[Link] ‘The court of God will be waiting for him’: Iraqis react to Colin Powell’s death

Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

For many Iraqis, Colin Powell was the face of the US invasion which caused an estimated 200,000 deaths, unleashing nearly two decades of domestic chaos and precipitating chaos throughout the region.

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[Link] Pentagon Wrongly Admitted Killing 21 Civilians in Iraq and Syria

Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com

The Defense Department has been forced to withdraw a key part of an official report to Congress, after wrongly claiming responsibility for killing 21 civilians in Iraq and Syria who were actually slain by close U.S. allies.

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