Tag: iraq war
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nj to deploy largest number of nat’l guard since wwii
from axcessnews: New Jersey voters are puzzled, they were under the impression that the Bush administration was going to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq beginning in December, but now over half of New Jersey’s National Guard are to be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan next year – the largest number since World War II… Three…
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blackwatergate: erik prince testifies before congress
from raw story: The chairman of Blackwater USA, which is facing intense scrutiny over the deaths of a dozen Iraqi civilians last month, defended his private security contractors working in Iraq, while Republicans worked to paint the hearing as little more than an attempt for Democrats to score partisan points. In sworn testimony Erik Prince,…
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hillary wouldn’t pull out of iraq during her 1st term
from raw story: The leading Democratic contender for the presidency was asked whether she’d pull out all troops from Iraq in her first term. She declined. “You know, I’m not going to get into hypotheticals and make pledges, because I don’t know what I’m going to inherit,” Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos,…
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iraq: video shows blackwater overreacted
official: ‘on the tape, there was nobodyshooting at the blackwater guards’from abc: The shooting deaths of 11 Iraqis and wounding of 12 more, allegedly by private security contractors working for Blackwater USA, has become a case of “he says, she says” in Iraq. Blackwater claims that the convoy of U.S. embassy officials they were escorting…
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blackwater’s license (to kill) being revoked in iraq
from afp: Iraq has ordered the cancellation of the operating licence of US security firm Blackwater after it was involved in a shootout in Baghdad that killed eight people, a senior official told AFP on Monday. Blackwater offers personal security to US officials working in Iraq. “The interior minister (Jawad al-Bolani) has issued an order…
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Thousands of Protesters March to US Capitol
Thousands of protesters marched Saturday from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war.
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9/11 families slam government over anniversary
from steve watson: The decision to hold Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus’ testimony to the Congress on the sixth anniversary of 9/11 has been condemned by families of the victims of the attacks as another crude attempt by government officials to link the event to the war in Iraq despite the fact prior intelligence…
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petraeus will betray us
from raw story: In their opening statements Monday, the top Republicans on the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees turned their sights toward a liberal group’s advertisement in the New York Times today. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), vying for the party’s presidential nomination, said he was “aggravated” by the full-page ad purchased by MoveOn.org,…
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de palma’s ‘redacted’ stuns venice
from reuters: A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears. “Redacted”, by U.S. director Brian De Palma, is one of at least eight American films on the war…
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air force manual outlines how to aid insurgencies
from raw story: The Air Force is ready to aid insurgencies. According to a lengthy new Air Force document, which outlines US strategies for “Irregular Warfare,” military resources will sometimes be needed to help insurgencies in foreign countries. The 103-page document (1.03mb PDF), published earlier this month, takes lessons from the last six years of…
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petraeus to testify before senate on september 11
from thinkprogress: The much-anticipated Senate testimony of Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, regarding the situation on the ground in Iraq has now been scheduled for September 11th. Petraeus’ testimony will accompany a September 15 status report from the White House that is expected to be a key moment in the debate…
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cheney said invasion of iraq would be ‘quagmire’
from editor & publisher: It’s not the first time that citizen “investigative journalists” have uncovered some embarrassing, or telling, nugget from the past that apparently remained buried for years. But it has happened again with the posting of a now wildly popular video on YouTube that shows Dick Cheney explaining in 1994 that trying to…
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190,000 US guns given to iraqis remain unaccounted for
from raw story: A new GAO report shows that about 190,000 guns, given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005 during training, have gone missing, the Washington Post reports. The forces were being trained by present-day commander Gen. David H. Petraeus when the weapons were distributed; according to the GAO, proper procedure was not…
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US financing former insurgents in iraq
from washington post: Inside a brightly lit room, the walls adorned with memorials to 23 dead American soldiers, Lt. Col. Robert Balcavage stared at the three Sunni tribal leaders he wanted to recruit. Their fighters had battled U.S. troops. Balcavage suspected they might have attacked some of his own men. The trio accused another sheik…
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brutal US & Sunni alliance ‘ugly, but effective’
from raw story: CNN on Thursday showed graphic footage of a pro-US Sunni militiaman beating and threatening to kill a suspected al-Qaeda member and of another al-Qaeda member being executed by a militia group. “In Anbar Province,” President Bush recently boasted, “Sunni tribes that were once fighting alongside al-Qaeda against our coalition are now fighting…