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    • Bush administration embarks on reckless new tactic in Iraq

      Posted by Sandyenglish

      With its much-vaunted “surge” showing no signs of success and American casualties continuing to rise, the US military has begun to arm and equip sections of the Sunni insurgency, supposedly to fight against intransigent layers such as Al Qaeda-linked groups. Weapons, ammunition, cash, fuel and supplies are being provided to selected Sunni militia.

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      Iraqi insurgents blog up their bombings

      Posted by Jeff from Rawstory

      However, a small section of the website is translated into English, and even includes an XML/RSS feed in order to supply readers with regular updates of the insurgents' activities in Iraq. A November 5th update claims the group carried out one particular attack: "Shelling Mahdy army and Badr corps crowds with 30 mortar rounds 82mm in Balad (dated 5

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    • What Last Throes Really Means

      Posted by chuckt from New York Times

      Does Dick Cheney read The New York Times? "The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons have been largely unable to prevent," says an interagency report.

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      15 Iraq policemen kidnapped, then killed

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Gunmen killed 15 policemen working as instructors at the local police academy and two translators in the southern city of Basra, police said. The men were forced off a bus on the city's outskirts Sunday afternoon and their bodies were found hours later dumped in several locations, police said.

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