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WAR: About that War

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Hearst Newspapers

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tried to rewrite history this week when he denied making prewar claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Rumsfeld's latest attempt at backtracking on his prewar rhetoric came Thursday

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AFP

The US insisted when it signed the International Convention Against Torture treaty that it did not apply to armed conflicts, excluding its activities in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the “war on terror”, from the Convention’s scope in US eyes.

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China Daily

A British military helicopter apparently was hit by a missile and crashed in Basra, triggering a confrontation in which jubilant Iraqis pelted British troops with stones, hurled firebombs and shouted slogans in support of a radical Shiite Muslim cler

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The Guardian

Dick Cheney, the vice-president, has said he has no regrets about the decision to invade Iraq. Mr Cheney's refusal to admit to doubts about going to war highlights his isolation from an administration which has demonstrated a degree of candour

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by Larisa Alexandrovna (Raw Story)

Ahmed Chalabi, the man who helped provide cooked intelligence on Iraq to the Pentagon and the New York Times in the lead-up to war, is once again being engaged in US policy decisions, current and former intelligence officials say. According to two

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Daily Telegraph

Military action against Iran would be fraught with risk and would have repercussions across the region, a leading American general conceded. "Any action militarily is very complicated," Lt Gen Victor Renuart, the director of planning for

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New York Times

Iran and the United States have begun to reveal new strategies in their nuclear dispute that seem bound to escalate their confrontation, as both nations seek to turn to their advantage a highly critical report that portrays a nuclear program proceed

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Los Angeles Times

An American initiative to use private security companies to protect Iraq's oil and power infrastructure collapsed amid reports of possible fraud, missing weapons and destroyed documents, according to a federal audit released Saturday. Under a

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National News Desk, Istanbul

The Turkish armed forces have launched their first military operation along the Iraqi border where Turkish troops have concentrated for days. The Northern Iraqi cities of Amedi and Zaho, sheltering Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) militants, were hi

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Washington Post

[Where will the Iraqi Christians and mixed marriage flee?] The surest -- and perhaps now the only -- way to bring stability to Iraq is to divide the country into three pieces. Those who see the partitioning of Iraq as increasingly attractive argue th

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Pentagon (PDF file)

As of April 28th, 2,401 persons in the military have died in Bush's Iraq War, and an additional 281 in the Afghan incursion. 18,479 have been wounded in action in both wars, of which 8,563 (46%) were wounded so badly they could not ret

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Associated Press

Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters marched Saturday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad -- the 70th U.S. fighter killed in tha

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Associated Press

Hundreds of suicide bombings in Iraq have "broken the back" of the US military, al-Qaida's No. 2 said in a video by Ayman al-Zawahri, posted on an Islamic militant Web forum, came within the sa

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Associated Press

[Which is why they are kicking butt in Afghanistan.] Leaders of al-Qaida lost some control of the terror network last year due to the arrests and deaths of top operational planners, but the group remains the most prominent terror threat facing the US

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The Independent

The Iraq war has already cost the US $320bn, according to an authoritative new report, and even if a troop withdrawal begins this year, the conflict is set to be more expensive in real terms than the Vietnam War, a generation ago.

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Los Angeles Times

Reaching across a sectarian divide, Iraq's highest-ranking Shiite Muslim cleric called on militias to disarm today, saying only government forces should be permitted to carry weapons on the streets. Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the Iranian-bor

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