office. 5-23

U.S. Soldier Instructed Iraqi Detainee to Dig Own Grave, According to New Army Documents : New documents released by the Department of Defense reveal more cases of abuse including mock executions and use of a religious symbol to taunt detainees 5-23

US and Iraqi forces had launched a massive operation involving more than 2000 troops to crack down on insurgents in the western outskirts of Baghdad 5-23

"Catastrophe" in Iraq: There has been a low-grade civil war going on for quite some time-but now the veil has been ripped off by the statements made by Dhari. All Sunni mosques in Iraq will be closed for three days...an ominous symbol of things to come. 5-20

The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News' 60 Minutes. 5-20

A series of tit-for-tat killings has raised sectarian tension to boiling point in Iraq, where Sunni religious leaders have openly accused Shi'ite militiamen of kidnapping and murdering Sunni Arabs, including clerics. 5-20

Three More Journalists Die in Iraq's Media Nightmare 5-23

At home, we fondly refer to her as The Vampire. She's such a contrast to Bush- he simply looks stupid. She, on the other hand, looks utterly evil. 5-21

Iraqi oil official gunned down in Baghdad 5-20

The Iraqi War, by 2006, will cost as much as the Korean War did 5-20

The lies that led to war: A leaked British memo, and other documents, make it clear that Bush intended all along to invade Iraq -- and lied about it to the American people. The full gravity of his offense has not yet sunk in. 5-20

“Many people were working with the Americans, so I felt it would be ok.” 5-20

As with the siege of Fallujah six months back, U.S. claims over the siege of the Iraqi town Al Qa'im are being challenged now by independent sources. 5-20

"Democracy" in Iraq 5-20

US occupation spreads Iraq turmoil 5-20

U.S. generals take gloomier Iraq view 5-20

An Iraq Correspondent Comes Home 5-20

BBC RELEASES MORE EVIDENCE ILLEGAL WAR IRAQ! 5-19

At home in the rubble: siege city reborn as giant gated community: Fallujah was devastated by a US offensive six months ago 5-19

U.S. Offensive Causes Humanitarian Crisis, Nets Few Rebels: While information about last week’s counter-insurgency campaign in Western Iraq proves elusive, hospitals cite civilian deaths; thousands remain homeless as locals and some US troops challenge claims of success. 5-19

JOURNALISTS KILLED IN IRAQ AMBUSH Three Iraqis working for Kuwaiti television have been killed south of Baghdad, the Iraqi military has said. 5-18

An Open Letter to President Bush: 'Prove to Iraqis You are Not an Imperialist Force' 5-18

Iraq to confiscate property of insurgency supporters: New measures to fight insurgency include freezing assets, banning from speaking on the air. 5-18

Over half of oil in UN Oil-For-Food scandal was purchased by company in....Texas 5-17

Muqtada Al-Sadr orders the US to leave Iraq 5-17

Democrat lawmakers demand greater accountability from contractors in Iraq 5-17

Iraqi detainee dies of apparent "heart attack" 5-17

Our Homes Destroyed By U.S. Firepower, Iraqis Have Little Enthusiasm for the 'New Iraq' 5-17

The first step toward a fully sovereign and democratic Iraq is to reverse the current U.S. policy aimed at establishing military bases in Iraq. 5-17

Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books and TomDispatch The 'smoking gun' memo makes it crystal clear that George Bush was hell-bent on attacking Iraq at least eight months before the invasion. 5-17

Insurgents greet Rice with car bombings, murders and chaos 5-16

On the British Smoking-Gun Memo 5-16

Iraq Uncensored: For months on end, these seven independent photographers and filmmakers have worked exclusively in Iraq documenting US troops and Iraqi civilians, resistance fighters and child laborers, imprisoned women and incarcerated youths. 5-16

To cover his lies and mistakes in Iraq, Bush is now hawking “freedom and democracy,” which will fail in North Korea like it is failing in Iraq. 5-16

Iraqi leader extends state of emergency 5-14

Gunmen assassinated a top Iraqi Foreign Ministry official 5-14

IRAQ: AL-ZARQAWI SERIOUSLY INJURED, SAYS IRAQI OFFICIAL 5-13

Explosion effectively finishes off squad: In 96 hours of fighting and ambushes in far western Iraq, the squad had just ceased to be. 5-13

People flee al-Qaim as fighting continues: More people are desperately trying to leave the town and according to our information US troops have closed all exit points 5-13

Iraqi Families Take Refuge in the Desert: "The Americans do not hit the gunmen, they hit the houses of civilians." 5-13

Heroin grown in Afghanistan then smuggled out through Iraq flooding world drug markets. 5-13

"Zarqawi" group claims murder of police colonel in Baghdad: : The group of Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for an attack Thursday in which a police colonel was gunned down in Baghdad, in a statement posted on the Internet. 5-13

Dr Les Roberts study found that "at least" 100,000 civilians had died violently, the great majority of them at the hands of the "coalition": women, children, the elderly. He also described how American military doctors had found that 14 per cent of soldiers and 28 per cent of marines had killed a civilian: a huge, unreported massacre. 5-13

More than 70 people were killed in at least five attacks across Iraq yesterday: The wave of attacks, which brings the total number of Iraqis dead over the past two weeks to nearly 400 5-12

Iraq Has Become What Afghanistan Was: A Nursery of Terror 5-12

Case of U.S. Contractor's Murder Smells of High-Level Cover-Up “His colleagues said they were unsure whether the two Americans died as victims of random violence or because Stoffel's complaints about withheld payments would have laid bare corruption in high places in Baghdad.” 5-12

We shouldn't blame the White House for producing lies; that's what politicians do. But we expect better from the media who disseminate them. 5-12

better late than never: CNN finally covers it: Bush caught red handed fixing the facts to take us to war. 5-12

Soaring Birth Deformities and Child Cancer Rates in Iraq 5-12

Iraq "Moving Towards Open Civil War" 5-12

Are we, or are we not, building permanent military bases in Iraq? 5-12

Despite conspiracies and cover-ups, numbers sometimes leak from the Pentagon about Iraq. 5-12

Ex-Afghan envoy Khalilzad new US ambassador to Baghdad 5-12

Zalmay Khalilzad and the Bush Agenda 5-12

Zalmay Khalilzad, Signed Infamous PNAC Letter That Called For Iraq Invasion 5-12

The war on Iraq destroyed 84% of education establishments: A study carried out by the UN and issued on Friday revealed that 84% of the higher education establishment in Iraq were "destroyed, damaged and robbed " since the beginning of the American invasion in 2003. 5-12

Iraqi guerillas kidnap provincial governor 5-11

Congress seek answers on secret Iraq plan. Senate uninterested due to of lack of cigar and stained dress 5-11

Halliburton gets a $72,000,000 bonus for work in Iraq 5-11

Iraqi police hurled insults at US soldiers after two suicide car bomb blasts in Baghdad killed at least seven people and left 19 wounded, including policemen. 5-11

On Monday night, rebels launched a counterattack 5 miles from U.S. Camp Gannon in Qaim, said U.S. Marine Capt. Jeffrey Pool. They attacked a Marine convoy with small arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades, roadside bombs and two car bombers. 5-11

Italian Foreign Minister: Italy will Withdraw its Contingent from Iraq in January or February 2006 5-11

7 U.S. troops killed in Sunni region: More than 300 fatalities since Cabinet took office 5-10

US troops kill 75 "insurgents" in Iraq offensive: On Sunday, three soldiers were killed in two roadside bomb attacks and one was killed by small-arms fire. Three Marines were killed by a suicide car bomb and a sailor died in small arms fire, the military said. 5-10

U.S. troops launch attacks against villages along Euphrates: More than 1,000 U.S. troops supported by fighter jets and helicopter gunships attacked villages Sunday along the Euphrates River 5-10

Fallujah, our Guernica 5-10

CIA refuses to hand over intelligence service to the new Iraqi government 5-10

Former ministers flee as Iraq begins corruption inquiry: Former Iraqi ministers are fleeing the country because of reports that the new administration may prevent them going abroad while accusations of corruption are being investigated. 5-10

U.S. deaths in Iraq surpass 1,600 5-9

Iraq promises to increase oil output 5-9

Brief bios of top 5 Iraqi ministers in new cabinet 5-9

Iraqis Should Have Right to Bare Arms, Iraqi Governor Says 5-9

“We thought living in a tent was a temporary solution, but five months after our return to the city, we see no light at the end of the tunnel. They want us to build what they destroyed with our own resources, which we do not have.” 5-9

Since the "liberal" mainstream seems to be ignoring this, I'm going to keep running it for a while: British memo indicates Bush made intelligence fit plan to attack Iraq 5-9

Democracy, What Democracy? Troops Out Now. 5-9

Psyops: The US military is planning to win the hearts of young people in the Middle East by publishing a new comic. 5-9

"Pork-Laden" Iraq Bill : They are now, in the well-chosen words of one member of the U.S. House, "using America's fighting men and women as human shields to pass pork-laden legislation." 5-9

14 Sunni Arabs shot dead: FOURTEEN Iraqis shot dead and left at a Baghdad garbage dump were Sunni Arabs, relatives say, raising the spectre of deeper sectarian strife in Iraq following mass killings of Shi'ites. 5-9

Iraq's new oil minister to run critical sector with big potential and bigger problems 5-9

America's 'dwindling coalition' 5-8

Iraq's Violence Sweeps Away All the Norms 5-7

Unraveling Iraq’s Secret Militias Ruthless U.S. tactics are propelling the country toward civil war 5-7

Lifting the Censor's Veil on the Shame of Iraq: "Nobody wants to come forward about this," said Aidan Delgado. "I didn't want to come forward about this." 5-6

Bulgaria to withdraw Iraq troops: BULGARIA'S outgoing parliament tonight voted for a withdrawal of all the country's troops from Iraq by the end of the year. 5-6

'Pleasure marriages' regain popularity in Iraq 5-6

Bomber kills 15 Iraq army recruits; 9 police slain in separate attacks 5-6

A Marine corporal who was videotaped shooting an apparently injured and unarmed Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque last year will not face court-martial, the Marine Corps announced Wednesday. 5-6

Flash presentation. Marking the second year of the U.S. occupation of Iraq 5-6

Here It Is: The Secret Downing Street Memo that Shows the American Public and British Citizens Were Had on the Iraq War. Notice the Date: July 23, 2002 5-6

$100 Million in sieved Iraqi money and $18 Billion in US tax payer money "lost" in Iraq 5-5

In other news, the guy we put in charge of Iraq’s oil has previous convictions for embezzlement and Bank Fraud 5-5

Japan to pull troops from Iraq in December 5-5

Poll shows American approval rating for the Iraq War has plummeted to it's lowest level yet with the majority of Americans agreeing it was just not worth it 5-5

U.S. military released on Tuesday a letter it believes was addressed to terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 5-4

"The criminal treatment of the Iraqi people ... is a reason to help the Iraqis but it's not a reason to put American kid's lives at risk." May 5, 2003. Not who you'd think. 5-4

U.S. seen as unaccountable in Iraqi civilian deaths 5-4

For jehadis, Iraq the new Afghanistan: US 5-4

Mark Manning spent one week inside Fallujah with a video camera interviewing survivors of the November siege. Hours of video tape documenting the atrocities that occured in Fallujah were stolen the day Mark returned to the US in a well-timed double break-in that was followed by weeks of intimidation and threats. 5-4

Riverbend: These last few days have been explosive- quite literally. It started about 4 days ago and it hasn't let up since. They say there were around 14 car bombs in Baghdad alone a couple of days ago- although we only heard 6 from our area 5-3

FIVE JOURNALISTS ARRESTED IN PAST TWO WEEKS: The press freedom group Reporters without Borders has voiced alarm over the arrests of five journalists in Iraq over the past two weeks. 5-3

Another day of insurgent violence left at least 11 people dead and 23 wounded in three car bomb attacks in Baghdad 5-3

Maureen Dowd: The new Iraq comes ethics-free 5-3

The contrast between the occupier and the occupied couldn't be more vivid - one resides in palaces, the other often reside in bombed out homes or as refugees within their own country. 5-3

Four Held in Margaret Hassan Murder Probe 5-3

The thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War raises new questions about parallels between that war and the one in Iraq. 5-3

IRAQ: WAR, AID AND PUBLIC RELATIONS: American news outlets provided extensive -- and mostly laudatory -- coverage of humanitarian aid worker Marla Ruzicka after she died in Baghdad on April 16. But -- in the context of a continuing war -- what was her message? 5-3

Dahr Jamail's talk at New College was days after his recent return from Iraq and was the beginning of a lecture tour throughout the United States. If you did not have a chance to see one of Dahr's dozens of US lectures, here is one lecture - in its entirety - produced by the students of New College. 5-3 (realplayer)

Want to leave Baghdad? Need a ride to the airport? That will be $35,000 5-3

Suicide bomber kills 25 in Iraq. 116 dead in 4 days. Foreigner kidnapped 5-2

"Guys in my unit, particularly the younger guys, would drive by in their Humvee and shatter bottles over the heads of Iraqi civilians passing by. They'd keep a bunch of empty Coke bottles in the Humvee to break over people's heads." 5-2

The Australian government says it will not negotiate with a group that has taken an Australian citizen hostage in Iraq. 5-2

Ahmed Chalabi, fraud extrordinaire, now controls the oil in Iraq 5-2

It's been two years to the day of President Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" photo op. 5-2

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