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13 hours ago ago from Iraq Cry
Example (from 2004) of how untrustworthy "Russian Intelligence Service Abroad" (Russian CIA) can be. They will tell half truths for their own advantage. President Saddam Hussein knew better than to trust either Russian Intelligence or the Radical Islamists. From: Pravda 20.05.2004 Chechens confront US troops in Iraq USA is not aware that Chechen thugs are fighting against Americans in Iraq. ...
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19 hours ago ago from THE TENSION
D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2009 -- A senior leader of the Promised Day Brigade terrorist group was among eight people Iraqi security forces arrested in three operations today, military officials reported. Iraqi forces and U.S. advisors searched homes in northern Baghdad for the senior leader, a suspect in weapons distribution and funding to Promised Day Brigade groups for attacks on civilians and security forces ...
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7 hours ago ago from Just Above Sunset
The Lieutenant Colonel in the family will be off to Kabul after Christmas, or off to Baghdad. We won't be seeing him for quite some time. And he's been at this a long time – you might remember the election photographs from Mosul and the ducks in the Baghdad Green Zone . That was almost five years ago. He was a Major then. Time flies, and it seems we've always been at war. Of course there was that graduation speech that Colin Powell gave ...
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5 hours ago ago from al-Iraq - All News of Iraq
The United States has often proclaimed that a major goal of its efforts in Iraq is to bring about a "free and prosperous" country. But Iraq's economy remains mired in a pattern that is not much different from that of the Saddam Hussein regime.
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6 hours ago ago from about ghana
AP - Iraq's border with Syria runs for hundreds of miles through barren land patrolled by a relative scattering of security forces. But despite claims about exiled Saddam Hussein loyalists sneaking across to disrupt Iraq's upcoming elections, the only evidence around one key outpost is faded slogans of Saddam's banned Baath Party painted on the wall of a decaying grain elevator.
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22 hours ago ago from Good News Now
BAGHDAD -It's been a strained courtship between Iraq and oil companies jockeying for its untapped riches complicated by jitters about insecurity, lack of a legal rule book to govern investments and Baghdad's tightfisted bargaining that turned last summer's much-hyped bidding round into a failure. Even as the same security and political concerns remain unresolved, they appear ready to give it another go. For the companies, the prize is too big ...
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20 hours ago ago from FanHouse
KIEV, Ukraine -Ukraine will provide Iraq with $2.5 billion worth of weapons and military equipment under a deal intended to shore up Iraq's fledgling armed forces before the planned pullout of U.S. troops, a senior Ukrainian lawmaker said Wednesday. Anatoly Grytsenko, head of the Ukrainian parliament's security and defense committee, said the agreement with the Iraqi ministry of defense calls for Ukraine to produce and deliver 420 BTR-4 ...
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6 hours ago ago from U.S. News
On Syria border: No sign of Saddam loyalist RABIYA, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's border with Syria runs for hundreds of miles through barren land patrolled by a relative scattering of security forces. But despite claims about exiled Saddam Hussein loyalists sneaking across to disrupt Iraq's upcoming elections, the only evidence around one key outpost is faded slogans of Saddam's banned Baath Party painted on the wall of a decaying grain elevator. ...
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1 hour, 7 minutes ago ago from PopEater
BAGHDAD -U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Iraq Thursday to meet with Iraqi officials amid a wave of bombings that have claimed 127 lives and rattled the country's government. U.S. military leaders who greeted Gates defended the Iraqi security forces' response to the attacks. The second leg of Gates' unannounced tour of two major U.S. war zones came as al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for the strikes. ...
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