Tag Archives: Iraq

Millions Skimmed from $150 Billion Iraq Rebuilding Program

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: March 15, 2010

James Glanz/The New York Times Federal investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 cases during the past six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions made by some of the Americans involved in the $150 billion rebuilding program. Some of the cases involve people suspected of mailing tens of thousands [...]

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Shorter Question Everything

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: March 9, 2010

Iraq Only a “catastrophic event” could prevent combat troops from coming home from Iraq, according to the top US general in Iraq. “But we don’t see a catastrophic event on the horizon right now,” General Ray Odierno told MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell Monday. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite who helped ease sectarian strife, emerged on Monday as the [...]

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Shorter Question Everything

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: March 8, 2010

Iraq Dozens of explosions that ripped through the Iraqi capital and other cities Sunday morning killed at least 30 people and soured the early hours of Iraq’s first parliamentary election as a sovereign nation. As polls were closing at 5 p.m., Iraqi officials said the series of attacks failed to thwart the election, which unfolded smoothly in [...]

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Shorter Question Everything

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: February 24, 2010

Iraq The U.S. military has prepared contingency plans to delay the planned withdrawal of all combat forces in Iraq, citing the prospects for political instability and increased violence as Iraqis hold national elections next month. Under a deadline set by President Obama, all combat forces are slated to withdraw from Iraq by the end of August, and [...]

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Shorter Question Everything

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: February 11, 2010

Israel The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has charged Israel with launching hundreds of attacks against Palestinian medical teams in 2009. The aid group, also known as PRCS, said that the Israeli troops fired 15 times at ambulances in the West Bank and Gaza last year, killing one medical worker and wounding 10 more. The PRCS also said that [...]

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Iraq Orders Former Blackwater Guards Out

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: February 11, 2010

Iraq gives hundreds of former and current Blackwater employees 7 days to leave country Qassim Abdul-Zahra/Commondreams BAGHDAD — Iraq has ordered hundreds of private security guards linked to Blackwater Worldwide to leave the country within seven days or face possible arrest on visa violations, the interior minister said Wednesday.

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Shorter Question Everything

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: February 8, 2010

Israel As Israel keeps threatening the regional countries with war, Egyptian maritime sources say the Israeli navy has deployed two missile ships to the Persian Gulf. Citing the sources, Yediot Ahronot reported Saturday that two Israeli missile ships passed through the Suez Canal en rout to the Red Sea on Thursday morning. The United Nations is likely to [...]

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Shorter Question Everything

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: February 6, 2010

Israel: Kurdistan According to recent media reports, Israeli military and intelligence agents are currently operating in Iraqi Kurdistan. Their primary role, according to reports, is to train elite Kurdish commandos in guerrilla warfare and anti-terror tactics. The Kurds – whose country is currently occupied by Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria – are reportedly again, after many [...]

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Ex-MI6 chief to give secret testimony

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: January 31, 2010

Guardian/Toby Helm, Jamie Doward MPs from all parties say his testimony should be heard in public Crucial evidence to the Iraq inquiry by Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6 at the time of the 2003 invasion, is likely to be heard in private. He presented to Tony Blair the intelligence, obtained from an agent known as “Curveball”, [...]

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Shorter Question Everything

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: January 29, 2010

North Korea North Korea fired artillery shells near the Yellow Sea’s maritime border with South Korea for a third day, a South Korean military spokesman said Friday.The North sent dozens of artillery shells near Yeonpyeong Island just 50 miles from the South Korean mainland, the Yonhap news agency reports. Canada: Khadr Canada’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that it [...]