December 23rd, 2007 at 12:25pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
Reuters – An al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq has
confirmed the death of Abu Maysara, a top operative who the
U.S. military said was killed in a clash last month, according
to a recording posted on the Web on Saturday.
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December 23rd, 2007 at 12:25pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
Reuters – Turkish warplanes bombed
Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in a new
cross-border offensive, the General Staff said.
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December 23rd, 2007 at 12:25pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
Reuters – Flanked by her mother
and daughter, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton sought on
Saturday to shore up her support among women in the tightening
U.S. presidential race.
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December 23rd, 2007 at 12:25pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AP – As of Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007, at least 3,897 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 eight military civilians. At least 3,171 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
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December 23rd, 2007 at 12:25pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
Reuters – The Iraqi government will not tolerate
U.S.-backed neighborhood patrols turning into a “third force”
alongside the army and the police, Defense Minister General
Abdel Qader Jassim said on Saturday.
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December 23rd, 2007 at 12:25pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AFP – One US soldier was killed and another 11 wounded when two road bombs exploded near their vehicles in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk, the military said Saturday.
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December 23rd, 2007 at 12:25pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AP – In a year marked by progress in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday acknowledged two bits of unfinished business in his first 12 months on the job: He has yet to close the Guantanamo Bay prison or find Osama bin Laden.
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November 21st, 2007 at 08:00pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AFP – A helicopter which crashed southeast of Baghdad on Tuesday — killing two soldiers and wounding 12 — was British, the defence ministry said Wednesday.
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November 21st, 2007 at 07:59pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AFP – Iraq has boosted its oil exports to almost two million barrels a day (bpd) after reopening a pipeline to Turkey and hopes to sharply raise output in 2008, a senior oil official said on Wednesday.
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November 21st, 2007 at 07:58pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
Reuters – Former White Press Secretary Scott
McClellan says in an upcoming book that he was misled by
President George W. Bush and other high officials into
misinforming the press about a CIA leak case that fueled debate
about the Iraq war.
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