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Al Jazeera English - News The Iraqi judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death has fled Iraq and sought asylum in the UK. Al Jazeera's correspondent in London quoted British official sources as saying that Raouf Abdel-Rahman, a member of Iraq's Kurdish minority, has requested political asylum in Britain with his family. Abdel-Rahman headed the Supreme Iraq Criminal Tribunal that heard Saddam's genocide trial and found the former Iraqi president guilty, leading to his execution...........

The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily : "jerusalem • Israeli soldiers used an 11-year-old Palestinian girl as a “human shield” during an operation against militants in the West Bank town of Nablus last week, an Israeli human rights group said yesterday. "......................

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 03/07/2007 | Saddam's nephew among 140 set free in prison raid

AlterNet: Blogs: Barry Lando: Surging: the Lie Admitted : "Barry Lando: A top U.S. commander in Iraq admits that the administration once again misled the American public about Iraq. "

On war costs, Bush is master of disguise : "By Neil Abercrombie | March 5, 2007 THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION has asked Congress to approve $93.4 billion in emergency funding for Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of 2007 and another $141.7 billion for next year. This, on top of a proposed 2008 defense budget of $481.4 billion." ..........

Guantánamo Is Not a Prison - by Karen J. Greenberg and Tom Engelhardt

The Pentagon’s Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger , February 28, 2007 The president and the Pentagon now wield the omnipotent power to arrest, torture, and execute any American they label an “enemy combatant.” It is impossible to overstate the significance of this power. It has totally upended the relationship of the military and civilian in the United States. The assumption of this particular power easily constitutes one of the most monumental revolutions of liberty and power in history. It is a revolution that every American must confront now, not later. If people wait until later to confront the expanded use of this power, it will be too late, because by that time it will be too dangerous to do so. As long as this particular power is permitted to stand, there is no possibility for Americans to be considered a free people. A necessary prerequisite for restoring freedom to our land is the removal of this power from the arsenal of government official...