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Will this "alleged" mutual defense pact between Iraq and Iran affect America's abitlity to conclude a diplomatic solution to the nuclear issue between Iran and the rest of the world?

The study is the latest in a long series of attempts to come up with realistic numbers of civilian deaths. The numbers are politically fraught, and researchers' work has been further complicated by problems in collecting data while working in a war zone. The estimates have varied widely. The Iraq Body Count, a nongovernmental group based in Britain that bases its numbers on news media accounts, put the number of civilians dead at 47,668 during the same period of time as the World Health Organization study, the W.H.O. report said. President Bush in the past used a number that was similar to one put forward at the time by the Iraq Body Count. But another study, by Johns Hopkins, which has come under criticism for its methodology, cited an estimate of about 600,000 dead between the war's start, in March 2003, and July 2006. The World Health Organization said its study, based on interviews with families, indicated with a 95 percent degree of statistical certainty that between 104,000 and 223,000 civilians had died. It based its estimate of 151,000 deaths on that range. Those figures made violence the leading cause of adult male deaths in Iraq and one of the leading causes of death for the population as a whole, the health organization research team reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine. More than half the violent deaths occurred in Baghdad. While the new study appears to have the broadest scope to date, increasing its reliability, well known limitations of such efforts in war areas make it unlikely to resolve debate about the extent of the killing in Iraq. Iraqi officials gave conflicting assessments of the newest study, with one senior Health Ministry official praising it and another saying the numbers were exaggerated. The White House said that it had not seen the study and would not comment on its estimated death toll, but that the recent increase in American forces had reduced civilian and military casualties. "We mourn

On 15 December 2005, more than 10 million Iraqi citizens thronged to the voting pools to elect a new Iraqi Parliament from which a national government will be emanated after long years of the democracy's absence in the former regime of Saddam Husayn This participation confirmed that the Iraqi citizens are ready for democracy, unlike what others circulate that the Iraqi population is far from democracy. This experiment proved the genuineness of Iraqi people and showed their unity between its religious and ethnic components. It was a very obvious message written by all Iraqis to the terrorist powers which came from out side the borders , that they are able to draw the picture of their future by their own hands and by the help of the good , faithful and honest Iraqis, Regardless of religion, nationality or sect. The role of your sons in the security services, such as ours, was to protect the electors from the terrorist operations, to ensure the freedom of elections, and to monitor the lurking people who are against this unique democracy in the Middle East. Within these democratic celebrations, we expect Iraq will be a secure and peaceful country, able to spread the light of democracy, to enlighten the dark corners which this country has struggled through these passed eras, looking forward to a new journey to build and construct our country Iraq. Our service will be the sure hand to protect the new democracy in Iraq, among other security services, and we will be the sleepless eyes to protect all Iraqis, without exception, to serve the expectations of this great population. General Director Of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service

America and Iraq are locked into a situation that may not be resolved through negotiations between the two parties. If the parties can't agree on a new agreement prior to the U.N. resolution authorizing U.S. forces in the region then the parties MAY extend the U.N. resolution in order to maintain the "multi-national" troops in the region.

Riyadh / Al-Hayat Al-Zaman: The father of a Saudi terrorist detained in Iraq that he be prosecuted two of thought advocates who promoted Heresy لمئات من الشبان فتاوى تحرض على ما اسماه بالجهاد والذهاب إلى مناطق الفتن والصراعات من دون أن يراجعوا فيها هيئة كبار العلماء في المملكة. Hundreds of young men to incite opinions on what he called jihad and go to areas of strife and conflict without review by senior scientists in the Kingdom. وقال عبدالله البليهد في حديثه إلى صحيفة الحياة اللندنية ، إن عراقيا اقتاد ابنه ثامر (23 عاماً) لتهريبه إلى الحدود السعودية لكنه سلمه الى قوات الاحتلال في العراق في مقابل 250 دولاراً أميركياً. Alpeletd Abdullah said in his speech to a life of London newspaper, The Iraqis took his son Thamer (23 years) of smuggled to the Saudi border but donated to the occupying forces in Iraq, compared with U.S. $ 250. وأشار البليهد، الذي يعمل مديراً لمكتب العمل في حفر الباطن، إلى أنه عثر على فتاوى في غرفة ابنه تحض على (الجهاد) موقعة من علي الخضير وأحمد الخالدي اللذين قبض عليهما في مداهمة أمنية غرب المملكة في 28 أيار (مايو) 2003. He Alpeletd, who works as director of the Office of work in Hafr al-Batin, it was found in the room fatwas urging his son Ali (Jihad) signed by the Khudayr and Ahmad Khalidi two arrested in security raids in the west of Saudi Arabia on May 28 (May) 2003. وأضاف انه قرر مقاضاتهما أمام الجهات الشرعية فور تسليم ابنه للسلطات الأمنية، وقال: «لقد اعتذر الخضير والخالدي أمام الملأ عن الفتاوى التكفيرية�

Let's hope that the Iraqi will achieve their peace with the help of America.

Seems as though we are all headed to a divided earth. Chhina's great wall, Berllin Wall (removed), Israel Wall, Mexico Wall, and where else are walls going to be created ?

No, you won't be able to see it from space, but Saudi Arabia, unnerved by the violence next door in Iraq, plans to spend up to $7 billion on a partly virtual fence along its 500-mile border with Iraq.