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"Ali le Chimique"signe ses massacres à la barre du tribunal

Le cousin de Saddam Hussein reconnaît avoir donné l'ordre d'exécuter des milliers de Kurdes en 1988. Malgré la pendaison de Saddam Hussein le 30 décembre, le procès pour le génocide kurde continue à Bagdad devant le Tribunal spécial irakien. Ali le Chimique" avoue avoir ordonné des exécutions à Anfal L'Express "Ali le Chimique" reconnaît avoir ordonné des exécutions

U.S. deaths in Iraq reach 3,000

U.S. deaths in Iraq reach 3,000:
The U.S. military on Sunday announced its 3,000th fatality from the Iraq war.

Few Iraqis Are Gaining U.S. Sanctuary

Few Iraqis Are Gaining U.S. Sanctuary:
Thousands flee Iraq every day, but the U.S. has placed strict limits on the number of Iraqi refugees allowed to settle in America.

America's many failed attempts at Mideast peace

America's many failed attempts at Mideast peace:
THE RECENT Iraq Study Group report called for a new American effort to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. This, it claims, is the only way to eliminate the primary source of anti-Americanism in the Middle East and facilitate a solution for Iraq. The report's authors claim to be realists, but given the state of Israeli and Palestinian politics , how realistic ...

Iraq: 12,000 civilians killed in 2006 (AP)

Iraq: 12,000 civilians killed in '06 (AP):

AP - Iraq reported Tuesday that more than 12,000 civilians were killed last year — the third full year since the U.S.-led invasion — with a dramatic rise in the last three months, when 5,000 died. Only about half as many Iraqi soldiers died in 2006 as American troops.

Another Year in Iraq; What Are We Going to Do?

2007 -- Another Year in Iraq; What Are We Going to Do?:
A New Year, Saddam Hussein is dead, but nothing has changed in Iraq. It is time to take it up another notch to end the brutal occupation and bring the troops home.

10% of Active Journalists in Iraq Were Killed in 2006

10% of Active Journalists in Iraq Were Killed in 2006:
After 64 journalists were killed in Iraq in 2006, Reporters Without Borders has described the country as "the world's most dangerous" for the media.

Officials: Bush mulls Iraq surge, address likely next week

Officials: Bush mulls Iraq surge, address likely next week:
President Bush is likely to send anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000 additional troops to Iraq as part of his yet-to-be-announced new Iraq strategy, sources with knowledge of his deliberations told CNN Wednesday.

New video shows 5 kidnapped in Iraq (AP)

New video shows 5 kidnapped in Iraq (AP):

AP - Four Americans and an Austrian abducted in November in southern Iraq spoke briefly and appeared uninjured in a video believed to have been recorded nearly two weeks ago and delivered Wednesday to The Associated Press.

Was victory in Iraq ever possible?

Was victory in Iraq ever possible?:
Virtually everyone now agrees that the war in Iraq has been a vast mistake. But what, exactly, was the nature of that mistake? The isolationist left and the realist right, George McGovern and Brent Scowcroft, emphasize that our error was intervening in the absence of overwhelming national interest. At the opposite end of the foreign policy continuum, the neoconservatives contend that invading Iraq was a perfectly good idea undermined by incompetent implementation. In the space between are liberal hawks who originally supported the war and a variety of skeptics who didn't. They now tend to agree that the war was both a mistake in theory and a disaster in execution.

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