Monday Quick Takes: Iraq

• Senator Carl Levin undermines Senators Reid and Feingold on cutting off Iraq occupation funding.
• According to the Guardian, the BBC reported that British government scientists had confirmed to the British government that the Johns Hopkins study on Iraq civilian mortality published last October by Lancet was accurate and reliable in estimating that more than 650,000 Iraqi civilians had died since the beginning of the invasion.
• Ten American soldiers were killed in Iraq over the weekend.
• More than 1,800 U.S. troops are now suffering from traumatic brain injuries caused by penetrating wounds. But neurologists worry that hundreds of thousands more -- at least 30 percent of the troops who've engaged in active combat for four months or longer in Iraq and Afghanistan -- are at risk of potentially disabling neurological disorders from the blast waves of IEDs and mortars, all without suffering a scratch.
• U.S.-run detention camps in Iraq have become a breeding ground for extremists where Islamic militants recruit and train supporters, and use violence against perceived foes, say former inmates and Iraqi officials