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Agency Delivers ‘Taste of Home’ to Deployed Troops

...in Iraq: -- Raw and precooked whole turkey: 225,980 pounds, $795,359.08; The total dollar value for Thanksgiving meals in Iraq is $2,741,483.49. Here is the same breakdown for the $1,301,292.42 spent for Thanksgiving meal items for servicemembers in Afghanistan: --...
GlobalSecurity.org, 5 hours ago

Iraq official rules out January vote

...will be unable to hold a national election in January as planned, a poll official said today, amid further uncertainty on a vote meant to cement democracy and pave the way for a partial US troop withdrawal. The general election was supposed to be held between...
Irish Times, 15 hours ago

Soccer Team’s Struggle Is Parable of Life in Iraq

...the affairs of the board that oversees the national team. This is not so much a story about sports as a parable of life in Iraq another example of the inability of Iraqis to settle their differences. Although the controversy is not nearly as important as...
The New York Times, 7 hours ago

Google documents artifacts of Iraq's national museum, photographs to be posted online

...Schmidt, who toured the museum with U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill on Tuesday, said it was important for the world to see Iraq's rich heritage and contribution to world culture. "The history of the beginning of — literally — civilization is made right here...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, 13 hours ago

UK Opens Wide-Ranging Iraq War Inquiry

...in a way that is thorough, rigorous, fair and frank," he said. Then British Prime Minister Tony Blair sent over 45,000 troops to Iraq in 2003 to help topple Saddam Hussein. 179 British military personnel were killed in the conflict. Britain's involvement in...
GlobalSecurity.org, 5 hours ago

SNOHOMISH COUNTY: Marysville soldier killed in Afghanistan

...up beside them and detonated. Several other soldiers were injured. Cleaver enlisted in the Navy in 1995 and served in Kosovo and Iraq. He left the service after 10 years and joined the Army in June 2006 as a motor transport operator. He was on his second...
TheNewsTribune.com, 17 hours ago

Britain Opens Inquiry Into Iraq War, After Years of Delay

...official documents like those disclosed by The Telegraph, based on confidential interviews with British officers returning from Iraq in the first year after the invasion. Partial transcripts of the interviews in the paper suggested that strains between the...
The New York Times, 15 hours ago

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,365 Monday, according to Associated Press count

...of Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, at least 4,365 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action. At least 3,476 military personnel...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, 23 hours ago

Highest-ranking soldier killed at Fort Hood is buried

...the end of November," her husband, Philip Warman, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "I knew she was going in harm's way in Iraq. [But at Fort Hood] this is not the way she was going to go." Friends and family gathered Monday in the cold rain...
The Washington Post, 16 hours ago

Extreme makeover: Fort Lewis museum closed

...youve always wanted to check out the huge metal head and sword of Saddam Hussein brought back from Iraq, dioramas of famous battles, the jeep Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf drove when he was Fort Lewis top officer or any of the other thousands of relics on display...
TheNewsTribune.com, 5 hours ago

Even Reagan no longer measures up to "The Reagan Myth"

...on the checklist. For example: The principles in the resolution include fairly basic proclamations, like “We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges,” along with trickier propositions that have bedeviled the...
Philly.com, 10 hours ago

British saw no legal basis for toppling Saddam

...bark.” The US view hardened after September 11th: “It shifted to the weapons of mass destruction problem which, in the case of Iraq – in order to deal with the weapons of mass destruction problem – you would probably end up having to push Saddam Hussein out...
Irish Times, 1 hour ago

Patrick Cockburn: Britain's ignorance of Iraq is already apparent

...to me nervously: "I have only one fear," he said. "It is that the Americans will realise at the last moment that attacking Iraq and overthrowing Saddam Hussein is not in their own best interests." The only way Washington could prevent a takeover by the Shia...
The Independent, 1 hour ago

Iraq 'on verge of project finance boom'

...think that project financing will be the next big thing in Iraq. I believe that people are willing to take risk in Iraq,' Uzri said. Battered by years of war and sanctions, Iraq is in dire need of improved infrastructure, and opportunities abound for developers...
TradeArabia, 12 hours ago

Sinopec keen despite Iraq snub

...in northern Iraq. The source from Sinopec said the contract with Addax was not likely to affect Sinopec's other businesses in Iraq, based, as it was, on an evaluation it did before purchasing the Swiss oil company. Baghdad's refusal, however, indicated that...
People's Daily Online, 22 hours ago

Questions of trust: how the Iraq war unfolded

... of the region and the rest of the world". September 24 Mr Blair releases a document putting Britain's case for war in Iraq. September 28 Hundreds of thousands of anti-war protesters march through London to a rally in Hyde Park as Britain and the US propose...
Times Online, 15 hours ago

Light and Medium Utility Helicopters for Iraq

...parts, equipment, training and logistical support for a complete package worth approximately $1.2 billion. The Government of Iraq has requested a possible sale of up to 15 AgustaWestland AW109 Light Utility Observation helicopters, or alternatively, 15 Bell...
DefenceTalk.com, 19 hours ago

UAE Leads Iraq Investment for '09

...Arabia and Iran, according to figures published by U.K energy company BP on its Web site. Investments by U.A.E companies in Iraq this year include the $20 billion Rasheed real-estate development in Baghdad by Millennium Solutions and the Bonyan International...
Wall Street Journal, 12 hours ago

UK to hold public inquiry into alleged Iraq abuse

...Secretary Bob Ainsworth will make a written statement to lawmakers Wednesday ordering a study into a battle near the southern Iraq town of Majar al-Kabir in May 2004 Lawyers allege British soldiers may have tortured and executed up to 20 Iraqis after the battle...
KansasCity.com, 12 hours ago

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