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19 hours ago ago from LOATAY.COM - Pakistan News,India News,Afghanistan News and Loatay Update!
We don't hear all that much about Iraq these days, do we? The war almost tore apart this country. Public anger sent George W. Bush's approval ratings plummeting. And outrage over losses helped elect anti-Iraq-war candidate Barack Obama. But Iraq is hardly in the news anymore. That seems odd, given there are still 120,000 U.S. troops there. So, why the silence? In short, Americans are not dying in Iraq as they were from 2006 to ...
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17 hours ago ago from EUROPEAN TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS
by Bruce Fein http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-fein/obama-needs-turkey-an-exp_b_394804.html Excerpt: Turkey is also a cornerstone of Obama's strategy in Iraq. President Obama elaborated after meeting with the Turkish Prime Minister, "We discussed our joint role in helping Iraq achieve the kind of independence and prosperity that I think has been advanced as a consequence of the election law finally being passed over the week." Turkey ...
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16 hours ago ago from Gorilla's Guides
Iranian ambassador says joint committee should settle row Iraq calls for peaceful solution Iraq says crude output, exports unaffected Iran troops still at Fakka oil field, official says BAGHDAD, Dec 19 ( Reuters ) Tehran wants to solve by diplomatic means a dispute with Baghdad over accusations that Iranian troops seized an oil well inside Iraq, a spokesman at the Iranian embassy said on Saturday. The Iraqi government also called ...
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22 hours ago ago from IL MONDO DI WOLFIE
The Defense Department is preparing a $163.1 billion war-cost spending request for fiscal year 2011, a previously unreported figure that would finance the continuing drawdown of U.S. units from Iraq and sustain the surge of American forces in Afghanistan, according to Pentagon officials. If approved by Congress, the FY-11 “overseas contingency operations” spending proposal would bring the price tag for the wars in Afghanistan, which ...
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2 hours ago ago from AfterAmerica's Blog
Admiral Mike Mullen By LARA JAKES, Associated Press Writer Lara Jakes, Associated Press Writer – Sat Dec 19, 4:39 pm ET BAGHDAD – Iraq deployed security forces Saturday near a remote oil well seized by Iran, officials said, and its government pressed Tehran to withdraw its forces from the area along their disputed southern border. U.S. officials applauded Iraq for standing its ground against Iran — an uneasy ally ...
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12 hours ago ago from Newsweek - Columns - World View
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6 hours ago ago from The New York Times
In the fear-filled, nationalistic fervor after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001, Congress rushed to approve President George W. Bush 's decision to attack Afghanistan, the country where the terrorist leaders had trained for their suicide voyage. Pablo Martinez Monsivais Barbara Lee has always opposed the Afghanistan war. This article is part of our expanded Bay Area coverage. The ...
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1 day ago ago from Washington Post - World
Iraq Soldiers from Iran allegedly raid oil field The Iraqi government on Friday condemned a reported cross-border raid by Iranian soldiers who allegedly raised their flag at the Fakka oil field in Iraq's Maysan province. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh called it a transgression on Iraq's sovereignty and said a formal written protest would be filed with Iran's ambassador in Baghdad. Iraqi military officials said the Iranians stayed ...
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