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THE TENSION (Free subscription) | yesterday
D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, July 24, 2008 -- Coalition and Iraqi forces detained five suspected terrorists and found weapons caches during recent operations in Iraq, military officials said. Yesterday in Baghdad, coalition and Iraqi forces captured five suspected terrorists and uncovered an insurgent rocket-launch site, officials said. Iraqi troops discovered and blocked off the site after...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
*Security forces in Karbala confiscated 2 tons of TNT* Iraqi national - Luna / Thursday, July 24 / Baghdad The pilot, Major General Jawdat Shaker commander of Karbala, police director of the security services have been a powerful force cordoned off the area of agricultural and arrested three...
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THE TENSION (Free subscription) | yesterday
N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, July 24, 2008 -- Al-Qaida terrorists have been largely marginalized in Iraq’s Babil province, thanks to the joint efforts of Iraqi and U.S. security forces, as well as local “Sons of Iraq” citizen security groups, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said today. “The organization related to al-Qaida is severely disrupted, … as well as the [extremist] militia”...
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trucks world news (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Baghdad,Iraq - The American forces Press Service, by Army Spc. Andrea Merritt -24 July 2008: -- In another sign of progress in Iraq, 62 tribes and 68 sheiks have organized four private trucking companies to form the Iraqi Transportation Network ... The sheiks approached the U.S. military with a proposition for the ITN to haul their cargo throughout Iraq , guaranteeing safe shipment and taking financial...
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BLACKFIVE (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
U.S. Air Force Capt. Steven Fowler, left, a weapons system operator, and 1st Lt. Daniel Silk, a B-1 Bomber pilot, hold their children prior to departing Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., July 22, 2008. Fowler and Silk are assigned to...
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The Cool Blue Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Silver Star awarded to 1st Special forces Group Soldiers By Staff Sgt. Andrew Kosterman 1st Special forces Group (Airborne) PAO FORT LEWIS, Wash. (USASOC News Service, July 16, 2008) – Members of the 1st Special forces Group (Airborne) gathered together...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
*Private Trucking Companies Improve Iraqi Economy* By Army Spc. Andrea Merritt Special to American forces Press Service BAGHDAD, July 24, 2008 In another sign of progress in Iraq, 62 tribes and 68 sheiks have organized four private trucking companies to form the Iraqi Transportation Network. ...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
7/25/08 *Iraq: Alarm at forced transfer of Basra union activists* Eight Iraqi trade union leaders have been forcibly transferred from Basra to Baghdad, where their lives are said to be at risk for opposing a planned law in which control over oil exploration and production would be placed in...
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THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
FILE PHOTO - Iraqi Coastal Defense Force (ICDF) Patrol Crafts. (U.S. Navy photo.) B loggers' Roundtable: WASHINGTON, July 23, 2008 -- Iraq’s fledgling navy is gaining prominence within its country’s security forces due to its role in protecting the nation’s oil infrastructure, a coalition advisor said July 22. British Royal Navy Capt. Paul Abraham, director of the Maritime Strategic Transition Team...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
*US forces may be based in Iraq's Kurdistan region* *By Basil Adas* *Baghdad, 23 July 2008 (Gulf News)* US forces could be stationed permanently in Kurdistan as part of a long-term security agreement, top Kurdish political sources revealed to Gulf News. The Iraqi government and head of northern...
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rubber hose (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
this is really good news. one of the many shameful things about the way the u.s. has conducted the iraq war is it's treatment of Iraqi refugees. the american invasion created one of the biggest refugee crises in the world, and yet for years the bush administration refused to permit any but a small handful of Iraqi refugees into the united states. the bush administration resisted taking in Iraqi
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Uncommon Misconceptions (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Barack Obama’s plan is to withdraw all of our forces, leaving only a “residual force” to help the Iraqis deal with security problems that they can’t handle. The big question, then, is, “How big?” Bob Novak has a sort of answer: How big would this more or less permanent “residual” force be? Obama did not say, [...]
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A parliamentarian from the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC) on Tuesday called on the Iraqi government to increase security forces in Mosul, citing what he described as the deteriorating security conditions in the city. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Maliki, Berlusconi discuss training Iraqi police Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Friday , 25 /07 /2008 Time 12:18:14 *BAGHDAD, July 25 (VOI) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki discussed with Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi in the Italian capital Rome means to develop relations in the...
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: [b]MSNBC[/b] BAGHDAD - A female suicide bomber killed at least eight people Thursday night at a checkpoint manned by U.S.-allied Sunni guards northeast of Baghdad, Iraqi police said. The woman blew herself up near a checkpoint in central Baqouba, a police officer said. At least eight ...
