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The State Department Tells Us How They Really Felt: Part 3

David Isenberg | Posted 05.01.2012

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From a taxpayer's perspective we can accept a company may try its best but it may still screw up. That is why any government contract must have sufficient, qualified contracting officers riding herd on the company.

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Bomb Kills At Least 53 Shiite Pilgrims In South Iraq

AP | ADAM SCHRECK and NABIL AL-JURANI | Posted 03.15.2012

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ZUBAIR, Iraq — A bomb tore through a procession of Shiite pilgrims heading toward a largely Sunni town in southern Iraq on Saturday, killing at ...

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Iraqi Oil Hub Wants More Autonomy

Reuters | Posted 02.04.2012

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By Rania El Gamal BASRA, Iraq, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Officials in Iraq's southern oil hub Basra are trying to cancel a $17 billion Shell ...

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Triple Bombings Rock Basra

AP | By NABIL AL-JURANI | Posted 01.24.2012

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BASRA, Iraq -- A string of bombings in a southern oil city killed 19 people Thursday evening and injured dozens more, a grim sign of the security chal...

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Triple Bombings Hit Basra

AP | NABIL AL-JURANI | Posted 01.02.2012

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BASRA, Iraq — Three bombs hidden in motorcycles exploded in a southern Iraqi oil city Wednesday evening, killing seven people who were sitting a...

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Army Awaiting Report Into Baha Mousa Death

PA | Posted 11.07.2011

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Reality Game Shows Hit Iraq

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 07.07.2011

Read More: Basra, Reality TV, Education, Youth, Empowerment, Iraq, Peace, Youth Empowerment, Media News

Salam Shabab (which means Peace Youth) is a 9-part series in which 18 teams from different Iraqi provinces compete to become the peace ambassador representing Iraq's youth to parliament.

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Iraqis Form Own Protests

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqis protested against corruption and joblessness across the war-ravaged country on Tuesday as anti-government rallie...

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"An Ugly Peace: What has changed in Iraq," first in a two-part series by Nir Rosen, Boston Review

Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 05.25.2011

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In December 2008 I flew Royal Jordanian from Amman to Iraq's southern city of Basra....

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One Woman's Account Of Having To Wear A Hijab In Iraq

washingtonpost.com | Dalya Hassan | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD -- "You have to wear a hijab," my husband told me shortly after we got married. "Don't argue with me over this issue." ...

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Was The Surge Just A Fig Leaf?

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the stage is being set for an "AfPak Surge," it might be time to take a look at Surge 1.0, in the now-forgotten war, the one in Iraq.

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Basra: 3 US Soldiers Killed, Says Military

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — The U.S. military said Friday that three of its soldiers were killed in the south in an attack on a base outside Iraq's second largest...

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New Wave of Violence Against Iraqi Gays

GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rights advocate speaks of an "extraordinarily brutal campaign", saying hundreds may have been killed in last few months. By IWPR trainees in Baghdad (...

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Iraq: Britain Ends Combat Operations

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — British troops ended six years of combat operations in Iraq on Thursday, beginning to withdraw from the southern city of Basra after a ...

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Al-Maliki Pulling Ahead In Iraqi Election Early Returns

english.aljazeera.net | Posted 05.25.2011

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Early indications suggest Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, has strengthened his position as the country's leader after a strong showing by h...

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Iraq Ballot Vote Sees Allegations Of Corruption, Intimidation

The National Newspaper | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD // It was the country's first ballot of 2009 -- a year that could see 10 different elections in Iraq -- and according to some voters, it was m...

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British Troops Will Pull Out Of Iraq By June

The Guardian | Richard Norton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Britain's six-year occupation of south Iraq will begin drawing to a close in March, and the last troops will leave Basra by June, a senior defence sou...

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The Surge "Success" Debunked

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.

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Iraq Events Moving out of US Control

The Real News | Posted 05.25.2011

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The difference in opinion between the current president and the presidential candidates is of little importance to the issue of troop withdraw from Iraq, as the choice is not necessarily theirs to make.

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Basra shooting strains truce between govt, militia

AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraqi soldiers fired in the air over supporters of anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to prevent them from gathering for Muslim p...

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Iraq Removes Top Military, Police Commanders After Botched Basra Crackdown

Reuters Via Washington Post | Aref Mohammed | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraq's government removed the top military and police commanders in Basra on Wednesday, weeks after a botched crackdown on militia fighters there trig...

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Airstrike kills 4 in Basra, 2 die in Sadr City clashes

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Clashes with Shiite militiamen flared in two cities Wednesday as a U.S. drone fired two missiles in Basra and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops...

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1,300 Iraqi Troops, Police Dismissed

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's government moved Sunday to restore discipline within the ranks of the security forces, sacking more than 1,300 soldiers and pol...

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Pelosi Calls Out Petraeus For Parroting Bush Spin

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

We noted yesterday the bizarre way that General Petraeus' testimony changed between his Tuesday appearance before the Senate committees and his Wednes...

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Same Sniper Rifle Has Killed Six British Soldiers In Basra

London Times | Jenny Booth and James Hider | Posted 05.25.2011

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Six British soldiers have been picked off on the streets of Basra by an enemy sniper using the same rifle, an inquest heard today. Between the months...

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