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Iraq's "Sovereignty"Features collected by TFF • July 23 - August 2, 2004

Very comprehensive link collection from Global Issues
Handover of power to Iraqis

Ahmed Janabi, Aljazeera.net
Iraqi group claims over 37,000 civilian toll

Robert Fis, The Independent, on TruthOut
Can’t Blair see this country is about to explode? Can’t Bush?

Osha Gray Davidson, Rolling Stone
The secret file of Abu Ghraib

Robert Fisk, The Independent, from TruthOut
The unreported war

Michael Weinstein, PINR – Power & Interest News Report
Iraq’s transition to dictatorship

Robert Fisk, The Independent, from The Wisdom Fund
The trial of the century

Vladimir Radyuhin, The Hindu
2,000 US troops killed in Iraq

Robert R. Goldberg, Information Clearing House
Why Americans believe only American deaths count in Iraq

William S. Lind, The Washington Dispatch
Civil war in Iraq?

William O’Rourke, Chicago Sun-Times
Looking for a Iraq precedent? Try Honduras

Rajiv Chandrasekaran & Walter Pincus, Washington Post
U.S. edicts curb power of Iraq’s leadership

Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor
Radical islam grows among Iraq’s sunnies

Tom Parker in The International Herald Tribune
Saddam’s trial creates a new legal model
How a US official justifies this fake trial

Antonia Juhasz, Foreign Policy in Focus, FPIF
The hand-over that wasn’t – How the occupation continues

Martin Shaw, Foreign Policy in Focus, FPIF
Risk – Transfer militarism and the legitimacy of war after Iraq

Special Report – A Study by the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy In Focus
Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War

John Kenneth Galbraith in The Guardian
A cloud over civilisation

Peter Beaumont in The Observer
PM admits graves claim untrue

Project on Defense Alternatives, PDA
Radical departure – Towards a practical peace in Iraq

Robert Fisk, The Independent, on Information Clearing House
Four missiles, 14deaths and the crisis of information in Baghdad

Oliver Miles, The Guardian
Iraq is not improving, it’s a disaster

Tom Regan, The Christian Science Monitor
Did PM Allawi shoot Iraqi prisoners?

Andrew Rosenthal, The New York Times
Decoding the senate intelligence committee investigation on Iraq

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post
U.S. funds for Iraq are largely unspent

Robert Fisk, The Independent, on ZNet
The war on learning

The new US embassy in Baghdad
– so you know there the real power is.

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