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Hundreds of thousands of Shia protesters have burnt and trampled on US flags in the Iraqi city of Najaf during an anti-American rally called by Muqtada al-Sadr, a prominent Shia leader.

On Monday, March 26, 2007 in Northern Gaza a river of raw sewage and debris overflowed from a collapsed earth embankment into a refugee camp driving 3,000 Palestinians from their homes.  Five residents drowned, 25 were injured and scores of houses were destroyed.

Our "free" media is so eager to accept the official British explanation of why their sailors/Marines wound up in Iranian custody that most Western "news" accounts are ignoring all evidence to the contrary, such as the trenchant observation of former British diplomat Craig Murray:

For four years, Britain and the US have aimed to encourage sectarianism, but ultimately they will fail to divide the country

A highly critical open letter to General Patraeus, the US Commanding General of the Multinational Force in Iraq, written by Professor James Petras.

Iraq's government last night agreed a landmark deal on sharing the country's formidable oil wealth among the country's ethnic minorities, an arrangement that appears to go a long way to assuaging Sunni fears of being cut out of the country's oil revenues.

It would be desirable to induce Iran to suspend its enrichment programme, but attacking the country is not the way to do it.