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Senior Northern Ireland politicians help at Finnish talks aimed at ending sectarian clashes in Iraq.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 2 weeks 1 hour 9 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 -- It was billed as a peace concert in war-scarred Baghdad. But after 30 minutes of poetry and patriotic songs, only a scattering of tribal leaders and dark-suited bureaucrats were sitting in the vast expanse of white plastic chairs before a stage...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 3 hours 9 minutes ago
Dead Iraqi and Iranian soldiers from the 1980-88 war are exchanged, in the first such move since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 1 day 4 hours 9 minutes ago
The entrance to Craters restaurant is guarded by a phalanx of bombshells, each as big as a man. Opposite, the Dokkhoune hotel boasts an even finer warhead collection. For tourists who have not cottoned on, the Lao town of Phonsavanh lies at the heart of the...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team Bushwhackers... dissent ala mode 67 weeks 9 minutes ago
There's almost nothing to be said about this guy and his insane policies...
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"President George Bush sought to buy more time for his Iraq "surge" strategy yesterday by making a risky comparison for the first time with the bloodshed and chaos that followed the...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Iraq news 60 weeks 3 days 4 hours 50 minutes ago
The young American Army medic would not stop bleeding.
He had been put on a powerful regimen of antibiotics by doctors aboard the hospital ship Comfort in the Persian Gulf. But something was wrong.
He was in shock and bleeding from small pricks where nurses had placed intravenous...(more)
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submitted by Miles Walker 68 weeks 3 days 9 hours 29 minutes ago
Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush's new war adviser said Friday.
"I think it makes sense to certainly consider it," Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Iraq news 4 days 10 hours 25 minutes ago
A rocket slammed into a compound near the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone today, killing two people in an attack that seemed likely to reflect the anger of Shiite militias over a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact.
Late Friday, a rocket hit Camp Victory, the...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 4 days 22 hours 9 minutes ago
Some of the largest investment firms on Wall Street are gone. The country's auto industry is on the verge of collapse. Banks are shedding jobs. But in these doom-and-gloom times, there is someone who's hiring: your local military recruiter. The economic downturn and rising unemployment...(more)
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submitted by Miles Walker 68 weeks 3 days 9 hours 32 minutes ago
In a hidden corner of Rome's busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a traveler's checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs. What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue to something bigger.
Their discovery led anti-Mafia investigators down a monthslong trail of telephone and...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 5 weeks 2 days 2 hours 9 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Oct. 27 -- A deal to authorize the presence of American forces in Iraq beyond 2008 is forcing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to choose between two influential powers in this country: the United States and Iran. U.S. officials had hoped Iraq would quickly approve...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Iraq news 82 weeks 4 days 6 hours 35 minutes ago
AP - A new video of al-Qaida's No. 2 leader released on Saturday mocks President Bush and U.S. legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, saying the bill would rob the group's fighters of the chance to kill more Americans.
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