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US Role in Iraq Remains Critical
11 hours ago ago from Jackson NJ Regional Opinions News Reviews - Jackson Howell Freehold Lakewood Toms River
By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service KIRKUK, Iraq, Dec. 11, 2009 – The U.S. military role remains critical to preserving gains made in Iraq and helping to prevent sectarian violence in the roll-up to Iraq’s national elections, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told about 300 soldiers and airmen at a town hall session today at Forward Operating Base Warrior. “Whether you are just rotating in, or rotating out, you may ...
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23 hours ago ago from Musaddiqah
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:17:26 GMT Smoke billows near the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, left, after a massive bomb attack in Baghdad on August 19, 2009. Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani says that 13 people arrested over connection to deadly bombings in Baghdad last August are to face justice and be put to death. “We have completed 80 percent of the investigation over the bombings ...
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9 hours ago ago from Nation of Cowards
Silly Neocons, only civilized people can maintain a civilization Wasted U.S. Spending in Iraq: $53 billion and Counting Since the ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the U.S. taxpayer has been rebuilding Iraq and for just as long I have been complaining about this being unnecessary and even counterproductive. (See here, here, and here for sample critiques.) Comes a report today by Timothy Williams in the New York Times, U.S. ...
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14 December, 2009 Fewer foreign volunteers are making it into Iraq to fight with Al Qaeda against the U.S.-backed government but the group has switched to fewer but more deadly attacks, U.S. General David Petraeus said on Sunday. “There is no question that Al Qaeda in Iraq has been significantly reduced in its capability and capacity,” Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, told reporters on the sidelines of a security conference in ...
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22 hours ago ago from Save Ashraf City
Around 5 months after Iraqi security forces attack Ashraf City in Iraq killing 11 people, Iraqi authorities announce on Thursday 10th December their intention to force the pro-democracy Iranian residents of the city out of Iraq. Denouement. The Iranian flag. Reading a prepared statement. Marching in a circle. The leaders. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The demands. The campaigners. Thumbs up. Around 5 months after Iraqi security [...]
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James Denselow: Iraq hits Black Gold
15 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The timing could not have been worse. On Tuesday afternoon, set against the sleek backdrop of a London hotel, the vice-chairman of Iraq's oil and gas committee, Abdul-Hadi al-Hassani, told the BBC that the time is right to invest in Iraq as the government has "gone from strength to strength". A short distance across town, Sir John Scarlett, head of MI6 and gatekeeper to some of the precious "intelligence" that triggered the war, refused to ...
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Insurgent foe's slaying shows cracks near Baghdad BAGHDAD (AP) -- Word began to spread at daybreak in the Sunni districts south of Baghdad: A top anti-insurgent fighter and three family members were slain overnight in their village. When the news reached the local sheik, he counted the number of men he had left. It was barely enough to fill the small mosque for the funeral. "We are losing ground," said Sheik Mustafa Kamil Shebib, a leader ...
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Scroll down to watch President Obama on "60 Minutes" WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says he'll know by the end of 2010 if his Afghan strategy is working, and pledges to change direction if the U.S. military is not on course "in terms of securing population centers" from Taliban militants. The president also says his Dec. 1 speech ordering 30,000 more American soldiers and Marines into the 8-year-old war "hit me in the gut" ...
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