Concerning Iran and Iraq

    From the BBC:

Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Top Iraqi condemns US over Iran
   One of Iraq's most powerful Shia politicians has condemned the arrest of Iranians by US forces in Iraq as an attack on the country's sovereignty.

   The comments by Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, made in a BBC interview, are seen as the strongest expression yet of Iraq's concern about the US approach to Iran.    Entire Article

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   Here we have another suicide bomber attack which killed 17 in Shiite district of Sadr City on Wednesday.

From Yahoo News

By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomb struck a market in the Shiite district of Sadr City and police said 17 people died Wednesday, a day after a blast targeting university students killed 70 in what appeared to be a renewed campaign of Sunni insurgent violence against Shiites.    Entire Article

    The list goes on and on HERE, Here, and Here for starters.

    Go read up on today's Iraq news while the government still lets you!

 

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A Secret Court To Govern Wiretaps

   As if we need another secret court doing more of the Bush regimes bidding!

     The Justice Department is giving an independent body the okay to monitor the governments spying program.

    From the AP:

The court orders approving collection of international communications — whether it originates in the United States or abroad — was issued Jan. 10, according to the two-page letter to Sens. Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), D-Vt., and Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa.

"As a result of these orders, any electronic surveillance that was occurring as part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program will now be conducted subject to the approval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court," Gonzales wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press.

"Accordingly, under these circumstances, the President has determined not to reauthorize the Terrorist Surveillance Program when the current authorization expires," the attorney general wrote.                 Entire Article

     I like that last paragraph. Bush will not re-authorize the program when it expires?  More than likely that will be as far as the public is concerned.

 

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