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Revealed: U.S. Military Allies in Iraq Asked Red Cross to Investigate Fallujah Birth Defects

Robert Verkaik, Independent UK. May 6, 2010.

Britain was so concerned about reports of an alarming increase in the number of babies being born with deformities that ministers asked the Red Cross to investigate.

Report: British Soldiers Using Models of Mosques for Target Practice

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 8, 2010.

While a military spokesman denied the structures were meant to be mosques, he defended the use of props 'that replicate the environment [soldiers] will be deployed to.'

British Army Magazine Features Openly Gay Soldier on Cover Next to Word 'Pride'

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville. July 27, 2009.

British servicemen and women now march at Gay Pride in uniform.

The British Withdrawal Is Only Our Latest Shameful Exit Following an Unjust Invasion Of Iraq

Robert Fisk, Independent UK. May 1, 2009.

179,000 dead Iraqis? Or closer to a million? The British never cared about the Iraqis. That's why we don't know the figure. That's why we left Basra.

British Iraq "Withdrawal" a Microcosm of Obama's Bad Iraq Policy

Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. April 30, 2009.

Britain ends 'combat operations' in Iraq, but, taking a cue from the U.S., London is escalating its neoliberal economic efforts and military training.

Suicide Bomber Kills 33 at Reconciliation Meeting of Sunni and Shia Iraqis

Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. March 11, 2009.

The suicide bombing comes three days after a similar attack killed 28 people near the police academy in east Baghdad.

British Troops to Start Leaving Iraq in March

Kim Sengupta, Independent UK. December 10, 2008.

Next stop for the U.K. military equipment and some troops: Afghanistan.

Revealed: Gulf War Syndrome is Real, Caused by Pills and Pesticides

Kim Sengupta, Independent UK. November 20, 2008.

A groundbreaking study has found that pills given to U.S. and British troops to counter nerve gas is one of the causes of Gulf War Syndrome.

Iraqi Army: Nowhere Near Ready

Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor. May 3, 2008.

Reports of the Iraqi Army's performance range from good, with British military officers describing it as an "unmitigated disaster at every level."