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WAR
* " The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered... the State Department reported 625 "significant" terrorist attacks in 2004. That compared with 175 such incidents in 2003, the highest number in two decades." LINK

* in a remarkable event, the nyt refers to 'the resistance', rather than 'insurgence' LINK

* "Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) has released a document showing the Administration knew of the lack of ties between Iraq and al Qaida before going to war." LINK

* "Ironically, one reason why Washington can persuade the outside world that its venture in Iraq is finally coming right is that it is too dangerous for reporters to travel outside Baghdad or stray far from their hotels in the capital... Most violent incidents in Iraq go unreported. " LINK

* "The only thing working very well in Iraq these days is the full-blown American propaganda, namely, that democracy is on a roll there, proving the sagacity of the illegal invasion and colonial occupation, as also the genius of George W. Bush in killing tens of thousands of Iraqis and bombing Iraqi infrastructure to smithereens." LINK

* "Iraqi security forces backed by U.S. troops had the town of Madain surrounded Sunday after reports of Sunni militant kidnappings of as many as 100 Shiite residents, but there were growing indications the incident had been grossly exaggerated, perhaps an outgrowth of a tribal dispute or political maneuvering." LINK
i havent got a clue what is going on here...

* " The Army has completed its latest investigation into football star Pat Tillman's friendly-fire death while a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan but is refusing to make public the findings." LINK