Suicide Bomb Kills Scores in Restaurant | Blackwater Troops Indicted | UK Troops to Leave in March?

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Suicide Bomb Kills 55 at Packed Iraq Restaurant By Marwan Ibrahim, Middle East Online "The restaurant was full when the bomb exploded," said one survivor. "It sent glass flying and destroyed the walls." Read more »   Dear Reader, AlterNet has launched 100 Words for 100 Days, a new project to publish our readers' visions for Obama's highest priorities. You're invited to contribute! Every day from now until Obama's inauguration we will publish 8 new visionary essays by AlterNet readers in our new 100 Words for 100 Days section on our front page (just scroll down to view the section). We've already gotten started, click here for reader contributions that we have already run on the site. And be sure to check out the latest War on Iraq Special Coverage. Thanks for reading, Liliana Segura Editor, War on Iraq Special Coverage     Massive Bombing In Iraqi Oil Area By Staff, Iraq Oil Report Kirkuk is Iraq's second most important oil area, and the scene of dispute between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs. Read more »   British Troops to Start Leaving Iraq in March By Kim Sengupta, Independent UK Next stop for the U.K. military equipment and some troops: Afghanistan. Read more »   Blackwater Operatives Indicted for Slaughter of Iraqi Civilians By Jeremy Scahill, TheNation.com A U.S. court indicted 5 Blackwater mercenaries on multiple charges stemming from the Nisour Square attacks. Read more »   NBC's "One-Man Military-Industrial-Media Complex" By Diane Farsetta, PR Watch As a consultant for military contractors, retired general and Pentagon pundit Barry McCaffrey is a first-class war profiteer. Read more »   KBR Kept Foreign Contractors in Squalid Warehouses for Months By Adam Ashton, McClatchy Newspapers Some 1,000 Asian workers have spent up to three months in windowless warehouses in Baghdad, without money or a place to work. Read more »   Former U.S. Interrogator: Torture Policy Has Led to More Deaths than 9/11 Attacks By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! "How anyone can say that torture keeps Americans safe is beyond me," says the author of How to Break a Terrorist. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     End the War in Iraq, Now. By David Graham What do you think the people of Iraq would like to see in Obama's first one hundred days? Read more »   Kurds Clash with Central Government Over Oil Contracts By Karim Zaair, Azzaman The central government has repeatedly declared that the 17 contracts the Kurds have signed with foreign oil firms are illegal. Read more »   Obama's Afghanistan Dilemma: 'Growing Dissent' on More Troops By Sam Stein, Huffington Post With the presidential election concluded, the progressive voices of skepticism have grown only louder. Read more »

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