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A woman directs a donkey-pulled cart loaded with clay bricks at a factory in al-Kifl district. Economic hardship has pushed 5% of the country’s children into labour, according to a UN study in 2018, often in harsh, unhealthy conditions, Hilla, #Iraq

Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images

A woman in red dress, with her face covered, directs a donkey-pulled cart loaded with clay bricks at a factory.
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Iraq has successfully recovered a collection of ancient artifacts from Japan and Switzerland, the country’s Foreign and Culture Ministries announced.

Since 2008, the United States has returned more than 1,200 artifacts to Iraq, which suffered extensive looting following the 2003 invasion.

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Iraq Solidarity News Iraq's Mesopotamian heritage: Reclaimed and restoredIraq has successfully recovered a collection of ancient artifacts from Japan and Switzerland, the country’s Foreign and Culture Ministries announced o
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"We can best highlight the importance of a functioning check upon US #intelligence officials by examining what happens when there isn’t one. In the lead up to the Iraq #War... VP Cheney leaned hard on #US intelligence to declare that there were weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in #Iraq... The Director of the #CIA at the time... went along with the bogus claim...

Had the #House Intelligence Committee performed adequate oversight... we might never have gone into Iraq."

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Text from article: Lack of oversight is great if you plan to abuse power The House Intelligence Committee serves a critical role. It provides an extra check upon the powerful agencies, councils and bureaus that comprise the sprawling U.S. intelligence community, which has a whopping annual budget of $90 billion. We can best highlight the importance of a functioning check upon U.S. intelligence officials by examining what happens when there isn’t one. In the lead up to the Iraq War, for example, then Vice President Cheney leaned hard on U.S. intelligence to declare that there were weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq that would justify an invasion. The Director of the CIA at the time, George Tenet, was a Bush loyalist. He went along with the bogus claim and went as far as to call it a “slam dunk case,” even though the intelligence community believed there was insufficient supporting evidence. A Senate Report on Iraqi WMD intelligence, produced in 2004, confirmed that many of the pre-war statements by U.S. officials were unsupported by the intelligence that had been gathered. Had the House Intelligence Committee performed adequate oversight, it could have reached the same conclusion, and we might never have gone into Iraq.
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