Children Horribly Deformed by US Chemical Weapons in Iraq

Doctors in Fallujah are registering hundreds of babies with
severe birth defects, which they attribute to DU munitions
and other war toxins [Dr Samira Alani/Al Jazeera]

  Related articles Iraq: War’s legacy of cancer (alhittin.com) Fallujah, Iraq: You’ve never seen a face as sad as a mother watching her baby die (alhittin.com) Horrors of War: US, UK munitions ‘cause birth defects in Iraq’ (alhittin.com) Metal Contamination and the Epidemic of Congenital Birth Defects in Iraqi Cities (alhittin.com) Fallujah babies: Under a new kind of siege (alhittin.com)

Washington Post Prints More Iraq Lies

- By Peter Hart How long can media keep printing lies about the Iraq War? Today’s Washington Post (3/22/13) provides one answer, since they printed an 0p-ed by former Bush national security adviser Stephen Hadleywhere he argued this: After Hussein was deposed, we did not find the stockpiles of WMDs that all the world’s major intelligence services, the Clinton […]

The US Invasion of Iraq Was a Crime and Its Perpetrators Are Murderers

US Invasion of Iraq

On the criminology of the Iraq War on its tenth anniversary – By Paul Savoy, Common Dreams Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, it is astonishing in a nation dedicated to the rule of law that every aspect of the war has been debated except the relevant law. To be sure, a vast array of articles, […]

Iraq War: The Spies Who Fooled the World

The Spies Who Fooled the World

Panorama: On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used to justify the invasion were based on fabrication and lies. Related articles MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD (alhittin.com) Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths […]

Iraq: War’s legacy of cancer

Multiple birth defects, many as severe as this, have
become common with babies born in the aftermath of
US assaults on the city [Dr Samira Alani/Al Jazeera]

Two US-led wars in Iraq have left behind hundreds of tonnes of depleted uranium munitions and other toxic wastes. – By Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera This report contains photos of a graphic nature. Fallujah, Iraq - Contamination from Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions and other military-related pollution is suspected of causing a sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases, […]

10 Years After Iraq Invasion: Continued Myths, Hundreds of Thousands Killed

An anti-war protest in Dallas in 2003, one of many that took place across the country and worldwide. (Photo: Dean Terry)

- By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams This week marks ten years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Iraq war, which most today in the U.S. see as a mistake, has cost the U.S. trillions of dollars, billions of which were “wasted.” But the devastation for the people of Iraq is incalculable: hundreds of thousands have been killed, […]

MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD

Tony Blair's claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are challenged again in Monday's Panorama. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

BBC’s Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed intelligence from Iraqi foreign minister and spy chief – By Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian Fresh evidence has been revealed about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction. Tony Blair told parliament before the war […]

Documentary Exposes US Role in Iraq Sectarian Conflict

Documentary Exposes US Role in Iraq Sectarian Conflict

  Maggie O’Kane, Executive Producer, tells the story revealed by the Guardian documentary about the role of Col. James Steele in supporting torture, death squads and brutal sectarian conflict during the height of the Iraq war. Steel’s reports went directly to Rumsfeld and Cheney. Related articles Video: Pentagon’s torture centres in Iraq (alhittin.com) Revealed: Pentagon’s link […]

Iraq: 10 years on

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- By Adnan Khan, Khilafah.com A decade ago in March 2003, 300,000 foreign troops, overwhelmingly from the US began the invasion of Iraq. A million deaths later and after bombing the nation back to the ‘Stone Age’ US policy makers continue to propagate mission accomplished. A dictator has been removed, democracy has been established and […]

Video: Pentagon’s torture centres in Iraq

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  A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq. Another special forces veteran, Colonel James […]

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