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[War Victims Monitor] Iraq: Scores Killed in Spate of Attacks on Shiites in Iraq « War ...: In Baghdad on Friday, a roadside bomb planted near Hamza Square in the Sadr City district ripped through a minibus carrying pilgrims returning from the holy Shiite city of Karbala, killing three people and wounding eight others, according to an official at the Ministry of Interior, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media.

[Breaking News] Bombs target Shiites in Iraq, killing at least 37 and raising ...: Police: Bombs kill 7 pilgrims in BaghdadBAGHDAD ”” A series of roadside bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims returning from the southern holy city of Karbala struck the Iraqi capital Friday, killing at least seven people, Iraqi police and medical officials said. The attacks are the latest in a series that have targeted Shiites, raising concerns that insurgents are stepping up attacks against Shiite pilgrims, hoping to re-ignite sectarian violence that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007.

[hoopyfrood.org] hoopyfrood.org » A Pilgrimage to Iraq: Iranis weren’t allowed to make pilgrimages to Iraq for almost a generation, first because of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, and then because Saddam Hussein sealed the Iran border post-war. The Iraq - American war in 1991 and the post-war sanctions were also a factor.

[Newsflavor] The Iraq War: Stay the Course | Newsflavor: Iraq was seen as a major threat, because it possibly harbored or supported terrorists, who could launch further attacks on the U.S.  Hussein had violated repeated UN Security Council resolutions to allow inspectors into Iran. This was to confirm that Hussein did not have nuclear capability or other weapons of mass destruction.

[War Victims Monitor] IRAQ: Iraqi refugees face urban challenges « War Victims Monitor: The agency also provides funds to local health and education facilities to increase their capacity to cover Iraqis and mobile registration centres are employed in Syria to reach refugees who are continually moving in search of lower rents.

[From The Wilderness] Six months of Immunity: The Lies used to Justify the Iraq War. The ...: And an attorney general who would do all of that (or even most attorneys general who wouldn’t) would also overturn the prosecutions of political prisoners like Don Siegelman, Paul Minor, and so many others, and hold accountable those who used the Justice Department to target state and local elected officials, 85 percent of those prosecuted being Democrats and the other 15 percent consisting largely of moderate Republicans. Many of the crimes above could also be prosecuted in foreign courts.

[War Victims Monitor] IRAQ: Grim times for the elderly in Iraq « War Victims Monitor: It was in Baghdad where she met her husband, an army sergeant, during the time of Abdul Karim Qassim, Iraq’s first prime minister after the monarchy fell in 1958.

[Army Times - News] Dozens killed as Shiites targeted in Iraq - Army News, news from ...: The attack targeted a mosque used by members of the minority Shiite Turkomen community in the tense northern city, which the U.S. military has dubbed the last urban stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq. Suicide car bombings are the signature style of attack used by the terror network.

[The Plank] Obama and the Future of Iraq - The Plank: When Vice President Joe Biden, recently tasked by Obama to keep a closer eye on the country, visited Baghdad last month, he warned Iraqi leaders against that American troops wouldn't stick around to police another round of violent Shia-Sunni anarchy. But even if Iraqi leaders were listening, they do not have a monopoly on violence: A few days later, five Shiite mosques were bombed in Baghdad, killing at least 29 people.

[themormonworker.org] Gog, Magog, and Iraq - The axis of evil « themormonworker.org: Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East”¦. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled”¦.

[Donklephant] Donklephant » Blog Archive » Bush Used Bible To Convince Chirac On ...: To answer your question, I think many of the moral teachings in the Bible are worthwhile and I don’t object to politicians citing stories like The Good Samaritan, etc. However, if a Democrat used nonsensical prophecy as a device for persuasion, yes, I would have a problem with that.

[ChattahBox News Blog] Remains of U.S. Pilot Shot Down in Iraq in 1991 Gulf War Recovered ...: His fate remained a mystery for years, with some believing that the pilot was being held prisoner by then Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Apparently he did not survive hus crash and was buried by Bedouins shortly after he was shot down.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Iraq to impose controls on Internet content, sparking freedom of ...: WASHINGTON - A new report from the National Research Council has determined that the current policy and legal framework regulating use of cyber attack by the US is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain. The United States should establish clear national policy on the use of cyberattack, while also continuing to develop its technological capabilities in this area, it says.

[BrothersJudd Blog] BrothersJudd Blog: THE TRAGEDY OF DON RUMSFELD...:: ...is that the war that mattered was his against the Pentagon and the Hill, not the occupation of Iraq. But he was certainly correct that if we'd just withdrawn immediately the surge would have occurred in 2003 instead of 2006, because the portions of it that were determinative were Iraqi (first Shi'a turning on Sunni and then Sunni turning on Salafists to relieve the pressure from Shi'a militias), not American.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Last week, Odierno told reporters in Baghdad he had urged Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to work with the Kurdish Regional Government to work out differences in oil revenue sharing and to settle border disputes, two major sticking points between the two groups.

[EFFin' Unsound] EFFin' Unsound » Blog Archive » Iraq: What would have happened to the world of nations if there were no great, free, and powerful country like the United States of America? Ponder a moment what actually happened until the U.S. “had greatness thrust upon it.” Time and again, the United Nations, which had been conceived as the instrument that would finally bring world peace, sent inspectors into Iraq in search of the weapons of mass destruction we knew Saddam Hussein possessed.

[Asian Tribune] Sri Lanka Provides Housing for War Veterans while U.S. leaves them ...:  How does the United States which often lectures Sri Lanka how to get about with the reconciliation between majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils following the Tamil Tiger defeat in May 2009, how to safeguard human rights, rule of law, good governance and justice to all treat its own war veterans who join the homeless communities in many American cities following their return from the Afghanistan and Iraq battlefields in contrast to Sri Lanka’s undertakings to provide decent living conditions to 270,000 ethnic minority Tamil civilians that they never experienced under the Pol Potist LTTE rule and provide housing facilities to its own war veterans who fought to liberate the nation and the captive Tamils in the northern region?

[Breaking News] Gulf War's first casualty, Navy pilot's remains found buried in ...: Sands hid fate of Gulf War pilot lost since '91WASHINGTON ”” Navy pilot Michael "Scott" Speicher was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991, and it was there he apparently was buried by Bedouins, the sand hiding him from the world's mightiest military. For nearly two decades, the family Speicher left behind, from outside Jacksonville, Fla., pushed the Defense Department to find out what had happened to him.

[Room for Debate] Out of Iraq by Next Year? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com: This would include Germany's and Italy's declarations of war against the United States after Pearl Harbor, or the massing of foreign troops on our borders. We went into Iraq under the mistaken belief that Saddam Hussein had been .

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