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IRAQ '' 'Everything Iraq, from About Iraq to Weapons Iraq.
Iraq violence claims many: Seven Iraqis have been killed and several others wounded in attacks on Friday.
'Quick Strike' causes civilian casualties in western Iraq :
'What is happening in Haqlaniyam, Browana and Haditha is a disaster. Bodies are in the streets or buried under the rubble for days, but US forces do not allow people to move and claim the bodies. This totally ran counter to basic human rights,' 33 year- old Flah Ahmed told Xinhua.
Women of the new Iraq : Women's rights in Iraq have not been destroyed by Islam but by the destruction of state and society brought on by foreign military aggression
The New Ernie Pyles: Sgtlizzie and 67cshdocs- On Internet Blogs, Soldiers in Iraq Offer Up Inside Story on the War...Service members in Iraq are delivering real-time dispatches - in their own words - often to an audience of thousands through postings to their blogs.
No clear finish line. The Bush administration has sent seemingly conflicting signals in recent days over the duration of the U.S. deployment to Iraq, openly discussing contingency plans to withdraw as many as 30,000 of 138,000 troops by spring, then cautioning against expectations of any early pullout. Finally yesterday,...
(By Peter Baker, The Washington Post)
Mothers confront Bush on war , by Tim Wheeler, 08/11/05
As grief-stricken families gathered in Ohio to mourn their Iraq war dead, mothers who lost sons in the war stood vigil on the road to George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, to demand that he bring the troops home now.
U.S. News
Exclusively to The Outer Limits, we have obtained new pictures from Crawford Ranch, as Goerge "Dubya" Bush shows the world that he is a real American cowboy.This should send spasm`s of fear into terraists around the world and proves conclusively once and for all, that Dubya`s claims to being a real Texan cowboy running a real ranch are not the delusional claims of someone living in Never Never Land.
Bush ducks mother of dead soldier: President using helicopter to enter, leave Texas ranch to avoid confrontation.
Looking Back at L.B.J. by William Fisher

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U.S. bombs Aussie training campA Defence spokesman was unable to say whether any personnel were in the control building at the time.
'Initial reporting indicates that there has been some damage to range facilities. However, due to the remote locality of the range and on-going inspection, full details are not available,' Defence said.
US contingency plan for a Venezuela oil cut off- I love the way they talk about Venezuela's 'political instability'. The reality is that when you try to overthrow the leader of a nation, he is likely to hold a grudge, and that grudge will be an impediment to getting a discount on what that nation sells.
Businesss
Trade Deficit Up As Oil Imports Hit High. The Commerce Department reported that the imbalance between what America sells abroad and what it imports rose to $58.8 billion in June, an increase of 6.1 percent from the May deficit of $55.4 billion.
That is close to two billion (with a "b") every single day.
Venezuela, Uruguay sign 25-year oil deal. Venezuela will guarantee Uruguay’s oil supply for the next 25 years as part of an energy deal that also includes providing fuel to other countries in the region.
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Gulf of Mexico mystery: Huge Dieoff - Nothing Alive To 20 Miles Off FL West Coast
Oil-for-food inquiry claims Sevan took $150,000 in payments

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Ed Koch pimps the 'War of Civilizations' angle. : 'They are coming to get us, unless you get them first. Really. Honest!'
Tech News
The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee : Sir Tim, named last year as the greatest living Briton, is rightly heralded as the godfather of the web. It was he who, as a physicist working in Switzerland, turned the internet from a disparate collection of academic and military computer systems into an international network.
Must Read: How a Corrupted USB Drive Was Saved by GNU/Linux
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Science & Health

New Drug Looks Promising for Lung Disease. An anti-inflammatory drug called roflumilast could become a new therapeutic strategy for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), conclude the results of a randomised trial. (Embargo expired on 11-Aug-2005 at 18:30 ET) [Lancet]
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Warming hits 'tipping point': Siberia - Frozen Area Size Of Germany And France Melting
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World
Bush ducks mother of dead soldier: President using helicopter to enter, leave Texas ranch to avoid confrontation.
World youth converge on Caracas, by Libero Della Piana, CARACAS, Venezuela - The 16th World Festival of Youth and Students opened here Aug. 8 with an impressive procession of more than 15,000 delegates from over 100 countries. A colorful fireworks display, cultural performances and an indigenous purification ceremony accompanied the opening event.
Welcome to America : U.S. Defends Detentions at Airports : Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food, lawyers for the government said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday.
Middle East|Asia

Roy Hattersley : End this chorus of intolerance : It is uncivilised to demand that Muslims abandon their way of life
Interview of President Bush by Israeli Television: Mr. President, how imminently is the Iranian threat? A: The United States and Israel are united in our objective to make sure that Iran does not have a weapon.
Saudis to retrieve $360 billion abroad.
Relinked at reader request. According to THIS DOCUMENT, 60% of Saudi investment is in the US. If they pull the money across the board, then the portion slated to be pulled out of the US is $216 billion.

I note that the Saudi Government announced this right after the US delegation left. I wonder what the US delegation said that pissed the King off.
Lebanon frees Omar Bakri. The UK-based Islamist preacher Omar Bakri has been released, a day after he was arrested by the General Security in Lebanon, according to State Prosecutor Said Mirza, who refused to disclose why he had ordered Bakri's release. 'All that I can say is that he is now a free man,' he told Aljazeera.net on Friday.
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