| August 10, 18:00 PM
, 2020 | - Author Erica Jong told an Italian interviewer, “If Obama loses, it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it's not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets.”
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New York Observer
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| December 22, 2012 | - The abuse by Iraqi soldiers and police of such prescription drugs as Artane and Valium—known on the Iraqi street as “the capsule,” “the cross,” or “the eyebrow”—was on the rise. “We don't commit suicide,” explained an officer, “and that's why we resort to Artane and other drugs.”
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New York Times
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| June 29, 2009 | -
Iraq held its first National Sovereignty Day in honor of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraqi cities. A celebration was held with poets and singers in Baghdad's al-Zawraa park and former Vice President Dick Cheney said that he was worried that the withdrawal would “waste all the tremendous sacrifice that has gotten us to this point.” Two hundred Iraqis were killed or wounded in the last ten days of June.
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| June 20, 2009 | - A suicide bombing at a mosque in northern Iraq killed 67 people and wounded about 200.
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VOA News
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| April 16, 2009 | - U.S. Army Master Sergeant John Hatley was sentenced to life in prison for killing four bound and blindfolded Iraqis in 2007. “He loved his soldiers too much,” defense lawyer David Court said, “that was his crime.”
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AP via Yahoo
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| April 9, 2009 | - On the sixth anniversary of Saddam Hussein's fall from power, tens of thousands of Iraqis loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protested the continued U.S. occupation. “When America came, they didn't do anything for Iraq,” said one protester. “This is not democracy.”
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Christian Science Monitor
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| March 20, 2009 | - The Iraq war turned six.
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Gawker
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| March 10, 2009 | - In Iraq at least 33 people were killed in a suicide attack at a national reconciliation conference; at a soccer game near Baghdad a player was shot dead attempting to score what would have been the tying goal in the final minute of an amateur game.
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| February 26, 2009 | -
President Barack Obama announced that he would pull all combat troops out of Iraq by 2010, and asked Congress for an extra $200 billion for the next eighteen months of war.
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| February 20, 2009 | - The recently repainted Abu Ghraib prison, decorated with flowers and renamed “Baghdad Central Prison,” was opened to the press. “It was damp,” said Saad Sultan of the Human Rights Ministry as he toured the facility. “You really felt the horror. Now there is more light.” “I hate this place,” said a jailer who requested anonymity. “It is depressing.”
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IHT
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| January 30, 2009 | - The State Department decided not to renew Blackwater's contract in Iraq after the Iraqi government refused the security firm, whose employees shot 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007, a license to operate. “It would not be a mortal blow,” said company founder Erik Prince of his firm's imminent dismissal. “But it would hurt us.”
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Associated Press
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| January 29, 2009 | - Two days after three candidates and two campaign workers were kidnapped and murdered, Iraqis voted in the first national elections since 2005, choosing between 14,000 candidates running for 440 provincial offices. Two men were shot and wounded at a polling place in Sadr City, and some voters were turned away when their names could not be found on voting rolls dating from food ration lists held over from Saddam Hussein's reign.
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CNN
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| January 28, 2009 | - “This day is a victory for all Iraqis,” said an Iraqi general in Kirkuk. “I don't know whom to vote for,” said an inmate at Basra's Ma'qal prison, “but a sheikh wrote this number on my hand, and I will vote for this number.”
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| January 12, 2009 | - Joe Biden visited Baghdad, where eight people died in bombings.
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New York Times
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| January 4, 2009 | - A female suicide bomber in Baghdad blew herself up in front of a Shia shrine, killing 37 pilgrims.
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NYT
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| December 22, 2008 | - A suicide car bomb at a school in Shalbandi, Pakistan, killed more than 30 people, suicide bombs in Afghanistan killed at least 20 people, including 13 schoolchildren, a car bomb in Baghdad killed at least 24 people, and cancer rates were on the rise worldwide.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| December 15, 2008 | - At a press conference in Baghdad, President George W. Bush dodged two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi television reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi. “This is a gift from the Iraqis,” shouted al-Zaidi, “This is the farewell kiss, you dog!”
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NYT
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| December 8, 2008 | - On the last day of Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people at a restaurant near Kirkuk, Iraq, where local Kurdish and Arab leaders were holding a “meeting of understanding.” Elsewhere, Eid was ruined by the financial crisis. “What does it say about me,” asked Zeinab Mansour, a 32-year-old woman in Cairo buying meat for her Eid meal, “when I have to ask the butcher to give me bones that he used to throw to the dogs?”
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LAT
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AP via Google
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| November 29, 2008 | - After ten days of deliberations, the Iraqi parliament ratified a security agreement that requires American troops to leave the country by the end of 2011. “What I saw today,” said journalist Alaa Mohammad of the ratification vote, “made me feel I want the forces to stay longer, because without these forces we will eat each other.”
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New York Times
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| November 10, 2008 | - A series of blasts in northern Baghdad killed 28 people.
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New York Times
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| November 6, 2008 | - The Iraqi government continued to press for a firm withdrawal date for U.S. troops before signing a status-of-forces agreement.
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Washington Post
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| October 26, 2008 | - U.S. helicopters attacked a Syrian village near the border with Iraq, killing eight civilians, among them four children. The Syrian government condemned the attack as “serious aggression.”
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Breitbart
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| October 16, 2008 | - A House investigative committee presented evidence that military contractor Harry Sargeant III, a top McCain fund-raiser, overcharged by tens of millions of dollars for fuel deliveries to American bases in Iraq.
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NYT
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| October 3, 2008 | - A Baghdad
suicide bomber killed 14 people who had been celebrating the end of Ramadan. “Nobody expects anything like this,” said Jamal Tawfiq, a 28-year-old Iraqi who gathered body parts in a plastic bag.
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New York Times
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| September 23, 2008 | - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president, visited New York City and met with world leaders from Afghanistan,
Iraq, and Colombia, as well as Henry Kissinger and Bono, and agreed to speak to the press. “It was great,” she said.
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MSNBC
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| September 1, 2008 | - American commanders returned control of Anbar Province to the Iraqi army and police, celebrating with a large parade during which soldiers marched along a newly paved street without their body armor, helmets, or guns.
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New York Times
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| August 25, 2008 | -
Barack Obama announced Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, as his running mate, even though Biden voted for the war in Iraq and for NAFTA and once said that Obama was “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
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Information Week
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The Washington Post
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| August 21, 2008 | - The United States agreed to an “aspirational timetable” that calls for troops to be removed from Iraq by December 31, 2011; west of Baghdad, a suicide bomber killed 25 people at a neighborhood celebration.
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The New York Times
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| July 29, 2008 | -
Iraqi officials said that a suicide attack that killed eight people in Baquba, Iraq, had been carried out by a woman, as indicated by the pair of feminine legs found nearby, and four female suicide bombers killed 57 people in Baghdad and Kirkuk.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| July 25, 2008 | -
Iraq was banned from competing in the Olympics.
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ABC
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| July 20, 2008 | - Senator Joe Lieberman argued that the success of the “surge” policy made the Iraq visit possible. “If Barack Obama's policy on Iraq had been implemented,” he said, “Barack Obama couldn't go to Iraq today.”
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Talking Points Memo
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| July 19, 2008 | - Barack Obama began his week-long foreign tour in Afghanistan, where he met with President Hamid Karzai, and continued on to Iraq. There, he flew in a helicopter to the Green Zone with General David Petraeus. Before he left the United States, he was asked what he would say to foreign leaders. “I'm more interested in listening,” Obama replied, “than doing a lot of talking.”
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CNN
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New York Times
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Politico
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BBC
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| July 19, 2008 | - A White House employee accidentally emailed hundreds of reporters a news item headlined “Iraqi PM backs Obama troop exit plan”; the story detailed how Prime Minister Nouri Maliki had said in an interview that the Obama proposal to withdraw troops from Iraq in sixteen months was “the right timeframe.”
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ABC News
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| July 2, 2008 | - Former inmates of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were suing contractors in four American states for subjecting them to electrical shocks, mock executions, and forced nudity, and the Iraqi government announced that the United States had agreed to strip private security contractors of their legal immunity, though the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad refused to confirm the statement.
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Breitbart
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BBCnews.com
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| June 22, 2008 | -
Oil reached a record $139.89 a barrel. Four Western companies met with Iraq's Oil Ministry to finalize no-bid contracts to tap Iraqi oil fields, and the Nigerian government distributed billions of dollars of windfall to corrupt state officials. Thirty-five countries and 25 oil companies met in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to try to fix global oil prices, which have caused strikes, riots, and inflation around the world. Many OPEC countries blamed speculators for the price increase, as did some representatives of oil companies and oil-dependent industries. United States Energy Secretary Sam Bodman blamed supply and demand, as did lobbyists for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
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ABC
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AFP via Google
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BBC
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NYT
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Jakarta Post
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NYT
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LAT
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WP
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AP via Mercury News
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WYTV Ohio
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Bloomberg
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| June 18, 2008 | - A bomb in a Kia truck exploded in a market in Baghdad, killing at least 65 people. “I feel very tired and sad,” said clothing merchant Salam Hashim, who lost three friends in the attack. “I just want to smoke.”
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WP
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WP
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| June 2, 2008 | - Australia pulled its 550 combat troops out of Iraq, declaring their mission a success.
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AP
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| June 1, 2008 | - In Baghdad, a car bomb in a parking lot near the Iranian Embassy killed two civilians and wounded five others, and west of the city, in the town of Hit, a suicide bomber killed ten people and wounded twelve at a police checkpoint.
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AP
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| May 28, 2008 | - Scott McClellan published a memoir about his stint as President George W. Bush's press secretary from July 2003 to April 2006. In the book, McClellan says that he does not believe that the Bush Administration “deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people” when it dispensed with “honesty and candor” in favor of launching a “political propaganda campaign” to justify the Iraq War. He also asserts that the media became the administration's “complicit enablers” and that the president said that he did not remember whether he had ever tried cocaine at “some pretty wild parties back in the day.” Senator Bob Dole responded in a note to McClellan: “There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don't have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues.” Ari Fleischer, Bush's previous press secretary, suggested McClellan had been manipulated by his liberal editors.
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Wall Street Journal
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Politico
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National Journal
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New York Daily News
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Wall Street Journal
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| May 24, 2008 | - President George W. Bush gave a radio address for Memorial Day weekend, invoking the sacrifice of 4,071 U.S. soldiers in Iraq and 432 in Afghanistan. Later, for the last time in his capacity as President, he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Bloomberg.com
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| May 23, 2008 | - Ten thousand Iraqi troops met little resistance as they took control of Mahdi Army-controlled Sadr City under the terms of a cease-fire agreement.
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| May 22, 2008 | - In Afghanistan, at Chaghcharan Airfield in Ghor, two civilians and a Lithuanian soldier were killed in protests over the shooting of a Koran in Iraq,.
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CNN.com
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| May 20, 2008 | - U.S. colleges were unsure of what to do with students who write dark or disturbing fiction, fearing that such fiction could be a sign of impending mass murder. Steven Barber, a Navy veteran of the Iraq war and student at the University of Virginia at Wise, was scrutinized after writing a story about the murder of a man resembling his English instructor, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's son Christopher. A subsequent search of Barber's car found three guns, two of them loaded; Barber was expelled, then reinstated, offering that he would now write about “butterflies and rainbows.” “How long would Edgar Allan Poe,” wondered a vice chancellor, “who attended the University of Virginia, have lasted?”
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The Wall Street Journal
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| May 12, 2008 | - Cherie Blair revealed that her husband, ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair, had announced her miscarriage to the press in order to deter speculation about an early invasion of Iraq,.
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Telegraph.co.uk
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| May 5, 2008 | - U.S. military reports on the interrogation of four captured Shia militia members concluded that Hezbollah was training small groups of Iraqi insurgents in Iran. John Bolton, ex-ambassador to the United Nations, said that attacking Iran was “really the most prudent thing to do”; the Iraqi government said that it would conduct its own inquiry. “We do not want to start a conflict with Iran,” said Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. “We need our own government documentation of this interference, not from the Americans, not from the media.”
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The New York Times
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The Christian Science Monitor
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Fox via Thinkprogress
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| April 28, 2008 | - All three candidates taped messages for World Wrestling Entertainment's “W.W.E. Raw”: Clinton declared herself “ready to rumble” for the American people; Obama, echoing former wrestler Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, asked, “Do you smell what Barack is cooking?”; McCain, speaking with a surly tone, equated the Iraq war with a wrestling match and said that Americans “do not watch wrestling because we're 'bitter,'” but rather because “wrestling is about celebrating our freedom.”
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New York Times
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| April 27, 2008 | - In Basra, Iraq, a 17-year-old girl, Rand Abdel-Qader, was stomped, suffocated, and stabbed to death by her father, who accused her of having an affair with a British soldier. Local police arrested the father but released him without charge after two hours. “Not much can be done when we have an honor-killing case,” said police sergeant Ali Jabbar. “You are in a Muslim society and women should live under religious laws.” Rand's mother divorced the killer and went into hiding.
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Guardian
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| April 24, 2008 | - C3, the firm that developed Disneyland, announced plans to build a $500 million amusement park in Baghdad.
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Times
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| April 18, 2008 | -
Suicide bombers struck in Gaza, Afghanistan, and Iraq. “We are seeing the globalization of suicide bombs,” said Mohammed Hafez, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School; U.S. officials revealed that suicide bombing was on the rise, with more than 658 attacks worldwide last year, double the number in any of the past 25 years.
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Washington Post
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Calcutta News
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Canada East Online
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Washington Post
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| April 17, 2008 | -
Iraqi police were cracking down on drivers who neglect to wear their seatbelts. “It is a symbol of civilization,” said Ahmed Wahayid, a taxi driver. “Western people in Europe and America have it.”
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New York Times
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| April 11, 2008 | - Twenty U.S. soldiers were killed last week fighting across Iraq, and 1,300 Iraqi officers and soldiers were fired for poor performance. The Bush Administration said it was optimistic that many more refugees from the estimated 4.4 million people who had fled Iraq or had been “internally displaced” would be allowed into the United States. Since the war began the United States has accepted only 5,000 Iraqi refugees. Sweden has taken 34,000.
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Reuters
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IHT
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| April 5, 2008 | -
Doctors in Al-Anbar province connected a deadly malarial infection to Blackwater, whose contract the U.S. State Department recently renewed and who are currently under investigation by the FBI for the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians.
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| April 4, 2008 | - And it was reported that more than 1,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen had abandoned their posts during the Basra siege last week.
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NY Times
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| April 1, 2008 | - Deaths of Iraqis were up 50 percent across the country compared to the previous month.
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BBCnew.com
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| March 31, 2008 | -
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an offensive against the Mahdi Army, a large Shia militia allied with cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, in the oil-rich southern port city of Basra. Senator John McCain called the offensive “a sign of the strength of [Maliki's] government,” President George W. Bush said it was “a positive moment in the development of a sovereign nation,” and a Pentagon spokesman called it “a by-product of the success of the surge.” The offensive, dubbed the Charge of the Knights, erupted into six days of heavy fighting that spread across southern Iraq and to Sadr City, a Baghdad slum where three million Shia live. After a stern ultimatum failed to bring peace, Maliki offered cash rewards to militiamen who turned in their weapons. Forty Iraqi policemen were reported to have given their weapons for free to Mahdi Army officers.
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| March 27, 2008 | -
Iraqi officials went to Iran to negotiate directly with al-Sadr, who told his followers to stop fighting if the Iraqi government grants them amnesty. “Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr,” said Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashadani, “proved that he is a good politician.”
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McClatchy
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| March 26, 2008 | - It was revealed that a 2002 Iraq trip by three antiwar congressmen was paid for by Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency.
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WP
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| March 19, 2008 | - As the war in Iraq stretched beyond its fifth year the U.S. death toll rose to 4,000, and a national conference intended to reconcile sectarian groups was boycotted by Sunnis.
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| March 19, 2008 | - Senator John McCain visited Jordan and told reporters that it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran.” Senator Joe Lieberman was seen whispering into McCain's ear, after which McCain apologized. “The Iranians are training extremists,” he explained. “Not Al Qaeda.” Later, in Jerusalem, a fistfight among photographers, soldiers, police officers, and tourists erupted at McCain's Western Wall photo shoot, resulting in damage to several pairs of sunglasses.
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New York Times
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| March 16, 2008 | - The United States marked the five-year anniversary of the war in Iraq, with the total cost of the war, currently estimated to be in excess of $650 billion, expected to rise to $2 trillion over the next five years.
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NYT
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| March 14, 2008 | - Vice President Dick Cheney visited Baghdad, as did a U.S. congressional delegation that included presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who, earlier in the week, admitted to fears that Al Qaeda or another extremist group might increase their attacks in Iraq in an attempt to hurt his chances in the U.S. election.
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| March 2, 2008 | - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his first state visit to Iraq and assailed the Bush Administration. “They will have to accept the facts in the area,” he said. “The Iraqi people do not like the Americans.”
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New York Times
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| February 22, 2008 | -
Turkey began a ground invasion into Iraq targeting the PKK, despite protests that the invasion was “a violation of Iraq's sovereignty,” and Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered a six-month extension of his Mahdi militia's unilateral cease-fire, which has led to a 60 percent decrease in violence across Iraq.
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| February 11, 2008 | - A suppressed RAND report from late 2005, critical of every aspect of the Iraq war planning, was leaked.
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New York Times
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| February 4, 2008 | - The Pentagon said that nine Iraqi civilians had been killed in a strike intended for militants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
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U.S. Says It Accidentally Killed 9 Iraqi Civilians
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| January 27, 2008 | - Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, the 36-year-old son of Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was linked to attacks that killed 38 Iraqis, wounded 225, and destroyed 50 buildings in a Mosul slum. The London School of Economics graduate, known in Libya as “the Engineer” for his reputation as a reformer and an advocate of human rights, allegedly funds the Seifaddin Regiment, which is allied with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
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AP
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| January 27, 2008 | - George Piro, the FBI field agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein, recalled his last meeting with the Iraqi dictator, when the two smoked cigars and Saddam kissed Piro on the cheek three times. “It made me feel,” he said, “somewhat awkward.”
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CBS News
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| January 10, 2008 | - It was revealed that Blackwater dropped riot-control gas on U.S. soldiers in Iraq in 2005. “This,” said Army Captain Kincy Clark, “was decidedly uncool.”
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NYTimes.com
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| December 14, 2007 | - A surprising number of very young actors were among those nominated for the Golden Globe Awards. “If you are old enough to pick up a gun and go to Iraq and kill someone,” explained the chief executive of Focus Features, “you should have the resources to express yourself in the grandest possible way.”
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New York Times
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| December 13, 2007 | - A triple car bombing in southern Iraq killed at least 46 people. “I don't think,” one resident said, “there will be any safe place in Iraq after what happened today.”
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Washington Post
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| November 24, 2007 | -
Pentagon officials announced that 5,000 U.S. troops would withdraw from Iraq next month.
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U.S. to reduce Iraq troop levels by 5,000
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| November 19, 2007 | - An American nuclear scientist projected that the number of deaths caused by depleted uranium in ammunition fired on Iraq would exceed those caused by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “The environment is now completely radioactive,” said Leuren Moret. “The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the most part, is destroyed.”
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uruknet
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| November 6, 2007 | - It was reported that more American troops were killed in 2007 than in any year since the start of the Iraq war.
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CNN.com
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| November 2, 2007 | - In a speech publicizing October's record low of civilian deaths, President George W. Bush, commenting on sectarian violence, made his “disappointments clear to the Iraqi leadership.”
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Yahoo! News
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| October 24, 2007 | - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked the United States for military help with the Kurdish rebel group PKK. “We have a disturbance,” said Erdogan. “What kind of disturbance did the United States have with Iraq?” President George W. Bush phoned Turkish President Abdullah Gul to tell him that the United States was willing to bomb PKK strongholds. “It's not 'Kumbaya' time any more,” said an official familiar with the conversation.
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| October 18, 2007 | - Iranian and Chinese companies won contracts worth $1.1 billion to build power plants in Sadr City, Iraq,.
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New York Times
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| October 18, 2007 | - A New Jersey woman sent 80,000 cans of Silly String, which can locate trip wires, to U.S. troops in Iraq; a military spokesperson thanked her but admitted that soldiers don't use as much Silly String today as they did at the beginning of the war.
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CNN
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| October 18, 2007 | - Iranian and Chinese companies won contracts worth $1.1 billion to build power plants in Sadr City, Iraq,.
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New York Times
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| October 18, 2007 | - A New Jersey woman sent 80,000 cans of Silly String, which can locate trip wires, to U.S. troops in Iraq; a military spokesperson thanked her but admitted that soldiers don't use as much Silly String today as they did at the beginning of the war.
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CNN
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| October 17, 2007 | - The Turkish parliament authorized attacks on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq by a vote of 507 to 19.
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New York Times
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| October 17, 2007 | - The Turkish parliament authorized attacks on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq by a vote of 507 to 19.
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New York Times
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| October 15, 2007 | -
Turkey shelled the village of Dashta Takh in Iraqi Kurdistan and declared plans to send its ground troops to attack outposts of the Kurdish separatist PKK in the north of Iraq; criticized for the announcement, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pointed out that the United States invaded Iraq without anyone’s permission.
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Al Jazeera
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Hürriyet
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| October 11, 2007 | - The Marine Corps was seeking to withdraw its 25,000 troops in Iraq and redeploy them to Afghanistan,.
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New York Times
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| October 8, 2007 | - The Iraqi government launched an official investigation into the role of U.S. military contractor Blackwater in last month's civilian shootings in Baghdad, calling the incident a deliberate crime and raising the number of people killed in the shootings from 11 to 17.
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RadioFreeEurope
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| October 5, 2007 | - Bo Ward, the proprietor of a barbershop near the Army’s Fort Campbell, committed suicide at a town meeting in Clarksville, Tennessee. Ward had requested that his home be rezoned as a commercial property to increase its value and to offset the losses he suffered when most of his regular patrons, among them General David Petraeus, were deployed to Iraq; the City Council refused. “Y’all have put me under,” said the barber before inserting a pistol into his mouth. “I’m out of here.”
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San Jose Mercury News
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| October 3, 2007 | - The Middlebury Institute, a liberal advocacy group opposing the Iraq War, and the League of the South, which displays a Confederate Battle Flag on its banner, met in Tennessee to discuss their shared goal of secession from the Union.
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AP
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| October 1, 2007 | - In Iowa,
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson continued to attest to the existence of WMDs in Iraq. “We can't forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, [Saddam Hussein] clearly had had WMD,” he said; Thompson ended his speech by asking for applause.
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MSNBC
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| September 23, 2007 | -
Iran shut its border with northern Iraq after an Iranian national was detained by U.S. troops and accused of being a member of the Revolutionary Guard.
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AFP
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| September 23, 2007 | - Both Iran and mercenary firm Blackwater USA were accused of smuggling weapons into Iraq, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking from a Manhattan hotel, criticized the United States for the recent deaths of civilians at the hands of Blackwater. “Success is shared,” he said. “God forbid, failure is also shared.”
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AP
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| September 17, 2007 | -
Raytheon unveiled Silent Guardian, a device that radiates unbearable pain. “You don't have time to think about it,” said an executive. “You just run.” The ray gun, Raytheon promised, will not be sold to countries with questionable human rights records, although it will be used by the United States in Iraq.
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Daily Mail
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| September 16, 2007 | - A new British poll estimated that 1.2 million people had died so far in the war, and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan wished that politicians would admit that the war was “largely about
oil.”
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Guardian
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| September 16, 2007 | - Thousands of people joined veterans in an antiwar march in Washington, D.C., at which 189 people were arrested, and Geoff Millard, president of the D.C. chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War, urged the peace movement to “take the next step past protest and to resistance.”
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WaPo
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| September 13, 2007 | - General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker testified to Congress about progress in the war in Iraq; Crocker summarized 2006 as “a bad year,” but blamed ongoing sectarian violence on Saddam Hussein's “social deconstruction” of the country. Petraeus cited progress in the Anbar region as evidence that his surge strategy is working. He suggested that one Army brigade might be home for Christmas, and that the surge might be over by next July. Barack Obama proposed removing at least one brigade per month, starting now, until all troops are out by the end of next year. President Bush supported the Petraeus plan, also citing progress in the Anbar Province and his recent meetings with leaders there.
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USA Today
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| September 13, 2007 | - Sunni sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, the leader of the “Anbar Awakening,” who had recently been photographed shaking Bush's hand, was assassinated. “His death has squeezed our heart,” said Ali Hatem Ali Suleiman, head of a rival tribal organization. “Now, I swear to God, if we will hear anyone is with Al Qaeda, even if he is still inside his mother's womb, we will kill him.”
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BBC
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WaPo
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| September 7, 2007 | - President George W. Bush attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Sydney, where he gave a speech referring to APEC as OPEC and thanking Australian Prime Minister John Howard for sending Austrian troops to Iraq.
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AP via Yahoo News
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| August 30, 2007 | - President George W. Bush predicted a “nuclear holocaust” if Iran develops weapons of mass destruction and accused the country of undertaking “murderous activities in Iraq”; Iran's foreign minister described Bush's comments as a sign of “political despair” caused by “a serious problem in creating propaganda for the next election.”
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BBC
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Breitbart.com via Drudgereport.com
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| August 30, 2007 | - U.S. Representative Jon Porter (R., Nev.) warned that premature evacuation from Iraq would cause American gas prices to rise.
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ReviewJournal.com via Drudgereport.com
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| August 24, 2007 | - Two humanitarian groups in Iraq announced that the “surge” in the number of American troops has led to a large increase in the number of Iraqis fleeing their homes, furthering the country's division into sectarian enclaves, and a new National Intelligence Estimate predicted that Iraqi politicians would be unable to fix sectarian rifts any time soon.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| August 23, 2007 | - Returning from a three-day trip to Iraq and Jordan, Senate Chairman of the Armed Services Carl Levin (D., Mich.) declared the Iraqi government “non-functional” and recommended that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his cabinet be replaced. “We care for our people and our constitution,” said Maliki, who was visiting Syria, “and can find friends elsewhere.”
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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| August 17, 2007 | - Interpol sought the arrest of Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter and his first wife for allegedly providing support to Iraqi insurgents.
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NYT
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| August 17, 2007 | - In northern Iraq, a series of bombings targeting the Yazidi Kurds killed 344 people.
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BBC
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| August 12, 2007 | - The United States denied approving the Iraqi Interior Ministry's $39.7 million purchase of 105,000 Russian-made assault rifles from the Italian Mafia. A senior official of the Iraqi Interior Ministry, which has backed Shiite death squads in the Shiite-Sunni civil war, said “most” of the Russian guns were meant for its police in the Sunni-majority Anbar province; Iraqi officials also complained that U.S. gun deliveries are slow.
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Washington Post
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| August 12, 2007 | - Nominally antiwar Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards admitted that if elected to the White House they would worry about terrorism launched from a failed Iraqi state, threats to the Kurds, and the prospect of Shiite-on-Sunni genocide, and because of these fears they would continue the occupation of Iraq for a long time.
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New York Times
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| August 11, 2007 | - A 1994 interview with Dick Cheney regarding the first Gulf war was released to the web. Asked whether U.S. forces should have invaded Baghdad in an attempt to oust Saddam Hussein, Cheney said, “No . . . we would have been all alone . . . It would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place?” Cheney described Iraq as a “quagmire,” predicting sectarian conflict and the pointless loss of American lives. “How many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? Our judgment was, uh, not very many, and I think we got it right.”
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YouTube
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| August 6, 2007 | - South of Baghdad, a handsome Sunni insurgent nicknamed George Clooney was shot by members of his own tribe and turned over to U.S. forces.
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Los Angeles Times
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| August 5, 2007 | - It was estimated that 90 percent of Iraq's artists had fled the country or been killed.
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Washington Post
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| August 5, 2007 | -
Iraq's
gays were being targeted for murder, though one observer noted that the scale of sectarian violence made it difficult to say whether gays had been killed for any specific reason. “I'm just looking for salvation,” said a gay pharmacist. “Maybe next month you will call and my family will say, 'Oh, he is killed.'”
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Los Angeles Times
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| August 1, 2007 | - Seventy-six U.S. senators had visited Iraq, and 3 percent of Americans approved of how Congress was handling the war, which was costing the United States and Great Britain more than $4,000 each second.
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The Hill
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Zogby
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Daily Mail
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| July 31, 2007 | - The U.S. military announced that July was the least deadly of the past eight months for American troops in Iraq, with only 75 soldiers killed.
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AP via Breitbart
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| July 30, 2007 | -
Iraqis took to the streets after the national soccer team beat Saudi Arabia 1‒0 in the Asian Cup championship. At least four people were killed by “happy fire” in the midst of what were reported to be the largest spontaneous celebrations in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. “Sport brings us together while the heads of everything in Baghdad can't bring us together for five years,” said one reveler. “If the Iraqi football team ruled us, peace would spread in our home.” Each member of the Lions of the Two Rivers will receive $10,000 from the government, but a decision about whether to allot players their own 400-square-meter plots of land has been put off until September.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| July 21, 2007 | - In Baghdad two people died and 15 were wounded in the celebration following the Iraqi soccer team's 2‒0 victory over Vietnam;.
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ESPN
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| July 20, 2007 | - The Pentagon accused Senator Hillary Clinton of reinforcing “enemy propaganda” when she asked whether the Bush Administration had an exit plan for the Iraq war.
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The Financial Times via MSNBC.com
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| July 18, 2007 | - Despite an all-night debate, Democratic
senators failed to invoke cloture and bring to vote a measure requiring the majority of U.S. troops to be withdrawn from Iraq.
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Time
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| July 16, 2007 | - Two car bombs killed at least 75 people in Kirkuk.
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NYT
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| July 14, 2007 | -
Turkey was amassing more than 200,000 soldiers along its border with Iraq.
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Reuters via Globe and Mail
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| July 13, 2007 | -
White House spokesman Tony Snow confirmed that the Iraqi government may take the month of August off, because August is very hot in Iraq. “But, you know,” he added, “they may change their minds.”
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Businesswire
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| July 12, 2007 | - A White House report showed that only eight of eighteen benchmarks for progress were being met in Iraq, but President Bush asked Congress to wait for another report in September before passing judgment.
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NYT
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NYT
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| July 12, 2007 | -
Kurdish guerrillas were fighting Iranian troops.
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IHT
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| July 12, 2007 | - The British military insisted that it had not released man-eating badgers in Basra.
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BBC
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| July 12, 2007 | - An amount at first thought to be $282 million, but revised to $225 thousand, was stolen from a bank in Baghdad;.
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NYT
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| July 9, 2007 | - Ryan C. Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq, pleaded against withdrawal. “In the States,” said Crocker, “it's like we're in the last half of the third reel of a three-reel movie, and all we have to do is decide we’re done here, and the credits come up, and the lights come on, and we leave the theater and go on to something else. Whereas out here, you’re just getting into the first reel of five reels, and as ugly as the first reel has been, the other four and a half are going to be way, way worse.” Unpersuaded, the House voted to begin withdrawing from Iraq in four months.
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BBC
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NYT
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| July 5, 2007 | - At least 150 Iraqis were killed by a truck bomb in northern Iraq in possibly the deadliest bombing since the United States invaded in 2003, and it was reported that, despite a police security drive, the number of unidentified bodies found in Baghdad had increased sharply in June.
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New York Times
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BBCnews.com
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| July 5, 2007 | -
Australia's defense minister, Brendan Nelson, admitted that securing oil is one of the reasons Australian troops stay in Iraq. “This government,” said Labor leader Kevin Rudd, “simply makes it up as it goes along.”
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BBCnews.com
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| June 25, 2007 | - At least 11 successful suicide bombings were reported in Iraq,.
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Guardian
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Guardian
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McClatchy
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| June 25, 2007 | - It was reported that despite the U.S. “surge,” the black-market prices in Iraq for weapons and ammunition have remained stable, indicating the failure of supposedly strengthened checkpoints.
- It was reported that despite the U.S. “surge,” the black-market prices in Iraq for weapons and ammunition have remained stable, indicating the failure of supposedly strengthened checkpoints.
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Time
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| June 24, 2007 | -
Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed, also known as “Chemical Ali,” was sentenced to death for his role in Iraq's Kurdish genocide.
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Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed, also known as “Chemical Ali,” was sentenced to death for his role in Iraq's Kurdish genocide.
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Reuters Canada
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| June 24, 2007 | - A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “'Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida' is stronger language than 'serving',” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly 'serving,' like in a way one 'serves' a casserole.”
- A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “'Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida' is stronger language than 'serving',” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly 'serving,' like in a way one 'serves' a casserole.”
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NYT
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| June 24, 2007 | - The military was concerned about a marked drop in the number of African-American recruits since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars; “We just want to make sure,” said Marine Commandant General James Conway, “that we continue to look like America.”
- The military was concerned about a marked drop in the number of African-American recruits since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars; “We just want to make sure,” said Marine Commandant General James Conway, “that we continue to look like America.”
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ABC News
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| June 17, 2007 | - The sacred Shiite mosque in Samarra was bombed again, raising concerns of a massive wave of sectarian violence like the one that occurred when it was bombed a year ago. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called on Iraqis to “exercise self-restraint,” whereupon two Sunni mosques were razed.
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Washington Post
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News Feed Researcher
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| June 15, 2007 | - President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Palestinian unity government and declared a state of emergency after masked Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip. Hamas looters broke into former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat's home and stole military outfits, photographs of his daughter, and his Nobel Peace Prize. “I see Iraq here,” a bystander in Gaza said. “There is no mercy. We are afraid. See how ferocious this fight was? There is no future for us.”
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New York Times
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The Jerusalem Post
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New York Times
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| June 14, 2007 | - Two reports--one by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the other by the Pentagon--concluded that despite the increased U.S. military presence in Iraq, and despite a drop in violence in Baghdad and Anbar province, the overall level of violence has not decreased but instead has become more evenly distributed throughout the country.
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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| June 7, 2007 | - In Iraq, the Sunni-dominated Islamic
Army announced that it would no longer threaten the “project of Jihad” by continuing to fight Al Qaeda.
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Washington Post
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| June 7, 2007 | - A security assessment found that just one third of Baghdad's neighborhoods were under U.S. control, police recruits shot a “suspicious woman,” a Catholic priest was kidnapped along with five boys, and 27 corpses, each shot in the head and showing signs of torture, were recovered.
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Washington Post
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BBC News
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Washington Post
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| May 30, 2007 | -
Iraq was found to be the world's 121st least peaceful country out of 121 countries; the United States ranked 96, below Yemen but above Iran.
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BBC
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| May 28, 2007 | - In Britain, anonymous sources close to Queen Elizabeth II reported that the monarch was “exasperated and frustrated” with the legacy of the outgoing prime minister; in particular, she was said to be deeply concerned about Blair's actions in Iraq and Afghanistan and the outlawing of fox hunting.
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Telegraph
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| May 27, 2007 | - Thirty-seven American soldiers were killed in Iraq, ending the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the past two-and-a-half years. U.S. military commanders were negotiating cease-fires with Iraqi militants, Turkish troops shelled northern Iraq, and in Baghdad the country's preeminent calligrapher was shot to death.
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icasualties.org
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AP via breitbart.com
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AP via International Herald Tribune
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BBC
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| May 26, 2007 | - Nearly a thousand soldiers had been killed in Iraq since last Memorial Day.
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MSNBC
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| May 24, 2007 | - The body of one of three missing U.S. soldiers was found floating in the Euphrates River.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| May 24, 2007 | - The Defense Department released a how-to guide recovered from an “Al Qaeda
torture chamber” near Baghdad. The manual illustrates interrogation techniques such as “eye removal,” “drilling hands,” and “blowtorch to the skin,” and was found along with whips, wire cutters, pliers, handcuffs, hammers, electric drills, screwdrivers, meat cleavers, and a person suspended from the safe-house ceiling.
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FOX News
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The Smoking Gun
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| May 21, 2007 | - An Irish soldier who won the Military Cross for single-handedly defeating a Baghdad
suicide bomber was facing a court-martial for auctioning his medal on eBay.
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Ananova
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| May 20, 2007 | - At least 15 U.S. troops died in Iraq.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| May 20, 2007 | -
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani flew to the United States, where he hopes to lose weight.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| May 10, 2007 | -
British prime minister Tony Blair announced that he will resign next month after ten years in power. Much speculation ensued about what the 54-year-old Blair would do next, and it was thought that he might establish a foundation to fight poverty in Africa. “[Blair] was the worst thing that ever happened to Africa,” said Bright Matonga, the deputy information minister of Zimbabwe. “We hope that the children of Iraq and Afghanistan he is killing everyday will haunt him for the rest of his life.”
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Daily Mail
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The Australian
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Guardian
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| May 10, 2007 | - A majority in Iraq's parliament backed a bill drafted by allies of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which would require a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
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WP
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| May 10, 2007 | - Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz testified in a pre-trial hearing related to the November 2005 killing of 24 civilians in Haditha,
Iraq. “I know it was a bad thing what I've done,” he said about his role in the killings, which were in retribution for the death of another Marine, “but I done it because I was angry T.J. was dead, and I pissed on one Iraqi's head.”
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Reuters via Alertnet
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| May 9, 2007 | - Vice President Dick Cheney made a surprise visit to Baghdad, where he met with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other leaders. “I do believe that there is a greater sense of urgency now than I'd seen previously,” the Vice President told reporters. Protesters in Karbala burned him in effigy.
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NYT
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Reuters via Alertnet
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| May 3, 2007 | - The Republican candidates for the presidency debated at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas said that the day Roe v. Wade was repealed would be “a glorious day of human liberty and freedom” and that the current tax system “ought to be taken behind a barn and killed with a dull ax”; Senator John McCain of Arizona claimed that he would “follow [Osama bin Laden] to the gates of hell”; Texas
Congressman Ron Paul said that not going to war in Iraq would have been “conservative,“ because ”it’s a Republican, it’s a pro-American, it follows the Founding Fathers. And besides, it follows the Constitution.” California
Congressman Duncan Hunter took responsibility for the border fence in San Diego. “It’s a double fence,” he said. “It’s not that little straggly fence you see on CNN with everybody getting over it.” “No one on this stage,” said former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, ”probably knows Hillary Clinton better than I do,” to which former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani replied: ”Oh my!” Collectively, the candidates invoked Reagan's name nearly 20 times.
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NY Times
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| May 3, 2007 | -
President Bush vetoed an Iraq spending bill that included a timetable for troop withdrawal and threatened to use his third veto on a bill that would expand the legal definition of hate crime to include violence based on gender or sexuality.
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BBCnews.com
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AP via MSNBC.com
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| May 3, 2007 | - Officials from more than 50 countries gathered in Egypt and issued a five-year “International Compact” aimed at stabilizing Iraq.
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The Daily Star Egypt
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| May 2, 2007 | -
Congressman John Shimkus (R., Ill.) said that pulling out of Iraq would be like the Cardinals leaving the field in the 15th inning to let the Cubs win.
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Chicago Tribune
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| May 1, 2007 | - The Iraqi interior ministry claimed that the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq had been killed.
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BBCnews.com
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| April 30, 2007 | - Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr called on Iraqis to paint “magnificent tableaux” on barrier walls that “depict the ugliness and terrorist nature of the occupier, and the sedition, car bombings, blood and the like he has brought upon Iraqis.”
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NYTimes.com
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| April 30, 2007 | - National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley was trying to hire someone new to run the Iraq war.
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New York Times
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| April 28, 2007 | - Former CIA Director George Tenet published a book accusing the Bush Administration of taking his phrase “slam dunk”—referring to intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction—out of context in order to justify a war that the president, the vice president, and the secretary of defense had resolved to wage before September 11, 2001. Tenet complained that the White House and the Pentagon made him their scapegoat when the Iraqi arsenal turned out to be imaginary. A group of former intelligence officers sent Tenet a letter calling him “the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community,” reminding him that he had often lied to the public at the administration's behest, and encouraging him to return his Medal of Freedom and donate half his royalties to wounded veterans and the families of dead soldiers.
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Washington Post
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TPM
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| April 27, 2007 | - The nine Democrats running for president held a debate in South Carolina. Hillary Clinton faulted the people of Iraq for not making good on “the chance to have freedom, to have their own country” provided by the U.S. invasion, and John Edwards suggested that hedge funds could help alleviate poverty. Asked why he was at the debate, Mike Gravel, a 76-year-old who represented Alaska in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, pointed to the rest of the candidates and said, “Some of these people frighten me,” especially “the top-tier ones.” He singled out Joseph Biden for his “arrogance” and asked Barack Obama, “Barack, who do you want to nuke?” Obama replied, “I'm not planning to nuke anybody right now, Mike. I promise.” “Good,” said Gravel, “then we're safe, for a while.”
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WCNC
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| April 25, 2007 | - Campaigning in New Hampshire, Rudolph Giuliani said, “I listen a little to the Democrats, and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense. We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation, and we will be back to our pre-September 11 attitude of defense.”
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Politico
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| April 20, 2007 | -
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared that the United States has lost the war in Iraq.
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New York Times
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| April 19, 2007 | - A series of attacks in Shiite districts of Baghdad killed at least 158 people, the largest number of people killed in a single day since President Bush increased the number of troops in Iraq three months ago.
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Washington Post
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| April 19, 2007 | - “I wish the war was over,” said Karl Rove. “I wish the war never existed.”
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Akron Beacon Journal
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| April 18, 2007 | - Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, upset that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will not support a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops, convinced six cabinet members to quit. “We are free because we are not in the government,” said Bahar al-Araji, a Sadr legislator. “If the prime minister doesn't do what we want, we can do something to the prime minister. We can make him leave the government.” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that if the vacancies were filled with members who could broaden representation in the cabinet, it “probably would be a positive thing.”
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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| April 16, 2007 | - An explosion near a Shiite shrine in Karbala killed 16 children.
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AP via Tehran Times
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| April 15, 2007 | - Senator John McCain assessed the situation in Iraq, saying “I have no Plan B . . . If I saw that doomsday scenario evolving, then I would try to come up with one.”
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NYT
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| April 12, 2007 | - In Iraq,
suicide bombs exploded in the parliament cafeteria and on a bridge over the Tigris, toppling cars into the river and killing 10 people.
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AP via IHT
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AP via NYT
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| April 10, 2007 | - It was reported that a forthcoming book by the editor of the Washington Post suggests that a Google search might have prevented the Iraq war.
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ABC News
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| April 8, 2007 | - The resurgent Mahdi army clashed with U.S. soldiers in Sadr City.
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Washington Post
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| April 8, 2007 | - American fighter jets bombed Shiite militiamen in Diwaniya.
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New York Times
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| April 6, 2007 | - In Iraq, the sixth suicide chlorine attack in two months killed 20 people in the Anbar province.
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New York Times
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| April 3, 2007 | - Vice President Dick Cheney attacked the “self-appointed strategists” in Congress who were hampering the Bush Administration's efforts to prolong the war in Iraq,.
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CNN.com
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| April 2, 2007 | - In Baghdad, a U.S. congressional delegation outfitted with bulletproof vests, flanked by 100 soldiers in armored Humvees, and watched over by attack helicopters, visited a local bazaar to demonstrate the success of the current security plan. It was, said Representative Mike Pence (R., Ind.), just like an “outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime.”
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New York Times
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| April 1, 2007 | - In Tal Afar, Iraq, a truck bomb killed 152 people, making it the deadliest attack of the war. Two hundred and fifty more people died in other bombings carried out against Shiite targets.
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Reuters via China Post
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| April 1, 2007 | - The newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Iraq spoke of “encouraging signals of progress.”
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Reuters via China Post
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| March 28, 2007 | - President George W. Bush asserted that withdrawing from Iraq would be disastrous and supported his claims by citing two Baghdad bloggers.
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AP via Breitbart
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| March 26, 2007 | - The British Ministry of Defence found that a study which had placed Iraq's civilian death toll at 655,000 was “robust.”
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BBC
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| March 24, 2007 | - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a timetable for ending the Iraq war by a six-vote margin. The bill mandates American withdrawal in September 2008 if the Bush Administration meets certain benchmarks, earlier if it does not. Several Democrats voted against the timetable because it was not sufficiently antiwar, and Republicans derided the inclusion of domestic provisions benefiting spinach growers, citrus farmers, salmon fishermen, and peanut storers. “What does throwing money at Bubba Gump, Popeye the sailor man, and Mr. Peanut have to do with winning a war?” asked Representative Sam Johnson of Texas. “I will veto it,” said President George W. Bush, "if it comes to my desk.”
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New York Times
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| March 23, 2007 | -
British troops pulled out of Basra; two days later, rival Shiite factions began battling over a government building that had been been evacuated by the military.
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CS Monitor
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| March 23, 2007 | - In the Iraqi territory of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, Iranian forces captured and detained 15 members of the British Royal Navy.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| March 22, 2007 | - In the Green Zone, a press conference held by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was interrupted by a nearby rocket attack. Ban, frightened, ducked behind a podium.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| March 19, 2007 | - Eighty percent of Iraqis were reporting “attacks nearby,”
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ABC
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| March 19, 2007 | - and Kadhim al-Jubouri, an Iraqi weightlifter who toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein in 2003, said that Saddam “was like Stalin. But the occupation is proving to be worse.”
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Guardian
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| March 17, 2007 | - Between 10,000 and 30,000 people marched in Washington to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Anti-antiwar protesters, organized by a group called Gathering of Eagles, were angry that someone had put a pink tiara on a Navy memorial statue. “That was the real catalyst, right there,” said one Navy veteran. “They showed they were willing to desecrate something that's sacred to the American soul.”
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WP
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| March 10, 2007 | - The United Nations reported that 2 million Iraqis, including the judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death, have fled their country since the war began; according to the State Department, the United States has accepted 500 of those refugees.
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CNN.com
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Al Jazeera
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CNN.com
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| March 8, 2007 | - House Democrats proposed legislation that would mandate an Iraq withdrawal no later than August 2008.
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Reuters
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| March 8, 2007 | -
China accused the United States of trampling on Iraq’s sovereignty and violating the rights of its own citizens.
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Boston Herald
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| March 3, 2007 | - An Indian
numerologist forecast that Hillary Clinton would win the 2008 election because her birth number is eight; he claimed he had also correctly predicted Princess Diana's death, Bush's election, and that America would lose the Iraq war.
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Asian Tribune
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| March 1, 2007 | -
Senator Joe Biden (D., Del.) boasted that as president he would pull U.S. troops out of Iraq and send them to “take out the janjaweed” in Darfur, which he mistakenly placed in Somalia, not Sudan, where visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a cooperative agreement on the environment and said, “Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan.”
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PrezVid
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Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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| March 1, 2007 | - On
The Late Show with David Letterman
, Senator John McCain confirmed that he is running for president. Candidly discussing the war in Iraq, he said, “We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives.” In response to Democrats who scolded him for using the word ”wasted,” McCain replied, ”I should have used the word 'sacrificed'.”
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CNN
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| February 26, 2007 | - The Bush Administration announced it would reverse its policy of the last several years and discuss stabilizing Iraq with high-level diplomats from Syria and Iran, which it was blaming for manufacturing a cache of roadside bombs found in Hilla, Iraq, inside a fake boulder made of polyurethane. The later discovery of a makeshift weapons factory indicated that insurgents were making their own weapons.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| February 25, 2007 | - Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah told an interviewer he believed the United States had embarked on a secret plan to break up Iraq,
Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, before doing the same to the Arab nations of northern Africa. “Israel will be the most important and the strongest state in a region that has been partitioned into ethnic and confessional states that are in agreement with each other,” he said. ”This is the new Middle East.”
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New Yorker
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| February 25, 2007 | - The day after a Sunni imam in Fallujah issued a condemnation against Sunni militants, a truck bomb exploded beside his mosque, killing 36 worshippers and wounding at least 62 more. A suicide bomber at a Baghdad university blew herself up, killing more than 40 people and scattering purses, pens, textbooks, and fingers.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| February 23, 2007 | - For its temporary embassy in Washington, D.C., the Iraqi government purchased a $5.8-million Tudor-style mansion across the street from the home of Dick Cheney on Massachusetts Avenue. The mansion features a built-in espresso machine, heated floors, soft pistachio carpeting, and a Jacuzzi.
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Washington Post
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| February 23, 2007 | - It was revealed that the British Ministry of Defense once hired psychics to find Osama bin Laden, and Defense Minister Des Browne announced that Prince Harry, the 22-year-old son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, who is third in line to the throne, would be deployed to Iraq.
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Daily Mail
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Washington Post
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| February 20, 2007 | -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that he would bring home more than 1,600 of the 7,100 British troops in Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney said that the withdrawal was “an affirmation that there are parts of Iraq where things are going pretty well”; he also said that breaking “the will of the American people” was Al Qaeda's strategy. “They win because we quit.” “Dick was always very realistic,” said Kenneth Adelman, an arms-control official in the Reagan Administration and friend to Cheney. “I don't really understand how month after month he gets briefings showing Iraq's getting worse and worse, and he engages in all this happy talk.”
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Washington Post
Source 2:
Fox News
Source 3:
Washington Post
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| February 16, 2007 | - President George W. Bush expressed “certainty” that the Iranian government has been supplying Iraqi insurgents with weapons and extended the deployment of 3,200 soldiers so close to the end of their tour that their uniforms and supplies had already been packed for shipment.
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CBS4Denver
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NYT
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| February 13, 2007 | -
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki called initial stages of the new security crackdown in Baghdad a “dazzling success.” Later, six explosions in three markets killed 127 people, and suspected insurgents shot six people in the head in a public garden.
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NYT
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NYT
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| February 9, 2007 | - In Iraq, armed men believed to be working for the Ministry of Defense kidnapped an Iranian diplomat, a car bomb killed at least 33 policemen, a political officer affiliated with the Mahdi Army was assassinated, and in Sadr City, Baghdad's largest Shiite slum, conditions were much improved following the input of $41 million in reconstruction funds.
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NY Times
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CNN
Source 3:
NY Times
Source 4:
NY Times
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| February 9, 2007 | -
Congressman Gary Ackerman insisted that it would take little more than a “platoon of lesbians” to chase the U.S. military out of Baghdad,.
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Thinkprogress via Nerve.com
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| February 6, 2007 | - A mistrial was declared in the court-martial of Lieutenant Ehren K. Watada, the first American military officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq,.
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NY Times and Vivelacanada
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| February 5, 2007 | - A massive bombing in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad killed 130 people, making the attack the second deadliest in the country since the March 2003 invasion.
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The News (Pakistan)
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| February 4, 2007 | - The U.S. military announced that insurgents had shot down four helicopters in the past two weeks in Iraq,.
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Al Jazeera
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| February 3, 2007 | -
Iraqi refugees were flooding Syria and Jordan, where they now account for 5 and 12 percent of those countries' total populations.
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AP via Yahoo!NEWS
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| February 2, 2007 | - The U.S. director of national intelligence released a declassified version of a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq; the report found that “the term 'civil war' accurately describes key elements of the Iraqi conflict” and that “widespread fighting could produce de facto partition.”
| Source:
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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| February 2, 2007 | - In Hillah, where a further 45 people were killed, a police officer attempted to smother the blast from a suicide bomber. “He hugged him” said a witness, “and the explosives tore apart both bodies.”
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Los Angeles Times
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| January 29, 2007 | - U.S. and Iraqi forces in the Shiite holy city of Najaf killed at least 200 members of an apocalyptic cult.
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Reuters
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| January 26, 2007 | -
Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, an expert on counterinsurgency, replaced Army Gen. George Casey as U.S. commander of troops in Iraq, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a non-binding resolution opposing President Bush's plan to increase the number of troops. Republican Senator John Warner of Virginia expressed hope that “wherever possible, the Iraqis should bear the brunt of the sectarian violence.”
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USA Today
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| January 26, 2007 | - An egg crate full of pigeons exploded at a pet market in Baghdad, killing 15 people and injuring 35. “My friends and I rushed to the scene,” said a witness, “where we saw burned dead bodies, pieces of flesh, and several dead expensive puppies and birds.”
| Source:
BBC
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| January 26, 2007 | - At the Gulf Cup tournament in Abu Dhabi, Iraqis painted their faces and cheered their national soccer team. “By God, football unites us,” said one woman in the crowd. “I wish we could be like that back home.” The team failed to make the final round.
| Source:
Reuters via The Australian
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| January 25, 2007 | - At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Adel Abdul Mahdi, the Vice President of Iraq, called the occupation of Iraq an “idiot decision.”
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 23, 2007 | - President George W. Bush gave the State of the Union address, in which he discussed plans to balance the budget, double the size of the Border Patrol, reduce gasoline consumption in the United States by 20 percent, and institute a tax deduction to help American workers afford private health insurance. He announced that he was sending more than 20,000 additional soldiers to Iraq, asked Congress to authorize an increase of 92,000 active soldiers over the next five years, and proposed forming a “Civilian Reserve Corps.” He complimented several guests on their heroic kindness, courage, and self-sacrifice, including NBA star Dikembe Mutombo and Julie Aigner-Clark, the founder of an independent video-production business now owned by the Walt Disney Company. The state of the union, Bush said, is strong.
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NYT
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| January 17, 2007 | - Seventy Iraqis died and 170 were injured when two bombs exploded at a university in Baghdad.
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CNN
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| January 16, 2007 | - The United Nations announced that 34,452 civilians were killed in Iraq last year, a number nearly three times higher than previous estimates by the Iraqi interior ministry.
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BBC
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| January 15, 2007 | - “I think,” said President George W. Bush, “the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude.”
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ITV.com
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| January 12, 2007 | - The Bush Administration announced plans to increase U.S. forces in Iraq by 20,000 troops.
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New York Times
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| January 12, 2007 | - Americans in Erbil arrested six Iranians working at a diplomatic office.
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New York Times
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| January 12, 2007 | -
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D., Del.) asserted that the authority Congress granted the Bush Administration to invade Iraq did not extend to invading Iran or Syria. “I just want to set that marker,” he said.
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Slate
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| January 7, 2007 | - Mercenaries in Iraq lost their immunity from war crimes prosecution.
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Boston Globe
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| January 4, 2007 | -
Iraqi security guards were arrested for taking illegal cell phone footage of Shiite officials taunting Saddam Hussein before he was hanged. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt called images of the execution “revolting and barbaric,” and Libya announced its intention to erect a statue of Hussein on the gallows. Master Sgt. Robert Ellis, a senior medical adviser responsible for Hussein's care in Baghdad, praised the stoicism displayed by Hussein. “Saddam,” he said, “was gangsta.” A Texas 10-year-old who had seen video footage of the execution died after hanging himself from his bunk bed.
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ABC News
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Der Spiegel
Source 3:
STL Today
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Reuters via MSNBC
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| January 3, 2007 | -
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced that he would not be seeking a second term. “I didn't want to take this position,” said al-Maliki. “I wish it could be done with even before the end of this term.”
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InTheNews
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| January 2, 2007 | - Grandmothers gathered in Times Square to hold a vigil for the 3,000 U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq,.
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AP via International Herald Tribune
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| December 13, 2006 | - In Baghdad, at a gathering place for poor Shiite laborers, the owner of a truck filled with wheat announced that he was looking for workers. A crowd gathered around the truck and it exploded, killing 70 people and wounding 236.
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NYT
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| December 13, 2006 | -
President Bush said that any new strategy for Iraq would have to wait until early next year.
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NYT
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| December 11, 2006 | - It was revealed that billions of dollars in Iraqi oil revenues had not been spent, and the head of Iraq's Commission on Public Integrity was accused of graft.
| Source:
NYT
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| December 9, 2006 | - Hundreds of Iraqis vied to become Saddam Hussein's
hangman.
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New York Times
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| December 8, 2006 | - Outgoing Representative Cynthia McKinney (D., Ga.) introduced a bill to impeach President George W. Bush for misleading Congress on the war in Iraq and implementing an illegal domestic spying program.
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Newsvine.com
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| December 8, 2006 | - Eleven American troops were killed on a single day in Iraq.
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Washington Post
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| December 7, 2006 | - A bomb exploded in Karma, killing three Iraqi soldiers, including Staff Sergeant Saddam Hussein. “He loved his country, man. He loved it,” said an American soldier who knew Hussein. “According to his religion, he's probably with a million virgins right now. And he's probably making them virgins do dismounted patrols.”
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New York Times
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| December 5, 2006 | - The Iraq Study Group report was released. “Truth of the matter is a lot of reports in Washington are never read by anybody,” said President Bush. “To show you how important this one is, I read it.” When asked how Bush responded to the report's suggestions that the United States drastically alter its strategy in Iraq, panelist Lawrence Eagleburger said, “His reaction was, 'Where's my drink?'” Former Republican senator and Iraq Study Group member Alan Simpson said about Bush, “A 100-percenter is a person you don't want to be around. They have gas, ulcers, heartburn, and B.O.”
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
White House
Source 3:
Washington Post
Source 4:
Washington Post
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| December 5, 2006 | - “What Americans are trying to figure out,” said President Bush, “is why Iraqis are killing Iraqis when you have a better future ahead.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| November 29, 2006 | - The Iraqi parliament voted unanimously to extend the country's state of emergency, and President George W. Bush, who declared himself a “realist,” disavowed a leaked White House memo that suggested that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was either dumb, weak, or a liar. Maliki responded by canceling a dinner date with the president.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Cybercast News Service and New York Times
Source 3:
International Herald Tribune
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| November 28, 2006 | -
Iran's supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that “the continuation of Iraq's occupation is not a mouthful that Americans can swallow.”
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Breitbart.com
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| November 28, 2006 | -
Marine Corps intelligence in the Sunni Triangle determined that U.S. forces were “no longer capable of militarily defeating the insurgency.”
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Washington Post
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| November 28, 2006 | - Matt Lauer, host of the Today Show, declared the onset of civil war in Iraq. Lauer's former co-host and current CBS anchor Katie Couric refused to agree with Lauer, insisting instead that Iraq had only slipped “ever closer” to civil war; ABC's Charles Gibson, another former morning television host, said, “You can call it anarchy, you can call it chaos, you can call it civil war . . . "
| Source:
Boston Globe and Newsbuster.org
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| November 26, 2006 | - Two hundred fifteen people were killed in a massive bombing and mortar attack on a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, marking Iraq's largest single-day death toll since the U.S. invasion. The killings prompted Shiite militiamen to seize and burn alive as many as twenty-four Sunnis; other Shiite residents of the capital stoned Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. “It's all your fault!” one man shouted.
| Source 1:
AP via MSNBC
Source 2:
Reuters
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| November 26, 2006 | - In Baghdad, insurgents set fire to a U.S. base.
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AP
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| November 20, 2006 | - The host of a popular satirical Iraqi
television show was found murdered. “He was a star in the galaxy of Iraqi
arts,” said the show's director. “Now, he's another sacrifice on the altar of this slaughtered country.”
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Washington Post
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| November 20, 2006 | -
Army Specialist James Barker admitted that he had raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and helped murder her family in March 2006.
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BBC News
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| November 20, 2006 | -
Syria's foreign minister visited Iraq to discuss renewing diplomatic relations between the two nations.
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Al Jazeera
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| November 19, 2006 | - In Hillah, Iraq, a man promising work lured day-laborers into a minivan, then blew it up, killing 22 people. “The ground was covered with the remains of people and blood,” said a laborer, “and survivors ran in all directions.” Thirty people were killed in attacks in Mosul, Baquba, and Baghdad, four American security contractors and an Austrian were kidnapped in Basra, and a deputy health minister was kidnapped in Baghdad. “Where is the government?” yelled a woman in Mashtal, after multiple bombs killed 11 civilians. “Women and children were killed. God is great, God is great.”
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ABC News
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| November 19, 2006 | - Senator John McCain said that American troops in Iraq were “fighting and dying for a failed policy”; Henry Kissinger said that he didn't believe a military victory in Iraq is possible.
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The New York Times
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| November 17, 2006 | -
Tony Blair told Al Jazeera that western intervention in Iraq had been “pretty much of a disaster.”
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Times Online
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| November 13, 2006 | -
Baghdad's morgues were clogged. “Every day, there are crowds of women outside weeping, yelling, and flailing in grief,” said a morgue director. “They're all looking for their dead sons and I don't know how the computer or we will bear up.”
| Source:
AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| November 12, 2006 | - Three U.S. soldiers, four British soldiers, and 159 Iraqis were killed on a Sunday.
| Source 1:
Aljazeerah.info
Source 2:
The Toronto Star
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| November 9, 2006 | - To protest the Iraq war, a man named Malachi Ritscher committed suicide in Chicago by setting himself on fire next to a 25-foot-tall sculpture called “Flame of the Millennium.” Along with a self-penned obituary, the 52-year-old Ritscher posted a farewell message on his website in which he described the “deep shame” of a day in 2002 when he stood, knife in hand, next to Donald Rumsfeld, but was unable to bring himself to slash the defense secretary's throat. “I too love God and country,” wrote Ritscher, “and feel called upon to serve.”
| Source 1:
Malachi Ritscher
Source 2:
Chicago Reader
Source 3:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| November 9, 2006 | - “Who's Rumsfeld?” asked Marine Lance Corporal James L. Davis Jr., who is serving in Zagarit, Iraq.
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The New York Times
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| November 8, 2006 | - In Iraq the parliament extended the nationwide state of emergency by 30 days, and eight soccer players and fans were killed by mortar rounds. “We are the Shiite nation,” yelled a man from his hospital bed.
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MSNBC
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| November 8, 2006 | - The civil war in Iraq was breaking up marriages. “I love my husband, but my family has forced me to divorce him,” said Hiba Sami, a Shiite woman who was married to a Sunni man for 18 years. “We have four children and every day they cry because they miss their father.”
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Reuters Alertnet
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| November 8, 2006 | - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned, and to replace him President Bush nominated Robert Gates, a member of the Iraq Study Group and former head of the CIA, who was investigated in 1991 by the office of the independent counsel for his role in the Iran-contra scandal, and was suspected to have passed military intelligence to Saddam Hussein's
Iraq.
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GlobalSecurity.org
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Mercury News
Source 3:
The New York Times
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BBC News
Source 5:
Newsday
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| November 3, 2006 | - The U.S. government shut down its “Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal” website after the New York Times pointed out that it contained instructions for building an atomic bomb. “It's a cookbook,” explained a senior diplomat in Europe.
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New York Times
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| November 3, 2006 | - U.S. Army personnel were accused of telling potential recruits that the war was over.
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ABC News
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| November 1, 2006 | -
John Kerry apologized for implying that American soldiers in Iraq are stupid.
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New York Times
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| October 30, 2006 | - A leaked “Index of Civil Conflict” from Central Command in Iraq indicated that the country is sliding from the green zone of “Peace” towards a red zone marked “Chaos.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 28, 2006 | - President George W. Bush officially replaced the phrase “stay the course” in Iraq with “We will stay in Iraq,” and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki insisted he never agreed to a U.S. timetable for reducing sectarian violence. “I'm not America's man,” he said.
| Source 1:
Chicago Tribune
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New York Times
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News.com.au
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| October 27, 2006 | - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told critics of the war to “back off.”
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Yahoo News
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| October 23, 2006 | - In Basra, Prince Philip of Britain assured the troops “at the sharp end” that “a great many locals do very much appreciate what you are trying to do for them.”
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New Zealand Herald
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| October 23, 2006 | - Senator Rick Santorum said, “As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn to Iraq.”
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New York Times
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| October 22, 2006 | - The mid-month tally for U.S. troops killed in Iraq was 79, making October the deadliest month this year for American soldiers.
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AP via WBOC
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| October 19, 2006 | - Nearly four months after the arraignment of PFC Steven D. Green, eight other soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division faced courts-martial in Kentucky for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her family in March.
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New York Times
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| October 18, 2006 | - During a debate with his Democratic rival, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana said that President Bush (who this week compared Iraq to Vietnam) has a secret plan for winning the war, but that Bush is not going to share his plan with the world.
| Source 1:
Billings Gazette
Source 2:
FT
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| October 16, 2006 | - The first Eskimo was killed in the Iraq war; it took 20 men a full day to dig his grave through the permafrost in a town 350 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 12, 2006 | - The United States
Army was planning to maintain current troop levels in Iraq through 2010, and to replace its advertising slogan, “An Army of One,” with a new slogan, “Army Strong.”
| Source:
AP
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| October 12, 2006 | - Insurgents in Baghdad fired a mortar round at an ammunition dump on a U.S. military base, setting off large explosions that were felt miles away.
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Army Times
Source 2:
China Daily
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| October 11, 2006 | - Research by U.S. epidemiologists and Iraqi physicians found that 654,965 Iraqis have died as a result of the Iraq war, though half of households surveyed were unsure of who to blame for the deaths of their family members. President George W. Bush said that he did not consider the study “a credible report.”
| Source 1:
Johns Hopkins University
Source 2:
Reuters
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| October 10, 2006 | - In Iraq, four U.S. soldiers were killed in one day.
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Stuff.co.nz
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| October 9, 2006 | - In Kut, Iraq, as many as 450 policemen were hospitalized with what was suspected to be food poisoning after sharing a Ramadan meal (although other reports gave the number as 1,350 hospitalized and seven dead).
| Source:
The New York Times
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| September 28, 2006 | - The new leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed that 4,000 foreign insurgents have died since the 2003 invasion.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 28, 2006 | -
Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi told reporters that it's hard for Americans to understand “what's wrong” with Iraqis. “Why do they hate the Israelis and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference?”
| Source:
CNN
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| September 26, 2006 | - The Bush Administration declassified an intelligence report that called the war a “cause celebre” for Muslim extremists.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 25, 2006 | - The United States Army extended combat tours for 4,000 soldiers in Iraq,.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 25, 2006 | -
Congress was about to go into recess; bills passed in the final days included a provision to allocate $70 billion to the Pentagon for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a clause that will allow the president to define enemy combatants at his discretion; the bill also legalized torture and suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 20, 2006 | -
Ted Turner called the Iraq war one of the “dumbest moves of all time.”
| Source:
CNN
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| September 20, 2006 | - A spokesman for the Iraq Study Group, a think tank created to analyze events in Iraq, announced that it had “made no judgment of any kind at this point about any aspect of policy with regard to Iraq.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| September 20, 2006 | - The judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein was removed because “he hurt the feelings of the Iraqi people.”
| Source:
New York times
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| September 17, 2006 | - Twenty-three people were killed in bombings in Kirkuk, Iraq, and 180 bodies, some showing signs of torture, were found in Baghdad,.
| Source:
BBC
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| September 15, 2006 | - “We have to embrace,” said Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, “the culture of dialogue and reconciliation.”
| Source:
CBS News
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| September 14, 2006 | - The United States was running out of troops to send to Iraq,.
| Source:
Won't Deploy? Can't Deploy.
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| September 12, 2006 | - Interfaith dating had become increasingly difficult in Baghdad. “There is no hope in this country anymore for Sunnis and Shiites to fall in love,” said Husham al-Gizzy, holding his face in his hands.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
The Washington Post
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| September 10, 2006 | - The Abu Ghraib prison was placed under Iraqi control. “I heard shouting,” said a recent visitor, “like someone had a hot iron on their body.”
| Source:
Telegraph.co.uk
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| September 8, 2006 | - A declassified CIA intelligence report concluded that prior to the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein “did not have a relationship, harbor, or even turn a blind eye toward,” Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or Al Qaeda.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 7, 2006 | - The Iraqi government took control of its own army.
| Source:
Times of London
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| September 7, 2006 | - The United States increased the number of troops in Iraq by 15,000.
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
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| September 7, 2006 | - An official at the Baghdad morgue said that last month's death toll was actually triple the number first reported.
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor
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| September 5, 2006 | - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice compared critics of the Iraq war to Northerners who sought peace with the South during the Civil War. “There were people who thought the Declaration of Independence was a mistake,” she said.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 1, 2006 | - The Pentagon announced that civilian casualties in Iraq had increased recently by more than fifty percent, and death squads were said to be torturing and killing as many as 1,800 people per month.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 29, 2006 | - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales visited Iraq to encourage “the rule of law.”
| Source 1:
NPR
Source 2:
icasualties.org
Source 3:
Reuters
Source 4:
Reuters
Source 5:
Reuters
Source 6:
Sapa-AP via Independent Online
Source 7:
Reuters
Source 8:
Reuters
Source 9:
AP via Houston Chronicle
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| August 28, 2006 | - At least 200 Iraqis were killed in bombings, rocket attacks, and shootings, as were 19 American and British soldiers.
| Source 1:
CNN
Source 2:
NPR
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| August 23, 2006 | - A senior U.S. general said it was a “policy of the central government in Iran” to destabilize Iraq.
| Source:
San Jose Mercury News
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| August 23, 2006 | - A poll found that Americans were becoming increasingly effective at distinguishing between the war in Iraq and the war on terror.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 23, 2006 | - Senator Joseph Lieberman compared the Iraq and the Spanish civil wars, saying both were a “harbinger” of worse conflict.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 22, 2006 | - Thousands of U.S. Marine reserves were involuntarily recalled to active duty to offset a lack of volunteers for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
| Source:
CNN
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| August 22, 2006 | - President George W. Bush admitted that the Iraq war was “straining the psyche of our country.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 22, 2006 | - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to categorize the fighting in Iraq as a civil war, citing instead “sectarian differences.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 20, 2006 | - Snipers killed 20 pilgrims at a Shiite festival in Baghdad; a government employee noted that it was an improvement over last year, when nearly a thousand died in stampedes.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| August 15, 2006 | -
Senator
Barack Obama called the Iraq war “dumb.”
| Source:
Harrisburg Daily Register
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| August 14, 2006 | - It was pointed out that the United States has been fighting in Iraq for as long as it fought Germany during World War II.
| Source:
The Chicago Tribune
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| August 8, 2006 | -
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman lost the Democratic
Senate primary election to anti-Iraq-war candidate Ned Lamont. Lieberman then announced that he would run as an independent candidate, and that “Team Connecticut” would “surge forward to victory.” Vice President Dick Cheney said that Lamont's victory was encouraging to “Al Qaeda types.”
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| August 4, 2006 | - In Baghdad, 100,000 Shiites attended a “million-man” march in support of Hezbollah.
| Source:
The Australian
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| August 3, 2006 | -
Lance Corporal Mark Beyers, an Iraq war veteran and double amputee, was attacked and robbed outside a restaurant in Bethesda, Maryland.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| August 2, 2006 | - In Iraq, President Jalal Talabani vowed to “terminate terrorism” by 2007.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 2, 2006 | - U.S. General John Abizaid told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “Iraq could move toward civil war.”
| Source:
NY Times
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| August 2, 2006 | - A lawyer who represents one of four American paratroopers accused of murdering three Iraqi detainees told a military court in Tikrit that the dead men “got exactly what they deserved.”
| Source:
BBC and BBC
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| August 1, 2006 | - Corporal Phillip E. Baucus, 28, nephew of U.S. Senator
Max Baucus, was killed in action in Iraq.
| Source:
Bloomberg via Google News
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| July 30, 2006 | - Thirteen U.S. soldiers died in Iraq, where the U.S. military was planning to deploy 5,000 more troops.
| Source:
icasualties.org
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| July 30, 2006 | - At least 34 gunshot bodies were found in Baghdad, all showing signs of torture.
| Source 1:
local6.com
Source 2:
Reuters
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| July 30, 2006 | - Shiite militia groups in Baghdad were setting up checkpoints, demanding that passersby provide identification, and shooting Sunnis on the spot. “The gangs also raided houses and shouted at the people there, 'You pimps, Sunnis, we will kill you,'” explained an eyewitness. “And they did.”
| Source 1:
Reuters
Source 2:
Newsweek
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| July 30, 2006 | - It was reported that Private Steven D. Green, who is charged with raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, then killing her and members of her family, had said that, in Iraq, “killing people is like squashing an ant, I mean, you kill somebody and it's like, 'All right, let's go get some pizza.'”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 30, 2006 | - The coach of the Iraqi national soccer team resigned and fled to Kurdistan.
| Source:
ABC (Australia)
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| July 29, 2006 | - A marine sniper who has killed as many as 60 insurgents in Iraq said of his work, “It's like hearing classical music playing in my head.”
| Source:
USA Today
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| July 27, 2006 | -
Saddam Hussein demanded that he be shot—not hanged—if he is found guilty of murdering Shiites in Dujail in 1982. “This case,” said Hussein, “is not worth the urine of an Iraqi child.”
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Scotsman.com
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| July 26, 2006 | -
Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, condemned Israel's military actions; Howard Dean called al-Maliki an “anti-Semite.”
| Source:
AP
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| July 25, 2006 | - Gunmen in Mosul set fire to government-run food-ration shops.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 21, 2006 | - Violence was forcing Shiite-owned
bakeries in Baghdad's Sunni neighborhoods to close their doors.
| Source:
NY Times
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| July 18, 2006 | - Fifty-three Iraqis died when a car bomb exploded in the Shiite city of Kufa, and 48 lost their lives to Sunni Arab gunmen in Mahmudiya.
| Source:
NY Times
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| July 11, 2006 | - Twenty dead bus drivers were found in Muqdadiya, Iraq, and two dead carpenters were found in Tikrit. Gunmen entered a market in Mahmudiya and killed at least 42 people; an explosion killed 25 at a cafe in Tuz Khurmatu.
| Source:
Reuters AlertNet
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| July 10, 2006 | - The Iraqi civil war continued to escalate as Shiite militiamen invaded a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad and executed at least 36 young men, apparently in response to the bombing of a Shiite mosque; later that day, two car bombs exploded next to another Shiite mosque, killing 19 and wounding 59.
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Los Angeles Times
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| July 9, 2006 | - Five more American soldiers were charged in the Iraqi
rape-and-murder case.
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ABC News
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| July 8, 2006 | - An Army reserve colonel offered to plead guilty to charges that he engaged in bribery, conspiracy, and money laundering while he was stationed in Iraq.
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New York Times
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| July 6, 2006 | -
Iraqi prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki denounced the immunity of American soldiers in Iraq in connection with the rape and murder of a teenage girl and three of her relatives, including another child. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said that there was no apparent connection between the rape-and-murder case and the killings of two soldiers from the unit under investigation.
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Detroit Free Press
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| July 5, 2006 | - “I'm going to make you this promise,” President George W. Bush
told a crowd of soldiers in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, “I'm not going to allow the sacrifice of 2,527 troops who have died in Iraq to be in vain by pulling out before the job is done.”
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New York Times
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| July 2, 2006 | -
Iraq's national security adviser announced that the body of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been buried in “a marked but secret place.”
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ABC News (Australia)
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| July 2, 2006 | -
Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter and first wife were added to the Iraqi government's list of “most wanted” terrorist figures.
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Reuters
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| July 1, 2006 | -
Iraqi and U.S. authorities freed 495 prisoners.
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AP via KTAR
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| June 30, 2006 | - Four U.S. soldiers in Iraq were being investigated for raping a woman, then killing her and three other members of her family; it was suggested that the accused may have spent up to a week planning the attack.
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Times Online (U.K)
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| June 29, 2006 | - The bodies of seven men were discovered in the Tigris River south of Baghdad, and the bodies of two men were found in the Euphrates river south of Baghdad. All the bodies showed signs of torture.
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Reuters
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Reuters
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icasualties.org
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Reuters
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| June 27, 2006 | -
The President went jogging with a soldier who lost both his legs in Iraq,.
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local6.com
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| June 25, 2006 | - It was reported that Iraqi insurgents have started using sophisticated armor-penetrating mines that propel jets of molten metal at military vehicles.
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Telegraph.co.uk
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| June 25, 2006 | - In Britain the wives of soldiers serving in Iraq were receiving strange phone calls from Iraqi militants.
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Telegraph.co.uk
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| June 25, 2006 | - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq unveiled a 24-point national reconciliation plan designed to end his nation's civil war, and in Baghdad nearly 100 people were abducted by gunmen dressed as police officers.
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Islam Online via Google News
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| June 24, 2006 | - Saddam Hussein skipped a meal.
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Reuters via Google News
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Mirror UK via Google News
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| June 22, 2006 | -
Senator Rick Santorum insisted the United States had in fact discovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and Senator John McCain said the U.S. had two options there: “Withdraw and fail, or commit and succeed.”
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The New York Times
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| June 21, 2006 | - In Baghdad a car bomb detonated next to an ice cream shop, killing at least three people of indeterminate age, and insurgents beheaded two Russian diplomats and shot another.
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Houston Chronicle via Google News
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| June 20, 2006 | - The Iraqi military recovered the bodies of two kidnapped U.S. soldiers; a spokesman said they had been “tortured in a barbaric fashion.”
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The New York Times
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The New York Times
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| June 19, 2006 | - In Iraq an Islamic militant group claimed that it had kidnapped two U.S. soldiers, 23-year-old Kristian Menchaca and 25-year-old Thomas L. Tucker. The Army sent 8,000 Iraqi and U.S. troops, supported by fighter jets and drones, to search for the missing soldiers.
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The New York Times
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| June 19, 2006 | -
Iraqi prosecutors called for Saddam Hussein to be sentenced to death.
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Daily Mail
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| June 18, 2006 | -
Pennsylvania
Representative John P. Murtha criticized Karl Rove for “sitting in his air-conditioned office on his big, fat backside saying, 'Stay the course.'”
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The New York Times
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| June 17, 2006 | - It was reported that a man named Abu Hamza Al Muhajer would take over for Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, the assassinated leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. “He has left behind lions,” said Al Muhajer of Al Zarqawi, “that have been trained in his den.”
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Middle East Times
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| June 16, 2006 | - The House passed a resolution that rejected “cutting and running” from Iraq.
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Los Angeles Times
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| June 15, 2006 | - The Pentagon announced the 2,500th American death in Iraq. “It's a number,” said White House press secretary Tony Snow.
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Toronto Star
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| June 14, 2006 | -
Marine Corporal Joshua Belile apologized for appearing in “Hadji Girl,” an Internet-distributed
video in which he plays guitar and jokes about killing an Iraqi family. “They should have known,” he sang, “they were fuckin' with a Marine.”
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The Mercury News
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| June 13, 2006 | - President George W. Bush visited Iraq because he wanted to “look at Prime Minister Maliki in the eyes.”
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The New York Times
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| June 11, 2006 | - The attorney for Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, one of the marines charged with the Haditha massacre, asserted that the massacre, though “tragic,” was nonetheless “lawful” and was the result of following “the rules of engagement and standard protocol.”
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Associated Press
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| June 9, 2006 | -
United States forces succeeded in killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, with two five-hundred-pound bombs that were dropped on a safe house north of Baghdad. Zarqawi reportedly survived the bombing at first and even tried to get away but was strapped to a stretcher, where he died. The U.S. military denied reports that American soldiers had beaten the dying terrorist. "He died while American soldiers were attempting to save his life," said General George Casey. Al Qaeda promised to respond with “major attacks.”
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New York Times
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Bloomberg
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New York Times
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| June 6, 2006 | - Armed gunmen abducted more than 50 bystanders at a Baghdad bus stop, and it was announced that May was the deadliest month for Baghdad residents since the beginning of the American occupation. A total of 1,398 bodies were found throughout the city, alongside roads, in garbage dumps, and in abandoned cars, though many others have been abducted, never to be seen again.
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Los Angeles Times
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| June 6, 2006 | - Eight U.S. soldiers diedin Iraq.
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icasualties.org
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| June 4, 2006 | - Northwest of Baghdad, at an improvised checkpoint, 19 civilians were dragged from their cars and shot.
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Kuwait News Agency
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| June 4, 2006 | - Twenty-one Kurds and Shiites, many of them high school students, were ordered off a bus and executed in Ain Laila.
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Belleville News Democrat
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| June 4, 2006 | - Six policemen were killed in Mosul.
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Kuwait News Agency
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| June 3, 2006 | - In Iraq, a car bomb in Basra killed at least 33 people.
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CNN
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| June 3, 2006 | - Police found 22 bodies with bullet wounds and signs of torture in Baghdad.
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Reuters
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| June 3, 2006 | - In Baquba 7 policemen were killed.
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BBC
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| June 3, 2006 | - In Baquba the heads of 8 Sunni men were found in Dole banana boxes.
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Indian Express
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Reuters
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| June 2, 2006 | - A Baghdad pet market was bombed, killing 5 people and several doves.
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Guardian Unlimited
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Canada.com
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| June 1, 2006 | - In Iraq, where 14 U.S. soldiers died, bombings killed 62 people in a poor Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, 17 people at a market in Hilla, and 18 people in Khairnabat.
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Reuters
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Guardian
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Reuters
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Reuters
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| June 1, 2006 | - A mortar attack in southern Baghdad killed 9 people.
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Yahoo! News
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| May 30, 2006 | -
Senator John Warner called for hearings into the killings of more than 20 civilians in Haditha by U.S. Marines in 2005.
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The Australian
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| May 29, 2006 | - It was reported that a U.S. Marine had been traumatized by his experiences cleaning up and documenting the alleged massacre of civilians by other marines in Haditha. “He called me many times,” said the marine's mother, “about carrying this little girl in his hands and her brains splattering on his boots.”
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Los Angeles Times
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| May 29, 2006 | - It was reported that, since 2003, 8,600 British troops had gone AWOL in Iraq; 929 were still missing.
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Daily Mail
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| May 27, 2006 | - In Iraq over 66 people were killed in attacks, including two CBS News employees when their convoy was struck by a car bomb; a CBS correspondent was seriously injured in the same attack. In Baghdad two tennis players and their coach were killed for wearing shorts, and a Marine helicopter was shot down over the Anbar province.
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ABC News
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AP via Forbes.com
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ABC News
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| May 20, 2006 | - The Iraqi Defense Ministry announced that on average one person per hour was being killed in Basra.
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The Register-Guard
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| May 18, 2006 | - In Baghdad, 19 people were killed in attacks, including four U.S. soldiers, and a tae kwon do team was kidnapped.
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BBC News
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| May 18, 2006 | - American troops were using lasers to "dazzle" Iraqi drivers who do not stop at checkpoints; if used properly, said a Pentagon spokesman, the laser light will not blind its target.
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Local6.com
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| May 17, 2006 | -
Gay
Iraqis were fleeing the country to avoid being killed by militias.
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Times Online
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| May 14, 2006 | - More than 30 people died in a series of bombings in Basra and around Baghdad.
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AFP
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| May 13, 2006 | - In Lynchburg, Virginia, at Liberty University (which fines its students $500 if they engage in witchcraft), Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) stood next to Jerry Falwell and spoke in support of the Iraq war.
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The New York Times
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Liberty University
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| May 10, 2006 | - A fight broke out in the lobby of Iraq's parliament building after a cell phone played a Shiite ringtone.
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Reuters
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| May 10, 2006 | - It was announced that five journalists had been killed so far this month in Iraq.
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BBC News
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| May 9, 2006 | - A car bomb killed 17 people in Talafar.
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BBC News
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| May 8, 2006 | - A British helicopter was shot down over Basra, killing all five crew members.
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The Guardian
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| May 7, 2006 | - In Iraq car bombs killed 24 people.
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BBC News
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| May 5, 2006 | -
Iraqi
police
shot a 14-year-old boy named Ahmed Khalil in the head for being a gay
prostitute.
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Gay.com
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| May 2, 2006 | - In Anbar, at a ceremony for new Iraqi soldiers, the graduates were told that they would be sent outside of their home province to serve, leading several soldiers to tear off their clothes in protest.
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The Washington Post
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| April 30, 2006 | - In New York City tens of thousands of people marched against the war in Iraq.
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Boston.com
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| April 28, 2006 | - In Baquba, Iraq, about 30 people died in fighting.
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BBC News
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| April 26, 2006 | - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, released a video in which he showed his face and claimed that the Bush Administration had lied about its military victories. "America," said Zarqawi, "will go out of Iraq, humiliated, defeated."
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The Washington Post
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| April 26, 2006 | - President George W. Bush pointed out that not drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was depriving the United States of one million barrels of oil per day, and it was reported that Iraq's
oil production had dropped by one million barrels per day since the U.S. invasion.
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The New York Times
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Beat the Press
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| April 23, 2006 | - In Iraq, three U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb and at least 27 Iraqis were killed in other violence. President Bush phoned the newly elected Iraqi prime minister-designate Jawad al-Maliki, parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, and president Jalal Talabani to urge them to form a coalition government. “They have awesome responsibilities,” said the President, “to their people.”
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The New York Times
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News.com.au
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| April 23, 2006 | - It was reported that firms performing contract work for KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary that provides basic services to the U.S. military in Iraq, were violating human trafficking laws and confiscating the passports of their employees.
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San Jose Mercury News
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| April 13, 2006 | - Some Iraqis were changing their names to avoid being identified as either Sunni or Shiite. “[I] don't want my children to die,” said the Shiite father of Ali, Hassan, and Fatima, “just because of their names.”
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| April 13, 2006 | - Close to 65,000 Iraqis had fled their homes to avoid sectarian violence.
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BBC News
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| April 12, 2006 | - At least five U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq, and a car bombing in Baquba killed 27 people.
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The New York Times
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Xinhua.net
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| April 10, 2006 | - It was revealed that the U.S. military had mounted a propaganda campaign, targeting Iraq and the United States, intended to make Abu Muab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader (or possibly former leader) of Al Qaeda in Iraq, appear more powerful than he is. One document describing the campaign was called “Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response.”
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The Washington Post
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| April 9, 2006 | - The U.S. military announced that 1,313 Iraqi civilians had been killed in the sectarian violence of March. "Civil war," said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, "has almost started among Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, and those who are coming from Asia."
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BBC News
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Chron.com
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| April 8, 2006 | - It emerged that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told a grand jury that when he leaked classified information favorable to the case for war in Iraq to New York Times reporter Judith Miller, he was acting under the specific authorization of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush authorized the leak even though the intelligence in question (regarding Saddam Hussein's
nuclear ambitions) was considered unreliable by key administration members such as then Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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The New York Times
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| April 7, 2006 | - A car bomb killed 10 people at a Shiite shrine in Najaf, Iraq, and a suicide bombing killed 85 people at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.
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BBC News
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| April 5, 2006 | - The case against Abdul Ameer Younis Hussein, an Iraqi cameraman for CBS who was arrested in April 2005 after filming the wreckage of a car bomb, was finally dismissed for lack of evidence.
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ABC News
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| April 3, 2006 | - In Iraq
a suicide bomber killed 50 people and a car bomb killed 10 people. At least 15 U.S. troops were also killed. Hostage Jill Carroll was freed.
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CNN.com
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CNN.com
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| April 3, 2006 | - It was reported that Al Qaeda member Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was forced to step down as the leader of a coalition of Iraqi militant groups; he was replaced by a native Iraqi.
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BBC News
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| March 30, 2006 | - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited England but cancelled a visit to a mosque there in order to avoid protesters. Rice and British foreign minister Jack Straw then visited Iraq, where they told the Iraqi leadership that it must form a unified government immediately.
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BBC News
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The New York Times
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| March 28, 2006 | -
Iraq's ruling parties accused the United States of killing 37 unarmed civilians at a mosque. "There's been huge misinformation," said U.S. Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli.
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News.com.au
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| March 27, 2006 | - A doctor in Baghdad admitted to killing 35 policemen and soldiers who were being treated at his hospital.
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The Washington Post
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| March 27, 2006 | -
American and Iraqi forces said they had killed 17 Shiite militiamen at a mosque in Baghdad; Iraqi television showed corpses in a prayer room.
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The New York Times
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| March 26, 2006 | - Thirty beheaded corpses were found in Baquba, Iraq, and 10 more bodies were found in Baghdad, where the homicide rate had reached 33 per day. Shiites were abducting Sunnis in bright daylight on crowded streets. "If the Americans leave," said one Sunni man (whose brother had recently been executed after being tortured with power tools), "we are finished. We may be finished already."
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The New York Times
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The New York Times
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| March 21, 2006 | - In Miqdadiya, near Baquba, militants attacked a prison, killed 20 people, and freed 30 prisoners.
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BBC News
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| March 21, 2006 | - President George W. Bush denied that Iraq was in the midst of a civil war, although when asked about the possibility of a full withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq he said: "That will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq."
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BBC News
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| March 21, 2006 | - It was revealed that prior to the U.S. invasion, Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri had, for a fee, provided the United States with detailed assessments of Iraq's military capabilities. Sabri's assessments of Iraq's nuclear and biological weapons capabilities proved, in hindsight, to be far more reliable than the CIA estimates used to justify the invasion; the CIA had no comment on why the data was ignored.
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MSNBC via Commondreams
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| March 21, 2006 | -
U.S. Sergeant Michael J. Smith was found guilty of using a dog to terrorize prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison. He was also found guilty of indecency for directing his dog to lick peanut butter from the genitals of a fellow male soldier and from the breasts of a fellow female soldier.
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The Kansas City Star
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| March 19, 2006 | - "We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more," said Iyad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq. "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."
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BBC News
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| March 19, 2006 | - A videotape emerged purporting to show that in November of 2005 Marines in Haditha, seeking revenge for the deaths of their comrades, killed 15 unarmed Iraqis, including seven women and three children. "I watched them shoot my grandfather," said an eyewitness, "first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny." The Marines promised to investigate.
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Time
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| March 19, 2006 | - It was revealed that in 2004 a U.S. Special Operations unit imprisoned Iraqis in Hussein-era torture chambers, then used them as targets in paintball games. "The reality is," said a Pentagon official, "there were no rules there." Posters around the detention area read NO BLOOD, NO FOUL.
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The New York Times
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| March 19, 2006 | - Several thousand people around the world protested on the third anniversary of the Iraq war.
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ABC News
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| March 17, 2006 | - The United States launched Operation Swarmer against the Iraqi insurgency. While the operation was described as the largest air assault since the beginning of the Iraq war, there were no airstrikes and no leading insurgents were captured.
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Time
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| March 14, 2006 | - Eighty-six corpses--most shot, some strangled--were found around
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