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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Iraq stories: 1276 news summaries

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(Newser) - George Packer traveled the world from Baghdad to Malmo to Damascus to talk to the Iraqis, mostly young,  who have served the American military as interpreters, intelligence gathers and local experts.  He finds a disillusioned group of once pro-American Iraqis betrayed by mistrust, bureaucratic indifference, and outright lack... More »

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Iraq • military • America • stress • bureaucracy • troop withdrawal • US Army • PTSD

British Captives
Standoff Stiffens

Experts say there is no clear border between Iran and Iraqi waters

Mar 30, 07 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - London and Tehran and ratcheted up the rhetoric over the 15 British soldiers being held captive in Iran yesterday, the LA Times reports: Britain got the UN Security Council to issue a statement of "grave concern," while Tehran released more video of sailors professing guilt and issued charts... More »

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Iraq • Iran • United Nations • Tony Blair • diplomacy • London • Tehran • captives • Persian Gulf • Britain

(Newser) - With Congress and the president now officially at war over Iraq, all parties scrambled yesterday to gear up for the coming firefight. The President promised to veto the spending bill with troop withdrawal deadlines attached, seeming to relish the fight ahead. Tthe newly aggressive and unified Democrats, notes the New ... More »

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Iraq • Congress • military • Democrats • Republican • war • Iraq war • Iraq exit strategy • Iraq war spending • George W. Bush

Iraqis Flee on the "Highway From Hell"

With the border to Jordan closed, 1,000 Iraqis a day hazard an escape to Syria

Mar 29, 07 9:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Every day, more than a thousand Iraqis risk their lives on a nightmarish journey from Baghdad to crowded, chaotic border crossings into Syria. Ambushes, murders, roadside bombs and kidnappings are common hazards along the 340-mile road   "Highway From Hell." More »

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Iraq • Jordan • Syria • Baghdad • kidnapping • war • bombing • refugee

Saudi King Calls Iraq War Illegal

Latest evidence of breach with ally

Mar 29, 07 8:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia fired a warning shot at the Bush administration yesterday, calling Iraq “an illegal foreign occupation” and urging Arab leaders to unite to prevent U.S. domination of the region.  The Saudis "are telling the U.S. they need to listen to their... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Bush administration • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • King Abdullah • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Riyadh • United States • war • boycott • Iraq war

Iran Promises Female Soldier's Release

Britain steps up pressure by freezing business activity

Mar 28, 07 6:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran promised to release by Friday the female sailor captured along with 15 men in a British patrol boat last week. England stepped up pressure to free  the soldiers by cutting off "bilateral business" and publicizing secret documents which mark its boat nearly two miles from Iranian waters at... More »

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Iraq • Iran • War on Terror • United Nations • military • Middle East • diplomacy • Faye Turney • London • Tehran • captives

Tillman's Mom Wants Hearings On Cover-Up

"This was an attempt to dupe the public and to promote this war."

Mar 28, 07 9:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Congress should investigate the Army's cover-up of Pat Tillman's friendly-fire death, his mother told ESPN Radio yesterday. A military inquiry concluded Monday that nine high-ranking military officials would face "corrective action," not criminal charges, for their role in claiming Tillman was killed by enemy fire long after they... More »

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Iraq • Congress • military • terrorism • Pat Tillman • Mary Tillman • Arizona Cardinals • friendly fire • war • US Army

Bill Would Put Ba'athists
Back in Power

Aim is to woo Sunnis into Shiite-dominated government 

Mar 28, 07 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ba'athists will be allowed back in government posts if a bill proposed yesterday, aimed at  reconciling dissident Sunnis with the Shiite-dominated government, passes the Iraqi parliament.  The U.S has been pushing for the law to law to woo the former Saddam loyalists —mostly Sunnis— into the political... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • War on Terror • sectarian violence • Sunni • Shiite • insurgents • Ba'thists • Baath Party

Judge Throws Out Rumsfeld Torture Suit

Abuse and humiliation regretted,
but officials are immune

Mar 28, 07 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Donald Rumsfeld can't be held personally responsible for the alleged mistreatment of prisoners held in overseas military prisons on his watch. Calling the case “lamentable,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan nevertheless dismissed a suit against the former defense secretary on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • torture • Donald Rumsfeld • Judge Thomas Hogan • prison • lawsuit

Senate Backs Troop Pullout Timetable

Bill ties troop funding to March 2008 withdrawal deadline

Mar 28, 07 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats in the Senate  pulled off a surprise victory yesterday in their bid to force President Bush to bring troops home from Iraq—deflecting a GOP effort to kill the troop withdrawal plan. The Democrats’ proposal sets a March 2008 deadline for ending the conflict and is folded into a... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • Congress • Democrats • Chuck Hagel • Charles Schumer • war • US troops • troop withdrawal • Iraq war • George W. Bush

War Games Should Include Media, Civilians

"I yearn for the days when 'Battleship' reflected real war"

Mar 27, 07 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Modern warfare calls for modern war games, and that means the players can't be just armies and navies, but also civilians, the media, and the international community. Gary Anderson, the Marines' first director of war gaming, writes that victory in post-Cold War combat is no  longer determined by battlefield fighters,... More »

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Iraq • media • military • war games • war

Sadr City Safest Spot in Baghdad

Mar 27, 07 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Six weeks into the surge the vast Baghdad slum called Sadr City is the safest and best-run part of  the city—but not because of the stepped-up efforts on the part of government forces.  Moqtada al-Sadr is said to be somewhere in Iran, but his representatives run hospitals, school,... More »

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Iraq • Sadr City • Baghdad • Mahdi Army • US troops • Muqtada al-Sadr

Bush Is Worse Than a Lame Duck

Mar 27, 07 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FT catalogs a litany of the obstacles for President Bush achieving anything meaningful in his last 22 months in office. At the core of it all is the Iraq war, which has reduced Bush’s popularity to the point where he has no more political capital to spend. More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Congress • terrorism • Republican • politics • war • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Records
Reveal Hawkish Hillary

Iraq vote may not have been anomaly

Mar 27, 07 7:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary  may be more hawkish than liberal supporters realize, Michael Crowley concludes after a lengthy look at the senator's history. Many assume she supported the Iraq war to look tough and won’t back down to avoid the label of flip-flopper. But long before 9/11, she was scornful of... More »

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Iraq • Hillary Clinton • military • politics • presidential campaign • Bill Clinton • Kosovo • war • Clinton administration • Marine • Election 2008 • Iraq war

Sunni Baghdad
Lies in Ruins as Shiites Rebuild

Insurgents target efforts to provide food, fuel, services

Mar 26, 07 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Baghdad's Sunni neighborhoods are in collapse, lacking food, fuel,  electricity and health care even as their Shiite neighbors have regained basic services, Alissa Rubin reports. In Shiite areas, the Mahdi Army fills in for the government by keeping order and organizing resources, but Sunnis now find themselves under attack... More »

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Iraq • Islam • Middle East • sectarian violence • Sunni • Shiite • insurgents • Baghdad • Mahdi Army

Blair Blasts Seizure of British Patrol

Iran said to be looking for swap deal

Mar 26, 07 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Blair is furious over Iran's capture of 15 sailors and Marines, but so far, diplomatic efforts have not even yielded where they are being held. “I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this is for us,”   Blair sputtered at a European summit,... More »

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Iraq • Iran • War on Terror • Tony Blair • Tehran • war • al Quds Force • Revolutionary Guards • Britain • Iraq war

Fake Raids Test Iraqi Reconstruction

U.S. aid to small businesses works only if it's invisible. Otherwise, companies get 'immediately shot or blown up.'

Mar 22, 07 11:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - The American military is staging fake raids on Iraqi small businesses to confirm that US aid is being well spent—without tipping off insurgents that they have any US connection. "The only way things will work is if the US contribution is totally invisible," says a civil-affairs officer,... More »

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Iraq • military • insurgents • economics • United States • aid • raids • small businesses • civil affairs • Iraq economy • US economy

Iraqi Refugees Flood Into Syria and Jordan

Iraqis are fleeing to their neighbors by the millions, while the U.S. sits pretty

Mar 21, 07 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraq war has created nearly two million refugees, and they're going largely ignored by world governments, the UN warns. "There has been an abject denial of the impact, the humanitarian impact, of the war," says a UN refugee agency spokesperson. Most of the refugees stream into neighboring... More »

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Iraq • immigration • United Nations • Jordan • Middle East • Syria • United States • refugee • Iraqi refugees • Iraq war

(Newser) - Insurgents in Baghdad used two children in the backseat of a car to lower suspicion at an American security checkpoint, then blew up the car, with the children in it.  Once they cleared the checkpoint, the bombers parked near a school, ran from the car, and detonated the bomb,... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • military • Middle East • Shiite • insurgents • Baghdad • car bomb

SADDAM'S
VP HANGS

Taha Yassin Ramadan is executed, despite protests of lack of evidence

Mar 20, 07 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saddam’s loyal vice president was hanged today for the same crimes as his boss. Taha Yassin Ramadan became the fourth to be executed in Iraq for the 1982 massacre of Shias in the city of Dujail. Ramadan’s original sentence of life in prison was found on appeal to... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Shiite • human rights • trial • Taha Yassin Ramadan • Shia • Dujail • Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti

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