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Iraq war 10 years on: mass protest that defined a generation - The Guardian Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:06:00 GMT

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Iraq war 10 years on: mass protest that defined a generation The Guardian The Etonians' banner showed how up to two million people who crammed into central London to oppose the looming war in Iraq were not the usual suspects. And the route taken by the old Etonians in the decade since also illustrates one powerful legacy of ... The legacy of London's Iraq War march of 2003Christian Science Monitor Majority of Britons say Iraq invasion delivered only “bloodshed''The Hindu Tony Blair's Iraq war was a shameful abomination. Ten years after the London ...Telegraph.co.uk (blog) New Statesman -The Independent -CounterPunch all 32 news articles »

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Anti-government protests continue in Iraq - Aljazeera.com Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:50:24 GMT

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Anti-government protests continue in Iraq Aljazeera.com Tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims have rallied in several Iraqi cities to protest what they describe as unfair treatment by the country's Shia-led government. Sunnis have held a number of protests since last December demanding that Prime Minister ... Iraq's Sunnis rally in major cities to protest against Shiite-led governmentFox News Thousands demand fall of Iraq governmentGlobalPost Onus on Al Maliki to protect Iraq's interestsgulfnews.com Ahlul Bayt News Agency - abna.ir -Global Times -Morning Star Online all 15 news articles »

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Iraq budget battle opens new front in Kurdish feud - Reuters Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:16:06 GMT

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Iraq budget battle opens new front in Kurdish feud Reuters BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A dispute between Iraq's government and the autonomous region of Kurdistan over oil rights is delaying this year's national budget, jeopardizing much-needed investment, as the country's finances have become a new front in the ... Iraq's oil rift deepens over Exxon moveUPI.com Disputes delay Iraq & Kurdistan Region governments' budgetsPress TV Turkish PM receives vice-president of Northern Iraqwww.worldbulletin.net Al-Monitor all 22 news articles »

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Laurie Penny and I are not Iraq War martyrs - Telegraph.co.uk (blog) Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:37:17 GMT

Laurie Penny and I are not Iraq War martyrs Telegraph.co.uk (blog) Today is the tenth anniversary of the historic march on London to protest the Iraq War. Was I there? I think so. I was strongly opposed to an invasion that then, as now, I regarded as wrongheaded and immoral. But I was also a stoner, so I can't ...

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Iraq war 'delivered little but bloodshed', say Britons in 10-year anniversary poll - The Guardian Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:01:24 GMT

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Iraq war 'delivered little but bloodshed', say Britons in 10-year anniversary poll The Guardian The approximately two-to-one balance of opinion against the Iraq war broadly applies across both sexes and every age range. Every nation and region of the UK also retains a clear anti-war majority, with the judgment in Wales – 65% in favour; 22 ...

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'Not in my name': the 2003 Iraq war march was about narcissism, not anti ... - Telegraph.co.uk (blog) Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:51:54 GMT

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'Not in my name': the 2003 Iraq war march was about narcissism, not anti ... Telegraph.co.uk (blog) Today is the 10th anniversary of that much-mythologised million-strong march against war on Iraq. Through their rose-tinted, possibly booze-stained nostalgia goggles, radicals look back at the protest as a major turning point in progressive activism.

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Iraq war plan based on 'primitive' grasp of Islam, admits Labour frontbencher - The Guardian Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:00:29 GMT

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Iraq war plan based on 'primitive' grasp of Islam, admits Labour frontbencher The Guardian Labour has conceded for the first time that a "primitive understanding" of the Islamic world caused some of the problems faced by the west in Iraq and Afghanistan, and warned David Cameron his response to the terrorist crisis in north Africa shows he ... and more »

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The Iraq war and the left: ten years on - New Statesman Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:48:17 GMT

The Iraq war and the left: ten years on New Statesman No event since the 1984 miners' strike has divided the left more than the Iraq war. Friendships were ended, political reputations were destroyed and antagonists accused each other of betrayal. Few were more stridently supportive of the US-led invasion ...

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Ex-Saudi prisoner refuses to talk about Iraq torture - Saudi Gazette Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:45:53 GMT

Ex-Saudi prisoner refuses to talk about Iraq torture Saudi Gazette RIYADH — Media reports about the torture of Saudi prisoners in Iraq are true but such reports lead to an escalation of violence against them, said a Saudi who returned to the Kingdom after spending more than eight years in various Iraqi prisons ...

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Iraq war: the march of time - The Guardian Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:01:38 GMT

Iraq war: the march of time The Guardian Mr Blair once fancied he would be absolved by history, but after years of civil war Iraq eventually fell into the nasty sectarian grip of Nouri al-Maliki. Many accounts of the war remain plausible. Those sceptical Tories who always like to say "it'll ...