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Full Withdrawal From Iraq By 31 Dec 2011!

Numerous sources are reporting today that we've finally made the necessary concessions on the timeline for the SOFA...

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Robert Fisk's World: 'Collateral damage' or targeted killing, the effect is much the same

All kinds of horrors flop on to my Beirut doormat. There's The Independent's mobile phone bill, a slew of blood-soaked local Lebanese newspapers – "Saleh Aridi's blood consolidates [Druze] reconciliation", was among the goriest of the past few days – and then there are files from the dark memory lane through which all Middle East history has to pass.

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Iraqi PM: U.S. to withdraw troops by 2011

BAGHDAD, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. government has agreed to withdraw U.S. troops by December 2011, among other security concessions, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says. The Iraqi official said Friday that during ongoing negotiations with the United States, U.S. officials have agreed to major security concessions, the Kuwait News Agency KUNA reported. Among those concessions is an agreement...

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Iraqi PM: U.S. to withdraw troops by 2011

The U.S. government has agreed to withdraw U.S. troops by December 2011, among other security concessions, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says.The Iraqi official said Friday that during ongoing negotiations with the United States, U.S. officials have agreed to major security concessions, the Kuwait News Agency KUNA reported.Among those concessions is an agreement that U.S. military forces will...

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Iraqi PM discusses US pact with Shiite cleric

Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric indicated Friday he would not stand in the way of a long-term U.S. security deal if it's approved by the country's democratic institutions, the prime minister said.

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THANKS, AYATOLLAH:

Iraqi PM discusses US pact with Shiite cleric (AP, 10/10/2008) Following a 2 1/2 hour meeting in Najaf, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said al-Sistani believed the security agreement was the responsibility of "the Iraqis and the political groups" and that he would raise no objections to a deal "as long as it comes through official and state institutions." "He does not want anything forced or imposed...

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GI Killed; Sadrist Politician Assassinated

From a Friday, October 10, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog

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Iraqi PM discusses U.S. pact with Shiite cleric

Iraq's prime minister met with the country's most influential Shiite cleric on Friday and later indicated the religious leader ...

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Thousands of al-Sadr supporters mourn lawmaker

Thousands of supporters of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr marched through eastern Baghdad today to mourn the killing of a Sadrist lawmaker and hear a statement from the anti-U.S. cleric blaming occupation and terrorism for the loss.

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Obama, Iraq, and Reality

He still wants out in 16 months.

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Senior Shia politician assassinated in Baghdad by roadside bomber

Saleh al-Auqaeili was considered a moderate within Muqtada al-Sadr's political movement

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Corruption blamed as cholera rips through Iraq

A deadly outbreak of cholera in Iraq is being blamed on a scandal involving corrupt officials who failed to sterilise the local drinking water because they were bribed to buy chlorine from Iran that was long past its expiration date.

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Bush Administration to Iraq: No Withdrawal Timetable for You!

Two months ago, it looked like the Iraqis had succeeded in forcing the Bush administration to go along with a troop withdrawal timetable similar to that proposed by Senator Barack Obama. That was then, apparently. The latest reports of secret talks to replace the U.N. mandate authorizing the occupation of Iraq with a treaty indicate [...]

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Assassinations replacing car bombs in Iraq

U.S. and Iraqi officials are seeing a shift in violence in Iraq from mass car bombings to assassinations using magnetic bombs, weapons with silencers and bicycle bombs.

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Bomb kills senior Iraqi lawmaker

A roadside bomb explosion in the Iraqi capital kills a senior member of the Sadr Movement's influential parliamentary bloc.