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Premier of Iraq Is Quietly Firing Fraud Monitors (www.nytimes.com)
The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American... More
Submitted 16 days ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
U.S.-Afghan rift builds around Karzai's overture to Taliban (www.mcclatchydc.com)
Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents rejected an offer of talks from Kabul Monday and threatened for the first time to strike a target in the West, suggesting many years of violent conflict to... More
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Gulf War illness is real, new federal report says (www.cnn.com)
An extensive federal report released Monday concludes that roughly one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness. That illness is a condition now... More
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Iran warns U.S. against violating airspace (www.militarytimes.com)
Iran’s state radio says the country’s military has warned U.S. forces that their helicopters in Iraq fly too close to the Iranian border. A statement issued by...
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U.S. pact must guard Iraq sovereignty: Ayatollah Sistani (www.tehrantimes.com)
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani insists that the security pact being negotiated with Washington must not harm Iraq's sovereignty, his office said on Wednesday. “Ayatollah Ali Sistani insists that the... More
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Iraqi Cabinet says US security pact needs changes (www.wtop.com)
Iraq's Cabinet decided Tuesday to ask the U.S. for changes to the draft agreement that would keep American troops here three more years, as key Shiite lawmakers warned the deal stands little chance of... More
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New Doubts Cloud Iraqi Security Pact With U.S. (www.nytimes.com)
Hopes that a security agreement between Iraq and the United States could be concluded swiftly receded Sunday as several of the leading Iraqi political parties, including some that had negotiated the... More
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The Long Road to Reconciliation in Iraq (www.democracyarsenal.org)
The discussion of U.S. involvement in Iraq has almost been solely focused on troop levels and withdrawal dates. Reporters tend to scoff at Sen Obama's line (I'm paraphrasing) "that we must be as... More
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U.S. Study Is Said to Warn of Crisis in Afghanistan (www.nytimes.com)
A draft report by American intelligence agencies concludes that Afghanistan is in a “downward spiral” and casts serious doubt on the ability of the Afghan government to stem the rise in the... More
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"People, not chess pieces" (www.theatlantic.com)
Compared to the forever-etched-in-our-minds date of 9/11, October 7 passes with barely a whisper. But the war we’ve been involved in for seven years wasn’t truly a war until America struck back,... More
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