During a high-level meeting in Riyadh in January, Saudi officials confronted a top American envoy with documents that seemed to suggest that Iraq’s prime minister could not be trusted. One purported to be an early alert from the prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr warning him to lie low [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Morning Links
Posted in Morning Links on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Morning Links on July 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Two suicide car bombs exploded Wednesday amid throngs that poured into Baghdad’s streets after the Iraqi national soccer team edged South Korea to reach its first Asian Cup final. Police said at least 50 people were killed and 135 were injured. Celebratory gunfire after Iraq’s 4-3 victory at the game in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, killed [...]
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Posted in Morning Links on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Senate veered closer to a contempt finding against the White House on Tuesday after an acrimonious appearance by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, with the Judiciary Committee’s senior Republican offering options for taking the Bush administration to court. Gonzales struggled under a verbal battering from senators that grew unusually personal as the hearing wore [...]
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Posted in Morning Links on July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A suicide bomber struck a busy commercial center in a major Shiite city south of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens as the streets were packed with shoppers and people on their way to work, police and hospital officials said. [Link]
House Democrats on Monday targeted two of President Bush’s longtime [...]
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Posted in Morning Links on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Major military offensives and a changed focus on increasing security have slowed efforts to train Iraqi forces to take control of Iraq, the top U.S. training official said. Brig. Gen. Dana Pittard said U.S. troop levels could start to decrease next spring, but the Iraqis will need U.S. support for at least two more years. [...]
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Posted in Morning Links on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The No. 2 U.S. general in Iraq said Thursday that it would be at least November before he could fully assess whether the U.S. military strategy in Iraq is working… In a separate session, [Ambassador Ryan] Crocker told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that political benchmarks set by President Bush for the Iraqi government were [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Militants have killed 17 Afghan police officers across Afghanistan over the last two days, while four suspected Taliban fighters died in a clash with NATO and Afghan troops, officials said yesterday. Six police officers were killed when their convoy was ambushed along the Kabul-Kandahar highway, a ribbon of road that connects Afghanistan’s two major cities. [...]
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Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Morning Links on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A handful of Republicans who have distanced themselves from President Bush on the war in Iraq refused Tuesday to back a plan to withdraw American troops from the conflict, leaving Senate Democrats short of the support needed to force a vote on their proposal. [Link]
President Bush’s top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged Tuesday that the strategy for [...]
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Posted in Morning Links on July 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A massive truck bomb followed by two smaller blasts ravaged Kirkuk yesterday, police said, killing more than 80 people in the deadliest attack in the troubled northern Iraqi city since the war began…The attacks this month are part of a pattern of increasing violence at a time of heightened tensions among ethnic Kurdish, Arab, and [...]
