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CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Apr 8, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Petraeus' testimony marks his second time before Congress since he took over the Iraq war effort in early 2007. The four-star general also meets with Bush to advise on a possible delay in drawing down American forces below the 140,000-troop level for the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:26am neoform

SF Gate -- A joint U.S.-Iraqi commission reviewing American security operations after a deadly shooting of Iraqi civilians allegedly at the hands of Blackwater USA guards is preparing for its first meeting in Baghdad, American officials said Thursday. The U.S. an.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Sat Sep 8, 2007 @ 1:48pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Two decades ago, General David Petraeus, the man charged with winning America's second war in Iraq, wrote a thesis for his PhD in international relations at Princeton. Its 328 pages were an intense study of the legacies of a war that had stretched the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

USA Today -- Iraq's prime minister lashed out at American criticism, saying Wednesday that no one has a right to put timetables on his elected government. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed the U.S. presidential campaign for the recent tough words from the Bush.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

SF Gate -- After a raucous debate about what role - if any - psychologists should play in U.S. government interrogations of terror suspects, the American Psychological Association voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to reject a measure that would have in effect banned it.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 3:52pm neoform

CNN -- The top American commander in Iraq said Wednesday he was preparing recommendations on troop cuts and believes the U.S. footprint in Iraq will have to be "a good bit smaller" by next summer. But Gen. David Petraeus cautioned against a quick or significant.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jul 2, 2007 @ 11:51am neoform

USA Today -- Iranian forces helped plan one of the most sophisticated militant assaults of the Iraq war — a January raid in which gunmen posed as an American security team and launched an attack that killed five U.S. soldiers, an American general said Monday. U.S.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Jun 30, 2007 @ 12:41pm neoform

USA Today -- American soldiers rolled into Baghdad's Sadr City slum on Saturday in search of Iranian-linked militants and as many as 26 Iraqis were killed in what a U.S. officer described as "an intense firefight." But residents, police and hospital officials said.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 3:39pm neoform

SF Gate -- Another U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the military said Thursday, pushing the four-year death toll for American forces to 3,501, according to an Associated Press tally. The count includes 23 deaths in the first six days of June, a.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 10:39am neoform

SF Gate -- The U.S. military announced Tuesday that 10 American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Memorial Day, making May the deadliest month for U.S. troops in 2 1/2 years, as insurgents continued attacks on official and civilian targets. Gunmen dressed in police.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 1:08pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people", reported in today's Observer. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain. In the Name of.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 1, 2007 @ 11:13am neoform

Washington Post -- The deaths of more than 100 American troops in April made it the deadliest month so far this year for U.S. forces in Iraq, underscoring the growing exposure of Americans as thousands of reinforcements arrive for an 11-week-old offensive to tame sectarian.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 14, 2007 @ 11:14am neoform

CNN -- Two brothers strapped with explosives blew themselves up near an American cultural center in Casablanca Saturday, and police arrested another three suspects -- including one wearing an explosives belt -- hours later, an official said. The attacks came.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Mar 11, 2007 @ 4:53am neoform

Yahoo News -- On the eve of a visit by President Bush, the U.S. Embassy confirmed Saturday that American and Colombian soldiers had conducted a joint operation in the southern stronghold of leftist rebels who are holding three U.S. military contractors. The rare co.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Feb 23, 2007 @ 5:28pm mrmdc

Reuters -- The White House expressed opposition on Friday to any attempt by the U.S. Senate to revise the 2002 resolution that President George W. Bush used to go to war in Iraq. Senate Democrats said they were working on a proposal to rewrite the 2002 resolution.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Feb 18, 2007 @ 11:28am neoform

Yahoo News -- Hostage takers in Nigeria's restive oil region have released an American oil worker captive, police said Sunday. Gunmen who seized the man — whose name has never been released — last month handed him over unharmed to state officials late Saturday,.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Fri Jan 12, 2007 @ 4:24pm neoform

Information Liberation -- What is striking about the current debate in Washington - whether to "surge" troops to Iraq and increase the size of the U.S. Army - is that roughly 100,000 bodies are missing from the equation: The number of American forces in Iraq is not 140,000, but.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Thu Dec 14, 2006 @ 4:58pm mrmdc

Slate -- The American experience in Iraq, as many analysts have pointed out, looks a lot like the American experience in Vietnam. But one element seems to be missing: antiwar protests. There were enormous demonstrations around the world, including in New York and.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Dec 9, 2006 @ 12:40am neoform

Christian Science Monitor -- As Donald Rumsfeld prepares to leave his job as secretary of Defense, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is seeking to hold him responsible for what it says was widespread torture carried out at his direction. [Editor's Note: The original version.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Dec 8, 2006 @ 8:45am neoform

Mercury News -- American political leaders watched with alarm during the past week as the Hezbollah militia laid siege to the U.S.-backed Lebanese government, but few would acknowledge publicly what most analysts and politicians here say is obvious: American policy may b.. Read More