A sharp increase in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah could be linked to sophisticated weaponry used by U.S. troops in 2004, it has been revealed.
There has been a ‘massive unprecedented number’ of heart defects and an increase in the number of central nervous system defects in newborns, Fallujah doctors have told...
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An invasion of Iraq was discussed within the Government more than two years before military action was taken – with Foreign Office mandarins warning that an invasion would be illegal, that it would claim "considerable casualties" and could lead to the breakdown of Iraq, The Independent can reveal.
The extent of Whitehall opposition to the...
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كشفت صحيفة "إندبندنت" في عددها الصادر امس أن حكومة توني بلير ناقشت غزو العراق قبل أكثر من عامين من وقوعه، وحذّر مسؤولون من وزارة الخارجية البريطانية خلال النقاش من أن الغزو سيكون غير قانوني وسيسبب خسائر كبيرة ويؤدي إلى انهيار العراق.وقالت الصحيفة إن هذا التحذير جاء ضمن وثيقة إستراتيجية سرية لوزارة الخارجية البريطانية عام...
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According to reliable local human rights sources a mass grave containing 11 corpses has been found in Amiriyat al- Falluja. The grave at Fiheilat village was opened by a mixed team of police and soldiers acting on a tip-off.
The eleven dead people all were mist in 2007. Three of their corpses have been...
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أثار أهالي الجنود البريطانيين في العراق العديد من التساؤلات حول مشروعية الحرب. الموضوع الرئيسي في "الاوبزيرفر" البريطانية كان حول لجنة التحقيق البريطانية في الحرب على العراق، حيث أفردت الصحيفة جانبا كبيرا من صفحتها الأولى للشهادة التي سيدلي بها مسؤول قانوني سابق في وزارة الخارجية البريطانية امام اللجنة.
روابط ذات...
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Foreign Office official’s evidence the day before attorney general Lord Goldsmith appears will increase pressure on Tony Blair
Tony Blair’s decision to take Britain to war in Iraq was illegal, the Foreign Office’s former chief legal adviser will tell the Chilcot inquiry this week.
The Observer has been told that Sir Michael Wood, who was...
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أعلن المتحدث باسم الحكومة العراقية علي الدباغ، الاثنين، تولي الحكومة مسؤولية قيادة الدفاع عن ضحايا شركة بلاك ووتر . وقال الدباغ، في مؤتمر صحافي عقده في مقر الامانة العامة لمجلس الوزراء بحضور عوائل ضحايا الحادث والجرحى، إن “رئيس الوزراء أصدر أمرا الى مكتب الاستشارات القانونية التابع لمجلس الوزراء بمتابعة قضية بلاك...
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Once again it is the media – rather than the Iraq inquiry – who are putting new information about Iraq into the public domain. In today’s Guardian, Richard Norton-Taylor and I reveal the extent to which the notorious September 2002 dossier on Iraq’s WMD was sexed-up on Alastair Campbell’s instructions to fit in with...
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‘WMD in a year’ allegation halved original timescale after compilers told to compare contents with Bush speech.
Fresh evidence has emerged that Tony Blair’s discredited Iraqi arms dossier was "sexed up" on the instructions of Alastair Campbell, his communications chief, to fit with claims from the US administration that were known to be false.
The pre-invasion...
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بدأت الشرطة العسكرية البريطانية تحقيقا في مقتل سيدة عراقية تبلغ من العمر 62 عاما خلال عملية للجيش البريطاني في جنوب العراق في نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني عام 2006.
وكانت وزارة الدفاع البريطانية قد نفت بالفعل اتهامات من اسرة المواطنة العراقية، صبيحة خضر طالب، بتعرضها للتعذيب وإلقاء جثتها على جانب الطريق.
وقال متحدث إن الضحية حوصرت خلال تبادل لاطلاق...
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