Archive for the 'Iraq' Category
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Think Progress…June 13, 2010
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‘The United States “has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself,” according to senior U.S. officials. An internal Pentagon memo dubs Afghanistan the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”’
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How about these […]
Posted in Military, Afghanistan, Iraq, Terrorism, Middle East, Lebanon, Dubai, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Somalia, Natural Resources |
Monday, May 10th, 2010
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Associated Press Photo of aftermath of Bombing in Iraq
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Posted in Iraq, Environment |
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
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Hadi Mizban / AP
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Khalid Mohammed / AP
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Images: via the huffingtonpost.com
Posted in Iraq, Elections |
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Iran Using Fronts to Get Bomb Parts From U.S.
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 11, 2009; A01
The Iranian businessman was looking for high-quality American electronics, but he had to act stealthily: The special parts he coveted were denied to Iranians, especially those seeking to make roadside bombs to kill U.S. troops in Iraq.
With a […]
Posted in Business, administration, Iraq, Pentagon, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Weapons, Malaysia |
Monday, October 6th, 2008
State Dept. Move to Let Contractors Probe Complaints Over Other Contractors May Be Illegal
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By KIRIT RADIA
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Oct. 3, 2008
In an apparent violation of federal regulations, the State Department has outsourced to private contractors the responsibility to investigate possible crimes committed by security contractors in Iraq.
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Earlier this year, the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security hired the […]
Posted in Business, Iraq, Mercenaries, Blackwater |
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
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Satellite images show ethnic cleanout in Iraq
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Fri Sep 19, 4:19 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to […]
Posted in Iraq, Lieberman, Technology |
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
By MIKE ALLEN
Politico
8/5/08 11:51 AM EST Updated: 8/5/08 11:51 AM EST
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A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.
Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged […]
Posted in Bush, Iraq, CIA, Cheney, Books, War |
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
High Oil Prices Giving Iraq Up to $79 Billion in Surplus Cash
New York Times
By JAMES GLANZ
Published: August 5, 2008
The soaring price of oil will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year’s end an American federal oversight agency has concluded in an analysis released on Tuesday.
The […]
Posted in Bush, Iraq, Cheney, al-Maliki, Oil |
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Perle Linked to Kurdish Oil Plan
By Susan Schmidt and Glenn R. Simpson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Influential former Pentagon official Richard Perle has been exploring going into the oil business in Iraq and Kazakhstan, according to people with knowledge of the matter and documents outlining possible deals.
Mr. Perle, one of a group of security experts who began pushing […]
Posted in Iraq, Energy, Neo-Romanovs, Perle |
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
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REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz (IRAQ)
“Look. Guys. I got a friend at VALUE CITY FURNITURE and she can set you up with some class stuff that puts this to shame. There’s a sub-woofer in every chair and the glass-topped coffee tables double as heli-pads.”
Posted in Iraq, John S. McCain III, al-Maliki, Interior Design |
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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You will note that the flag has only 49 stars.
According to Starbucks, Hawaii is considered an international entity.
Hence, I have reduced our state total by one.
Please see post of July 21, 2006, below.
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Seth Colter Walls
HuffPost Reporting From DC
Katie Couric: Senator McCain, Senator Obama says, while the increased number of US troops […]
Posted in Iraq, John S. McCain III, 2008 Presidential Campaign, CBS |
