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Bye Bye Bush: The Shoe

Peter Y. Sussman | Posted 02.14.2009 | Style

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Peter Y. Sussman

When journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi hurled his shoes at Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in December, sales exploded at the Istanbul shoe company that identified the projectiles as its "model 271."

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Baghdad Kicks Off Campaign Against Beggars

The Daily Star | Posted 02.12.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD: Baghdad on Monday launched a tough new initiative to combat begging by forcing the fast growing number of panhandlers off busy streets and in...

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Iraq: Bombs Aimed At Security Forces Kill 9

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.12.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — Vice President-elect Joe Biden conferred Monday with Iraqi leaders after a trip to Afghanistan, capping a tour of U.S. battlefronts on...

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US Inaugurates New $700 Million Embassy In Baghdad

AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — The United States inaugurated its largest embassy ever on Monday, a fortress-like compound in the heart of the Green Zone _ and the mo...

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People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran: Iranian Dissidents In Iraq Face Uncertain Future

Esme E. Deprez | Posted 02.02.2009 | World

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Esme E. Deprez

NEW YORK--Iraq's transition of power and the security agreement calling for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq by 2011 leaves the fate of 3,0...

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Watching the Detectives

S.D. Liddick | Posted 02.02.2009 | World

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S.D. Liddick

The Marines have accompanied the Iraqis about as far as they can go. Now they're feeling like a parent with a toddler on a bicycle. The training wheels have to come off at some point.

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Baghdad Blasts Kill At Least 18, Wound 53

Reuters | Posted 01.17.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Twin bomb blasts killed 18 people and wounded 53 in central Baghdad on Wednesday as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ma...

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In Lebanon, Students Find Hero In Iraqi Shoe Thrower

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

* Scroll down for video As former President Carter ended his trip to Lebanon where he spoke to a crowd of students about peace and was only interrupt...

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Democracy in a Size 10

Giles Slade | Posted 01.15.2009 | World

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Giles Slade

The point of throwing or even showing the underside of a shoe to an enemy is a not-so-subtle Arabism: shoes are attached to the lowest part of a man, they trail in the dirt.

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Human Rights Inquiry Set For Warehoused Asians In Iraq

McClatchy Washington Bureau | Adam Ashton | Posted 01.12.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military and defense contractor KBR are investigating possible human-rights abuses at a compound near the Baghdad airport where a ...

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US Mission In Iraq Includes Confiscating Toy Guns

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

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MAHMOUDIYA, Iraq — Two boys approached a U.S. soldier, pulled out a pistol and handed it over. They got a smile and some candy in return. The g...

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US Won't Release Reuters Photographer In Iraq

Reuters | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military in Iraq is not obliged to obey an Iraqi court order to release a freelance photographer working for Reuters news...

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Blackwater Charges Unsealed: Guards Shot Civilians, Launched Grenade Into Girls' School, US Says

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Wild, unprovoked gunfire and grenades killed 14 innocent Iraqis and hurt dozens more in a 2007 Baghdad attack, prosecutors said Mon...

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Helping Injured Iraqi Children: One Man's Quest to Right the Wrongs of War (VIDEO)

Jennifer Utz | Posted 01.07.2009 | World

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Jennifer Utz

Warning: Viewer Discretion is advised Nine year-old Salee was playing hopscotch with friends when US jets fired three missiles on her town of Hasswa,...

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Iraqi Refugees Still Too Scared to Return Home

Deborah Amos | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

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Deborah Amos

U.S. military officials and the Iraqi government claim the country is becoming a less dangerous place. For most Iraqi refugees, those assessments don't count for much. They listen to reports from the ground.

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Five Reasons For Hope In Iraq

Time | BOBBY GHOSH / BAGHDAD | Posted 01.02.2009 | World

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Bombings and casualties are way down; arrests of militants and the number and confidence of the Iraqi security forces are way up. Most of the addition...

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Iraqis Don't Believe Americans Will Leave

New York Times | Alissa J. Rubin | Posted 01.01.2009 | Home

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BAGHDAD -- On the street here and in the well-furnished living rooms of the Iraqi intelligentsia, the recently approved Iraqi-American security pact i...

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18 Potential Female Suicide Bombers Surrender In Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 12.27.2008 | World

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BAGHDAD — Eighteen young women purportedly belonging to a suicide bombing network in northern Iraq surrendered to U.S. forces on Wednesday, a to...

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Bombs kill at least 20 in Iraq ahead of pact vote

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — A woman hiding a bomb under her long robe blew herself up Monday among Iraqis waiting to enter the U.S.-protected Green Zone, where la...

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Baghdad To Kill Stray Dogs

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — Baghdad authorities announced a campaign on Thursday to kill stray dogs who roam the Iraqi capital in packs, after a spate of fatal do...

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US Security Pact Should Be Rejected, Shiite Clerics Say

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — Shiite clerics warned the government Friday not to sign a security pact that would keep U.S. troops in Iraq until 2012, as the prime m...

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Obama's Iraq Timetable May Need Adjustment

Time | Brian Bennett | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

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Senior U.S. military officials will likely advise Barack Obama to adjust his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by mid-2010....

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Car bombings in Mosul and Baghdad kill 13

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — Suicide car bombers struck twice Sunday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S....

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We are like a city on a hill

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

This election will show the public's choice, its mandate for the type of leader it wants to deal with complex issues, like why people use terrorism as a tactic to dialogue with those in power.

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The Surge "Success" Debunked

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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Luis Carlos Montalván

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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