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IRAQ'''''Everything Iraq, from About Iraq to Weapons Iraq.
US Army Uses Iraqi Children As Human Shields Again| Actually, it was more direct than that. The Car Bomb was not driven into a Humvee and no US killed
Fresh bombing kills four Iraqis : Two fresh car bombings in the Iraqi capital have killed four people, including three police commandos, hours after dozens died in a suicide attack.
Plan Called for Covert Aid in Iraq Vote: Ripples from the latest Seymour Hersh article, not even published yet... The article cites unidentified former military and intelligence officials who said the administration went ahead with covert election activities in Iraq that 'were conducted by retired C.I.A. officers and other non-government personnel, and used funds that were not necessarily appropriated by Congress.' But it does not provide details and says, 'the methods and the scope of the covert effort have been hard to discern.'
Suicide Bomb Kills 98 in Fireball in Iraq: 'The police banned trucks from entering Musayyib, yet they let in a fuel tanker. This is crime! The police are all agents (of the insurgency),' shouted one man. 'The plans of the interior and defence ministries to impose security in Iraq have failed to stop the terrorists. We need to bring back popular militias,' senior parliamentarian Khudair al-Khuzai told the chamber.
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Weather

Spain forest fire kills many: 'At least a dozen firefighters have been killed in a forest fire raging along a 17km front in central Spain', a regional official says.
Hurricane Emily slams Yucatan : early Monday with 135 mph winds, and forecasters predict it will cross into the Gulf of Mexico later in the day.
France faces drought, locusts : 'There is nothing we can do for the 700 or 800 farmers affected,' said Patrice Lemoux, an agriculture official. 'The locust has no known predator and the only insecticides which might make a difference are banned.'
Typhoon Haitang lashes Taiwan : Taiwan's central weather bureau has urged residents to take precautions against strong winds and heavy rainfall as one of the strongest typhoons to hit the island in five years began lashing its northeast coast.
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Chavez Urges Venezuelans on Socialism : Chavez often tells Venezuelans that 'being rich is bad' while calling capitalism a "savage" economic system used by the world's most powerful countries, including the United States, to "dominate and colonize" poor nations.
THE London bombers may have been duped into killing themselves so their secrets stayed hidden.
British police face doubts over eventual bombing role of Egyptian : British police investigating the London bombings confronted doubts in Egypt on Saturday about whether an Egyptian biochemist, arrested in Cairo during a visit from England, was involved in the plot.
London Bombings: Cover story mutation continues - but never mind. Booga-booga. Rest assured the governments of Britian and the United States are dogged in their attempts to protect us from al-Qaeda terr’ists, never mind those terrorists were assembled, trained, and funded by the CIA, MI5 and MI6, and Pakistan’s ISI.
White House in panic over spy scandal
Hurricane 'Emily' picks up momentum: Fishermen dragged skiffs to shore and workers raced to board up buildings Saturday as Hurricane Emily swept along the southern coast of Jamaica, packing winds of 155 mph and rain that could bring landslides and flooding.
5,000 in Haiti protest UN massacre in Cite Soleil
Russian tanks detained in Georgia: Georgia has detained two tanks from Russia's military base in Batumi for holding maneuvers on the nearby target range without prior notification, defense ministry officials said.
Business
Don't look now, but housing's on a cliff edge : The whole housing industry - builders, lenders, estate agents and sector analysts - refuses to admit that the market is heading for jagged rocks. But there is compelling evidence that it is.
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US bases face flak; Though the news was overshadowed by the sensational London bombings of July 7, the geostrategic pivot of the world shifted against the United States in Central Asia over the past week.
Ignoring embargo, Americans film in Cuba and may have violated the 45-year-old economic embargo.
The Rove scandal picks up momentum- Rove may be sacrificied to protect the real spy in the White House. But will Rove go willingly?
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Japanese food safety regulators were questioning the safety of U.S. beef  after a Ministry of Agriculture study showed nearly half of the 20 mad cow cases found in Japan would have passed unnoticed if tested under U.S. methods, officials said Friday.
The Health Benefits Of Coconuts & Coconut Oil
In essence, doctors are often bribed or lied to so that they will prescribe certain medications." Bribery is a danger in any business sector. In medicine, bribes can prove downright deadly; nevertheless, they are shockingly common.
Posted Jul 15, 2005 07:47 AM PST Aspartame Induces Lymphomas, Leukemias In Rats
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From No Man's Land to Displacement - Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches
READERS WRITE: - Who's Watching the Watch List?
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After bombing, a deepening French-British rift  Christophe Chaboud, France's new antiterrorism coordinator, broke the cardinal rule of the club. He leaked. In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde that appeared on newsstands on July...11 two days after the exceptionally open briefing - Chaboud announced that he knew 'the nature of the explosives' used in the London bombings : It 'appears to be military, which is very worrisome,' he said, adding: 'We're more used to cells making homemade explosives from chemical substances.'
US push for global democracy excludes UN Council | The United States, which preaches democracy to the Middle East and rest of the world, seems unwilling to share equitable political powe...
Plane crashes in Equatorial Ghinea : 'A Russian-made plane carrying 55 people crashed shortly after takeoff in Equatorial Guinea on Saturday and those on board were all feared dead', government officials said. 'The plane crashed near Baney, 17 kilometres (10 miles) from Malabo,' Ricardo Mangue Obama, a deputy prime minister in charge of the government task force investigating the crash, told Reuters by telephone. 'We don't know the cause of the accident. We can't confirm any death toll but clearly it was a serious accident and we have no information on any survivors so far,' he said.
Will Stolen Iraq Oil Funds and Deals For Cronies Force Cheney Impeachment? - The amount of funds that Halliburton has looted from the DoD is nearly equivalent to the $1.5 billion in funds that the Bush Administration had denied the Veterans Administration for vitally needed medical services to the sick and wounded veterans and troops.
London Oddities
Some believe London bombers were right-wing Britons : Some informed British sources believe that the recent London Transport bombings may have been the work of far right-wing British terrorists hoping to stir up tensions with the nation's large Muslim population.
WAS IT SUICIDE? : Why did they buy return train tickets to Luton? Why did they buy pay & display tickets for cars?
'We're better than the British says Chirac'
Middle East|Asia

What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Strip : 'We believe that one primary, unstated motive for the determination of the government of the State of Israel to get the Jewish settlers of the Qatif (Katif) settlement block out of the Gaza Strip may be to keep them out of harm's way when the Israeli government and military possibly trigger an intensified mass attack on the approximately one and a half million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom about half are 1948 Palestine refugees.'...Uri Davis, Ilan Pappe, and Tamar Yaron


Israel threatens Gaza offensive 'within hours' : JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel could launch a ground offensive in the occupied Gaza Strip "within hours" unless the Palestinian Authority cracks down on Islamic militants t...
Over 60 killed as fighting flares on NW Frontier: 'The militants and women fired back and lobbed grenades that resulted in shahadat (martyrdom) of one soldier,' the statement said. 'I have seen some limbs and blood scattered on the earth,' a Reuters reporter at the scene said.
Prince sees dollar peg as key to a Gulf 'euro':
Muhammad Al-Jasser, Vice-Governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the country's central bank, told The Times that the six oil-exporting nations - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates - could link the proposed single currency to the euro, or to a basket of currencies
Israel arrests 30 Palestinians: A Palestinian official on Saturday condemned Israeli airstrikes and the arrests as 'attempts to cause division among the Palestinian people', and urged them to remain united.
President Arroyo on the ropes: Large protests are mounting in the streets, and she has been abandoned by nearly her entire cabinet. Beleaguered Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo claims her critics must follow the constitution, and that the rule of the mob will not and cannot prevail in forcing her out of office. But history - and her credibility - are against her.
Irish woman & six Britons injured in blast in Turkey
Israel launches fresh air strikes as violence surges
Sharon orders 'unlimited' response to terrorism: Hamas threatens revenge for death of five members killed by Israeli air strikes
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