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WAR: About that War

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Reuters

The Pentagon's inspector general has agreed to review the prewar intelligence activities of former U.S. defense undersecretary Douglas Feith, a main architect of the Iraq war. Democrats have accused Feith of manipulating information to suggest l

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Associated Press

Iraq War protester Cindy Sheehan and 26 other peace activists were found guilty of protesting without a permit near the White House. Each ordered to pay $75 in fines and court costs, but they plan to appeal the verdict.

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by Tom Engelhardt and Michael T. Klare (LRC)

We know one thing about the Bush administration, despite the President's Veterans Day speech on the "irresponsibility" of "rewriting history," he and his top officials had no hesitation about rejiggering the facts wherever nec

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The Raw Story

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee on Defense is widely expected this morning to tell his colleagues in a special Caucus meeting that he has a new perspective on the Iraqi conflict and that the United States must no

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Associated Press

The United States has detained more than 83,000 foreigners in the four years of the war on terror. The administration defends the practice of holding detainees in prisons from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay as a critical tool to stop the insurgency i

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Associated Press

Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network has increased its activities in Afghanistan, smuggling in explosives, high-tech weapons and millions of dollars in cash for a resurgent terror campaign.

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Larisa Alexandrovna and Jason Leopold

National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley was the senior administration official who told Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward that Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA officer, attorneys close to the investigation and intelligence officia

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By Tim Rutten (Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette)

Of all the ways in which the American news media have failed since Sept. 11, 2001, none may be more consequential than the mild and deferential eye cast on the Bush administration’s adoption of torture as state policy.

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Agence France Presse

The UN war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia has acquitted the ex-chief of staff of the Muslim-dominated Bosnian army over his alleged role in the 1993 killings of Bosnian Croat civilians.

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by Dahr Jamail (The Independent)

Abu Sabah knew he had witnessed something unusual. Sitting last year in a refugee camp in the grounds of Baghdad Univ., set up for the families who fled or were driven from Fallujah, this resident of the city told me how he had witnessed some of the

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Indian Express Newspapers

Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has shown no remorse during questioning and was beaten up, when he hurled an obscenity at two of Shiite Islam's holiest figures, a source close to the investigation said.

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Reuters

An increasingly uneasy Republican majority backed a U.S. Senate resolution on Tuesday that could pave the way for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq but rejected Democrats' demands for an estimated timetable.

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The Guardian

Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian TV last week. It's a turkey, whose evidence is flimsy and circumstantial. But the bloggers debating it found th

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