EXCLUSIVE-US tax breaks help Jewish settlers in West Bank
The United States says Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank threaten any peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- yet it also encourages Americans to help support settlers by offering tax breaks on donations. As Condoleezza Rice flew in on Monday for another round of peace talks, Israeli and American supporters of settlements defended the tax incentives, which benefit West Bank enclaves deemed illegal by the World Court and which the U.S. secretary of state has said are an obstacle to Palestinian statehood.
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=313302

Palestinian village sues Canadian builders over Israeli settlement
A West Bank village is suing two Quebec-based companies for $2 million, alleging they violated international law by building Israeli settlements on occupied territory. The claim, filed Wednesday against sister companies Green Park International and Green Mount International, also asks the Quebec Superior Court for an injunction to stop further construction, and demolish apartment buildings already erected in Moddin Illit, a Jewish settlement northwest of Ramallah.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/07/10/qc-settlementlawsuit0710.html?ref=rss

It takes a village
"Bil'in village and human rights attorneys both share the same goal in this legal battle - to put pressure on companies or even investors internationally to halt their involvement in illegal Israeli settlement construction," explains Michael Sfard, an Israeli lawyer representing Bil'in. "Israeli settlement construction is the number one obstacle to lasting peace, as settlements are forcing Palestinian people from their lands, from their homes, from their towns." Bil'in, a small Palestinian town in the West Bank, stands to make legal history in Canada. Palestinians from Bil'in have filed a lawsuit in Quebec Superior Court against two sister companies registered in Quebec, Green Park International and Green Mount International, currently constructing in Modi'in Illit, an exclusive Israeli settlement on lands within Bil'in's municipal jurisdiction.
http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=15132

46 Patients, including 10 children, died since the truce was declared
The Palestinian Ministry of Health at the Hamas-led government in Gaza reported on Tuesday that 78 days after the truce deal came into effect in the Gaza Strip, 46 patients including 10 children, died due to the ongoing Israeli siege on the coastal region.
http://www.imemc.org/article/56735

Gazan woman killed in clan fighting in Al-Bureij refugee camp
A Palestinian woman was killed on Tuesday in fight between rival clans in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources said. Medics at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital told Ma'an that 25-year-old Waelah Al-Halabi was dead no arrival at the hospital as a result of a gunshot in the neck.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=31549

Police arrest Israeli activist Jeff Halper
A spokeswoman for protesters who defied a blockade of Gaza by entering by sea says one was arrested after returning to Israel by land.  Angela Godfrey-Goldstein said that Jeff Halper, an Israeli citizen, was detained by police after he passed through the Erez crossing. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Halper was taken to a police station in southern Israel Tuesday. He had no details.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3588164,00.html

Israeli activist who sailed on protest boat to Gaza arrested
The Israeli peace activist Prof. Jeff Halper, who sailed to Gaza with other demonstrators from around the world Saturday, was arrested yesterday as he crossed into Israel from the Strip through the Erez crossing. Halper, who heads the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, arrived in Gaza on one of two small ships that carried activists protesting against Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities allowed the boats to reach the enclave "to avoid any provocation" by the leftist activists.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1015477.html

Hamas: Fateh security forces arrested nine Hamas members in the West Bank
Sources within the Hamas movement reported on Tuesday that Palestinian security forces, loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas, arrested in the West Bank nine members and supporters of Hamas in the West Bank cities of Jenin, Qalqilia, Tulkarem and Bethlehem. http://www.imemc.org/article/56734

Hamas: PA forces detain 6 Hamas members in Nablus
Hamas said that Palestinian Authority (PA) security systems detained six Hamas members in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday. Hamas said in a statement that security forces detained Bashar Samaro, Ra'ed Munir, Sameh Abu Shamt and Riyad Qaradah, who was only released a few days ago.  In addition, Hamas said, the PA arrested Ala' Jarar'a and Ahmad Deirawi from the village of Asira ash Shamaliya, north of Nablus, after summoning them for interrogation.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=31564

Israeli forces detain Palestinian man from Hebron
Israeli forces on Tuesday afternoon stormed home of 34-year-old Hazim Qafishah in the West Bank city of Hebron and arrested him, according to a Palestinian security source. The source added that Israeli troops damaged some of the home's interior during a search.
According to the source, Qafishah works with Palestinian police detectives in Hebron.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=31552

Israel court jails Hamas mayor for six years
AFP - An Israeli military court has sentenced the Hamas mayor of the occupied West Bank town of Jenin to six years in prison, the military said on Tuesday.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080826/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictwestbankhamastrial

Israel detains six Palestinians in West Bank
Six Palestinians were arrested early on Wednesday by Israeli Army forces in different regions of the West Bank, Palestinian security sources said.   The sources told local media that these detention operations came as the Israeli troops raided the city of Nablus, northern West Bank.  They added that Israeli military vehicles and ground forces executed an incursion into the tribal city of Aseera, near Nablus, where the Israeli troops conducted a house-to-house search operation and arrested six Palestinians, claiming that the detainees were on the Israeli authorities' "wanted" list.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1933921&Language=en

Bomb explodes at Al-Azhar University campus in Gaza
A bomb exploded in a classroom at Al-Azhar University in Gaza on Tuesday morning, causing no casualties.  The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) reported the incident in a statement released on Wednesday. The bomb went off in the Al-Katiba building on the campus in the West of Gaza City at 11:30am. The room was "heavily damaged." A number of college students had attended an exam in the room shortly before the explosion.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=31566

Fatah hackers crash Hamas website
Hackers belonging to Fatah caused a website owned by Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Hamas' military wing on Tuesday.  "Don't say this is the work of intelligence services. This is Fatah youth," said a message planted on the site instead of the erased content.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3588128,00.html

P.A Ministry of Health slams Hamas for firing 40 health workers in one day
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the West Bank reported that the Hamas government in Gaza and its security forces fired 40 health workers, including physicians, pharmacists, lab specialists and X-Ray technicians in one day under the claims that they do not recognize the legitimacy of the Hamas government in Gaza.
http://www.imemc.org/article/56733

Medical workers in Gaza declare open ended strike against Hamas
The Palestinian union of medical professionals has declared a total strike in the Gaza Strip following the reported firing of more than 40 union members from their jobs in the Strip, the latest in a series of labor actions against the de facto government of Gaza. Sources in the union told Ma'an that the open-ended strike will protest the "violent practices" of the Hamas-led government in Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=31561

PA threatens its teachers with cutting salaries if they return to work
The PA in Ramallah rejected the decision taken by the union of teachers in Gaza to end the strike and threatened the union's cadres with cutting their salaries if they carried out their decision.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7zHGrLL35EGRqrlICWmeyp0F8FHAYY2ilhBgozMRoKg4UpkXcgCCfY0dVLGHduuG%2bOXl1SvPd0HWtQqGfrQaCLW4jh7g6SeRq6y4nEqTHSn0%3d

Gaza crossings closed "until further notice"
Israel will keep border crossings into the Gaza Strip closed to commercial and humanitarian goods "until further notice," Palestinian officials were told on Tuesday.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=31558

Gaza government to pay August salaries of workers on Wednesday
The de facto government in the Gaza Strip will pay the salaries of its civil servants for the month of August beginning on Wednesday morning, the head of the government workers' union announced.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=31562

Palestinian herders hard-hit by drought, Israeli restrictions
Hard-hit by a severe three-year drought and tough restrictions on movement imposed by Israel, Palestinian shepherds are facing what some elders call their worst crisis in living memory.  "All we have left is hope," says Musa Abdullah Awad, a wizened 49-year-old herder as he looks down at the remaining water in his cistern, which he says is barely enough to keep his goats alive a little longer.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/KLMT-7HW7Q7?OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P

Israeli radio bans ad criticizing Gaza policy
Israel's national broadcast authority has rejected radio ads criticizing the government for stranding Palestinian university students in the Gaza Strip.  The authority says the ads are too controversial. The ads were submitted by an Israeli human rights group that is working for freedom of movement for Palestinians. The radio spots targeted Israeli sanctions that have trapped hundreds of Gaza students who hoped to study abroad.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/27/africa/ME-Israel-Gaza-Students.php

Israel to Buy US Warship, Develop Military Plans
Israel is endlessly seeking to acquire modern weaponry, especially after it was dealt a sever blow in its war on Lebanon in 2006, when its warship, Hanit, was hit and after Iran announced it has produced a military submarine. In this context, the Israeli television revealed that the navy intends to buy a US warship capable of launching multiple nuclear missiles against "enemy cities." According to the television report, the vessel also has the ability to protect Israeli cities against rocket attacks and be a strategic arm.
http://almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=54743&language=en

Official sources: Abbas to meet Olmert on Sunday
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert may meet on Sunday, Palestinian sources said on Wednesday.  The sources said that the Palestinian and the Israeli official shold contacts to arrange for the meeting which will be the second between the two men this month.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/27/content_9723141.htm

Hamas: Rice-Livni-Qurei meeting aims to tighten siege on Gaza
Hamas charged that the meeting between American secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni and former PA premier Ahmed Qurei is aimed at pressuring the Palestinians.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s73Tm9VkXM8ZK4F4NlpbHRIdMklZ3i0GEKW6HNPauS2OjQUdxkrNPFQZHcTE9slQEl92hNxF46u9vDI5Sx0aUg2tfV6sZl4NjWpjXGYH%2bf%2fFw%3d

Empty Gestures will Not Help Abbas
Israel's decision to release some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a "goodwill gesture" to President Mahmoud Abbas comes not long after the exchange of prisoners and bodies, including many Palestinians, between Israel and Hizballah and amid ongoing negotiations about a possible prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. Attention has thus been refocused on the issue of Palestinian prisoners, a particularly sensitive one in Palestinian society.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14109

Egypt holds separate bilateral talks with Palestinian groups
Cairo_(dpa) _ Palestinian officials holding talks in Egypt on ending divisions among the various Palestinian groups said Tuesday that talks between all Palestinian groups are to resume at the end of next month. Egypt is to hold separate talks with individual Palestinian factions throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which starts September 1, Mohamad al-Hindi, a senior official of the Islamic Jihad group, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/KLMT-7HW38Y?OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P

Egyptian kinship with Fatah hampers mediation
CAIRO (IPS) - Following renewed fighting between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, Egypt has stepped up calls for dialogue and reconciliation. But critics say Cairo's partiality to Fatah -- which is backed, like the Egyptian regime itself, by the US -- prevents it from mediating fairly in the crisis.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9784.shtml

Israel hails Egypt's 'effective' action on Gaza tunnels
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak during talks with President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday voiced rare praise for Egypt's efforts to stem weapons smuggling into the Islamist-run Gaza Strip. Barak hailed Egyptian efforts along the porous border which "have visibly been effective," said a statement from the Israeli defence ministry after the talks at one of Mubarak's palaces in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080826/wl_mideast_afp/mideastegyptisraeldiplomacy

IRAQ: Some Palestinian refugees to get special IDs
The Iraqi government has launched a registration process for Palestinian refugees who arrived between 1948 and 1967 - and their descendants - to help ensure they benefit from government aid programmes.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=80016

Creating a fact on the ground
Yehudit Genud hardly feels she is on the frontier of Israel's settlement project, although the huddle of mobile homes on a wind-swept West Bank hilltop she calls home is controversial even by Israeli standards. Despite the size and isolation of Migron, a settlement of about 45 religious families on a ridge next to the Palestinian city of Ramallah, Genud's job as a social worker in West Jerusalem is a 25-minute drive away on a well-paved road.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9779.shtml

Huwaida Arraf treats bully Ranaan Gissin admirably 
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2008/08/26/huwaida-arraf-treat-bully-ranaan-gissin-admirably/

A summer camp for political dissenters in Israel
At Alternative Camp, draft dodgers and declared conscientious objectors hope to develop a new generation of young Israelis who refuse to fight.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0827/p01s04-wome.html

Standing up for justice in the Middle East
The Free Gaza Movement, a diverse group of international human rights activists from 17 different countries, will soon set sail from Cyprus to Gaza in order to challenge the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. I'm proud to stand with them. Over 170 prominent individuals and organizations have endorsed our efforts, including the Carter Center, former British Cabinet member Clare Short, and Nobel Peace Prize laureates Mairead Maguire and Desmond Tutu.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9776.shtml

Ramattan reporter reaches Gaza on board the Liberty
Tears filled the eyes of Ramattan News Agency's Head of African Operations Hayyan Jubeh when he caught his first glimpse of the skyline on the coast of Gaza along the horizon of the Mediterranean Sea after a 37-hour voyage launched from Cyprus. Jubeh, 48, a Palestinian filmmaker from Jerusalem, is one of 44 international peace activists on board the ships. Sami Abu Salem writes from the Gaza Strip.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9783.shtml

Out fishing in Gaza!
After a long and hard trip to Gaza, international activists who sailed there from Cyprus plan to return, taking with them a few stranded Palestinian Fulbright scholars. In Gaza, they delivered hearing aids to a charity-Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children (one which I absolutely love for their handicrafts, made by deaf men and women which you can purchase online).
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/2008/08/out-fishing-in-gaza.html

"Free Gaza" vessels activists join protests against Gaza blockade
44 international pro-Palestinian activists, who arrived in Gaza on Saturday on two boats sailed from Cyprus joined on Wednesday, protests in Gaza against the Israeli blockade.  Israel has been imposing a tight blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip after the movement took control of the enclave by force and ousted President Mahmoud Abbas security forces in mid June last year.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/27/content_9723506.htm

Palestinian rights group commends international activists
As a Palestinian human rights organization, Al-Haq would like to send its warmest commendations to the human rights defenders involved in the feat of the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty breaking the blockade of the Gaza Strip. The crews made the 370-kilometer voyage from Larnaca port, Cyprus, in a symbolic gesture to highlight the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9785.shtml

Gaza: UN expert welcomes landing of ships carrying human rights activists
"That siege, the coast blockade, and the overflights by Israeli aircraft all bear witness to the fact that despite Israel's claimed 'disengagement' in 2005, these realities on the ground establish that Gaza remains under Israeli occupation, and as a result Israel remains legally responsible for protecting the human rights of its civilian population."
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27814&Cr=palestin&Cr1

"Colors From Palestine" 2009 Calendar
http://www.resistanceart.com/calendars.htm

Seth Freedman: In Israel, many Jews are now losing sight of the deeper messages of their religion
Seth Freedman: An obsession with Israel means that many Jews are now losing sight of the deeper messages of their religion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/27/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

A civil war in the making
ecent weeks have seen the worst fighting between rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas since the latter's takeover of the Gaza Strip last summer. Hamas accuses the "treasonous faction" within Fatah -- which worked with US military intelligence in last year's failed bid to destroy the resistance group -- of instigating the violence.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9780.shtml

Palestinian Contemporary Political Performance: A Bitter Harvest
Writing about contemporary Palestinian political performance is not an easy task because, in the case of Palestine, internal and external factors are inextricably intertwined. The fact that Palestine was subjected to successive occupations throughout its history makes it easy to pin all the mistakes made by the Palestinians on external factors, where the Palestinians become the victim, free of responsibility and, thus, unable to change reality. Or it can lead to the opposite extreme, expressed in a large measure of self-flagellation, where the victim becomes responsible for all that has befallen it. Some critics go so far as to suggest that the Palestinian social infrastructure suffers from a basic dysfunction which makes it incapable of achieving any successes.
http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=1166

Occupation by Another Name
Excerpt: Meron Benvenisti in an excellent article mentions the "success of the propaganda campaign known as 'negotiations with the Palestinians,' which convinces many that the status quo is temporary."
http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/?articleid=13362

AIPAC: We like Biden: Thumbs up for Biden from an AIPAC spokesman
"Sen Biden is a strong supporter of the US-Israel relationship and he has longstanding ties to AIPAC and the pro-Israel community. "
http://blogs.jta.org/politics/2008/08/25/819/aipac-we-like-biden/

Jerusalem: Orthodox riot in protest of chastity squad arrest
Haredim burn garbage cans, block streets in protest of arrest of community member suspected of torching store that sells MP4 player. 'Safeguarding Torah considered a crime in this country of Sodom and Gomorrha,' they say.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3587654,00.html

Gaydamak: I'd die before allowing pride parade in Jerusalem
Israeli-Russian businessman explains homosexuals cannot march on streets of holy city. 'The streets of Jerusalem are a symbol, and parading on them is an aggressive act against tradition,' he says.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3587409,00.html

Israeli Kid-Killer Claims Palestinians Bought Granddaughter/Stepdaughter/Victim
A shocking murder case in Israel captured Israeli headlines. The disappearance and and death of 4-year-old, French-Israeli Rose Ron,involved a grim web of deceit, strange familial relations, and blaming Palestinians (it is Israel, after all). Rose's mother is now suspected of asking her husband, who is the girl's grandfather, to "get rid of her" before he allegedly murdered her, Haaretz reported.
"I don't want to see the girl any more - get rid of her," Marie-Charlotte Renault allegedly said, according to a police investigation into the affair.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/08/israeli-kid-killer-claims-palestinians.html

At least 35 killed in suicide attack in Diyala province
At least 35 people were killed and 47 were injured Tuesday in a suicide attack in front of a police station in Iraq's Diyala province, medical and witnesses said.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1426987.php/At_least_35_killed_in_suicide_attack_in_Diyala_province__2nd_Lead_

2 civilians killed, 20 wounded in 3 blasts in Baghdad
Two civilians were killed and 20 others were injured in three separate explosions in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday, a police source said.   "A car rigged with explosives went off in Baghdad al-Jadieda region in southeastern Baghdad, killing a civilian and injuring seven more, in addition to damaging a number of nearby vehicles," the source, who asked for anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq (VOI).
http://66.111.34.180/look/english/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=90912&NrIssue=2&NrSection=1

Iraqi resistance kills U.S.occupation force soldier in Baghdad
An American occupation force soldier died of wounds sustained from small-arms attack in northern Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/26/content_9715325.htm

Iraq: Culture Minister Kamel Shiya Slain
2008-08-26 | An Iraqi official charged with safeguarding Iraq's cultural heritage, Kamel Shiya, was killed by an unidentified gunman in the center of Baghdad. UNESCO's Director-General, Koichiro Matsuura, said Mr. Shiya was an invaluable colleague for UNESCO since 2003. Mr. Shiya was an advisor at the Ministry of Culture and was considered a champion of Iraq's reconstruction.
http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=5079&blz=1

IRAQ: Sectarian Clashes Flare Up Again
A military operation said to target al-Qaeda has ended up targeting Sunni Muslims instead, creating new sectarian tensions. A U.S.-backed security operation launched last month has only targeted cities with majority Sunni populations such as Buhriz, Tahreer, Qatoon, Mafraq, and Hay in Diyala province, north of Baghdad. The operation has drawn more than 50,000 Iraqi soldiers. The deputy governor of Diyala, Awf Rahoomi, has demanded in a public speech in Baquba that "the new security plan should also include Shia cities like Hwaider, Khirnabat and Abara."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43671

The Big Questions About Iraq
Will Iraq disintegrate if the United States withdraws its combat troops? The US and Iraq are close to agreeing a security accord under which the  US would pull its combat troops out of Iraqi cities, towns and villages on June 30, 2009 and out of Iraq by December 31, 2011. This will only happen  if a joint Iraqi-American ministerial committee agrees that security in Iraq  has improved to the point where the half million strong Iraqi security  forces can take over. Other aspects of the draft agreement show that the  government of Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki is increasingly confident  of its own military and political strength. The accord now close to being  agreed is very different from the one the US proposed as recently as  March which would simply have continued the US occupation, much as it  has been under the UN mandate which runs out at the end of the year.  The main point about the agreement, if it is implemented as expected, is  that the US will cease to be the predominant military power in Iraq from  next summer for the first time since the US-led coalition overthrew Saddam  Hussein in 2003.
http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick08262008.html

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Do Kill
When militiamen from the Mahdi Army came by the compact, two-story stone home in the Doura neighborhood of Baghdad, they weren't looking for Sunnis to harass. They were hunting gays. "Bring us your son's cell phone," one ordered the middle-aged man who came to the gate. They wanted to check if his son, Nadir, had been calling foreigners--and in fact he had only hours earlier called this reporter to set up a meeting, and he had repeatedly called a gay nongovernmental organization (NGO) in London. Fortunately, Nadir was ready for them and produced a "clean" phone he keeps for just such a threat. This time they left, but vowed to come back if they found any evidence he was gay--or was talking to undesirable foreigners. Now that Iraq's sectarian war has cooled off, it's open season on homosexuals and others whose lifestyles infuriate religious hardliners.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/155656?from=rss

Iraqi adviser says he quit to speak against Iran
A former security adviser to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in comments published Tuesday that he had quit his job so he can freely speak about what he called the danger Iran poses in the Middle East.
http://www.lcsun-news.com/apcontent/ci_10308451

Kurdish journalists under assault in Iraq
Reuters - Iraq's northern Kurdish enclave may be a haven of relative peace and serenity but independent journalists there say challenges to the political establishment are being met with intimidation and threats.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080827/wl_nm/iraq_journalists_dc

Former Marine testifies in Iraqi detainee killings
A former Marine sergeant testified Tuesday at the civilian trial of a former squad leader accused of manslaughter that he saw the body of an Iraqi man on the floor and his colleague preparing his gun as two Iraqi detainees watched.
http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080827/ap_on_re_us/marines_fallujah

Maliki the Nationalist?
 Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki continues to make headlines by posing as an Iraqi nationalist. Don't buy it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20624.htm

Iraq vets take to the streets to protest the war
DENVER-- A few dozen Iraq War vets, dressed in full camo gear, staged one of the more eye-catching demonstrations of the day outside the Colorado Convention Center, enacting what they said are everyday street scenes in the Middle East. The group, representing Iraq Veterans Against the War, staged a series of simulated car stops, detainments, reaction to sniper fire and secure movement through an urban area.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/elections/2008/08/iraq_vets_take_to_the_streets.html

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