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In memoir, former president reveals ’darkest part of inner life’
By John F. Harris / The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton says his admission to Hillary Rodham Clinton that he carried on an extramarital affair with former intern Monica Lewinsky left him banished to a White House couch for two months, but also prompted a season of self-examination and counseling that ultimately strengthened his marriage and gave him greater awareness into the origins of his (…)

Twenty-two people have been killed and 20 injured in a US raid on a house in Falluja, according to medical sources and witnesses.
The US occupation force also acknowledged the Saturday air strike.
At a press conference in Baghdad, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said he did not dispute Iraqi accounts that over 20 people were killed in the strike.
He said there was "significant intelligence" that members of Abu Mussab Zarqawi’s network were in the house, but there was no evidence Zarqawi (…)

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces killed 22 people on Saturday in a "precision strike" on a house in the flashpoint Iraqi city of Falluja that the military said was being used as a safehouse by militants linked to al Qaeda.
Furious Iraqis said the dead included women and children. But Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said in Baghdad the house was being used by fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, accused by Washington of leading a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and of (…)

Posters:
Oh how comfortable you are being able to sip Earl Grey Tea and post you’re ranting of rage and frolic. In the comforts and security of your sweet little abode.
But outside your little world are wars being fought for many reasons, one of which is to protect your little freedom so you can go to work, go to school, go to Raves, do drugs, have sex with your lover, watch MTV, travel to other countries all under the skirts of your mothers!
How many of you would even dare to enlist (…)

By TAREK EL-TABLAWY Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A U.S. military plane fired missiles Saturday into a residential neighborhood in Fallujah, killing at least 20 people and leveling houses in the restive Sunni Muslim city, police and residents said.
It was the first significant U.S. military action in the city since Marines ended a bloody three-week siege against insurgents. Since the U.S. forces left, residents have said that extremist influence in the city, west of (…)

HELEN’S WAR tracks, through Anna’s eyes, the American launch of Helen’s latest book, The New Nuclear Danger ­ George W. Bush’s Military Industrial Complex (which coincided with the 9-11 attacks), and her fund-raising efforts for the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, a left-wing Thinktank designed to saturate the mainstream media with sobering facts about America’s nuclear policy.
Helen help us
Dr Caldicott’s crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons is captured on film by her (…)

Fifty so-called “precision” strikes were carried out by the US military in Iraq between March 19 and April 18, 2003, in attempts to kill Saddam Hussein and 12 other high-ranking Iraqi leaders. The cruise missiles and laser-guided bombs used in the attacks destroyed dozens of homes and other civilian buildings, and killed and wounded hundreds, if not thousands, of Iraqi civilians.
The June 13 New York Times carried admissions by unnamed US military and intelligence officials that underscore (…)

An unrelenting series of leaks, charges and reports have removed any doubt that top officials in the Bush administration bear direct responsibility for the criminal torture inflicted upon prisoners held by the US military in Iraq as well as other blatant violations of the Geneva Conventions.
On Thursday, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged that he personally ordered the military to hold an Iraqi prisoner incommunicado for nearly eight months, concealing his detention from the (…)

RENO, Nev. President Bush and his old political nemesis Senator John McCain shared a military stage on Friday to present an unusual joint defense of the war in Iraq, calling it a conflict between good and evil that threatened the existence of the United States.
The united front of the president and Mr. McCain, the Arizona Republican who waged a bitter primary fight against Mr. Bush in 2000, was a striking development at a time when the president is under political siege for stating that (…)

Gulf Daily News
BAGHDAD: A US-appointed Iraqi judge has issued an arrest warrant for one of the fiercest opponents of former president Saddam Hussein in connection with murder, politicians and lawyers familiar with the case said yesterday.
Abdul Karim Al Mohammadawi is known as "Prince of the Marshes" for leading resistance to Saddam in Iraq’s southern marshlands even after the ousted dictator drained the wetlands in a campaign to crush Shi’ite rebels in the 1980s and 1990s.
The (…)