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[Gouverneur Times News Feed] Al-Qaida claims this week's deadly Baghdad blasts: Iraq has claimed al-Qaida and loyalists of Saddam Hussein's Baath party operating from Syria were behind the massive strikes in August and October, as well as the most recent bombings. Relations between the two countries soured after Baghdad accused Syria of harboring senior Baathists who masterminded the attacks.

[Learn Guitar] Defense Secretary Gates arrives in Iraq (AP) | Learn Guitar: ukGates arrives in Baghdad for unannounced visitWashington PostBAGHDAD -- Defense Secretary Robert M Gates arrived Thursday for an unannounced visit to the Iraqi capital whose residents are still reeling from a series of bombings

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Iraq's Other Security Threat: Politics (Pittsburgh Post ...: Iraq's Other Security Threat: Politics (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) BAGHDAD ”” The televised confessions came quickly in the days after each of the deadly bombings in August and October that rocked the capital and killed 280 people. Al Qaeda's umbrella group in Iraq on Thursday claimed responsibility for a string of suicide car bombings that killed 127 people and injured 448 earlier this week.

[The Long War Journal] Suicide attacks killed more than 120 Iraqis in Baghdad - The Long ...: More than 120 Iraqis were killed and more than 200 were wounded when three suicide bombers and two car bombs were detonated in locations throughout Baghdad. The targets of the attacks were a bank, a police patrol, a court complex, a mosque, and a market neighborhood near the Interior Ministry.

[World News] Iraq's March vote won't affect US drawdown: US | World News: Iraq's decision to hold parliamentary elections in March will not interfere with the U.S. military's plans to reduce the number of troops in the country to 50000 by the end of August, the Pentagon said on Thursday. President Barack Obama has pledged to end .

[At War] New Bombings, Same Questions - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The New York Times’s award-winning team of correspondents, photographers, videographers and local interpreters provide insight ”” and try to answer your questions ”” about the combatants shaping events along political, military and religious faultlines, and the civilians caught in the middle.

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Baghdad bombs underline fragility of Iraq government ...: Iraq’s electoral commission on Monday recommended a 45-day delay in parliamentary elections until Feb. 27, raising concerns that the postponed balloting could complicate the planned withdrawal of U.S. combat troops and bring a possible surge of violence.

[The Long War Journal] Iraqi troops capture Mahdi Army military leader - The Long War Journal: The Promised Day Brigade commander, who was not identified, was "believed to be facilitating the distribution of weapons and funding to PDB [Promised Day Brigade] attack groups throughout Baghdad," the US military said in a press release. "Attack groups then use the weapons and funding to conduct deadly acts of violence against civilians and security forces in Iraq."

[Public Intelligence] Baghdad bombs kill 127 as Iraq vote is set | Public Intelligence: From the Shiite south to the Kurdish north to the Sunni Arab west, Iraqis regularly express disgust over the political process, citing corruption and a lack of responsiveness from the government. Even clerics representing the influential Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani chastise the country’s politicians for failing to meet the population’s basic needs.

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Iraq's Shaky Economy Poses Threat To Future (NPR) | Global ...: Italy’s foreign minister Franco Frattini on Tuesday condemned the coordinated car bomb attacks that killed over 120 people and injured 500 in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. As the death toll continued to climb from the horrific bombings, Frattini said “a group close to Al-Qaeda”

[Dandelion Salad] Baghdad attacks put Iraq security back in spotlight + 118 killed ...: “Audio Panton, Cogito Singularis, Listen to everything, think for yourself.” Feel free to repost on a non-commercial blog/website but be polite and include an active link back to the particular blog post please. ...

[Inside Iraq] McClatchy blog: Inside Iraq: The news talk about more than 400 people wounded and I am sure dozens of them lost some of their organs but they will accept that because at least they are alive. Others who were luckier survived but they will live for a while with the image of death dancing in their minds and dreams. It is not nice dancing in any way.

[Boggartblog] The Iraq Inquiry Cab Driver Of Mass Destruction - Boggartblog: Fortunately for you Boggart Blog readers your news source of choice has been somewhat more diligent in our investigative reporting. Never afraid to breach the Official Secrets Act, the treason law, the standards of journalistic integrity, factual accuracy and common sense in our unending effort to uncover the truth behind the truth Boggart Blog has managed to obtain a transcript of the first meeting between a British intelligence operative and the government’s main source of information on Weapons Of Mass Destruction as covertly recorded by agent 00 Hornby

[ChattahBox News Blog] Another Deadly Coordinated Attack in Iraq Underscores Security ...: The car bomb blasts were coordinated with the first explosion in central Baghdad was heard at 10.25 am on Tuesday, with a second blast within seconds and a third one a minute later.  Two exploded near the labor and interior ministries, two more struck in central Baghdad, and another at a police patrol in Dora, in the south of the city.

[Research Recap] Research Recap » Blog Archive » Undeterred by Political Risks, Oil ...: The war-ravaged country’s “weak and ill-defined legal structures,” and uncertain moves by the next government slated to be elected in January, may result in canceled service contracts, warned David Bender, an analyst in the Middle East practice of the Eurasia Group’s Washington office.

[America at War] The New Narrative: All Pashtuns are Taliban, all Talibans are Al ...: “Baghdad, basically a Sunni city into the 1940s, by the end of 2008 had only a few hundred thousand Sunni residents left in a population of over five million.” Defeated in this devastating sectarian civil war, the Sunni ended their attacks on US troops and instead sought their protection.

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