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Iraq back at the brink

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“It was Britain that triggered Iraq’s modern tragedy, starting with its seizure of Baghdad in 1917 and the haphazard reshaping of a country to fit the colonial needs and economic interests of London. One could argue that the early and unequalled mess created by the British invaders continued to wreak havoc, manifesting itself in various ways until this very day. But of course, the US now deserves most of the credit of reversing whatever has been achieved by the Iraqi people. It was US secretary of state James Baker who reportedly threatened Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz in a Geneva meeting in 1991 by saying that the US would destroy Iraq and ‘bring it back to the stone age’.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-02-140213.html

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Britain pushing to provide weapons to Syrian rebels

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“Britain, apparently backed by a handful of European Union allies, is fighting to lift an EU arms embargo barring the supply of weapons to the Syrian rebel coalition battling President Bashar al-Assad.  Britain and France had seen the March 1 deadline as an opportunity to respond to requests for weaponry by the opposition.  But France appears to have cooled, leaving Britain facing opposition from Germany, Sweden and even the EU’s foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, a British baroness who represents London on the European Commission.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/18/britain-pushing-to-lift-european-embargo-against-syrian-rebels/

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Italy’s ex-intelligence chief given 10-year sentence for role in CIA kidnapping

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“Mustafa Osama Nasr (Abu Omar), who in 2001 had been granted asylum by Italy from persecution in Egypt, was abducted by the CIA and then shipped back to Egypt where he was imprisoned for four years without charges and, he says, brutally tortured by America’s long-standing ally, the Mubarak regime.  Nasr ‘was seized in broad daylight on the open street, pushed into a white van, taken to the Aviano military airport and then flown to Egypt via the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany’. Yesterday, an Italian appellate court sentenced the country’s former intelligence chief, Niccolò Pollari, to ten years in prison ‘for complicity’ in that kidnapping.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/13/italy-cia-rendition-abu-omar

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At least 20 prisoners still missing from CIA ‘black sites’

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“In one of President Barack Obama first acts in the White House, he ordered the closure of the CIA’s so-called ‘black-site’ prisons, where terror suspects had been held and, sometimes, tortured.  But the CIA’s prisons left some unfinished business.  In 2009, ProPublica’s Dafna Linzer listed more than thirty people who had been held in CIA prisons and were still missing.  Some of those prisoners have since resurfaced, but at least twenty are still unaccounted for.  A few emerged from foreign prisons after the turmoil of the Arab Spring. One has died.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/13/at-least-20-prisoners-still-missing-from-cia-black-sites/

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Afghan official: NATO airstrike kills 9 civilians, five children and four women

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“A NATO airstrike struck two houses, killing as many as nine Afghan civilians and four insurgents in an eastern province near the Pakistani border, officials said Wednesday.  The attack occurred about 10 p.m. Tuesday during a joint NATO-Afghan operation in the Shigal district of Kunar province, a lawmaker from the area said. The U.S.-led military alliance in Kabul said it was looking into the reports.  Wagma Sapay, a member of parliament from Kunar, said the civilians killed were in one house while four senior Taliban leaders were slain as they were gathering next door in the village of Sharpool in the Chawkam area.”

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=8990868

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US Killed Hundreds of Children in Afghanistan, Says New Report — US Rejects Report

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“The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child reported that it was ‘alarmed’ by reports that hundreds of children died as a result of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan because of a ‘reported lack of precautionary measures and indiscriminate use of force,’ the Los Angeles Times reported over the weekend. The UN report also condemned the arrest and detention of children in Afghanistan. But the U.S. military said ‘the reports were unsubstantiated and cited figures from the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan showing that the vast majority of civilian deaths and injuries in Afghanistan over the last several years were caused by insurgents.'”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-killed-hundreds-children-afghanistan-says-new-report-us-rejects-report

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Pentagon to Start Awarding Medals for Drone Strikes and Cyberattacks

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“The Defense Department is reportedly inventing a new medal designed to reward soliders who fight battles from the safety of their computer consoles. The Associated Press says the Pentagon is creating a new ribbon, called the Distinguished Warfare Medal that will be given for ‘extra achievement’ related to a military operation. That would include drone pilots operating unmanned planes from halfway around the world, or even hackers who launch a successful cyberattack on an enemy. Unlike all other combat-related medals, this would be the first one that you can be awarded without actually putting your life on the line.”

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/02/pentagon-start-awarding-medals-drone-strokes-and-cyberattacks/62104/

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L.A. Residents Plead With LAPD On Signs, Shirts: ‘Don’t Shoot, I’m Not Chris Dorner’

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“In response to the LAPD shooting at least 3 innocent people in a manhunt for Chris Dorner, the fugitive ex-cop and alleged murderer they’re hunting with U.S. military spy drones, residents of Los Angeles have begun wearing shirts and placing signs and bumper stickers on their vehicles that read, ‘Don’t shoot, I’m not Chris Dorner. Thank you.'”

http://newsone.com/2204122/dorner-signs/

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Audio catches cops shouting ‘Burn this motherf*cker!’ during Dorner siege

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“Scanner audio apparently broadcast by the Los Angeles CBS affiliate KCAL on Tuesday captured angry officers yelling to ‘burn this motherfucker’ prior to a cabin fire that is thought to have burned the body of fugitive ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner. In a video recording posted to YouTube on Tuesday, the anchor pauses to let the viewer hear the mostly-inaudible scanner traffic.  ‘Do it right now,’ one voice says. ‘Fucking burn this motherfucker!’  ‘Police officers, understandably upset,’ the anchor explains.  A separate recording of scanner traffic — which has not been verified — features officers talking about going forward ‘with the burn.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/13/audio-catches-cops-shouting-burn-this-motherfcker-during-dorner-siege/

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