"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." George W. Bush, Sep. 19th, 2001

2008

April 6, 2008
42 students had been kidnapped in Iraq where meanwhile 25% of the U.S. troops are reported to be suffering from dramatic stress disorder.

March 30, 2008
Baghdad, Iraq suffers from curfew and heavy fighting between U.S. troops, government forces and Shia militia

March 23, 2008
50 civilians were killed by various assaults in Iraq.

February 26, 2008
President Bush has decided to leave 8.000 of those 30.000 troops in Iraq who had been deployed as an anti surge combat force. This will now leave a total of 140.000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

2007

November 15, 2007
CBS found out, that 6256 U.S. army veterans had committed suicide in 2005 and that they represent 25% of the homeless.

November 11, 2007
In Iraq Muslim extremists have lowered the entry age of suicide bombers to 10 as shown in Diyala with the assassination of 6 Sheiks.

October 04, 2007
The Bush administration wants to terminate social welfare support for poor children in order to have more funds available for paying well connected Blackwater's mercenaries in Iraq at a daily rate rate of $1.222 Dollar.

October 03, 2007
US President Bush has always been enthusiastic about the role of private military contractors in Iraq such as Blackwater, who charge $1.222 Dollar per day for each man. Also the Pentagon has made joining the war in Iraq more lucrative with a $20.000 sign-up bonus.

October 02, 2007
1000 UK will be withdrawn from Basra by the end of this year. 4.500 will remain at the Basra air base.

Another $190 billion have been demanded by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates for further activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

August 27, 2007
The Pentagon has made joining the war in Iraq more attractive with a $20.000 sign-up bonus. More Details here

September 11, 2007
Gen. Petraeus & Embassador Crocker promote a long term stay for the American troops in Iraq.

September 03, 2007
US President Bush visited Iraq for discussions with local politicians and military experts.

September 02, 2007
British Commanders have condemned the Iraq Strategy of President Bush as utterly wrong and first UK troops have started to leave Basra.

August 31, 2007
Iraq sees an intensified fight between the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council SIIC and the Fadila group who gun for Shiite leadership in various cities with daily casualties.

August 29, 2007
President Bush has requested an additional $50 billion for his war in Iraq.

August 28, 2007
U.S. investigators have opened 73 cases in Iraq worth $ 5 billion in conjunction with the supply of weapons, bribe and the still not documented distribution of 200.000 fire arms.

August 23, 2007
President Bush has compared the war in Iraq with the war in Vietnam.

August 06, 2007
200.000 weapons have been reported as missing in Iraq. U.S. Military experts fear, that Muslim extremists might have them.

August 15, 2007
Muslims in Iraq have continued their usual activities with 4 big carbombs which have killed 200 civilians. Over 200 were injured.

August 12, 2007
Iraq is facing a government crisis after most of the Sunni members of the cabinet have resigned.

August 06, 2007
200.000 weapons have been reported as missing in Iraq. U.S. military experts fear, that Muslim extremists might have them.

August 01, 2007
The Bush administration has requested an additional $5.6 billion to acquire safer vehicles for the troops in Iraq. So far the budget is at $141,7 billion.

July 30, 2007
The Humanitarian catastrophe in Iraq sees 8 million people in need of urgent help while 4 million have escaped from the country where now 70% have no water. In 2006 600.000 people have died from famine and diseases, 34.000 were killed by various forms of violence.

The governments of South Korea and the U.S. are now also looking at a military rescue operation to free the remaining 21 hostages of some Taleban kidnappers.

July 25, 2007
Mass killings remain popular in Iraq. This time over 50 Football fans were murdered by extremists while celebrating the victory of their team against South Korea. Sunni and Shia Muslims had formed a team together with Kurds to represent unity and peace.

July 17, 2007
The Nation has released interviews with 50 Iraq combat veterans who have frequently witnessed U.S. troops killing civilians including many infants.

July 15, 2007
U.S. Authorities in Iraq suffer from a prison shortage with now 23.000 inmates since the new troops have increased the amount of arrests.

July 13, 2007
Meanwhile the U.S. are investing a monthly $12 billion into the War in Iraq. Right now the American Congress has demanded a withdrawal from Iraq until April 2008 with a 223 to 201 majority.

July 07, 2007
More than 100 people died and over 200 were injured by bomb blasts in Iraq.

June 24, 2007
More than 75 people died and over 100 were injured by a bomb blast near a mosque in Baghdad.

June 13, 2007
Two minarets of one of the holiest Shia shrines in Samarra have been blown by Iraqi extremists.

June 12, 2007
Colin Powell's former assistant Lawrence Wilkinson has revealed, that up to 50.000 foreigners have been kidnapped and tortured in secret prisons as potential terrorists.

June 10, 2007
The Bush administration seems to have plans for 50.000 steady troops in Iraq after a withdrawal in 2009.

May 26, 2007
The Bush administration is investing the next $100 billion in Iraq.

May 02, 2007
President Bush has used his veto right in order to leave the American troops in Iraq against the will of majorities in Iraq, the U.S. and in senate.

April 26, 2007
France will remove it`s troops from Afghanistan in case the conservative candidate Sarkozy will win the presidential election.

In the US all contenders of the Democrats have announced to pull the American troops out of Iraq in case of a victory.

April 18, 2007
Nearly 200 civilians were killed by several bombs in Baghdad. 94 were injured.

April 12, 2007
Baghdad faced 2 big bomblasts today. One destroyed a bridge over the Tigris river while the other happened inside the Parliament building. Many people have died and health organizations point at living conditions that get worse every day.

April 11, 2007
The 145.000 U.S. Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq will now have to stay for 15 instead of 12 months.

April 9, 2007
Thousands of Iraqi people were demonstrating in Baghdad against the U.S. Troops in their country.

April 5, 2007
Nancy Pelosi had visited leaders in the Middle East with great success while President Bush had condemned her talks.

March 20, 2007
80% of the Iraqi people would prefer to see the U.S. troops leaving and 75% feel insecure when leaving their homes. Still President Bush remains confident in his victory when asking for more patience.

U.S. President Bush was getting pushed by the Democrats to remove troops from Iraq by 2008.

March 13, 2007
CNN has reported that over 30% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans require mental treatment and that post dramatic stress disorder is the most frequent problem.

March 12, 2007
The Pentagon has been reported to working on an American emergency exit plan for Iraq.

March 11, 2007
U.S. President Bush plans to shift an additional $3,2 billion from health and education into his campaign against terror.

March 10, 2007
In Baghdad an International security conference has started with the aim to bring back peace.

February 18, 2007
Daily Massacres in Iraq have continued with 60 civilians dead and 130 injured by popular car bombs.

Hillary Clinton has declared to bring all troops home in case she will be elected.]

February 10, 2007
Lt-Gen David Petraeus is now the top US military commander in Iraq.

February 03, 2007
Car bombs have killed more than 130 civilians in Iraq leaving over 350 injured.

February 02, 2007
President Bush had asked for $300 billion over the next 2 years for his warfare in Iraq pushing the National debt to $9 Trillion at an increase rate of $1,5 billion per day.

January 29, 2007
Iran has announced to intensify operations in Iraq while the Bush administration threatens to arrest and execute Iranians involved in terror related activities.

In his annual State of the Union address President Bush has announced to increase the Army by 92,000 over 5 years.

300 militants equipped with anti-aircraft missiles and named the Army of Heaven were killed by U.S. troops in Najef. It is still unknown if they were Shia or Sunni.

January 22, 2007
Daily killings in Baghdad, Iraq continue with more than 88 dead and 130 injured by 2 bombs in the central market place.

President Bush is sending 21.500 additional troops into Iraq and the UN reports that in 2006 34.000 were killed. Around 60 students died when two car bombs exploded near the University.

Chaos, death and torture rule Baghdad and aliveinbaghdad.org provides videos.

2006

Saddam Hussein has been executed in Iraq and an illegal video of the execution has become extremely popular.

The White House considers sending up to 30.000 additional troops into Iraq.

Saudi Arabia has announced to help Sunnis in Iraq with money and troops in case the U.S. will pull out their forces.

In Baghdad a car bomb has killed 57, around 220 were injured.

Torture with drill presses before execution has become popular in Iraq and a state of civil war produces 50 killings per day with a total of +50.000 civilians.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has told Senator Levin that the U.S. troops have no chance to win the war in Iraq and Condoleezza Rice has tanked completely.

American media such as Fox News and the L.A. Times have introduced the return of Saddam Hussein as a solution to bring back stability to Iraq while President Bush seeks triumph by sending out more troops.

Meanwhile 800.000 Christians have fled the country fearing for their lives.

US-General John Abizaid has warned of a 3rd World War between the Muslim and the Western nations. In addition Tony Blair rates the situation in Iraq as "chaotic", Don Rumsfeld is getting replaced while the other architect, Condoleezza Rice has fully tanked.

Iraq storms into a full scale civil war between religious fanatics. Baghdad has faced a line of blasts that have caused the death of 200 civilians. More than 250 were injured and a curfew has been imposed after the bloodiest day since 2003.

The war in Iraq continues with an average of 100 dead civilians per day in addition to the 75 American troops who where killed in October.

5 U.S. Troops face rape and murder charges in conjunction with the death of young girl girl at Abu Ghureib prison.

At least 37 civilians were murdered at a fake checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq.

Japan is pulling it`s troops out of Iraq.

The U.S. Military command in Tikrit, Iraq has confirmed murder and various other charges against 3 troops.

Thousands of troops have been searching for terrorists in the streets of Baghdad.

The Wall Street Journal and the BBC have reported about bloodbaths created by U.S. marines who have killed around 35 civilians including several women and infants. The Pentagon and President George W. Bush have announced further investigations.

George W. Bush had been delighted about the execution of terrorist leader Abu Mussab al-Sarkawi.

Violence in the streets of Baghdad had been increasing heavily with the assassination of over 80 civilians on one weekend.

The new Italian Ministerpresident Prodi has called the war in Iraq a large mistake and the first 1.000 from 3.000 troops will be brought home already in June.

At their summit President Bush and Tony Blair have again defended the war in Iraq as a great success.

A line of bomb explosions in Baghdad has killed around 20 civilians.

18 were killed in Baghdad by another suicide blast as well as 34 and handcuffed civilians have been found executed.

Al Qaeda`s Iraq representative Abu Mussab al-Sarkawi has released a video in which he has announced further attacks.

In Dahab, Egypt more than 20 people were killed and over 60 got injured by a terror blast conducted by Arab extremists.

3 suicide bombers have killed 69 and injured over 160 in a Baghdad Mosque.

The former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi rates the daily killing of 50-60 people as the begin of a religious civil war.

Al Qaeda suspect Zacarias Moussaoui has said, that the White House had been his 9/11 target.

Sunnites in Baghdad have become victims of ethnical cleansing conducted by Shiites killer squads who rule already in 6 districts.

Salon.com has published 19 videos and 279 photos showing American torturing activities at Abu Ghureib prison. So far 9 low ranked soldiers were found guilty what the Bush administration has called an adequate examination.

U.S. President Bush has attacked leaders in Iran for delivering arms to Iraqi terror groups. At the same time his military experts have denied the existence of any evidence.

U.S. authorities have decided to shut down their infamous Abu Ghureib prison.

Force-feeding of captives at Guantanamo Bay has received massive criticism by over 250 doctors.

In Baghdad a mini bus was found which had contained 18 young men who were most likely murdered by terrorists. At the same time UN secretary Kofi Annan has criticized the U.S. Military and local authorities for dubious arrests of many Iraqi citizens.

The American ambassador in Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad has said, that President Bush has opened a "Pandora`s Box" with his war on terror which could lead to a civil wars all over the region in case of an early removal of foreign troops.

The Australian SBS TV Station has shown pictures from so far unknown atrocities conducted by U.S. torturing especialists at Abu Ghureib that were shown to Congress members already in 2004. Murder, rape, child abuse and humiliation exceed previous pictures by far and again U.S. specialist Lynndie England looks like a key figure. The White House has rejected all accusations.

More than 80 people were killed by various bombs in Baghdad in early March. Many analysts are now expecting the outbreak of a grim civil war between the religious groups.

Only 2% of all products entering the U.S. through harbors are getting controlled what gives terrorists unlimited chances to import any kind of weapons and devices.

After the blast in Samarra revenge assaults have taken place and the danger of a religious civil war has increased.

Extremists have damaged one of Shia Islam's holiest shrines in Samarra with explosives a day after 22 people have died in Baghdad by a car bomb.

The Australian SBS TV Station has shown pictures from so far unknown atrocities conducted by U.S. torturing especialists at Abu Ghureib that were shown to Congress members already in 2004. Murder, rape, child abuse and humiliation exceed previous pictures by far and again U.S. specialist Lynndie England looks like a key figure. The White House has rejected all accusations.

Hamas speaker Muschir al-Masri and Iran`s President Mahmud Ahmadinedschad have both demanded the eradication of Israel.

Japan has announced to pull it`s troops out of Iraq until May.

A military jury at Fort Carson, Colorado has sentenced officer Lewis Welshofer to a fine of $6,000 for the killing of an Iraqi captive during interrogation.

Osama bin Laden has offered truce but at the same time strikes in the U.S. were announced.

In Iraq Islamic extremists were raving about various bloodbaths that killed over 100 civilians including 44 pilgrims, students, children, housewives and 7 U.S. troops in the first week of the year.

Around 50 people were killed by various terror attacks in Iraq in the first week of 2006.

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