1.0 link 137205 <![CDATA[Protest Stirs Against US-Iraq Secret Pact]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/protest-stirs-against-us_b_137205.html Fifty clergy and human rights leaders are demanding that Congress oppose the pact being negotiated in secret by the Bush and al-Maliki administrations to bind the hands of the next Administration with a continued war and occupation in Iraq.

The White House and Pentagon commanders are threatening "consequences" if Iraq refuses to sign the so-called "status of forces" agreement before Dec. 31, the deadline ending the current United Nations authorization of the occupation.

The pact, which is being negotiated behind closed...

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