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Iraq parliament fails to pass elections bill »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 1 week ago in News
The Iraqi parliament broke for summer vacation Wednesday without passing a bill that would have allowed provincial elections to be held this year, dealing a ...
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US Contractor Bills in Iraq to Hit $100B »
Posted by: Ousama 3 months, 1 week ago in News
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By the end of the year, the US will have spent $100 billion on private defense contractors in Iraq, a congressional report finds, showing ...More | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at newser.com
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Antiwar Radio: Scott Horton Interviews Patrick ******** »
Posted by: populist 3 months, 1 week ago in News
Patrick ********, Middle East correspondent for the Independent, discusses the slightly less violent, yet still horrific, conditions in Iraq, the fear and violence that dominates daily ...
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Iran Training Iraqi Hit Squads To Assassinate US, Iraqi Troops »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months ago in News
Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran's elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are ...
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Gen. Petraeus recommends delay in Iraq troop cuts »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 1 week ago in News
Army Gen. David H. Petraeus has recommended that President Bush postpone sharp troop cuts in Iraq until next year, delaying a large-scale shift of combat ...
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Two Black Hawks down in Baghdad »
Posted by: BronxBomber 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
An Iraqi soldier was killed when two US helicopters collide while landing at a base in northern Baghdad, the US military says.
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Iraqis Seek More Withdrawal Talks; U.S. Says They're Over »
Posted by: TimALoftis 1 week, 4 days ago in News
BAGHDAD — The United States delivered Thursday what it said was the final text of the controversial accord on the stationing of U.S. forces in ...
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Biden, Iraq and Obama's Betrayal »
Posted by: berkeley 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Incipient Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's selection of Joseph Biden as his running mate constitutes a stunning betrayal of the anti-war constituency who made ...
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Iraq cancels six no-bid oil contracts »
Posted by: ameliog 2 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
An Iraqi plan to award six no-bid contracts to Western oil companies, which came under sharp criticism from several United States senators this summer, has ...
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Remember Iraq? »
Posted by: ameliog 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Politics
The drop in violence has made the war an afterthought - and allowed McCain to claim we're "winning." Here's why we're not - and ...
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Iraq demands all US troops out by 2011 »
Posted by: hyperbola 2 weeks, 5 days ago in News
Iraq has demanded a clear commitment from the US that its forces will have left its soil by the end of 2011.
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Iraqi teams banned from Beijing Olympic games »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Sports
The International Olympic Committee has upheld a ban on Iraqi teams at the Beijing Games, saying Thursday the government missed the deadline to address accusations ...
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Iraq Suffers From Dirty Water, Fears About Cholera »
Posted by: berkeley 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Two-thirds of the raw sewage produced in the capital flows untreated into rivers and waterways, Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, said in ...
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The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened? »
Posted by: populist 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
What just happened? Evidence. A secret that has been judiciously kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is new, never reported ...
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Iraq's Sadr To Give Up Fight If U.S. Withdrawal Date Set »
Posted by: TimALoftis 3 months, 1 week ago in News
BAGHDAD Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al Sadr has agreed to disband an elite fighting force within his militant movement if negotiations between the United States ...
