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Blackwater Guards Found Guilty in 2007 Iraq Killings - New York Times Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:44:55 GMT

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Blackwater Guards Found Guilty in 2007 Iraq Killings
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Four former Blackwater Worldwide security guards were convicted and immediately jailed Wednesday for their roles in a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad's Nisour Square that marked a bloody nadir in America's war in Iraq. A jury in ...
Jury Finds Blackwater Guards Guilty of Iraq ShootingsWall Street Journal
Four Blackwater guards found guilty in 2007 Iraq shootings of 31 unarmed civiliansWashington Post
Blackwater Guards Found Guilty in Iraq ShootingsABC News
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Get Ready for Iraq War IV - Foreign Policy Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:29:12 GMT

Foreign Policy

Get Ready for Iraq War IV
Foreign Policy
The first Iraq war was necessary and conducted well, as wars go; the second was unnecessary and conducted poorly at first, but ended up in a reasonable place given what a fiasco it had been at the start. This third war was entirely preventable, caused ...

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ISIS threatens Iraq's priceless cultural heritage - CNN Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:14:09 GMT

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ISIS threatens Iraq's priceless cultural heritage
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Baghdad (CNN) -- There's been no shortage of news coverage of the atrocities carried out by ISIS against the people of Iraq and Syria, from beheadings to massacres to selling kidnapped women into sexual slavery. What's less well known is the ...
We will liberate Mosul from ISIS: Iraq Defense MinisterAsharq Alawsat English
ISIS threatens Iraq's priceless heritageWPTZ The Champlain Valley

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Air strikes kill around 25 Islamic State fighters in Iraq: residents - Reuters Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:39:45 GMT

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Air strikes kill around 25 Islamic State fighters in Iraq: residents
Reuters
The United States and other Western countries have repeatedly bombed the Sunni jihadist group's positions in Iraq - including in the Fallujah area on Wednesday - and Gulf monarchies have also taken part in air strikes against it in Syria which began ...
War with Isis: US and Iraq draw up plan for ground force attack on Islamist ...The Independent
How ISIS is devastating Iraq's schoolsCBS News
We could have left Iraq better than we did, especially in handling of Sunni ...Foreign Policy
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US ordered to explain withholding of Iraq and Afghanistan torture photos - The Guardian Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:57:12 GMT

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US ordered to explain withholding of Iraq and Afghanistan torture photos
The Guardian
The return of the US to war in Iraq raises the stakes for the case. Unlike in 2012, when Panetta certified that the release of the photographs would endanger the US military in Afghanistan, some 1,600 US troops are also now in Iraq again, this time to ...
Obama Withholding 2100 Iraq and Afghanistan Torture Photos 'Worse than Abu ...International Business Times UK
Judge Slams Obama Administration for Hiding Torture Photos From Iraq ...RIA Novosti
Tribes in tense Abu Ghraib vow to keep IS outModesto Bee

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Here's How 9/11 Truther Pete Carroll Would Have Prevented The Iraq War - Deadspin Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:12:16 GMT

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Here's How 9/11 Truther Pete Carroll Would Have Prevented The Iraq War
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Seattle Times staff columnist Jerry Brewer's latest column begins with a conversation he had with Seattle Seahawks head coach and noted 9/11 truther Pete Carroll over a year ago. Somehow, the conversation veered into Carroll laying out his plan for ...
Pete Carroll Told a Reporter He Knows How to Properly Pacify IraqBleacher Report

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Mortar shells land inside Baghdad's Green Zone as deadly bombings hit Iraq - Fox News Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:42:59 GMT

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Mortar shells land inside Baghdad's Green Zone as deadly bombings hit Iraq
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No one immediately claimed responsibility for the latest attacks but they bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State, which has captured large chunks of territory in western and northern Iraq, plunging the country into its worst crisis since U.S. troops ...
Iran President Pledges to Back Iraq Amid AttacksABC News
Consumed by Islamic State, Iraq's Anbar province a key battleground againReuters
40 Are Killed in Attacks Targeting Shiites in IraqNew York Times
FRONTLINE -The National Interest Online -The American Conservative
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Canada: Withdraw From The US-led Coalition For War in Iraq and Syria! - Center for Research on Globalization Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:37:11 GMT

Center for Research on Globalization

Canada: Withdraw From The US-led Coalition For War in Iraq and Syria!
Center for Research on Globalization
1) The recent divisive vote to deploy warplanes, reconnaissance aircraft, support personnel, and special forces on a combat mission to Iraq – carried only by the Conservative government's slim majority in Parliament – was a bad decision. It will make ...
Iraq asks for air strikes on ISIL in KirkukAljazeera.com
Iraq: Car bombs rock Baghdad killing at least 21 peopleeuronews
Airstrikes Continue Against ISIL Targets in Syria, IraqDepartment of Defense
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Isis ascent in Syria and Iraq weakening Pakistani Taliban - The Guardian Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:57:16 GMT

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Isis ascent in Syria and Iraq weakening Pakistani Taliban
The Guardian
The dramatic rise of Islamic State (Isis) in Syria and Iraq is helping to tear apart the Pakistani Taliban, the beleaguered militant group beset by infighting and splits. Once the country's largest and most feared militant coalition, the Tehreek-e ...

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Five Britons a week travel to Iraq and Syria to join Isis, says Met chief - The Guardian Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:32:00 GMT

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Five Britons a week travel to Iraq and Syria to join Isis, says Met chief
The Guardian
Five Britons are travelling to Iraq and Syria to join Islamic State (Isis) every week, the UK's most senior police officer has revealed, after reports that a third jihadi from Portsmouth has been killed in the conflict. The Metropolitan police ...

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