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[NewsDaily: Top Headlines] NewsDaily: Top Iraq security officials urge change after bombs: One proposal was for a way to "fix the random release of detainees," a reference to thousands of Iraqis released from U.S. detention this year under a U.S.-Iraqi security pact. The plan calls for prisoners to be set free if there is no evidence to convict them in an Iraqi court.

[The Opinionator] The Bombs of Iraq - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: Iraq’s Arabs and Kurds are nearly at war along the long front that separates the Kurdish region from the rest of Iraq, especially in and around Nineveh province, whose capital is Mosul, and over Tamim province, whose capital, Kirkuk, is coveted by the expansionist Kurds. Meanwhile, the Sunni Arab minority is increasingly alienated from the regime of Prime Minister Maliki, who’s staunchly refused to compromise with the demands of the opposition to his increasingly authoritarian rule.

[EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS] The US war against Iraq - The destruction of a Civilization ...: The ”˜civil war’ and ”˜ethnic conflict’ provided a pretext for the US and its Iraqi puppets to discharge hundreds of thousands of soldiers, police and functionaries from the previous regime (especially if they were from Sunni, mixed or secular families) and to undermine the basis for civilian employment. Under the cover of generalized ”˜war against terror’, US Special Forces and CIA-directed death squads spread terror within Iraqi civil society, targeting anyone suspected of criticizing the puppet government - especially among the educated and professional classes, precisely the Iraqis most capable of re-constructing an independent secular republic.

[Dr Nasir Khan] The US War against Iraq: The Destruction of a Civilization « Dr ...: According to the Al-Ahram Studies Center in Cairo, more that 310 Iraqi scientists were eliminated during the first 18 months of the US occupation - a figure that the Iraqi education ministry did not dispute. ...

[Army Times - News] AQI emerges as main suspect in Iraq bombings - Army News, news ...: He singled out the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Iraq’s largest Shiite party, as a beneficiary of the tendency among Shiite politicians to place Baathists in one basket with al-Qaida. The Iran-backed party, he says, wants to entice al-Maliki away from accommodating the Sunnis in a broad-based coalition so he will rejoin their Shiite alliance instead.

[Neno Gang ( DinarTrade )] Iraq's CrossRoads- Sent from Member - poor Good read: Afterwards we are designating a Prayer time for all, and all in their own religious way at 9:30PM to 10PM. See Chat SCHEDUAL for Time of these Events in the General Announcements Forum along with OUR TEAM List, Our Forum TOS, and a Chat TOS.

[ROGUEGOVERNMENT.COM] Al-Qaida emerges as main suspect in Iraq bombings ...: The political fallout from Wednesday's bombings was swift and went mostly against al-Maliki, who has campaigned on the strength of improving security over the past two years.

[Breaking News] Iraqi foreign minister says bigger, more powerful attacks likely ...: Police: 2 Iraqi soldiers gunned down at checkpointBAGHDAD ”” Gunmen attacked an Iraqi military checkpoint in the Iraqi capital Saturday, as Iraqi lawmakers scrutinize the readiness of Iraqi forces following a string of bombings in recent weeks that have killed hundreds. The attack on the checkpoint in northern Baghdad killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded another, a police official said, and follows a string of bombings in Baghdad that have shaken public confidence in Iraq's security forces.

[AlterNet.org: PEEK] Iraq Explodes | PEEK | AlterNet: In Kabul, the Taliban is carrying out attacks at the very center of Afghanistan's capital, rocketing the grounds of the presidential palace, launching suicide bombs at Kabul convoys, and last week setting off huge bombs on the heavily guarded road between the US embassy and the presidential palace.

[Global News Blog] Global News Blog » Blog Archive » Iraqi faith in future of country ...: The next day, his wife found herself sitting among bleeding and dying colleagues at the Iraqi foreign ministry after a massive truckbomb devastated the facade of the building and cut down dozens of people in a cloud of shattered glass. Iraqi troops and soldiers form the frontline now against insurgents such as al Qaeda and others who want to pitch Iraq back into sectarian war, undermine the Shi'ite Muslim-led government ahead of an election next year or who just want .

[Breaking News] Iraq to step up security after Baghdad bombings, keep concrete ...: Iraqi officials raise bombing toll to 71BAGHDAD ”” The number of dead in a double suicide bombing at a revered Baghdad shrine has reached 71, Iraqi officials said Saturday, making the attack a day earlier the single most deadly in Iraq in more than a year. The attack by two female suicide bombers killed mostly Shiite worshippers around the shrine of Imam Mousa al-Kazim and was the second consecutive day of high-profile suicide bombings in Iraq.

[Baghdad Bureau] The Bomb That Changed Iraq Forever - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The Bush administration effectively crystallized the Sunni sectarian identity since the Blitzkrieg of Fallujah in November 2004, and it was during that same period that the U.S military (unknowingly or not) was training members of the Badr Brigade of the Ministry of Interior and that of the Defense, that turned out to be organized Shi’ite death squads to carry out mass murder and the ethnic cleansing of Sunni Iraqis. Today those people are part of the Iraqi Security Forces loyal to Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.

[Cedric's Big Mix] Comeback madness « Cedric's Big Mix: And then the blast, this huge blast that was part of a wave of explosions that rocked Baghdad in what really is the biggest security challenge, perhaps, to the Iraqi government in some time, and certainly a challenge to Iraqi security forces' ability to secure the city. Now, the biggest one was outside the Foreign Ministry, where a truck packed with an estimated ton of explosives detonated.

[Breaking News] Eight killed in Iraq violence: BAGHDAD - At least seven people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives packed in his car in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Monday, police said. The bomber, five policemen and a civilian bystander were among those killed in the blast as a police patrol passed through the predominantly Christian district of Bartalah, some 30 kilometres east of Mosul, police told the German Press Agency dpa.

[Antiwar.com Blog] Another Iraq War Propaganda Nugget Bites the Dust « Antiwar.com Blog: Though the mission is under the leadership of the International Committee of the Red Cross, it represents the first official visit of American military officers to Iraq since the war’s end. American military and diplomatic officials acknowledged that the Iraqi Government had made a humanitarian gesture by allowing 11 American military officers to join 4 Red Cross officials on the search.

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