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A Pentagon analyst suspected of passing classified information to Israel served as a US Air Force reservist in Israel, The Washington Post reported yesterday.
The newspaper quoted a former colleague at the Defense Intelligence Agency who said the analyst may have been based at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, but was never permanently assigned there.
Quoting unnamed officials and others familiar with the inquiry, the Post said an FBI investigation had been broadened in recent days to include (…)

By Dan Frosch
Sunday’s protesters in Manhattan went shoulder-to-shoulder in a free-speech free for all.
Together, undaunted by a blazing late summer sun, hundreds of thousands marched through some of New York City’s busiest streets on Sunday in a massive protest against George Bush and the Republican National Convention. The BBC estimated the number of demonstrators at over 250,000.
Some carried clever posters decrying George Bush’s ascent to power. Others wielded drums, horns, or in (…)

Luis Perez, a 19-year-old U.S. Army private died Thursday; he is region’s ninth war victim
BY KEITH BENMAN
A 19-year-old U.S. Army private who grew up in East Chicago was killed in Iraq, the region’s latest casualty in the 16-month-old conflict.
Private Luis A. Perez was a transport driver who died Thursday when the fuel truck he was driving hit a land mine, according to his family.
His mother, Lisa Perez, was informed of his death when an Army officer and policeman called at her (…)

As a military family with a combined total of 57 years of active service in the U. S. Army, myself, son, and daughter-in-law have accumulated over 80 combat medals, one or more of us have served in Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, Panama, El Salvador, Kosovo, Bosnia, and three of us served together during Desert Storm. My son recently returned from the Iraq War, his third war, and, being fed up with Bush lies and back-to-back deployments, applied to be discharged from his "indefinite enlistment" (…)

My husband spent Feb-July of 2003 in Iraq. His unit the 46th eng bn out of ft Polk, LA did nothing to aid freeing anyone or finding any weapons of mass destruction they wasted millions of tax payer dollars, period. They built two seperate prisons and when completed were given orders to burn everything burnable and bulldoze the rest into the ground. That is all they did the entire time. My husband came home defeated, not proud of what he did. Now we are with a new unit out of Ft Lewis WA. My (…)

This is a letter from a mother in Puerto Rico:
One night last April, I was unable to sleep. My future daughter in law had alerted me to an extension of stay to 20,000 US soldiers so that they would remain in Iraq indefinitely. On the international channels, I saw faces of US soldiers (compungidos?) - among them I searched for, with my heart in my hands, the face of my son. Intuitively, I knew, his silence confirmed it. Right now JJ is in a non-specified place; he has been in Irak now for (…)

I would like to join your organization. My son Aaron has been in Iraq since April 2004. He is in the Army infantry and is now serving as a machine gunner in Bagdad. He has been fired upon and has fired back. He has a "confirmed kill".
For a long time, long before my son was sent there, I have struggled with the difficulty of being personally opposed to this war and yet supportive of our troops. I know what Bush. et. al., are doing and how they are wasting our young soldier’s lives for (…)

Hello, my name is Brandie Lampin and I am the wife of a Sgt. Tony Lampin, a mechanic for the 115th Field Hospital, stationed at Fort Polk, La. I have sent every media company that I could find or know and the President, this letter because my husband and other soldiers, that are medically unfit for service, were forced to go back to Iraq for a second tour. One soldiers name that I have been given permission to name is Sgt. Jacqueline Stinnett. All left on the 25th of July bound for Abu (…)

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2
We Remember—He Lied—They Died
Vigil for the Fallen
Union Square Park-14 Street and Broadway 7:00 AM-7:00 PM
Join with Veterans, including some recently returned from Iraq, Gold Star Parents and other Military Families, 9-11 Families and other Concerned Citizens at a Vigil for the Fallen.
The Vigil will take place from dawn to dusk with the display of the Iraq Memorial Wall and part of the Eyes Wide Open boots exhibit in remembrance of those killed in the (…)

Oil Exports From Southern Iraq Halted Due to Attacks; Not Likely to Resume for a Week
Senior Iraqi oil officials said crude exports from southern Iraq were halted Monday because of attacks on pipelines, although some U.S.-based traders said other reports suggested that supplies were still flowing.
As a result, oil prices plunged by nearly $1 a barrel at the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Two senior officials of the South Oil Co., speaking Monday on condition of anonymity, said the (…)