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  War in Iraq - Breaking News Updates - Stay Current with Daily News Stories, Videos & Photos of the Global War on ...
U.S. military officials here are increasingly envisioning a "post-occupation" troop presence in Iraq that neither maintains current levels nor leads to a complete pullout, but aims for a smaller, longer-term force that would remain in the country for years.
The path to descent of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
Click to view the latest lampoons of the war in Iraq by American political cartoonists.
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 Conflict with Iraq - Links to Terrorists
Iraq's possible links to terrorism and September 11 appear to play a minor role in justifying support for military action among the general population.
When asked in an August 2002 Fox poll whether Iraq or Iran "is a stronger supporter of terrorism and poses the greater immediate danger to the United States," a strong plurality of 49% chose Iraq.
Iraq's possible links to terrorists and September 11 seem to play a fairly minor role in most Americans' support for taking military action against Iraq.
www.americans-world.org /digest/regional_issues/Conflict_Iraq/linkstoTerr.cfm   (884 words)

  
 Amnesty International and the Iraq conflict - Amnesty International
A broader task in Iraq is to secure order and ensure that occupying powers and any interim authority respect their obligations to all of the people of Iraq.
Ensuring justice is fundamental for the countless victims of decades of grave human rights violations and conflicts in Iraq, and as a means to prevent their repetition.
AI repeatedly called on the parties to the conflict to ban the use of "weapons which are inherently indiscriminate or otherwise prohibited under international humanitarian law".
web.amnesty.org /web/web.nsf/pages/iraq_faq   (2263 words)

  
 Conflict with Iraq - Summary
The problem of Iraq is seen as a high priority, but not as high a priority as dealing with Osama bin Laden's terrorist group al-Qaeda.
About half say it is very urgent to resolve the problem of Iraq, and a majority view the removal of Saddam Hussein as a very important US foreign policy goal.
If disarming Iraq of these weapons through an inspection process is not an option, given the choice between dealing with this threat through deterrence or preemptive military action, a majority chooses the latter.
www.americans-world.org /digest/regional_issues/Conflict_Iraq/summary_Iraq.cfm   (624 words)

  
 The true cost of conflict in Iraq - smh.com.au
Aid agencies supporting humanitarian projects in Iraq and the region report that about 15 million Iraqis, out of an estimated population of 24 million, depend on food rations provided under an agreement between the UN and the Iraqi Government.
Iraq's water and sanitation system is on the verge of collapse because it is dependent on electrical supplies crippled during the 1991 air strikes.
Aside from the humanitarian impact of conflict, modern warfare is expensive.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/11/1044927595772.html   (599 words)

  
 Full Iraq coverage | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited
June 10: British forces in Iraq should mostly be confined to their bases to avoid becoming dragged into feuds between rival political militias, Britain's former representative in Baghdad has warned.
June 8: Iraq's archaeological heritage is being systematically destroyed by militant attacks, the head of the country's antiquities board warned yesterday.
May 29: Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq three years ago, said yesterday she was stepping down from her role as the figurehead of the US campaign against the war.
www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/0,2759,423009,00.html   (1340 words)

  
 Iraq (War on Terrorism). SLA News Division Web Site.
Conflict in Iraq - News, classroom activities, lesson plans, historical background information, and other resources on the situation in Iraq for children, parents, and teachers.
Iraq Backgrounder: What Lies Beneath - October 2002 report from the International Crisis Group "reviews the mechanics of Saddam Hussein's rule, looks at the political dynamics that govern relations between religious and ethnic entities, and describes the various opposition groups and their potential role.
Iraq Action Coalition - The Iraq Action Coalition is an online media and activists' resource center for groups and activists who are working to end the war against the people of Iraq.
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 Conflict in Iraq - Conflict & Terrorism - Research - Multnomah County Library
Program - Iraq, and Iraq Country Page, as well as US relations with neighboring countries Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, and all other countries plus international issues including terrorism and nonproliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
The International Advisory and Monitoring Board for Iraq (IAMB) is an audit oversight body entrusted by the UN Security Council with monitoring the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), the US-led organization managing funding and revenues in Iraq.
The IAEA is responsible for the inspections of nuclear facilities in Iraq, North Korea and Iran, as well as other countries to verify compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
www.multcolib.org /guides/conflict/iraq.html   (1017 words)

  
 Conflict in Iraq :: spokesmanreview.com
The naming of a new government had been seen as a key step in ending Iraq’s insurgency, which is believed to be largely driven by Sunnis, and there had been fears that the political bickering had emboldened militants who have staged a series of well-coordinated attacks in recent weeks.
NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's top Shiite cleric returned to Najaf on Thursday in hopes of using the power of his popularity to bring an end to fighting in the holy city.
NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. tanks rolled into the Old City of Najaf toward a holy Shiite shrine where militants were hiding Monday as participants at a national conference voted to send a delegation here to try to negotiate an end to the fighting.
www.spokesmanreview.com /iraq/blog.asp   (5375 words)

  
 usnews.com: Conflict With Iraq: Diplomatic debacle? Not so (3/18/03)
Conflict with Iraq: Background information and reports from the frontline.
And those issues were not decisive with Germany, which was motivated by cheap political considerations that are likely to become obsolete soon, or France, which was motivated by a grand ambition to cabin in American power.
The embarrassing withdrawal of that resolution Monday morning in the face of sure rejection showed, the argument goes, that the administration miscalculated and put itself in a position where its critics and enemies could argue that our military action does not have the approval of the world.
www.usnews.com /usnews/news/iraq/articles/opinion030318.htm   (1317 words)

  
 Iraq
War-hardened attitudes and a suspicion of Iraqis led to a decision not to investigate the slayings of 24, officers testify.
A couple of months after his last visit home from Iraq, Rhys W. Klasno phoned his parents in Moreno Valley with the exciting news: His wife, Stephanie, was pregnant with their first child.
WASHINGTON — Injecting the Iraq war into the escalating fight for the No. 2 spot among House Democrats, Rep. John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania on Tuesday attacked his opponent for not backing a push last year for withdrawal of U.S. troops.
www.latimes.com /news/nationworld/iraq   (3589 words)

  
 IraqSlogger: Iraq Deadliest Conflict for Journalists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
By EASON JORDAN 12/22/2006 11:42 AM ET Iraq is by far the world's most dangerous country for journalists, with more journalists killed there this year than in any country in a single year on record.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says Iraq is the deadliest conflict for journalists in decades and that more journalists have been killed in Iraq than in any other country for the fourth year in a row.
Iraq has far surpassed the Algerian civil conflict of the 1990s, which took the lives of 58 journalists.
www.iraqslogger.com /index.php/post/317/Iraq_Deadliest_Conflict_for_Journalists   (1598 words)

  
 Asymmetric conflict in Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Anthony Cordesman released a report on the military situation in Iraq that is a must read.
The report, Iraq and Assymetric Warfare, is dated as "revised December 6, 2003" so it doesn't get caught up in the flurry of nonsense generated by the capture of Saddam.
The conflict in Iraq has already devolved to the point that there will be no strategic winner.
nwcitizen.us /wic/Quickly/AsymmetricconflictinIraq.html   (566 words)

  
 BBC News | In Depth | Conflict with Iraq | World Edition
Iraq makes an official protest to Turkey, accusing it of shelling Kurdish areas in northern Iraq.
Iraq's neighbours fear the consequences of a broken Iraq, says the BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen.
A new report paints a bleak outlook for Iraq unless there are radical changes in strategy, says the BBC's James Robbins.
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 State: Conflict in Iraq hampers recruiting
Two years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, views like Fields' are hurting efforts by one branch of the military to recruit enlistees at a time when military officials say they are badly needed.
Bedford hesitated, but eventually, he said, his concerns about the invasion of Iraq were outweighed by the benefits he saw in joining the Army: The military will pay off his $15,000 in college loans and give him a $13,000 bonus after basic training.
He said his grandmother, with her son already in Iraq, told him she didn't want him to go, and said, "You've got idiots in the White House." She suggested he stay in his current job, save money and start his own business.
www.sptimes.com /2005/03/28/State/Conflict_in_Iraq_hamp.shtml   (1320 words)

  
 Conflict in Iraq | Seattle Times Newspaper
A memorial to the members of the U.S. military who have died in the four years of the Iraq conflict, including a closer look at those with Washington ties.
Muhammed Hussein, the 4-year-old from Iraq who came to Seattle last May for surgery after being shot in the face by Sunni militants, is still waiting.
The first of a several surgeries to reconstruct the little boy's face was to begin in March but had to be rescheduled until May when Hamoody, as he is known, came down with a sore throat.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/iraq   (597 words)

  
 Iraq militants claim al-Zarqawi is dead - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
Iraq militants claim al-Zarqawi is dead - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Jordanian extremist suspected of bloody suicide attacks in Iraq was killed some time ago in U.S. bombing and a letter outlining plans for fomenting sectarian war is a forgery, a statement allegedly from an insurgent group west of the capital said.
In February, the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq made public an intercepted letter it said was written by al-Zarqawi to al-Qaida leaders, detailing a strategy of spectacular attacks to derail the planned June 30 handover of power to the Iraqis.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4446084   (633 words)

  
 Conflict In Iraq -  Concerns and Consequences - Publications
Conflict in Iraq teamed up with Reporting the World to hold a Roundtable in July with key members of the UK media to discuss war reporting.
DK Matai, Chairman and CEO of mi2g, points to one of the rarely-discussed costs of conflict within the Middle East and broader asymmetric warfare framework, namely digital attacks, that have mushroomed in number over the last year or two, and that correlate closely with the rise in global and regional conflict.
Iraq and the Failures of Democracy, Richard Falk and David Krieger.
www.basicint.org /iraqconflict/Pubs/Pubs_index.htm   (1761 words)

  
 KnoxNews: Iraq Conflict
BAGHDAD - The four-year U.S. military death toll in Iraq passed 3,500 after a soldier was reported killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad.
A British soldier was also shot to death Thursday in southern Iraq, as Western forces find themselves increasingly vulnerable under a new strategy to take the fight to the enemy.
BAGHDAD - From south and north, Iraq's Kurdish region felt pressure from two sides Saturday, as saboteurs bombed the Sarhat Bridge, a vital link to Baghdad, and Turkish troops across the border massed for a possible strike.
www.knoxnews.com /kns/iraq_conflict/0,1406,KNS_9217,00.html   (683 words)

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