| 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.”
| Source:
Associated Press
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| February 18, 2007 | - The State Department was fighting
terror by posting
comments on
Arabic blogs.
| Source:
PR
Watch
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| March 8, 2006 | - The U.S. State Department issued a report criticizing human rights abuses in China, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. It also criticized the rights records of Jordan and Egypt, two countries where the United States has sent detainees to be interrogated. The report noted that the United States' "own journey towards liberty and justice for all has been long and difficult," and is "far from complete."
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
The Independent
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| April 23, 2005 | - Rice also ordered a State Department report on terrorism be stripped of statistics that showed that terrorist attacks were on the rise.
| Source:
Philly.com
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| March 7, 2005 | -
Syria agreed to move its troops into eastern Lebanon, but the U.S. State Department warned that this is not enough.
| Source:
Guardian
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| March 1, 2005 | - The U.S. State Department released a report criticizing other countries for using torture techniques often used by the United States.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| May 15, 2003 | - TheState Department warned of Bali-style bombings in Malaysia.
| Source:
Toronto Star
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| May 1, 2003 | - The U.S. State Department complained in a report that Canada's contribution to the war on terrorism was being hampered by its obsession with civil liberties and personal privacy: "Canadian laws and regulations intended to protect Canadian citizens and landed immigrants from government intrusion sometimes limit the depth of investigations."
| Source:
The Ottowa Citizen via Canada.com
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| February 5, 2002 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon said he wished he had “liquidated” Yasir Arafat in the 1980s when he had the chance. A state department official said “remarks like these can be unhelpful.”
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