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US Congress team warns Iraq after attack on Iranian refugees
These “Iranian refugees” are part of the MEK. Sadam Hussein’s former shock troops made up of Iranian opponents of the current regime in Tehran. Recently the US removed them from their terror list....
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Former Powell chief of staff ‘damn sure the Bush administration cooked the...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, said Monday on MSNBC that he’s “damn sure the Bush administration cooked the books” when it came to pushing for the...
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Tony Blair admits people are still ‘very abusive’ 10 years after he ordered...
Mr Blair acknowledged that the situation in Iraq was still ‘not nearly what it should be’, with the country suffering almost daily terrorist attacks, and he insisted the situation would have been even...
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US misspent billions on fruitless Iraq ‘reconstruction’
In spending billion to rebuild Iraq, the US has wasted more than billion in taxpayer funds, only to find that Iraq is just as wrecked and unstable as before. WT news feed
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Inspector general report: U.S. cannot account for $1.7 billion spent in Iraq.
Of .8 billion in Iraqi oil revenues handled by the US Defense Department, officials could not produce documents accounting for the use of about .7 billion, including .3 billion in fuel purchases, it...
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MI6 and CIA heard Iraq had no active WMD capability ahead of invasion.
BBC’s Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed intelligence from Iraqi foreign minister and spy chief WT news feed
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US largest embassy in Iraq to be slashed by two-thirds
The US mission in Iraq — the biggest in the world — will slash its numbers by two-thirds by the end of this year from its peak figure of over 16,000, the American ambassador to Baghdad said. bertb news...
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Iraq, Afghan wars to cost US up to $6 trillion
“In short, there will be no peace dividend, and the legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan wars will be costs that persist for decades,” Linda Bilmes, who served in government under former president Bill...
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Tony Blair and Iraq: The damning evidence
Secret testimony to Chilcot Inquiry by British intelligence shows former PM ‘accepted Libya was a bigger threat’ WT news feed
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Kerry blames Iran for attack on Iraq MEK camp, frustrated to find no nations...
The People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK) accused Tehran of being behind the attack on Camp Liberty, a former US military base near Baghdad housing about 3,000 members of the MEK, in which seven people...
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Iraq PM says new strife came from outside country
Maliki warned of the danger that Iraq was slipping into “sectarian civil war,” and his latest remarks expanded on that. “Strife is knocking on the doors of everyone, and no one will survive if it...
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Al-Jazeera banned by Iraq over ‘sectarian bias’ in coverage
Qatar-based channel and nine other stations have licences revoked as government claims they fuel bloodshed bertb news feed
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Clashes in Iraq Carry Worries of a New Civil War
According to the NYT, the group leading the new Sunni insurgency in Iraq is called the Men of the Army of the Naqshbandia Order or JRTN. They are said to be led by former Saddam Hussein loyalists and...
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Turkey: oil search deal reached in northern Iraq
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that the deal was a “step toward exploring for oil” in Iraq’s Kurdish region. This might explain why Turkey suddenly made peace with the Kurds within...
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Iraq halts oil exports after pipeline attack.
Iraq gas suspended exports of crude oil from the northern part of the country after a new bomb attack against a key pipeline, the second such interruption in less than a week, Dow Jones has reported....
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Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq.
“Some groups and regional countries are working hard to reignite the sectarian war in Iraq”, a Sunni politician said. bertb news feed
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Iraq PM insists some fake bomb detectors work
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki insisted on Monday that some of the fake bomb detectors Iraq bought are actually functional, despite overwhelming evidence that none of them work. Even the man who sold...
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Canada warns of possible Iraq ‘civil war’
Duh! By now I am wondering if this whole Arab Spring farce could have been set in motion to set the whole of the Arab world on fire with an endless Sunni -Shiite civil war, stretching from the shores...
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Iraq forces strike Sunni militants near Syria
These Sunni militants are fighting the Shiite governments in Syria and Iraq. It almost seems like Damascus and Baghdad are coordinating attacks against the Sunni rebellion now. bertb news feed
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U.S. plans to move Iranian exile group out of Iraq hit snag
The State Department’s decade-long effort to find a new home for a controversial Iranian opposition group has ground to a near halt only days after the announcement that the exiles had begun moving...
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