Six car bombs have exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 34 people and wounding more than 100 others. " A blast at a popular market in the Shi'ite Muslim slum of Sadr City in east Baghdad killed at least 10 people and wounded 65. Another car bomb blew up...
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In addition to other hardships anddangers the troops in Iraq mustface the fact of spending theChristmas holidays away from theirfamilies, wives, children, parents." With a more than 80 percent drop in violence in...
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" 2008-08-31 19:30:02 - BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A prominent Lebanese politician on Sunday asked Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to reveal anything he knows about the disappearance of a senior Lebanese cleric during a trip to Libya 30 years ago. Shiite cleric Imam...
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Another Sucide attack had taken place in the restive town west of Baghdad. More details are expected " Iraqi police say a suicide bomber has detonated an explosive belt inside the municipal council headquarters in a town west of Baghdad during a meeting of tribal...
At least 10 people are dead after a bomb exploded in a municipal building in Sadr City on Tuesday. Six Iraqis, Two US soldiers and two civilian US Embassy employees were killed after a blast went off during a meeting of the district advisory council. The deputy head of the...
Here's some progress."The U.S. ambassador to Iraq praisedPrime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday for cracking down onShi'ite militias and Sunni Arab militants and said al Qaeda inIraq had never been closer to defeat."You are not going to hear me say that al Qaeda...
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Violence in Baghdad is increasing as US and Iraqi forces fight militants loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr. Intense fighting began Sunday after militia members attacked coalition positions during a sandstorm."More than 400 people have been killed in fighting over the last...
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Three Palestinian militants in the northern Gaza strip have been killed by Israeli troops."Islamic Jihad and another militant group said their members were attacking an Israeli army post. An air strike and fire from ground forces killed the attackers, the Israeli military...
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After mass desertions during the Basra operation, conducted by the Iraqi government with little cooordination with the Americans, the Iraqi army has dismissed almost 1500 soldiers."The Iraqi government has...
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Sadr calls protest march against U.S."BASRA, Iraq, April 3 (UPI) -- Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr called Thursday for a million-strong march in the shrine city of Najef against the U.S. "occupation" in Iraq. The...
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Rockets or mortars have been fired into the heavily-fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad."
Smoke rose from buildings after a sustained barrage of fire early on Sunday morning.
The Green Zone is home to the...
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This hasn't hit MSM yet, but Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi, one of Alive in Baghdad's correspondents, was shot and killed in his home."Ali lived in Habibya, it’s considered as a part of the Sadr city. On Friday the...
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Everything that is happening in the land written here; from my blog at ConservativeINC.
Is there a genocide going on in Darfur? Well, legally, no. That is if you believe what ex-President Jimmy Carter has to say....
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The political movement loyal to radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has withdrawn from Iraq's governing Shia alliance.The move deprives Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's coalition of 30 votes - leaving it in control of...
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Why is the United States involved in another foreign election when in 2000 and 2004 Africans and many Latinos were illegally prevented from using their own constitutional right to cast a vote for the candidate of...
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