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CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jul 19, 2007 @ 3:14am neoform

FOX News -- The Senate rejected a plan Wednesday to bring home U.S. troops from Iraq by early next year after spending an all-night session debating whether to demand President Bush change the mission. The 52-47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to cut off de.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Apr 5, 2007 @ 8:04am neoform

FOX News -- House Minority Leader John Boehner blasted a Democrat-backed plan on Wednesday to ban the use of "global War on Terror" and "long war" in the 2008 defense budget bill. A memo sent to Democratic staffers on the House Armed Services Committee instructed.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 12, 2007 @ 7:47pm neoform

News.com.au -- THE Pentagon is preparing a plan for a phased pullout of US troops from Iraq in case an ongoing surge of troops fails or is undercut by congress. White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe cited Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, saying it would be irrespon.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 5, 2007 @ 9:26pm neoform

Washington Post -- During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about their backup plan for Iraq. What would the administration do if its new strategy didn't work? The.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Sat Feb 24, 2007 @ 10:39pm neoform

MSNBC -- The Petraeus plan will have U.S. forces deployed in Iraq for years to come. Does anybody running for president realize that? The British are leaving, the Iraqis are failing and the Americans are staying—and we’re going to be there a lot longer than.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Feb 15, 2007 @ 9:54am mrmdc

BBC News -- The US invasion plan for Iraq envisaged that only 5,000 US troops would remain in Iraq by December 2006, declassified Central Command documents show. The material also shows that the US military projected a stable, pro-US and democratic Iraq by that ti.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jan 29, 2007 @ 11:27am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- The White House has stood by President George W. Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq, despite growing public opposition and a chorus of criticism from lawmakers in Congress... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jan 23, 2007 @ 10:01am mrmdc

CBS News -- Al Qaeda's deputy leader mocked President Bush's plan to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq, challenging him to send "the entire army" and vowing insurgents will defeat them in a new videotape, a U.S. group that tracks al Qaeda messages said Monday... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jan 8, 2007 @ 9:26am mrmdc

CBS News -- President Bush is expected to deliver his new plan for the war in Iraq as early as Wednesday night to an American public eager for change, but he may face a showdown in Washington over his intentions... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 23, 2008 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- Russia and China have condemned a US plan for a missile defence shield, saying it will set back international disarmament efforts. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the joint statement with Chinese President Hu Jintao while in Beijing on his fir.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Nov 9, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

MSNBC -- Currently, U.S. Special Forces teams make occasional trips to Pakistan for about six weeks at a time to train different groups of Pakistani soldiers. Under the new plan, the 12-man teams would be stationed there for longer assignments, without gaps in bet.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 4:39pm neoform

BBC News -- Sudan has agreed to a revised plan for a joint UN-African Union (AU) peacekeeping force to be sent to war-torn Darfur, AU sources say. Under the new plan, the AU will run day-to-day operations, while the UN is expected to have overall control of betwee.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 29, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

Washington Post -- President Bush has decided to implement a plan to pressure Sudan's government into cooperating with international efforts to halt the violence in its troubled Darfur region, where his administration said almost three years ago that genocide was taking pla.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 10:31am neoform

Washington Post -- Top U.S. commanders and diplomats in Iraq are completing a far-reaching campaign plan for a new U.S. strategy, laying out military and political goals and endorsing the selective removal of hardened sectarian actors from Iraq's security forces and governm.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 2:04pm neoform

Washington Post -- The capture of thousands of new suspects under the three-month-old Baghdad security plan has overwhelmed the Iraqi government's detention system, forcing hundreds of people into overcrowded facilities, according to Iraqi and Western officials. Nearly 2.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Israel's premier has lauded Arab peace moves as "revolutionary", but stressed he did not accept the entire Arab plan. Ehud Olmert gave a series of interviews with Israeli newspapers in response to the revival of a 2002 Saudi peace plan, adopted at the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

SF Gate -- U.S. troops are conducting security sweeps in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City for the first time in three years, part of a revamped plan to pacify the capital. Yet the Mahdi Army militia of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has not risen up to fight them,.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 12:24am neoform

Washington Post -- U.S. troops are conducting security sweeps in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City for the first time in three years, part of a revamped plan to pacify the capital. Yet the Mahdi Army militia of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has not risen up to fight them,.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Feb 10, 2007 @ 11:17am neoform

BBC News -- UN police in Kosovo have used tear gas to disperse some 2,000 ethnic Albanians protesting against a UN plan on the future status of Serbia's province. At least one person was injured during the clashes in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, reports say. The.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jan 16, 2007 @ 10:22am mrmdc

New York Times -- Just days after President Bush unveiled a new war plan calling for more than 20,000 additional American troops in Iraq, the heart of the effort — a major push to secure the capital — faces some of its fiercest resistance from the very people it depend.. Read More