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Iraq's Top Shiite Leaders Urge Delay of Protests - New York Times Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:49:06 GMT+00:00

Kansas City Star

Iraq's Top Shiite Leaders Urge Delay of Protests
New York Times
BAGHDAD — Iraq's top Shiite religious leaders, the populist cleric Moktada al-Sadr and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called Wednesday for Iraqis to defer their protests, leading many members of the country's ...
As war ebbs, Baghdad blast walls start coming downWashington Post
Iraqi Shiite cleric returns to Iraq from IranPeople's Daily Online
Radical Shiite cleric Sadr 'back in Iraq'AFP
Alsumaria
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Iraq attempts to defuse huge protest planned for Friday - Christian Science Monitor Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:30:20 GMT+00:00

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Iraq attempts to defuse huge protest planned for Friday
Christian Science Monitor
Iraqi security forces stand guard while protesters chant antigovernment slogans during a protest in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 23. Protesters gathered in central Baghdad to demand a crackdown on corruption, better government services, ...
Iraq's Shell Gas Deal Reaches Advanced Stage - Deputy PMWall Street Journal
Iraq to reach 2.75 mln bpd crude output this yearReuters Africa

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Former Mabey & Johnson Execs Sentenced To Prison for Iraq Bribes - Wall Street Journal (blog) Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:50:23 GMT+00:00

Stuff.co.nz

Former Mabey & Johnson Execs Sentenced To Prison for Iraq Bribes
Wall Street Journal (blog)
A UK judge on Wednesday sent two former executives of engineering firm Mabey & Johnson Ltd. to prison for making illegal payments to the Iraq government in violation of United Nations sanctions, the Serious Fraud Office said. ...
Britons jailed over Iraq bribesBBC News
UK company directors jailed for Iraq sanctions breach; pair offered kickbacks ...The Canadian Press
Two jailed over Iraq bribesBoness Today
Malaysia Sun -Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
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On Libya we can't let ourselves be scarred by Iraq - The Guardian Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:00:12 GMT+00:00

CBC.ca

On Libya we can't let ourselves be scarred by Iraq
The Guardian
Or does it refuse to be scarred by the foolishness of the Iraq invasion and show that it can act when there is unacceptable barbarism. For it is possible the only solution is a rapid intervention led by perhaps Egypt or Tunisia, whose armies have won ...
America's Next War Looms in LibyaNew America Media
The Middle East Channel: Qaddafi and the false dawn of a 'new Libya'Foreign Policy

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Romney's health care bill = Hillary's Iraq vote? - Washington Post (blog) Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:22:22 GMT+00:00

Washington Post (blog)

Romney's health care bill = Hillary's Iraq vote?
Washington Post (blog)
Hillary Clinton's vote for the Iraq war in 2002. That vote turned the front-running Clinton into a vulnerable candidate in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, as it put her at odds with the general sentiment within the party about the war. ...

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Policeman killed in Iraq protests - Sky News Australia Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:40:05 GMT+00:00

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Policeman killed in Iraq protests
Sky News Australia
Anti-government protests in the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja have left a policeman dead as a result of gunshot wounds and another injured, the town's mayor and a doctor said. Several hundred demonstrators had been marching on Wednesday to the offices ...
Thousands rally for change in Iraq's Kurdish regionDaily Star - Lebanon
Thousands stage Iraq Kurd anti-govt demoAFP
Thousands rally in Iraq's Kurdish north in anti-government demonstrationThe Canadian Press
Press TV -Reuters Africa -Morning Star Online
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Libya biggest oil risk since Iraq War: markets - Daily Star - Lebanon Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:28:36 GMT+00:00

The Guardian

Libya biggest oil risk since Iraq War: markets
Daily Star - Lebanon
DOHA: Libya's escalating violence represents the biggest threat to global oil supply since the invasion of Iraq eight years ago as political unrest sweeping the Middle East centers on an OPEC exporter. Brent crude rose 3.2 percent in the past two days ...
Muammar's Oil - Libya's Contribution to the World's Oil PictureOye! Times

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Tom Ricks responds to Donald Rumsfeld - Washington Post (blog) Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:14:03 GMT+00:00

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Tom Ricks responds to Donald Rumsfeld
Washington Post (blog)
In an interview on Tuesday, Donald Rumsfeld said he never read Bob Woodward or Tom Ricks's books on the Iraq War because “they were all on the outside listening to people two or three levels down.” Rumsfeld is indeed correct about who ...
Rumsfeld vs. Rice, Re: MeetingsThe National Interest Online (blog)
Rummy Schools Andrea MitchellRushLimbaugh.com (subscription)
Rumsfeld's Web site is eye-openingCincinnati.com (blog)
TPM LiveWire
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Iraq intelligence misinformation harmed war efforts - BG News Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:23:47 GMT+00:00

OpEdNews

Iraq intelligence misinformation harmed war efforts
BG News
In the year or so following the attacks, ties between the United States and Iraq was a relationship on dangerously thin ice. Think of Iraq as the girlfriend whom a guy suspects is cheating on him, among other problems. In questioning her former friends ...
Tellam: Bush administration had zero concrete proof for war with IraqOregon Daily Emerald
Rumsfeld vs. Me on the Freedom AgendaCommentary
George W. Bush, Iran, And DemocracyThe Atlantic
Sioux Falls Argus Leader -OpEdNews -Washington Post (blog)
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Pennsylvania Soldier's Double-Murder Trial Set for August - Fox News Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:18:19 GMT+00:00

Pennsylvania Soldier's Double-Murder Trial Set for August
Fox News
The trial of an Iraq war veteran who is raising post-traumatic stress disorder as his defense in a double-murder case is set for jury selection Aug. 15. Thirty-year-old Army veteran Nicholas Horner, of Altoona, contends his mental condition drove him ...

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