What’s in the news? 05/27/2007

Infant mortality in Iraq soars as young pay the price for war

Report: Pentagon Plans Near Doubling Iraq Troop Size

Report: Pentagon Plans Near Doubling Iraq Troop Size
Meanwhile the Hearst news bureau is reporting the Pentagon is quietly planning to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year. A new deployment order shows plans are in place to boost the number of combat troops from fifty-two thousand to ninety-eight thousand. With support troops included, the number of U.S. troops in Iraq could top two-hundred thousand by the end of the year.

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What’s in the news? 05/19/2007

Kidnap and torture: new claims of Army war crimes in Iraq

Hamas as a revolutionary movement – Conflicts Forum Annotated

Palestinian Pinochet Making His Move?

What’s in the news? 05/11/2007

World Bank criticises Israel over Palestinian economy

Democracy Now! Headlines for May 8, 2007

One In Eight Iraqi Children Die Before the Age of Five
Iraq’s infant mortality rate has soared by 150 percent since 1990
according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.
One in eight Iraqi children now die of disease or violence before the
age of five. In 2005 alone, 122,000 Iraqi children died before reaching
their fifth birthday.
Save the Children said Iraq’s child-survival ranking is now the lowest
in the world.

Chevron to Pay Fine For Paying Kickbacks to Saddam Hussein
The New York Times is reporting, the U.S. oil company Chevron is
preparing to pay up to $30 million in fines for illegally paying
kickbacks to Saddam Hussein for access to Iraq’s oil before the U.S.
invasion in 2003.
The penalty, which is still being negotiated, would be the largest so
far in the United States in connection with investigations of companies
involved in the oil-for-food scandal.
It appears Chevron began paying Iraq kickbacks in August 2000. At the
time Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was a member of Chevron’s
board and led its public policy committee, which oversaw areas of
potential political concerns for the company.

Tenet Makes $2.3 Million From Companies Profiting Off Iraq War
Investigative reporter Tim Shorrock of Salon.com has revealed that
former CIA Director George Tenet has made at least $2.3 million since
he left the agency by working for four corporations that are directly
profiting from the so-called war on terror and the war in Iraq.
Tenet did not disclose any of his corporate ties in his new book “At
the Center of the Storm.”
Tenet sits on the board of directors of L-1 Identity Solutions, a major
supplier of biometric identification software used by the U.S. to
monitor terrorists and insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tenet is
also a member of an advisory board for Analysis Corporation which is
designing terrorist watch lists for the government.
Tenet also serves on the boards of two other government contractors,
Guidance Software and Kinetic.

Democracy Now! Headlines for May 8, 2007

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What’s in the news? 05/05/2007

Al-Ahram – Questioning the Shia crescent