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  • August 2007

    • Iraq Security Costs Soar

      Washington Post  |  Aug 12, 07 1:22 PM CDT

      Iraq Security Costs Soar

      (Newser) - The US Military has paid $548M to two British firms over the past three years to protect engineers working on projects in Iraq—nearly doubling its original budget, according to the Washington Post . A swelling insurgency and shortage of troops are driving up the cost of private security for the largely civilian workforce in the war-torn country.    More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Great Britain  • US military  • insurgents  • engineers

    • US Kills 30 in Baghdad

      BBC  |  Aug 8, 07 5:21 PM CDT

      US Kills 30 in Baghdad

      (Newser) - The US killed 30 militants and detained another dozen in an overnight air strike on a military stronghold in a Shiite district of Baghdad. Witnesses counted women and children among the slain, though the US claims all 30 were insurgents linked to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. More »

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      Iraq war  • Iran  • US military  • Baghdad  • Nouri al-Maliki  • insurgents  • Muqtada al-Sadr  • Mahdi Army  • Sadr City  • Shia

    • US Loses 30% of Iraq Weapons

      Washington Post  |  Aug 6, 07 11:47 AM CDT

      US Loses 30% of Iraq Weapons

      (Newser) - Nearly a third of US weapons doled out to Iraqi security forces over the past three years are unaccounted for, a GAO report says, and insiders are worried they've fallen into the hands of insurgents. The weapons that the Pentagon can no longer track include 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles and 80,000 pistols. "They really have no idea where they are," a defense analyst says. More »

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      Iraq  • Pentagon  • insurgents  • State Department  • weapon  • AK 47

    • Iraq's Power Grid Is Near Collapse

      Associated Press  |  Aug 4, 07 7:01 PM CDT

      Iraq's Power Grid Is Near Collapse

      (Newser) - Iraq’s power grid is teetering on the edge of collapse as insurgents destroy almost any attempt to restore power and the country’s fractured government is stalled, the AP reports. With enough power for only half of demand, there have been four nationwide blackouts in the last two days. Gasoline prices have also spiked to nearly $5 a gallon, making it affordable only to the wealthy. More »

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      Iraq  • gas prices  • insurgents  • energy  • power  • power grid

    • Marine Gets 15 Years for Killing Iraqi

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 3, 07 9:09 PM CDT

      Marine Gets 15 Years for Killing Iraqi

      (Newser) - A jury of Iraq veterans sentenced a Marine sergeant to 15 years in prison and dishonorable discharge today for conspiracy to commit murder and unpremeditated murder, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins offered no apology for leading a mission of Marines to kidnap and murder an Iraqi man in April 2006. He said the killing frightened insurgents and was “part of our mission.” More »

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      Iraq war  • murder  • kidnapping  • insurgents  • prison  • veterans  • Marine  • Navy  • sentencing  • conspiracy  • Marshall Magincalda

    • Cheney: 'I Erred on Insurgency'

      Reuters  |  Aug 1, 07 5:21 AM CDT

      Cheney: 'I Erred on Insurgency'

      (Newser) - Dick Cheney admitted yesterday that he was wrong when he said the Iraqi insurgency was "in its last throes" in 2005. "My estimate at the time was wrong, it turned out to be incorrect," the VP told CNN's Larry King. He said he had been optimistic that elections and a constitution would "undermine the insurgency," but "that clearly didn't happen." More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Bush administration  • al-Qaeda  • Dick Cheney  • insurgents  • vice president  • Larry King

  • July 2007