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Bhasin: Maliki and the Timetable: It's all about Blackwater

Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:49 am, Over one day old
Sami al-Askari, advisory to Prime Minister Maliki said,?I personally am not happy with this, especially because they have committed acts of aggression, killed Iraqis, and this has not been resolved yet positively for families of victims.?

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Knight: Out -- without 'Bloodbath' or 'Regional Chaos'

Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:49 am, Over one day old
The task force was not trying to fix things in Iraq or create conditions of 'victory' for the U.S. We limited our task to thinking clearly about how the US can exit Iraq in a relatively short timeline while also being responsible to the very real needs of Iraq and its people.

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Cole in Salon: FBI Plan to Profile Muslims Unconstitutional

Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 3:36 am, Over one day old


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Saghir: Timetable Demand not a Tactic; 53 Dead, 76 Wounded;

Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 3:36 am, Over one day old
The intention is now to sign a memorandum of understanding instead of a SOFA, according to Shaikh Jalal al-Din Saghir, an MP, a member of the Policy Council for National Security and a leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, the main pillar of PM Nuri al-Maliki's government.

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Attack on US Embassy in Istanbul

Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 3:36 am, Over one day old


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1 GI Killed, 5 Wounded in Iraq; Rubaie's Comments Roil McCain Campaign

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 12:49 am, Over one day old
It also pointed out that McCain had said in 2004 that if the Iraqi government asked the US to withdraw, "it's obvious we would have to leave." Now McCain has to argue for keeping the troops there even though the Iraqi people and even the pro-American prime minister do not want them there.

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Genetically Modified Seeds not Used in Iraq

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 12:49 am, Over one day old
A US observer with experience on the ground in Iraq writes with regard my link on Sunday to a piece about Monsanto and hooking Iraqi farmers on genetically modified seeds: The small report about Bremer dictating that Iraqi farmers cannot use their seed from year to year is utter nonsense.

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Maliki and Timetable for US Withdrawal

Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:49 am, Over one day old
They wounded the mayor of Kirkuk. One woman killed by unknown gunmen in al-Aheimir village, 10 km to the east of Baquba at 11.30 a.m. Gunmen killed a member of the Sahwa Council, a U.S. backed militia, in al-Hashimiyah neighbourhood, western Baquba at around 10.30 a.m.

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Walleser: The List: Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies

Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:49 am, Over one day old
Now, in order to make the most of the recent press as well as to get out the word of the organization, The List Project has created a Netroots program which seeks to bring people together in a social networking experiment (vis a vis Myspace).

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NYT: Napoleon's Egypt in Paper

Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:49 am, Over one day old


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