Posted on September 19th, 2007 by blogger
Think Progress
In his testimony before Congress last week, Gen. David Petraeus confirmed that the United States plans to sell billions of dollars of weapons to Iraq:
Iraq is becoming one of the United States’ larger foreign military sales customers, committing some 1.6 billion (dollars) to FMS already, with the possibility of up to 1.8 billion (dollars) [...]
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Posted on September 18th, 2007 by blogger
The UN’s chief nuclear weapons inspector yesterday warned against the use of force against Iran, in what UN officials said was an attempt to halt an “out of control” drift to war.
His outspoken remarks, which drew a parallel between Iran and Iraq, appeared to take aim at the US and Britain. They followed comments on [...]
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Posted on September 15th, 2007 by blogger
Iraqi lawmakers said on Saturday that Washington should take responsibility for the turmoil in Iraq and stop blaming Baghdad, Iran and Syria. Frustrated by criticism from the United States over their slow progress towards political goals meant to foster national reconciliation, Iraqi leaders said Washington would be better served by examining its own progress in [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2007 by blogger
Flames erupted across Tehran today as angry drivers set filling stations on fire. Could this be the start of one of the most [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2007 by blogger
ABC News has apparently pulled a story alleging that they had discovered US plans to keep troops in Iraq beyond 2009.The story, posted around 8 pm Friday, was gone by Saturday morning. The link listed in Google News now takes a user to a default page not found.
“You’ve requested an ABCNews.com page that does not [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2007 by blogger
Correntewire
Raw Story reports:
ABC News has apparently pulled a [Martha Raddatz] story alleging that they had discovered US plans to keep troops in Iraq beyond 2009.
The story, posted around 8 pm Friday, was gone by Saturday morning. The link listed in Google News now takes a user to a default page not found.
“You’ve requested an ABCNews.com [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2007 by blogger
Cease-Fire Eyed to Stop Violence in Iraq
U.S. military commanders are talking with Iraqi militants about cease- fires and other arrangements to try to stop the violence, the No. 2 American commander said Thursday.
Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno said he has authorized commanders to reach out to militants, tribes, religious leaders and others in the country that [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2007 by blogger
Construction of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, set to open in September, is projected to cost $592 million, with a staff of 1,000 people and operating costs totaling $1.2 billion a year. It will be a 104-acre complex, which is the size of approximately 80 football fields. On May 10, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) criticized [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2007 by blogger
Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week, and one of the incidents provoked a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
A Blackwater guard shot [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2007 by blogger
Bush authorizes group formerly headed by alleged 9/11 mastermind to be bankrolled & armed by CIA for covert regime change.
Recent revelations illustrating the fact that the U.S. government is using a Sunni Al-Qaeda terrorist group formerly headed by the alleged mastermind of 9/11 to carry out bombings in Iran undermines the entire [...]
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