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2 Us Troops Oil Official Killed 21

2 Us Troops Oil Official Killed 21

Juan Cole

2 US Troops, Oil Official killed; 21 Wounded in Rocket Attack Reuters reports a string of attacks and mayhem yet again on Wednesday, with the petroleum industry a special target. Guerrillas attacked a U.S. base near Balad in the Sunni heartland on Wednesday with rockets, killing two US troops and wounding 21 other persons. Assassins […]

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Muqtada Asks Militiamen To Leave Najaf

Muqtada Asks Militiamen To Leave Najaf

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Muqtada Asks Militiamen to Leave Najaf Creates Party for January Elections Az-Zaman: Muqtada al-Sadr asked his supporters who had headed to Najaf to fight the Americans to now leave the city and return to their own cities only hours after US President George W. Bush announced that the United States does not oppose a political […]

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Someone Tell Cheney 911 Commission

Someone Tell Cheney 911 Commission

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Someone Tell Cheney The 9/11 commission says that there was no link between Iraq and September 11. Duh. But someone tell Dick Cheney, please. He apparently doesn’t read the newspapers, either. Anyone who followed September 11 knew that the money trail went back to Afghanistan via the UAE and Pakistan, and that not a dime […]

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Iraqs Oil Exports Nixed By Basra

Iraqs Oil Exports Nixed By Basra

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Iraq’s Oil Exports Nixed by Basra Sabotage US Commits $2 billion of Past Iraq Oil Revenues

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John Kerry For President

John Kerry For President

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John Kerry for President

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Poll 55 Of Iraqis Would Feel Safer

Poll 55 Of Iraqis Would Feel Safer

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Poll: 55% of Iraqis Would feel Safer without US Troops 67% Support Muqtada al-Sadr Associated Press reports a Coalition Provisional Authority poll of Iraqis taken in the middle of May that had only been used internally by the CPA and not released to the US public. The numbers do not reflect well on Bush administration […]

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21 Killed 62 Injured Three Big Bombs

21 Killed 62 Injured Three Big Bombs

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21 Killed, 62 Injured Three big bombs went off in Iraq on Monday. One, in Baghdad, targeted foreign civilian contractors. The 13 dead from that bombing included 1 from the US, 2 from the UK, 1 from France, and 1 from the Philippines. Three worked for General Electric at power plants, and 2 were their […]

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Bushs European Allies Punished By

Bushs European Allies Punished By

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Bush’s European Allies Punished by their Publics J. Sean Curtin argues that Bush’s European allies have paid a heavy political price for supporting his Iraq war. Labor did extremely poorly in the European Union voting. Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party also did poorly in that election, as well as suffering losses in local elections. Bush’s friend […]

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Marines Visit Fallujah Cut Deal Az

Marines Visit Fallujah Cut Deal Az

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Marines Visit Fallujah, Cut Deal Az-Zaman: US Marines went into Fallujah on Monday, meeting with General Muhammad Latif, commander of the Fallujah Brigade, and the head of the local governing council, Saadu’llah al-Rawi. They signed an agreement on mutual confidence, with the US undertaking to release 50 Iraqis from Fallujah now in CPA prisons. The […]

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