Sunday’s Iraqi Elections Bring Out Crowds.
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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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.”
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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 […]
Johnny Mac is either…
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July 18, 2008 04:57 PM
Reuters reports that McCain shared details of Obama’s trip to Iraq at a fundraiser:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Friday that his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, is likely to be in Iraq over the weekend.
The Obama campaign has tried to cloak the Illinois senator’s trip in some […]
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Images: (Anthony Celebrezze) ssa.gov; (al-Maliki) news.xinhuanet.com; xinhua/Reuters Photo