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• Iraqi troops kill chlorine suicide bomber

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  SNIPPET: "Iraqi soldiers foiled a potentially deadly suicide attack today at the border crossing at Al Qaim in western Anbar province. From Aswat al-Iraq (Voices of Iraq): “A force from the 28th infantry division managed to defuse a car bomb and to kill its driver in al-Qaim, Anbar province,” said the statement ...
  2 days ago

• Rep. Obey Seeks War Surtax for Afghanistan

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 765
  Rep. David Obey (D-WI 7) The big story over in Afghanistan is that US special forces have begun to fund Afghan militia in a similar fashion to the Anbar Awakening, offering local resistance to the Taliban. The last time this country funded a local fighting force in Afghanistan they created the structure for Osama ...
  3 days ago

• Nubs’ story headed for the big screen

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 439
  Warner Bros. is buying the story of Nubs , the stray Iraqi mutt who befriended a group of Marines and was shipped home to the U.S. by one of them. Nubs — so named because most of both his years were lopped off by Iraqi soldiers — befriended Marine Major Brian Dennis and his fellow soldiers while Dennis was on ...
  3 days ago

• Iraqi Province Holds Its Breath as U.S. Draws Down

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 152
  Members of the Ministry of Interior Special Forces Unit assigned to Maj. Gen. Tariq al-Youssef in Ramadi, Iraq. A suicide attack targeting General Youssef in June, from which he walked away unscathed, marked the beginning of what Iraqi and American officials said has been a concerted effort by Sunni insurgents to ...
  1 week ago

• October 09 Deaths Continue Up And Down Pattern

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 127
  Since April 2009 monthly death counts for Iraq have fluctuated up and down. October was no different as it was higher than the previous month. Iraq’s ministries for example , reported 410 deaths in October, compared to 203 in September and 456 in August. They also recorded 1,275 wounded in October, and 711 in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mid-2009 Weekly Security Statistics For Iraq

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 127
  Despite the recent October 2009 Baghdad bombing, and the previous one in August, attacks in Iraq are at their lowest level since the 2003 invasion . The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction recorded drops in weekly attacks in eleven of Iraq’s eighteen provinces from May to October 2009. The three ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iraqs Provincial Budget Expenditures - 2009

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 127
  One of the major problems with the Iraqi government is its inability to spend its budget effectively. The country’s eighteen provinces do much worse than the central government in Baghdad. The new Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s quarterly report to Congress has the latest numbers on how ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nubs the Dog on Today Show

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 458
  Bites time the Iraqi street mutt – the names of U.S. troops on the heels of the ears, which used – appeared on the Today Show this morning, with the Marine major who saved him. Bites major maritime befriended Brian, Dennis and his companions, while Dennis was on patrol in Anbar province. When Dennis is required ...
  3 weeks ago

• 10 killed as bombs rip through Iraq

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 619
  A SPATE of violence across Iraq has killed at least 10 people, as officials said repairs to government offices struck by massive bombings last week will cost about $US16 million ($17.5 million). A UN special envoy, meanwhile, arrived in Baghdad to make a preliminary report on security in the Iraqi capital ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tom Friedman’s logic

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  The vote is in. Tom Friedman says no more troops for Afghanistan . Why? When I think back on all the moments of progress in that part of the world — all the times when a key player in the Middle East actually did something that put a smile on my face — all of them have one thing in common: America had nothing ...
  4 weeks ago

• Low Level Violence Persists in Anbar

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 127
  Anbar was once the center of the Sunni insurgency. After the Awakening movement and the Surge however, violence there dropped dramatically. Every time there’s a mass casualty bombing in the province however, there are concerns that militants are making a comeback. The latest incident was an October 11, 2009 attack ...
  4 weeks ago

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