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Iraq
Ray McGovern: Does Torture Work? Let's Have both sides of the Story
Submitted by mgibbs on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 9:38am.11/15/2009 - 7:00pm
11/15/2009 - 9:00pm
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Washington State Religious Campaign Against Torture, UW Tacoma's Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Concentration and United for Peace of Pierce County present:
Ray McGovern on Does Torture Work? Presentation is at UW-Tacoma, Carwein Auditorium, 1900 Commerce St., Tacoma. The event is FREE, public welcome. Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years. He is active in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) and has been an outspoken critic of the flawed intelligence used to justify the Iraq War and the use of torture.
Co-sponsors include: ACLU-Washington, American Friends Committee -Pacific NW, Amnesty International Puget Sound; Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW); Washington Associatioon of Churches; and Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation. read more »
US death toll in Iraq war hits 4,000
Submitted by alex on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 12:30am.
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press March 24, 2008
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on
Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in
the five-year war to at least 4,000. The grim milestone came on a day
when at least 61 people were killed across the country.
Rockets
and mortars pounded the U.S.-protected Green Zone, underscoring the
fragile security situation and the resilience of both Sunni and Shiite
extremist groups despite an overall lull in violence.
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