Saturday 4th July, 2009
While we celebrate the Fourth, Ore. Guardsmen will deploy to Iraq
KATU 2Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, Maj. Gen. Raymond F. Rees, Adjutant General, Oregon National Guard, and Col. Dan Hokanson, 41 IBCT commander, conduct a pass and review of the 41 IBCT as they prepare...
Sarah Palin/michael Jackson/biden In Iraq
ABC NewsSarah PALIN- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said this afternoon that she is stepping down from her office She didn’t give a reason why she was resigning. No hyperbole from David Wright on...
Iraq war veteran and Twin Cities native runs to raise money for wounded vets
Pioneer PressMatt Cavanaugh, center, is running in a series of races this year to raise money to help wounded veterans. After surpassing his original goal of $25,He...
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,322
New Jersey Online... at least 4,322 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in according to an Associated Press count. The figure...
Is Palin Eyeing 2012 Presidential Run
CBS NewsPagevars.set('title', escape("Is Palin Eyeing 2012 Presidential Run? - CBSNews")); PageVars.set('description', escape("Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made a surprise announcement that she is...
New Generation Of Iraqi Military Pilots Looks To Sky
NPR2009 · Iraq's military pilots once enjoyed elite status in the country's armed forces. Then Saddam Hussein blundered: He flew the entire fleet to Iran for safekeeping during the 1991...
Iraq's Maliki rejects U.S. offer on national reconciliation
Los Angeles TimesThe Iraqi prime minister tells visiting Vice President Joe Biden that Iraqis must overcome their political differences on their own and that U.S. involvement would not be welcome.
Failed strategy in Afghanistan
The GuardianUs begins major offensive against Taliban , 1 July)? The strategy is the same one Rumsfeld used in Iraq in 2004-06. Cities like Samarra and Falluja were repeatedly assaulted with artillery...
Spotlight back on Viking vulnerability
The GuardianThe deaths of Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe and Trooper Joshua Hammond have put the spotlight once again on the vulnerability of armoured vehicles used...
Blast rocks Iraq as US pulls out
Times of OmanBaghdad — Hours after US troops handed over full control of Iraq’s cities to its domestic security forces, a car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk killed at least 30 people yesterday, police...
Sadr supporters burn US flag in protest at Vice President Biden's visit to Iraq
The Daily StarA fiery protest marked the start on Friday of US Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Iraq, with supporters of the Shiite anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr burning the Stars and Stripes....
Iraq oil minister may visit for investment talks
Japan TimesIraq's oil minister may visit Tokyo next week and discuss the prospect of Japanese investment as the Middle Eastern nation plans to increase petroleum production.
Biden urges Iraqi leaders to do more for national reconciliation
HaaretzU.s. Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered American assistance in achieving that, as concerns grow that a lack of political...
'We're going to be involved'
Chicago TribuneAs U.S. military forces withdraw from the urban front lines of a six-year war in Iraq - and prepare to pull out of the country altogether by 2011 - Vice President Joe Biden said today in Baghdad that...
Efforts grow to prevent trade in Iraq antiquities
Gulf NewsIn 1901 a group of French archaeologists uncovered a 2,700-year-old Babylonian tablet in what is now Iran. Not only is the Hammurabi codex the first example of a written legal code; it is also the...
Iraqi top Shiite clerics silent on Iran
Kuwait TimesPublished Date: 2009 NAJAF: There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf, where the silence during Iran's...
Anti-US protest marks start of Biden€™s Iraq trip
Times of OmanBaghdad — A fiery protest yesterday marked the start of US Vice-President Joe Biden’s visit to Iraq. Biden met General Ray Odierno, the top US officer in Iraq, and Christopher Hill...
Saddam stayed in Baghdad until city fell - FBI
The Daily StarSaddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until just hours before it was clear the city was about to fall after the US-led 2003 invasion, according to newly released FBI interviews with the...
Iraqi forces begin to take control
Times of OmanBaghdad — Iraqi forces were in control of towns and cities nationwide yesterday after the pullout of US troops six years after the invasion, but a bloody car bombing underscored the tough challenge...
Iraq's auction terms shock oil firms
Gulf NewsIraq's first auction of contracts to develop its oil fields since the US-led invasion was not the bonanza for the oil industry that executives hoped, and has tempered eagerness to participate...
Anti-U.S. protesters denounce Biden visit to Iraq
Swiss InfoA senior Iranian cleric warned on Friday that detained British embassy staff would face trial for their alleged role in post-election unrest, and EU countries...
Sarah Palin resigns as Alaska governor
The GuardianSarah Palin , former Republican vice-presidential candidate, made a surprise announcement Friday that she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step...
Biden Meets With Key U.S. Leaders In Iraq
CBS 5Vice President Joseph Biden U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill (C) and Gen. Ray Odierno emerge from a U.S. military base 2009, near Baghdad, Iraq.
NFL coaches visit troops in Iraq in first USO trip
Miami HeraldThe soldiers expressed their gratitude over and over to the NFL coaches who made the trip to Iraq."They kept thanking us," said the Tennessee Titans' Jeff Fisher. "We kept thanking them."Fisher, the...
Ravens' Harbaugh inspired by U.S. troops during Iraq tour
Baltimore SunVote John Harbaugh is experiencing a different level of patriotism on this Fourth of July weekend. The Ravens coach is in the middle of the...
Biden visits Iraq as he takes role in US exit
Daily StarUs Vice President Joe Biden flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from conflict-hit Iraq's towns and cities.Biden was...
CIA bosses face jury over al-Qaida tapes
The GuardianSenior Central Intelligence Agency officials, including the London station chief, have been brought before a grand jury in Virginia investigating the potentially illegal destruction of 92 video tapes...
Andy Murray v Andy Roddick
The GuardianAn arty(ish) shot we've put up because we can't find anything that immediately lends itself to a quick/cheap joke. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images Murray has won the toss and will...
Feds Seize Madoff Penthouse, Wife Evicted
CBS NewsPagevars.set('title', escape("Feds Seize Madoff Penthouse, Wife Evicted - CBSNews")); PageVars.set('description', escape("Federal marshals took possession of disgraced financier Bernard...
Biden in Iraq 'optimistic' on reconciliation - Summary
Earth TimesBaghdad - US Vice President Joe Biden said that he was "optimistic" about Iraq's prospects for stability and security, as he met with US and Iraqi officials in Baghdad Friday. Biden met first with...
How can we have sovereignty without electricity and water
The GuardianWe do not seem to be getting enough on-the-ground news from Iraq now that Iran and Afghanistan are dominating the foreign news agenda.But the American troop withdrawal, seen in the context of renewed...
Iraq Parliament Panel: Rumaila Deal Needs Lawmakers' OK
Morning StarBp PLC (BP.LN) and China National Petroleum Corp. to develop Iraq's Rumaila oil field still requires approval by parliament, the head of parliament's oil and gas committee said Friday.
Saddam 'feared Iran more than US'
Al JazeeraSaddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, allowed the world to believe his country had weapons of mass destruction in an attempt to deter an Iranian invasion, an FBI file has revealed. In 20...
'I Lied About WMD In Fear Of Iran'
Sky NewsSaddam Hussein allowed the world to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because he feared revealing his weakness to Iran, it has emerged.
Saddam Sought Familiar Refuge After War
ABC NewsThis Dec.15, 2003, file photo shows U.S. soldiers demonstrating access to the spider hole used by Saddam Hussein before he was captured the previous week, on a farm near Tikrit, northern Iraq....
Year-Old Reservist, Surgeon Returns To Iraq
NPRMarjorie Benbow holds a magazine cover featuring her husband, Col. Hector Henry, 70, who is now deployed to Iraq with the U.S. Army Reserves Medical Corps.
Australian firm to build 10,000 residential units in Thi-Qar, Iraq
MENAFNMenafn The investment commission in Thi-Qar in Iraq signed with an Australian firm a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), under which the firm is will build a residential compound with 10,000 housing...
INTERVIEW - Iraq must do more for refugees to return - UNHCR
The StarIraq needs to do more to encourage people who have fled conflict to return home, the U.N. refugee agency's representative in neighbouring Jordan said.
As Our Troops In Iraq Pull Back, It's Time to Move Forward With The Truth About How We Got There
24 / 7 Press Release2009 /- As Our Troops In Iraq Pull Back, It's Time to Move Forward With The Truth About How We Got There (Joe Rothstein's Commentary) By Joe Rothstein Editor, EINNEWS.COM ...
4 N.C. Guardsmen killed by explosion in Iraq
News & ObserverFour National Guard soldiers were killed in Baghdad on the last day of regular combat operations for U.S. forces in Iraqi cities, the military said Thursday.The Department of Defense...
Teacher Gives Sex Tape to 5th Graders
CBS NewsPagevars.set('title', escape("Teacher Gives Sex Tape to 5th Graders - CBSNews")); PageVars.set('description', escape("A local teacher accidentally put pornography into a DVD that was meant...
Mich. GI sworn in as lawyer from Iraq
The Detroit NewsLansing -- Major Miles Gengler of the U.S. Army Reserves was sworn in as a Michigan attorney Thursday -- from 6,300 miles away in Baghdad's Green Zone. The 35-year-old Grand Blanc resident was sworn...
Bombings kill at least 3 people in Baghdad area
The China PostBombings killed at least three people in the Baghdad area on Thursday in the first significant violence since Iraqi forces assumed responsibility for securing cities after the withdrawal...
Iraqi soldier killed by bomb in Baghdad
The PeninsulaA roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol in Baghdad yesterday, police said, killing one soldier and wounding 10 people. The bomb was the first in Baghdad since US troops pulled out...
Good Luck With the Iraqi Time Bomb
The Korea Times... mracine - everyone else pulls out earlier. don't think anybody here is critizing. boshintang1 - there was a good article on cnn quoting some Iraqis who don't want the US troops to pull...
Saddam feared Iran more than U.S. attack, FBI notes say
Deseret NewsWashington — The farm where Saddam Hussein hid from U.S. forces before he was captured in was familiar ground for the Iraqi dictator: It was the same place, he told an FBI...
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Docs "Have Michael's Blood on Their Hands"
CBS NewsPagevars.set('title', escape("Docs `Have Michael's Blood on Their Hands` - CBSNews")); PageVars.set('description', escape("Michael Jackson's former British bodyguard says the star had a...
U.S. declares Iraq-based group foreign terrorist organization
ReutersThe U.S. government on Thursday said it has declared Kata'ib Hizballah a foreign terrorist organization, saying the group is linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah and has posed a...
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