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  • June 2008

    • Contrast in Defense Chiefs: Blunt Vet vs. Rhodes Scholar

      NPR  |  Jun 25, 08 6:13 PM CDT

      Contrast in Defense Chiefs: Blunt Vet vs. Rhodes Scholar

      (Newser) - How would a McCain Pentagon differ from Obama's? NPR sits own with two potential defense chiefs and finds common ground in their praise of Robert Gates' reforms but big differences in their approach to Iraq and in their own styles. Richard Armitage is an earthy McCain adviser and Vietnam vet who appreciates the value of "an infantryman with a bayonet." Obama adviser Richard Danzig is a Rhodes Scholar who wants soldiers to learn foreign languages. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Iraq  • Pentagon  • Richard Armitage

    • Cigar Woes Snare Another Politician

      Times (UK)  |  Jun 24, 08 2:40 PM CDT

      Cigar Woes Snare Another Politician

      (Newser) - London's mayor found out yesterday that he is “the one and only Western politician to be brought to justice for crimes committed in Iraq.” Boris Johnson's misdeed? Taking a cigar case as a souvenir from the smashed villa of Iraq’s former deputy prime minister while on assignment as a journalist in 2003, the Times of London reports. More »

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      Iraq  • Great Britain  • England  • Tony Blair  • Saddam Hussein  • war crimes  • justice  • Tariq Aziz

    • Sadr City Bomb Kills 4 Americans

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 24, 08 8:23 AM CDT

      Sadr City Bomb Kills 4 Americans

      (Newser) - Two US troops and two US government employees were killed today during a suicide bombing at a local council building in Baghdad's Sadr City, the LA Times reports. The blast, the second this week that targeted Americans meeting with local officials, also claimed the lives of two Iraqis and wounded several others. Yesterday a gunman killed two US soldiers as they left a municipal building about 15 miles from the capital. More »

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      Iraq  • Baghdad  • bombing  • Sadr City

    • Planting Flag in Iran Would Be Good for US

      Washington Post  |  Jun 23, 08 3:18 PM CDT

      Planting Flag in Iran Would Be Good for US

      (Newser) - President Bush is considering opening a small US office in Iran, Fred Hiatt writes in the Washington Post , a move that could spur contact with citizens—and perhaps the hostile regime. "It's not a softening," one official said of the proposed interest section, steps below a full embassy. "It does allow us to reach out to youth groups, to talk to dissidents. It's something the regime wouldn't like." More »

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      Iraq  • George W. Bush  • Iran  • embassy

    • Obama Must Talk Iraq; Here's How

      Newsweek  |  Jun 23, 08 2:59 PM CDT

      Obama Must Talk Iraq; Here's How

      (Newser) - Barack Obama may be on the right side of the Iraq issue, Fareed Zakaria writes in Newsweek , but does he want to be “prescient about the war in 2002 and yet … overtaken by events in 2008?” The Democrat needs to detail an earnest plan, and Zakaria has a speech written. Obama should “welcome the gains" yet draw contrasts with John McCain. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Iraq  • David Petraeus  • surge

    • How to Transition Out of Iraq

      Washington Post  |  Jun 19, 08 1:37 PM CDT

      How to Transition Out of Iraq

      (Newser) - It's time for the US to carve out a practical strategy in Iraq, David Ignatius argues in the Washington Post . At a cost of $400 million a day, the war is draining America's economy—precisely what Osama bin Laden hoped for. The solution will not be quick, simple, or easy, but rather "ambiguous, messy, occasionally in the shadows." More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Iran  • al-Qaeda  • US military  • military  • Iraq exit strategy

    • Oil Giants to Return to Iraq

      New York Times  |  Jun 19, 08 4:20 AM CDT

      Oil Giants to Return to Iraq

      (Newser) - Four big oil companies chucked out of Iraq by Saddam Hussein 36 years ago are ready to return, the New York Time s reports. BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell and Total are about to announced winning coveted no-bid contracts to service Iraqi oil fields. The contracts are short-term, but the firms hope to significantly boost the country's oil production and win even bigger deals to develop huge new fields. More »

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      Iraq  • oil companies  • Chevron  • Iraq oil  • Exxon Mobil  • Shell

    • Car Bomb Kills 51 at Baghdad Market

      Associated Press  |  Jun 17, 08 5:18 PM CDT

      Car Bomb Kills 51 at Baghdad Market

      (AP) - A car bomb tore through a market area in a mainly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad today, killing more than 50 people and wounding dozens, officials said. It was the deadliest such attack in more than three months. Nobody claimed responsibility, but it bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which is known to use car bombs and suicide attacks. More »

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      Iraq  • al-Qaeda  • Baghdad  • al-Qaeda in Iraq  • Iraq violence  • Iraq mess

    • Candidates Spar Over Origins of 9/11 Attacks

      Time  |  Jun 17, 08 4:20 PM CDT

      Candidates Spar Over Origins of 9/11 Attacks

      (Newser) - A top aide to John McCain aide today called Barack Obama “naïve,” “delusional,” and the “perfect manifestation of a Sept. 10 mindset,” ABC News reports. The sniping came in response to Obama’s comment that the US acted correctly in trying the terrorists behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in the federal court system, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Iraq  • John Kerry  • World Trade Center  • Richard Clarke

    • Foreign Investment in Iraq Up

      USA Today  |  Jun 17, 08 4:09 PM CDT

      Foreign Investment in Iraq Up

      (Newser) - European and Asian investors are taking advantage of the recently stabilized Iraqi business climate, USA Today reports. US firms still regard Iraq as too dangerous to invest in, but that attitude may cost them the best opportunities. The firms “who are getting in on the ground floor are not American," says a Pentagon official. "It's ironic." More »

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      Iraq  • business  • America  • investment  • competition  • foreign investment  • investment firm

    • Low-Profile US-Iraq Pact Sparks Big Worries

      New York Times  |  Jun 17, 08 1:11 PM CDT

      Low-Profile US-Iraq Pact Sparks Big Worries

      (Newser) - The US is pressuring Iraq to sign off on a long-term security agreement that looks unfortunately similar to a disastrous 1930 pact between Iraq and Britain, and the new pact "could haunt Washington’s relations with Baghdad for years to come," historian and journalist Karl E. Meyer writes in the New York Times . More »

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      Iraq  • Great Britain  • Nazi  • UN sanctions  • nationalism

    • Army Overseer Ousted After Rejecting Bogus Iraq Bills

      New York Times  |  Jun 17, 08 7:54 AM CDT

      Army Overseer Ousted After Rejecting Bogus Iraq Bills

      (Newser) - Did a top Army official lose his job for trying to save the Army money? Charles Smith was ousted from his job after refusing to pay then-Halliburton subsidiary KBR more than $1 billion in charges deemed bogus by Army auditors. “They had a gigantic amount of costs they couldn’t justify,” Smith tells the New York Times . “The money that was going to KBR was money being taken away from the troops, and I wasn’t going to do that.” Smith’s successor coughed up the money. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq contractors  • KBR  • Halliburton  • defense spending

    • Soldier Faces Death Penalty for Killing Comrades

      New York Times  |  Jun 16, 08 8:24 AM CDT

      Soldier Faces Death Penalty for Killing Comrades

      (Newser) - A soldier may soon face court-martial in the deaths of two US officers in Iraq, whom army prosecutors say he killed in a rare instance of “fragging”—the murder of a fellow soldier. The New York Times examines the case of Sgt. Alberto Martinez, who prosec