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I bet you didn’t know that Air Marshal Glenn Torpy is head of British military operations. Last week this obscure figure told the Daily Telegraph that he expected operations in Iraq to reach a "satisfactory conclusion" in the next 18 months.

Paul Lesniowski was arrested at a peaceful demonstration outside the EDO MBM arms factory in Brighton on Wednesday of last week. EDO’s weapons were used in the attack on Iraq. Paul is accused of breaching a controversial injunction limiting protests at the site.

"In the last throes." US vice president Dick Cheney, on the Iraqi resistance

Reg Keys, whose son Tom was killed in Iraq, travelled to Washington last week to give evidence to a committee of Democratic congressman examining the lies that led to the war.

The bombing was illegal The foreign office was told that bombing raids in the run-up to the war on Iraq were illegal under international law, according to leaked legal advice.

In 2003 school students sent shockwaves through the political establishment when they walked out in their thousands against the Iraq war.

"We can’t kill them all. When I kill one, I create three."Lt Col Frederick Wellman, on the Iraqi resistance. Wellman helps oversee the training of Iraqi troops

"If you are vigilant, dress like locals and hire armed escorts, then there is a 70 percent to 80 percent chance you will be OK."Abdul Razuqi, the head of tourism in Basra, Iraq on the chances of foreign visitors surviving a trip to his town

Fernando Botero is Colombia’s best-known painter, famous for pictures of middle class families and plump businessmen. But his latest work is a radical departure from such cosy small town scenes.

In 1968 you exposed the US massacre at My Lai in Vietnam. Last year you exposed the torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib. How can things like this happen when those prosecuting the war talk about bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to the world?

Millions of people around the world cheered as Respect MP George Galloway denounced the war on Iraq in the US senate last week. He also took apart the senators’ allegations against him about Iraq’s oil for food programme. Ron McKay, who sat beside George Galloway throughout the hearing, writes for Socialist Worker.

New Iraqi witness statements, seen by Socialist Worker, tell of torture meted out by British soldiers.