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Shiite Militant Threatens Iranian Exiles in Iraq - ABC News Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:32:04 GMT

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Shiite Militant Threatens Iranian Exiles in Iraq
ABC News
The head of a new Shiite militant group in Iraq on Tuesday threatened to carry out more attacks on a camp for Iranian exiles that was struck by dozens of rockets and mortar shells earlier this month. Seven people were killed in the Feb. 9 attack on the ...
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Tony Blair says Iraq would be far worse today under Saddam Hussein - The Guardian Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:50:06 GMT

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Tony Blair says Iraq would be far worse today under Saddam Hussein
The Guardian
Tony Blair has admitted that life in Iraq today is not what he had hoped it would be and the country is still facing "big problems". But he defended the war, saying that failing to remove Saddam Hussein would have entailed far worse consequences for ...
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A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the US Army - TIME Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:52:10 GMT

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A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the US Army
TIME
Twenty-two years ago, a chorus of political pundits and generals engaged in fear-mongering, warning the American people that U.S. ground forces would suffer heavy casualties at the hands of Iraqi forces who allegedly knew how to hold ground from years ...
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Budget protests erupt in Iraq - CNN Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:42:26 GMT

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Budget protests erupt in Iraq
CNN
Baghdad (CNN) -- Protesters calling on Iraqi lawmakers to approve the national budget took to the streets of Baghdad on Tuesday, prompting security forces to shut main entrances into the city. The protests focused on the heavily fortified green zone in ...
Baghdad security tightened amid budget demoThe Daily Star

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How Radio 4 reopened The Iraq Dossier - The Guardian Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:01:11 GMT

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How Radio 4 reopened The Iraq Dossier
The Guardian
In early 2002, George Bush was targeting Iraq, alleging a WMD programme. Downing Street knew the US wanted regime change, but the Foreign Office thought Iraq a lower priority than Korea, Iran or Libya. The Ministry of Defence's WMD expert Dr Brian ...


Did the Iraq war undermine our faith in politics? - The Independent (blog) Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:31:04 GMT

Did the Iraq war undermine our faith in politics?
The Independent (blog)
nn 300x168 Did the Iraq war undermine our faith in politics? I took part in a BBC2 Newsnight special on Iraq, 10 years on, which will be broadcast tonight. Most of the programme was refreshingly sane and balanced, in that it was about what Iraq is like ...


GOP Rep.: Cheney probably will go to hell for Iraq war - CBS News Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:33:06 GMT

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GOP Rep.: Cheney probably will go to hell for Iraq war
CBS News
Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., the congressman who went from coining the term "freedom fries" to becoming an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, said that there's probably a spot in hell for former Vice President Dick Cheney because of his responsibility for ...
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Babylonian bricks stolen from Iraq museum - GlobalPost (blog) Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:21:58 GMT

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Babylonian bricks stolen from Iraq museum
GlobalPost (blog)
Fragments of bricks, engraved with cuneiform characters thousands of years old, lie mixed with the rubble and sandbags left by the US military on the ancient site of Babylon in Iraq. Archaeologists say a year of terracing work and 18 months of military ...
Ancient Babylonian bricks stolen in IraqArt Newspaper

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The stories that remain untold - The Economist (blog) Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:10:27 GMT

The Economist (blog)

The stories that remain untold
The Economist (blog)
These and many other scenes of Iraqis were captured on camera by Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson during the American-led invasion of Iraq. Both American photographers travelled mostly on their own and un-embedded throughout 2003 and 2004.


Car bomb kills four civilians, injures 10 in eastern Iraq - Press TV Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:07:35 GMT

Press TV

Car bomb kills four civilians, injures 10 in eastern Iraq
Press TV
On Tuesday, an explosives-laden car detonated near a market southwest of the provincial capital Baquba, located some 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast of Baghdad, security sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
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At least 4 killed in car bombing at marketplace in eastern IraqGlobal Times

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