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DAILY PHOTO OF U.S. SOLDIERS

A U.S. Marine from 5th Battalion 10th Marines patrols with a
member of an Afghan border guard unit in the desert of the
lower Helmand River valley, in southern Afghanistan July 1,
2009. (REUTERS/ Peter Graff) July 1, 2009
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DAILY PHOTO OF IRAQIS

Iraqi families celebrate in Basra, Tuesday, June 30, 2009. U.S.
troops pulled out of Iraqi cities on Tuesday in the first
step toward winding down the American war effort by the end
of 2011. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani). July 1, 2009
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DAILY PHOTO OF AFGHANS

Afghan supporters of presidential candidate and former foreign
minister Abdullah Abdullah attend a campaign rally in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Afghans will head to
the poles on Aug. 20 to elect a new president. (AP Photo/Musadeq
Sadeq) July 1, 2009

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>>Halliburton,
KBR Sued for Poisoning U.S. Troops in Iraq
Among the issues now rippling from the courthouse
to Capitol Hill are whether the chemical made people sick, when
KBR knew it was there and how the company responded. But the debate
is more than about this one case; it has raised broader questions
about private contractors and health risks in war zones.......[more]
posted June 28 2009
>>Allies
not doing enough for IDPs, says Holbrooke
Pakistans allies are not doing enough for the
people displaced by the military operation in Swat and its surrounding
areas, Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and
Pakistan, said on Saturday.......[more]
posted 27 June 2009
>>Suburban
man charged with bribery for Iraq contracts A southwest
suburban man working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Iraq
and Afghanistan appeared in federal court in Monday after being
charged with soliciting $40,000 from a contractor who was awarded
a $2.5 million project to build parks in Iraq.....[more]
posted 04 May 2009
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South Koreans Convicted in Iraq Bribery Scheme In
a case that opens a new front in the rapidly expanding investigation
of corruption in Iraq, three South Korean military officers have
been convicted of leading an extortion and bribery scheme in a reconstruction
program in northern Iraq that was financed with over $70 million
of United States taxpayer money, according to senior American and
Korean officials......[more]
posted 04 May 2009
>>Ex-sergeant:
Soldier admitted Iraq crimes A former U.S. Army sergeant
testified Wednesday that an ex-soldier charged with killing a family
in Iraq and raping a teenage girl had twice acknowledged committing
the attack in the days after the bodies were discovered......[more]
posted 03 May 2009
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>>U.S. "Bling Bling" Embassy
The new U.S. Embassy is officially open for business in Baghdad.
And.... it was already built .... [more]
posted 30 june 2003
more news coverage about Iraq
 
 
 
 
 

 
Learn about a Texans for Peace initiative to assist women business
professionals and entrepreneurs in Baghdad.
Womens Business Center of Baghdad
Learn about Depleted Uranium (DU) and its effects on Iraq and our
soldiers:
International Coalition to
Ban DU
Uranium Medical Research Centre
Depleted
Uranium at the IAEA
Iraq War Images
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130 casualties in Kirkuk;
6 US casualties; Iraqis celebrate "sovereignty"; Oil
contracts
A bombing in Kirkuk on Tuesday that left at least
35 dead and another 95 injured, along with 6 US casualties on Monday,
didn't stop millions of Iraqis from celebrating the withdrawal of
occupation forces from their cities.
In Kirkuk, 17 shops and homes were destroyed when
a powerful car bomb exploded during the busy evening shopping time.
In another the attack Monday against U.S. forces, the military said
the four soldiers were killed and two injured as a "result
of combat related injuries."
In Mosul, Baghdad, Basra and other cities, citizens
and Iraqi soldiers drove around the streets in vehicles draped in
flowers and Iraqi flags. Signs read "Iraq: my nation, my glory,
my honor." "This day, which we consider a national celebration,
is an achievement made by all Iraqis," Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki said in a televised address. "Our incomplete sovereignty
and the presence of foreign troops is the most serious legacy we
have inherited (from Saddam). Those who think that Iraqis are unable
to defend their country are committing a fatal mistake."
In Afghanistan, 2 NATO soldiers were killed and 6
injured on Wednesday by an IED in the Helmand province. A 20-year-old
from Fort Worth died in a rollover accident on Monday. Three members
of a family, including two children, were killed and four wounded
when a rocket hit a house in eastern Kunar province. One policeman
was killed and three wounded when their checkpoint was attacked
by insurgents in Rabaat Sangee district.
Iraq awarded a lucrative oil contract to BP and China
National Petroleum Corp., on Wednesday, while rejecting other companies'
offers for other oil fields. The joint BP-CNPC bid was for the al-Rumeila
oil field, one of the largest in the world. The energy companies
are expected to increase production at the oil field by 50 percent,
to 285,000 barrels a day, for a service charge of $2 for each additional
barrel produced. The Iraqi government rejected bids for five other
oil fields and a natural gas field because the bidders did not agree
to the service charge set by the Ministry of Oil. Much of the auction
was broadcast live on state television, which Ministry of Oil spokesman
Assem Jihad said was a sign of the transparency of the process.
Iraq plans to open bidding this year on 10 more oil fields and one
natural gas field, all of which are undeveloped. posted
01 July, 2009
550+ Iraq casualties;
Public Iraq probe urged for UK
At least 250 Iraqis were killed and another 300
injured in a week of violence as the U.S. prepares to withdraw
to its bases. Iraqis are concerned that "troublemakers"
are trying to create a situation whereby Iraq would ask for
continued occupation. Security was tightened across the capital
on Sunday, with troops and police closing roads and carefully
searching cars.
Early in the week, two big bombings in Baghdad
and near the northern city of Kirkuk in recent days killed more
than 150 people between them. On Friday, a bomb killed at least
13 people at a Baghdad market.
On Sunday, a car bomb wounded seven policemen
when it exploded in the car park of a police training center
in western Baghdad while another bomb wounded six civilians
when it exploded near a U.S. military patrol in Baghdad's northeastern
Talbiya district. On Saturday, gunmen killed a preacher inside
a mosque.
In Afghanistan on Sunday, seven Afghan policemen
and 14 militants were killed in attacks in Farah province. One
child was killed and nine people, including four policemen,
were wounded when a suicide car bomber rammed his car into a
police convoy in Behsud district of eastern Nangarhar province.
An Afghan contractor with U.S. -led international troops was
killed and two others sustained injuries as a bomb exploded
in the back of their car in Khost city capital of Khsot province
of eastern Afghanistan on Saturday. NATO forces in southern
Afghanistan, boosted by a big influx of U.S. troops, will step
up operations in Helmand province and the city of Kandahar soon.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due to
face a Commons debate on Wednesday on a Conservative motion
that evidence given to the Iraq inquiry should be heard in public
"whenever possible". Sir John Chilcot has said "I
believe it will be essential to hold as much of the proceedings
of the inquiry as possible in public, consistent with the need
to protect national security and to ensure and enable complete
candour in the oral and written evidence from witnesses."
Former premier Tony Blair will cooperate "fully" with
a new British probe into the Iraq war, officials said Wednesday,
as the government conceded the inquiry will have the power to
apportion blame. In a sign of the controversy that awaits the
inquiry, lawmakers said vital questions remained in particular
about the reasons for going into war -- the weapons of mass
destruction Iraq was alleged to have had were never found --
and how much Cabinet ministers were told. A 2004 Hutton inquiry
looked at the suicide of David Kelly, a government scientist
named as the possible source of a BBC report claiming the government
"sexed up" a dossier on Iraq's military capability.
posted 28 June, 2009
Turkish bombs burn
Iraqi forests; Iraqi leader killed; 41 Afghan candidates
More than 125 hectares of forest in northern
Iraq have been burnt in the past month due to Turkish bombardment,
a senior official in Iraqi Kurdistan said Sunday. "More
than 500 dhonam [125 hectares, 1.25 square kilometers] of
forest was burned as a result of Turkish bombardment this
month," said Najat Sufi Hariri, the planning director
in Kurdistan's Agriculture Ministry. Aided by U.S. intelligence,
Turkish jets have been bombing villages and forests along
the border in northern Iraq since December 2007 under a Turkish
parliamentary authorization, seeking hideouts of the Kurdistan
Workers' Party, or PKK.
The head of the Iraqi parliament's largest Sunni
Arab bloc was gunned down by a teenager Friday after delivering
an afternoon prayer sermon. A 15-year-old boy opened fire
on Harith al-Obeidi at a mosque in western Baghdad. Al-Obeidi
led the Iraqi Accordance Front bloc in parliament. Mosque
guards gunned him down, but not before he had killed five
people, including al-Obeidi, and wounded 12 more. Leaders
from all of Iraqs major political parties gathered Saturday
to mourn al-Obeidi staging an elaborate funeral that was broadcast
live on Iraqi state television. No group has claimed responsibility
for the attack.
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In Baqouba on Sunday, Iraqi security forces
arrested four suspected insurgents during a raid. In Mosul,
aroadside bomb targeted a U.S. military patrol, wounded two
civilians and unknown gunmen threw a hand grenade at a police
patrol, wounding two policemen and one civilian. A bomb attached
to a car belonging to a member of a government-backed militia
detonated at his house in Baghdad's al-Doura district. The
U.S. military said Iraqi police seized a large stockpile of
heavy ordnance, explosives, weapons and small arms ammunition
on Saturday from a home in Nassiriya.
In Afghanistan on Sunday, a couple who worked
as health workers in Farah province were found shot dead in
their home. Fighters killed two policemen in an attack in
southeastern Paktia province. Insurgents killed a religious
leader overnight in Paktia. Afghan security forces killed
two militants and wounded 14 others during an operation in
northwestern Faryab. A suicide car bomber hit a fleet of fuel
tankers intended for a NATO base in southern Afghanistan on
Saturday, killing eight Afghans and wounding 21. A NATO soldier
was killed on Friday. In unusually firm remarks, the chief
of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said there was
an urgent need to review the Special Operations
forces raids and airstrikes that have killed Afghan civilians.
Afghanistan's electoral commission said Saturday
that President Hamid Karzai and 40 other candidates will appear
on the ballot for president this August in Afghanistan's second
presidential election since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion toppled
the Taliban regime.
posted 14 June, 2009
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Call to End the Wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq
Texans for Peace actively tried
to prevent the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and is now working
to bring them to an end and make sure that amends are made.
The continuing war in Iraq and Afghanistan
exceeds the bounds of decency and diplomacy and those who
started this disaster are unlikely to end it ... unless
we demand it.
Texans for Peace continues
to call attention to this war, send "peace ambassadors" directly
to Iraq and Afghanistan, and bring you the latest information
on what is really going on over there. We call on you to work with us for peace;
"End The Wars - Bring Our Troops Home Now!" Answer the
call.
Charlie
Jackson, Texans for Peace
Charlie
Jackson, founder of Texans for Peace, has made four trips
to Iraq already during this war...spending time entirely outside
of the "Green Zone" protected areas. (2002-03, 2003,
2005, 2009). Jackson has traveled throughout 17 of Iraq's
18 provinces. During his most recent trip he visited Kurdistan,
Erbil and Kirkuk. He also sponsored a trip to Jordan (2007)
to visit with Iraqi refugees living there. Jackson reports
daily on conditions and issues surrounding the Iraq war as
a volunteer peacemaker.


photos
from various trips to Iraq
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