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var _NTW_stories = [{"rating":"4.2","num_reviews":"3","title":"Iraqis Voice Outrage as Haditha Massacre Trial Ends In No Jail Time for Accused U.S. Marines","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/26/iraqis_voice_outrage_as_us_massacre","date":"2012/01/26","id":8533650,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"The last of the U.S. marines charged in the 2005 Haditha massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians, Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, received no jail time after he pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty and avoiding charges of involuntary manslaughter. Under his sentencing, Wuterich now faces a maximum penalty of a demotion to the rank of private. The victims, including women and children, were killed when the marines burst into their homes and shot them dead in their nightclothes. Wuterich allegedly led the Haditha massacre and was the last defendant to face charges. Six other marines have had their charges dropped or dismissed, while another soldier was acquitted. \"[Iraqi] outrage is perfectly understandable,\" says Tim McGirk, the Time magazine reporter who broke the story on the Haditha massacre. \"Here is a case where so many Iraqis were killed, women and children, old men, and yet, what's happened? Most of the charges have been dismissed, and Wuterich was basically given a slap on the wrist.\" [includes rush transcript]","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.4","num_reviews":"2","title":"Western Oil Firms Remain as US Exits Iraq","url":"http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/308-12/9335-western-oil-firms-remain-as-us-exits-iraq","date":"2012/01/09","id":8504294,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"hile the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell, remain.\n\nOn November 27, 38 months after Royal Dutch Shell announced its pursuit of a massive gas deal in southern Iraq, the oil giant had its contract signed for a $17bn flared gas deal.\n\nThree days later, the US-based energy firm Emerson submitted a bid for a contract to operate at Iraq's giant Zubair oil field, which reportedly holds some eight million barrels of oil.","authors":"Dahr Jamail","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"readersupportednews.org","framebuster":false,"id":"readersupportednews_org","ownership":"","type":""}},{"rating":"3.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Rick Santorum: I Would Bomb Iran","url":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/01/rick-santorum-iran-iowa-caucuses-2012-_n_1178483.html","date":"2012/01/01","id":8492669,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Republican Rick Santorum says that if he's elected president, he would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities unless they were opened for international arms inspectors....","authors":"","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Huffington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"huffington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"3","title":"Could Iraq descend into a civil war again? - CSMonitor.com","url":"http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/1220/Could-Iraq-descend-into-a-civil-war-again/(page)/2","date":"2011/12/20","id":8474839,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"The scars of Iraq's painful bloodletting are deep, and a powerful disincentive against a return to open warfare. But Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is moving against Sunni Arabs, his political enemies.","authors":"Dan Murphy","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Christian Science Monitor","framebuster":false,"id":"christian_science_monitor","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"3","title":"Iraqi Women's Activist Rebuffs U.S. Claims of a Freer Iraq: \"This Is Not a Democratic Country\"","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/16/iraqi_womens_activist_rebuffs_us_claims","date":"2011/12/16","id":8471269,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, joins us to discuss the impact of the nearly nine-year U.S. occupation, particularly on Iraqi women. \"The Iraqi cities are now much more destroyed than they were five years ago,\" Mohammed says. \"At the same time, we have turned to a society of 99 percent poor and 1 percent rich due to the policies that were imposed in Iraq.\" Moahmmed decries the repression of Iraqi protesters that joined the Arab Spring in a February 25th action. \"The women are the biggest losers in all of this. We went to the Iraqi squares, we demonstrated, but got oppressed in ways that are new to Iraqi people. Anti-riot police of the American style was something that we witnessed there ... This is not a democratic country.\" [Rush transcript to come. Check back soon.]","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.1","num_reviews":"1","title":"Pentagon Declares End to an Iraq War of Mixed Results","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/panetta-in-baghdad-for-iraq-military-handover-ceremony.html","date":"2011/12/15","id":8468094,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Even in its twilight days, the American military here has suffered humiliating attacks that complicated the handover.","authors":"Thom Shanker, Michael S. Schmidt, Robert F. Worth","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.1","num_reviews":"4","title":"Arrests in Iraq Raise Concerns About Maliki","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/world/middleeast/arrests-in-iraq-raise-concerns-about-maliki.html","date":"2011/12/12","id":8462954,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"Night raids and mass arrests come as the United States prepares to leave Iraq, leading Western officials to question the country\u2019s course under Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.","authors":"Jack Healy, Tim Arango, Michael S. Schmidt","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"1","title":"State Dept. Veteran Peter Van Buren Defies U.S. Censors to Recount Failed Reconstruction in Iraq","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/30/state_dept_veteran_peter_van_buren","date":"2011/11/30","id":8440975,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"In \"We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People,\" State Department official Peter Van Buren provides a first-hand account of the faltering and often misguided attempts at reconstruction in Iraq undertaken by the U.S. government. Van Buren published the book after rebuffing heavy State Department pressure to redact a number of passages. Van Buren joins us to discuss the failed efforts he witnessed in Iraq and his struggle to tell his story to the world. \"The State department is very much like the Mafia,\" Van Buren says. [Rush transcript to come. Check back soon.]","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"1.1","num_reviews":"0","title":"The dark side of counterinsurgency - Afghanistan - Salon.com","url":"http://www.salon.com/2011/11/15/the_dark_side_of_counterinsurgency/","date":"2011/11/16","id":8415800,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"The dark side to U.S. counterinsurgency tactics were on graphic display last week when Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, of the 5thStryker Brigade, was convicted in a military court of three counts of murder, attempted murder and other charges, while deployed in Afghanistan in 2009.","authors":"David N. Philipps\nDavid N. Philipps\n\nDavid N. Philipps\n\nDavid N Philipps","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"Salon","framebuster":false,"id":"salon","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.7","num_reviews":"6","title":"Fact checking the South Carolina debate","url":"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/fact-checking-the-south-carolina-debate/2011/11/13/gIQAFKzVIN_blog.html?referrer=newstrust","date":"2011/11/14","id":8409491,"story_type":"Fact Check","quote":"The GOP candidates met for a debate Saturday night sponsored by CBS and the National Journal, with a specific focus on foreign policy and national security. In foreign policy, there is often no right or wrong answer; the results of a policy are often ambiguous and its effectiveness is usually only determined by history. Still, there were a number of statements made by the candidates that were factually challenged, exaggerated or lacking context. Read full article ...","authors":"Glenn Kessler","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Washington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"washington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}}]