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In an ambush about 12 miles west of Mahmoudiya this morning, five were left dead and three missing among a patrol of U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter. Despite the military's best efforts, the three missing soldiers' whereabouts are still unknown. This is yet another tragedy in the ongoing larger-scale tragedy that is the war in Iraq.In other news today, Vice President Dick Cheney visited the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah in an effort to gain support for the war. The king, who gave Bush... Read Full Story

Where Nobody Is Accountable Inter Press Service, Ali al-Fadhily* Dahr Jamail, MidEast Dispatches BAGHDAD, May 21 (IPS) - Killings, crime, lack of medical care, collapse of education, the list goes on. But with the occupation by U.S.-led forces now into a fifth year, and a supposedly democratic government in place, no one knows who to hold accountable for all that is going wrong. It is the occupation forces, particularly the United States and Britain, that must be held accountable, many... Read Full Story

"Baghdad is a smashed City" The western media shows a very limited scenario of the devastation caused as a result of the USUK's illegal invasion of Iraq and nothing of the war crimes they have committed there. As usual, news is kept as sanitized as possible. They cannot and will not show or tell us the truth. It's only thanks to websites like Uruknet and Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches can concerned folk in the West and elsewhere begin to grasp the true state of affairs. Here's the most... Read Full Story

Karl Rove played a leading role in the demise of the Republican party, and now as a FOXNews pundit he has been desperately trying to rewrite history and on yesterday's Fox News Sunday, he was laying down some of his patented fact-free spin on Iraq, Al Qaeda and the 2008 presidential campaigns. Wallace pointed out that the American people are solidly against this war by every poll known to man, but Rove acting as a propagandist frames it this way. Rove: "If we were to give up Iraq with... Read Full Story

Seldom has fate dealt us such a fortuitous hand. The single most important bit of news this year and it's not getting nearly as much play as it should. I can only hope that the right people notice it. Per the AP: Iraq's national security adviser said Tuesday his country will not accept any security deal with the United States unless it contains specific dates for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces. The comments by Mouwaffak al-Rubaie were the strongest yet by an Iraqi official about the deal... Read Full Story