Wed. August 27, 2008
Iraq:
Reuters
August 27, 2008
RedOrbit
August 26, 2008
[Speech by
Iraqi
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the First National Conference of Bani Lab tribal chiefs and notables held at the Al-Rashid Hotel,
Baghdad; ...
I am talking about all the positions: the provincial council, the governor, the minister, the prime minister, the president, and every official. ...
Al-Maliki refers to the "prisons and executions" and the "wars and adventures" of the past, and says Iraq's wealth was squandered and Iraqis were killed in ...
Christian Science Monitor
August 26, 2008
Reporter Peter Grier talks about recent
rhetoric over possible US troop withdrawals from
Iraq and the readiness of
Iraqi security forces. ...
In recent days the US has seen what it's like to deal with an increasingly assertive Iraqi government a key foreign policy problem with which the next ...
But there are still serious ethnic and sectarian divisions and tensions in Iraq's army and police. And Iraqi forces still aren't ready for the US to leave. ...
Los Angeles Times
August 26, 2008
When asked if the
Iraqi government had created stumbling blocks to integrating the Sons of
Iraq, Petraeus said in a recent interview, "That certainly has ...
There are now about 100000 armed Sons of Iraq, each paid $300 a month by US forces to provide security in local neighborhoods throughout the country. ...
The last time tens of thousands of armed Sunni men were humiliated in Iraq -- by disbanding the Baath party and Iraqi Army in May 2003 -- an insurgency ...
After returning from a trip to Iraq last month at the invitation of army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, we are convinced that if Iraqi ...
CNN International
August 26, 2008
Violence continued in
Iraq a day after
PM Nuri al-Maliki said a US withdrawal plan must not be "open-ended." Nearly all the victims were
Iraqi
soldiers or ...
Last month, Iraqi security forces backed by US troops launched a large-scale military operation in Diyala to clear it of al Qaeda in Iraq and other ...
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A bomb exploded Tuesday outside a police recruitment center in Iraq's Diyala Province, killing at least 28 people, a Ministry of ...
Reuters UK
August 26, 2008
US and
Iraqi forces have been carrying out an offensive against
Sunni Arab
al Qaeda militants there for the past month, saying the militants have regrouped ...
Baghdad (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi security force checkpoint in Iraq's most volatile province on Tuesday, killing nine people and ...
The People's Voice
August 26, 2008
[8] A single, beautifully illustrated, indispensable book edited by Milbry Polk and Angela MH Schuster, The Looting of the
Iraq Museum,
Baghdad: The Lost ...
At a time when talking about Iraqi oil was taboo, what he meant by patrimony was exactly that -- Iraqi oil. In their "Joint statement on Iraq's future" of ...
... Iraqi National Museum and burned down the Iraqi National Library and Archives as well as the Library of Korans of the Ministry of religious Endowments. ...
Rocky Mountain News
August 27, 2008
By Kevin Flynn, Rocky Mountain News (Contact) Democrats chose a lifelong Republican and
Iraqi war veteran from
Florida to place the name of
Barack Obama ...
Kansas City Star
August 27, 2008
...
Iraqi reporter in
Diyala who asked not to be named. Read the original story at http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/50681.html. Leila Fadel covers
Iraq ...
Institute for Public Accuracy (press release)
August 27, 2008
...
Iraqi politicians ... bemoaned Democratic presidential contender
Barack Obama's choice of running mate, known in
Iraq as the author of a 2006 plan to ...
guardian.co.uk
August 27, 2008
Iraq is calling on
companies to submit designs to build a giant Ferris
wheel in
Baghdad - the latest in a string of lavish proposals to show the capital as ...
Voice of America
August 27, 2008
By VOA News Veterans of the
Iraq war teamed up with hard rock fans for a large scale anti-war protest near
the US Democratic National Convention in the ...
MLive.com
August 27, 2008
Each spoke on condition of anonymity because the
Iraqi government has not yet announced it.
Anbar would be the 10th of
Iraq's 18 provinces to be returned to ...
Reuters
August 27, 2008
Although he backed the 2002 resolution to authorize the use of force in
Iraq, he soon became a strong critic of the war and accused
President George W. Bush ...
USA Today
August 27, 2008
The
New York Times is quoting from two sworn confessions that say three
US soldiers "killed four
Iraqi prisoners with
pistol shots to the head as the men ...
Bay Area Indymedia
August 27, 2008
by via Democracy Now Wednesday, August 27, 2008 :On the streets of Denver, outside the suites of the convention,
Iraq Veterans Against The War organized a ...
Washington Post
August 27, 2008
By Khalid al-Ansary
Baghdad (Reuters) -
the United States asked
Iraq for permission to maintain a troop presence there to 2015, but US and
Iraqi negotiators ...
CNN International
August 27, 2008
Minneapolis Star Tribune
August 27, 2008
We're paying
Iraqi militias big money to not attack the invading troops camped in their nation. We're bribing aspects of the
Iraqi ... read more
government so ...
Asia Times Online
August 27, 2008
The operation has drawn more than 50000
Iraqi soldiers. include Shi'ite cities like Hwaider, Khirnabat and Abara". These Shi'ite districts are strongholds ...
Houston Chronicle
August 27, 2008
Reuters
August 27, 2008
Los Angeles Times
August 27, 2008
Los Angeles Times
August 27, 2008
The former lance corporal says he saw Sgt. Jose Nazario standing over a dead
Iraqi while holding an
M-16 during a 2004 raid in Fallouja. ...
NDTV.com
August 26, 2008
"
al-Qaida's role in creating sectarian strife has almost come to an end because of the
Iraqi forces' determination to defeat Al-Qaida by the end of this ...
Reuters
August 26, 2008
By Missy Ryan and Shamal Arqawi ARBIL,
Iraq (Reuters) -
Iraq's northern
Kurdish enclave may be a haven of relative peace and serenity but independent ...
Times of India
August 26, 2008
... blew himself up on Tuesday in a crowd of
Iraqis trying to join the police force, killing at least 25 people in
Iraq's second major
bombing this week. ...
Los Angeles Times
August 26, 2008
The former lance corporal says he saw Sgt. Jose Nazario standing over a dead
Iraqi while holding an
M-16 during a 2004 raid in Fallouja. ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
August 26, 2008
By MARK BRUNSWICK, Star Tribune By candidate: By donor: DENVER - The conventional wisdom that Iraq was THE dominant issue of the presidential campaign seem ...
USA Today
August 26, 2008
"I think
Maliki understands that no legitimate
Iraqi prime minister can accept any foreign presence in
Iraq. History makes that perfectly clear," Visser ...
Christian Science Monitor
August 26, 2008
CNN
August 26, 2008
ATWATER,
California (CNN) -- Jose Rivera survived two tours of duty in
Iraq, but his job as a corrections officer at a high-security federal prison in ...
Middle East Times
August 26, 2008
KHANAQIN,
Iraq, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Residents in the city of Khanaqin in northern
Diyala Province staged a protest Tuesday against the presence of
Iraqi troops ...
Socialistworker.co.uk
August 26, 2008
No one is leaving
Iraq except for impoverished
Iraqi refugees. Far more significant is what Obama and
John McCain, his Republican rival, do not say. ...
Christian Science Monitor
August 26, 2008
11, 2001, the threat of
terrorism has receded in the minds of voters, as has the
war in Iraq, where security has greatly improved. ...
Los Angeles Times
August 26, 2008
During our trip, a common theme among
US military commanders, intelligence officers, diplomats and
Iraqi political leaders we spoke with was the growing ...
International Herald Tribune
August 26, 2008
... authorities in northern
Iraq. The area has been regularly attacked by
Sunni insurgent groups exploiting the ethnic and sectarian tensions. The
Iraqi ...
Los Angeles Times
August 26, 2008
Melbourne Herald Sun
August 26, 2008
Had he not intervened, the girl would have been
Iraq's 30th suicide bomber this year. His commander, Colonel Ali Ismail
Fatah, said he thought the girl, ...
International Herald Tribune
August 26, 2008
By Indira AR Lakshmanan Bloomberg News BUCKS COUNTY,
Pennsylvania: Patrick Murphy is the only
Iraq war veteran in Congress, so when he argues for a swift ...
Reuters
August 26, 2008
It came amid
Iraqi efforts to conclude a security deal with
the United States that would require
US forces to leave
Iraq by the end of 2011. ...
Wired News
August 26, 2008
"The last time tens of thousands of armed
Sunni men were humiliated in
Iraq -- by disbanding the
Baath party and
Iraqi Army in May 2003 -- an insurgency ...
New York Times
August 26, 2008
Jalawla lies 80 miles north of
Baghdad in a district near
Iraq's northern
Kurdish region. It is just outside the area where American and
Iraqi forces ...
International Herald Tribune
August 26, 2008
There are politics today in
Iraq, and
Maliki's stance pleases the
Iraqi public and is sure to help his political partners in upcoming provincial and ...
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