October 31st, 2006 at 10:16pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AP – War-ravaged Iraq needs around $100 billion in the next four to five years to recover and rebuild its infrastructure, a government spokesman said Tuesday at the opening of an international aid meeting.
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October 31st, 2006 at 08:43pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AFP – British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government survived a potentially damaging vote in parliament on whether he should order an inquiry into how Britain joined the war in Iraq.
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October 31st, 2006 at 07:45pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AP – As of Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006, at least 2,816 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,258 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
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October 31st, 2006 at 06:54pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AFP – US President George W. Bush blasted Democratic Senator John Kerry for saying that those who neglect their education "get stuck in Iraq" and demanded Kerry apologize to US troops there.
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October 31st, 2006 at 06:41pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
Reuters – British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S.
President George W. Bush’s strongest ally in the Iraq war,
defeated an opposition bid in parliament on Tuesday to force an
inquiry into his handling of the conflict.
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October 31st, 2006 at 05:58pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AFP – Leading Democrats and Republicans swapped charges that the other side lacks a plan for war-torn Iraq — the issue that pundits say will likely decide next week’s critical midterm elections.
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October 31st, 2006 at 05:37pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
Reuters – A third U.S. soldier accused in the
kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania has
reached a plea deal to reduced charges, his lawyer said on
Tuesday.
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October 31st, 2006 at 04:50pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AP – British lawmakers on Tuesday narrowly rejected a proposal for an immediate inquiry into the role of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government in the Iraq conflict.
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October 31st, 2006 at 04:08pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AFP – The United States contested claims that it had been forced to lift a blockade around the flashpoint Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, saying the decision to ease checkpoints was taken jointly by Iraqi and US authorities.
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October 31st, 2006 at 03:55pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AFP – The "ground is prepared" for direct talks between Iran and the United States over the situation in war-ravaged Iraq, former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami said on British television.
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