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BAGHDAD, Iraq Nov 24, 2005 — A suicide car bomber targeting U.S. troops handing out toys to children at a hospital in central Iraq killed 30 people Thursday, including four police guards, three women and two children, officials said.

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AFP

$194 billion in Iraqi oil revenues are going to multinational oil companies under long-term contracts, and not to the Iraqi people. Oil multinationals would get rates of return of between 42 per cent and 162 per cent under proposed production-sharin

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by Dahr Jamail (AntiWar.com)

A year after the U.S.-led "Operation Phantom Fury" damaged or destroyed 36,000 homes, 60 schools, and 65 mosques in Fallujah, Iraq, residents inside the city continue to suffer from lack of compensation, slow reconstruction, and high rates

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Associated Press

The fallen soldier's mother whose August vigil near President Bush's ranch reinvigorated the anti-war movement returned to Texas to resume her protest as the president celebrated Thanksgiving a few miles away.

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The Hill

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who has emerged as a leading opponent of the Bush administration’s policy on interrogating detainees in the war on terrorism, wants Senate investigators to interview senior administration officials about their statements rega

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by Jim Lobe (AntiWar.com)

The White House emphatically denied that President Bush considered bombing the headquarters of the al-Jazeera satellite television station in Qatar during the U.S. Marine assault on Fallujah in April 2004.

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A key Democrat on military issues with close ties to the Pentagon, Murtha set off a firestorm last week when he proposed all of the around 160,000 US troops now in Iraq be pulled out over the next six months.

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Christian Science Monitor

As US Marines battle insurgents in a string of towns in Iraq's western Anbar Province, they are applying lessons learned from their experience in Fallujah: Flush out insurgents, then stay there.

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National Journal

10 days after the September 11, terrorist attacks, President Bush was briefed that there was no evidence linking the Iraqi regime to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda

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Reuters

Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms shot dead a 70-year-old Sunni Arab tribal leader and three of his sons as they slept in their home. A Defense Ministry official denied Iraqi troops were involved and the killers must have been terrorists in disguise.

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Washington Post

Barring any major surprises in Iraq, the Pentagon tentatively plans to reduce the number of U.S. forces there early next year by as many as three combat brigades, from 18 now, but to keep at least one brigade "on call" in Kuwait in case mor

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by Rep. John Murtha (D-Penn.)

Staying the course in Iraq is not an option or a policy. We must begin an immediate re-deployment of U.S. forces from Iraq. It can be accomplished in 6 months consistent with the safety of U.S. troops.

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Reuters

The US inadvertently helped Egypt's Islamists make strong electoral gains this month and is now rethinking the wisdom of pressing rapid democratic change in a major Arab country. The secular opposition parties which Washington favored have perfor

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by Jack Kenny (LewRockwell.com)

I don't know if you are just trying to pull my chain or if you actually agree with the sentiment expressed in "Things to make you think a little" by someone who obviously has not yet begun.

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Agence France Presse

Japan is to once again call its armed forces its "military", 6 decades after the US stripped it of the right to keep an army, in the first revision of its post-World War II constitution.

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Agence France Presse

President Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab television broadcaster al-Jazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror said, citing a Downing Street memo marked "Top Secret". Blair talked Bush out of launching a military strike on the station.

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by Mike Ferner (LewRockwell.com)

Kathy Kelly talked through a bad phone connection and a worse head cold to recount the previous day’s activities where she and 13 others were arrested at an airstrip outside Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Counter Punch

Another slam dunk forgery is being used to convict Syria. The UN's inquiry into the murder of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafiq Hairri depends on a witness who is accused of being a swindler and embezzler. Saddik was referred by Syrian

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The Independent

Iraqis face the dire prospect of losing up to $200 billion of the wealth of their country if an American-inspired plan to hand over development of its oil reserves to US and British multinationals comes into force next year.

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by Paul Sperry (AntiWar.com)

In the now-confirmed absence of any of the key reasons the administration took America to war in Iraq, officials are scrambling to come up with new ones after the fact, and some of them are quite amusing.

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