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. Iran:

Senators say report of planned US strikes on Iran untrue

Israel PM calls for naval blockade of Iran

Israel: US Sees Need for "Tangible Action" on Iran

Swiss bank sued for $500m over Iran links

London's Man Cheney Blows Up Iraq, To Trigger War on Iran

Economy:

Dollar Rises to 2-Week High as Fisher Signals Rates May Rise

Food Banks Face High Costs but Feeding More People

Gold Rallies to One-Month High as Crude Oil Gains to Record

Fears of supply shortages drive oil above $135

Are commodity traders bidding up food, fuel prices?

Warnings of new fuel protests as motorists struggle with fastest rise in diesel prices for a decade

Inflation Data Show Food Prices Soaring

Foreclosures Climb 65% as Loan Workouts Fall Short

Dollar Rises After Hoenig Says Inflation May Spur Rate Increase

Goldman Sachs: Bilderberg Target Of $200 Dollar Oil Nears

Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet

Food price rise could last another two years

Layoffs Rise 68 Percent in April

Jobless claims surge

Worst of credit crunch may be over, says BoE

Politics:

McCain Denounces Hagee

Big GOP Losses in Congress Likely, Even if McCain Wins

Obama Draws Huge Crowd in Oregon as Clinton Courts Kentucky

A Fifth Top Aide to McCain Resigns

Obama Wins North Carolina Decisively; Clinton Takes Indiana by Slim Margin

Dean: GOP Uses "Hate" and "Race Baiting" to Win

Louisiana Democrat Cazayoux Nabs GOP Seat in Saturday House Special

BigBrother And The Police State:

Moles Wanted

Homeland Security's Emerging Immigration Police State

Bilderberg Confirmed: Westfields Marriott In Chantilly June 5-8

Govt. May Have Massive Surveillance Program For Use In ‘National Emergency,’ 8 Million ‘Potential Suspects’

'I love my wife dearly': Barrister gunman's last message moments before he was shot dead by police

Counterterrorism goes local

If you're reading this, George Bush has reserved a bunk for you in one of his detention camps.

High-Level Officials Warn of Fake Terror

Elitist Blueprint For World Government Revealed

Secret Wiretap Warrants Double Since 9/11

Deaf Protester Tackled By Police For Not Obeying Verbal Instructions

North American Union:

Big Business, BIG Winner at SPP Summit

Sept 11-01:

Unanswered 9/11 questions

Iraq:

Marines Pass Out Gospel Verse to Iraqi Muslims, Iraqis Say

05/29/08 AFP: Families of five Britons held in Iraq speak out

The families of five British hostages being held in Iraq pleaded for their release in a BBC interview Thursday on the first anniversary of their kidnap.

05/29/08 AP: Suicide bomber kills 16 people in northwestern Iraq

An Iraqi official says 16 people have been killed and 14 wounded in a suicide bombing in a remote area in northwestern Iraq...14 of those killed in Thursday's blast were recruits and the other two were policemen.

05/29/08 AFP: Turkish warplanes bomb Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq

Turkish warplanes bombed 16 Kurdish rebel targets in neighbouring northern Iraq Thursday, the latest in a series of air strikes targeting the region since December, the Turkish army said.

05/29/08 LATimes: Bombs and scrap metal

It seems that after five years, car bombs in Baghdad have become an opportunity for scavengers. On Monday, I saw five men gathered around the remnants of charred car that exploded over the weekend in western Baghdad's Qadisiya district.

05/29/08 MCT: Iraqis claim Marines are pushing Christianity in Fallujah

Now residents of the city are abuzz that some Americans whom they consider occupiers are also acting as Christian missionaries. Residents said some Marines at the western entrance to their city have been passing out the coins for two days...

05/29/08 KUNA: US to withdraw 4,000 soldiers from Iraq

The US Army said Thursday it will withdraw 4,000 of its soldiers from Iraq next June as a result to the improvement of the country's security situation. A US Army press release said soldiers from the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat team...

05/29/08 AFP: Iraqi PM calls for debt waiver at global conference

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Thursday appealed for his country's debts to be cancelled and the end of sanctions dating back to Saddam Hussein's regime, at a global conference in Sweden.

Senate Approves Billions for Veterans, Unemployed

Powerful Iraqi Cleric Flirting With Shiite Militant Message

Senate Resurrects War Funding Bill

05/22/08 Xinhua: Body of journalist found in Diyala province

In Diyala province, the body of Haidar al-Husseini who works for the local al-Sharq newspaper, was found on Wednesday in the town of Buhruz south of the provincial capital of Baquba, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

05/22/08 Reuters: U.S. helicopter strike kills 8 Iraqi civilians

A U.S. military helicopter air strike on Wednesday night killed eight civilians, including two children and an elderly man, north of Baghdad, police officials said on Thursday.

05/22/08 AP: Iraqi cameraman killed in clashes in eastern Baghdad

An Iraqi satellite TV channel says its cameraman has been killed during clashes in eastern Baghdad. Tariq Maher, a correspondent for the Afaq TV station, says Wissam Ali Auda was killed Wednesday by sniper fire in the Obeidi area.

05/22/08 MCT: Wars can wound soldiers' sex lives, too

Wounds and mental disabilities of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan can mess up their sex lives, too, health experts said Wednesday. But those wounds often go untreated because the topic is taboo and has gone unstudied.

05/22/08 MCT: VA opposes much of bill to improve care for women veterans

Department of Veterans Affairs officials said Wednesday that they oppose much of a Senate bill to improve care for female veterans even as the number of women seeking VA medical services is expected to double within the next five years.

Canada to deport first US deserter of Iraq war

05/21/08 AP: Police say at least 11 killed by gunfire in Baghdad

At least 11 people were killed Wednesday when gunfire broke out after a roadside bombing in a Shiite militia stronghold in eastern Baghdad near Sadr City, scene of a major military clampdown, Iraqi police said.

05/21/08 honoluluadvertiser: Soldier granted clemency in Iraq civilian death case

The Army yesterday reduced the charge and punishment against a Schofield Barracks soldier who had been found guilty of aggravated assault in connection with the killing of an Iraqi civilian last June

US regrets need to detain Iraqi children-envoy

Veterans Attest to PTSD Neglect by VA

05/16/08 KUNA: MNF, Iraqi troops capture 14 suspects in Mosul

Iraqi and Multi-National Force (MNF) troops arrested 14 suspected terrorists during operations in Mosul, said a military source Friday.

05/16/08 AFP: US warns China over weapon links in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan

The United States has warned Beijing over reported use of Chinese weapons by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the Asian giant's continued sale of arms to Iran, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said.

05/16/08 MCT: Money for Fort Benning hospital in Iraq supplemental bill

Tucked into the hotly debated Iraq war emergency spending bill is roughly $1 billion for four of the nation's aging military health facilities -- places that some Democratic House leaders have said do not meet current standards for medical care...

05/16/08 MCT: 3 doctors were kidnapped by gunmen between Tikrit and Baiji

3 prominent doctors were kidnapped by gunmen on the way between Tikrit and Baiji, close to al-Hamra village, 20 km to the north of Tikrit. They are Dr. Sabbar Mahrooz Abdullah, administrator of Tikrit Teaching Hospital...

05/16/08 AP: Gunfire hits Iranian convoy in Baghdad

An Iranian Embassy convoy came under fire in Baghdad, wounding four people, including three Iranians and an Iraqi, an embassy spokesman said Friday.

05/16/08 AFP: Iraq offers cash for weapons in crackdown against Qaeda

Iraqi security forces on Friday offered an amnesty and cash in exchange for heavy weapons in the main northern city of Mosul where a crackdown against Al-Qaeda operatives entered its third day.

War Funding "Victory," Bizarro-Style

05/14/08 AFP: US troops search in Baghdad's Sadr City

US troops went from house to house on Wednesday in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold looking for bombs and arms ahead of an Iraqi army deployment in line with a new truce, witnesses and officials said.

05/14/08 Reuters: 5 people killed, 22 wounded in clashes in Sadr City

Five people were killed and 22 wounded in clashes between Shi'ite gunmen and security forces overnight in the eastern Baghdad slum of Sadr City, the two main hospitals there said. They gave no further details.

05/14/08 Reuters: 2 people killed in claches in Baghdad's Shula district

Two people were killed and six wounded overnight in clashes between U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and Shi'ite militiamen in the western Shula district of Baghdad, police said.

05/14/08 Reuetsr: Roadside bomb kills 3, wounds 7

Three people were killed and seven wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near the convoy of Abdul-Kareem al- Samarrai, a prominent figure in the Iraqi Islamic Party, one of three Sunni Arab factions forming the Iraqi Accordance Front...

05/14/08 Reuters: Car bomb kills 2 people , wounds 15 in western Baghdad

A car bomb exploded in western Baghdad near the headquarters of the Iraqi Islamic Party, killing two people and wounding 15, police said.

05/14/08 Reuters: Police kill 4 insurgents near Samarra

Police said they killed four insurgents who were trying to plant a bomb on the road near the city of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad.

05/14/08 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 4 Iraqi soldiers in central Baghdad

A civilian and four Iraqi soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol close to the al-Shaab national stadium in central Baghdad, police said.

05/14/08 IPS: Iraq’s Baquba running out of water in rising heat

Water supply is drying out in what was once the agriculturally rich Diyala province north of Baghdad. Baquba, the capital city of Diyala, is now running out of water both for drinking and for irrigation.

05/14/08 AP: Iraqi PM visits Mosul to review anti-Qaida campaign

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has arrived in the northern city of Mosul to check on his army's campaign against al-Qaida in its last remaining major stronghold.

05/14/08 Reuters: Baghdad fighting kills 7, but city calmer

Clashes broke out between security forces and Shi'ite gunmen in Baghdad overnight and on Wednesday, police said, killing seven people and putting more strain on a deal to end nearly two months of fighting.

05/12/08 Reuters: U.S. troops repel attacks in Baghdad slum

U.S. forces killed three gunmen who attacked their patrols in the Baghdad stronghold of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the military said on Monday.

05/12/08 AP: Iraqi officials say 2 killed, 25 wounded in clashes in Sadr City

raqi health officials say overnight clashes in Sadr City have killed two people and wounded 25, including five children. They say the violence erupted in Sadr City around midnight Sunday. They spoke on condition of anonymity...

05/12/08 Reuters: 3 bodies found in Baghdad, 2 found near Kirkuk on Sunday

Three bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said...Two bodies were found with gunshot wounds and signs of torture just north of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

Sadr City Residents Fear a Cease-Fire Means More Violence

Iraqi Military Orders Sadr City Residents to Evacuate

05/07/08 CSM: As Baghdad grapples with Sadr City, Kurdistan builds 'Dream City'

The Kurdistan Regional Government is briskly pursuing oil and gas contracts and economic development, a drive that is chafing Iraq's central government in Baghdad.

05/07/08 fpif: The "Surge" of Iraqi Prisoners

Amid all the talk about the U.S. military "surge" in Iraq, little has been said about the accompanying "surge" of Iraqi prisoners, whose numbers rose to nearly 51,000 at the end of 2007. Four years after the Abu Ghraib scandal, occupation forces...

05/07/08 Reuters: Iraq urges Iran and U.S. to talk

Iraq's foreign minister urged Iran and the United States on Wednesday to stop trading accusations and sit down for a fourth round of talks to seek solutions to Iraq's security woes.

05/07/08 AP: Iraq war vet charged in shooting death of fellow airman

A decorated Iraq war veteran has been charged in the shooting death of a fellow airman. Jonathon Higgins, 22, appeared in court Tuesday on a charge of negligent homicide for the death of 20-year-old John Howry. The pair served in...

05/07/08 AP: Former Soldier Accused Of Stealing Weapons In Iraq

A former Vermont National Guard soldier has admitted stealing weapons while in Iraq, mailing them home and trying to sell them. Forty-two-year-old Joseph Downing...was accused of stealing two high-explosive rocket-propelled grenades...

05/07/08 CSM: A soldier's quest to save Iraqi, Afghan interpreters

Army Lt. Jason Faler stood in the Baghdad airport at 3 a.m. trying to absorb his sister's words over Iraq's scratchy cellphone network. His wife was in labor thousands of miles away in New Jersey, and now, his sister said, the baby was in distress.

05/07/08 IRIN: Kurdistan bracing for possible cholera outbreak

The Iraqi authorities in the self-ruled northern region of Kurdistan are gearing up to face a possible cholera outbreak which last year affected nearly 4,200 people, and caused the deaths of 24 nationwide, a local official said on 6 May.

05/07/08 MCT: Author examines the life of female Marines in her new book

Gunnery Sgt. Rosie Noel knew that she had been injured, but the piece of shrapnel that tore into her face had cut the nerves in her cheek, so she didn't realize she was bleeding until she felt blood trickling down her neck...

05/07/08 AP: Civilians flee battle-torn Sadr City

A rocket slammed into Baghdad's city hall and another hit a downtown park Tuesday as more frightened civilians fled a Shiite militia stronghold where U.S.-led forces are locked in fierce street battles.

05/07/08 dpa: Four Iraqi soldiers killed in clashes in northern Iraq

Four Iraqi army soldiers were killed in clashes with insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a security source said Wednesday.

05/07/08 Reuters: Curfew imposed in al-Hay

Police imposed a curfew on the town of al-Hay, 200 km (120 miles) south of Baghdad, after clashes with militiamen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a raid on Sadr's office there, police said. Two people were wounded.

05/07/08 Reuters: Gunmen kill Iraqi officer south of Baghdad

Gunmen shot dead an army officer as he left his house in al-Numaniya town, 120 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

05/07/08 Reuters: Katyusha rocket wounds 5 people in central Baghdad

Five people were wounded on Tuesday when a Katyusha rocket landed near the Sarafiya Bridge in central Baghdad, police said.

05/07/08 Reuters: Threee bodies found in Baghdad

Three bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

05/07/08 Reuters: Mortar rounds wound 10 in Baghdad

Three mortar rounds wounded 10 people on Tuesday when they landed on a residential area in the Jaifer area of Baghdad, police said.

05/07/08 Reuters: Gunmen kill teacher in Yusufiya

Gunmen shot dead a teacher as he left his school on Tuesday afternoon in Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

05/07/08 Reuters: Iraqi special forces detain seven suspects

Iraqi special forces detained seven people suspected of mounting attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

05/07/08 Reuters: Mid-level 'al Qaeda' leader captured

The U.S. military said it captured a mid-level al Qaeda leader and detained another six suspects in Kirkuk province, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, on Monday.

05/07/08 AP: US-Iran security talks postponed, Iraqi FM says

Iraq's foreign minister on Wednesday said security talks between Iran and the United states have been indefinitely postponed due to an "exchange of accusations" between the sides.

05/07/08 LATimes: Iraqi militia commanders harden stance toward U.S.

- It was sunset, and a pair of Iraqi soldiers were sitting in a roofless house by the Iranian border, awaiting orders. Suddenly, Abu Baqr recalls, his friend let out a gasp and fell silent, a sniper's bullet in his forehead...

05/07/08 BBC: Unicef warns of Iraqis 'at risk'

It is increasingly hard for Iraqi aid workers to help tens of thousands of people caught up in fighting in Baghdad, according to Unicef. The Sadr City area of the capital has seen the worst clashes between government forces and Shia militia.

05/07/08 AFP: Iran protests to Iraq over disputed Gulf islands

Iran has protested to Iraq over reports that Baghdad had backed the United Arab Emirates' claim to three islands in the Gulf, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

05/06/08 MCT: 2 soldiers' deaths in Iraq raise doubts about MRAP vehicle

The deaths of two U.S. soldiers in western Baghdad last week have sparked concerns that Iraqi insurgents have developed a new weapon capable of striking what the U.S. military considers its most explosive-resistant vehicle.

05/06/08 AP: Green Berets stretched by two-front war

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are making such heavy use of the nation's Green Berets and other elite warriors that they cannot fulfill their roles in other parts of the world, the military's top commando told The Associated Press.

05/06/08 Reuters: Four bodies found in Baghdad on Monday

Four bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad on Monday, police said.

05/06/08 Reuters: Gunmen storm house in eastern Mosul

Gunmen stormed a house in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Monday, killing one person, police said.

05/06/08 Reuters: U.S. forces kill two militants

U.S. forces killed two militants and discovered two weapons caches in Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said

05/06/08 Reuters: Iraqi security forces kill 10 militants, arrested 131

Iraqi security forces killed 10 militants, arrested 131 others and seized a quantity of weapons during two days of operations in Shula district, northwestern Baghdad, an Iraqi security force spokesman said.

05/06/08 Baghdad's iceman cometh amid the heat of battle

When oppressive summer settles on Baghdad the people of Sadr City look out for Naim Jaber. And despite the heat of battle his truck arrives every morning, laden with 35-kilo (77-pound) blocks of ice that can make life in the violence-ravaged furnace...

05/06/08 tuscaloosanews: Tuscaloosa native injured in Iraq blast

U.S. Army Spec. Byron Clay Henson, a Tuscaloosa native, sustained a head injury April 30 when his convoy was attacked by an roadside blast. Henson, 21, now is recovering at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

05/06/08 AP: US military says 3,500 troops set to leave Iraq

The U.S. military says 3,500 soldiers sent to Iraq last summer as part of the so-called surge will soon be leaving. A military statement released late Monday says the soldiers will redeploy to the U.S. in the coming weeks.

Democrats Set to Defy Bush on War Bill

Blackwater Shooting Highlights a US, Iraq Culture Clash

Iraq Backs Off Allegations That Iran Is Behind Violence

05/01/08 AP: Senate panel votes to block money for Iraq reconstruction

A Senate panel has agreed to block U.S. funding for Iraq reconstruction projects worth more than $2 million and to try to force Baghdad to cover the costs of training and equipping the country's security forces.

05/01/08 AFP: Petraeus backs Iraqi government talks with Sadr

General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in Iraq, on Thursday reaffirmed his concern about Iran's role in unrest in Iraq after a meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

05/01/08 earthtimes: Iraqi prisons have fewer than 30 Saudi detainees

Fewer than 30 Saudi detainees remain in Iraqi prisons, the general in charge of Iraq's Detainee Operations, Douglas M. Stone, was quoted as saying Thursday. Stone told the Saudi al-Watan newspaper that US forces had already handed...

05/01/08 AFP: Iraqi MPs, Sadr meet in Iran in bid to end clashes

A group of Iraqi Shiite MPs is in Iran for talks with radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in a bid to end clashes between his fighters and troops that have killed hundreds of people, a Sadr aide said Thursday.

05/01/08 CNN: Vets say they feel misled about GI benefits

Cheated. Baited and switched. That's how veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan say they feel about military recruiters who sold them on how the GI Bill would benefit them.

05/01/08 hometownlife: Fundraiser for blinded Novi soldier helps furnish home

When Pfc. Casimir "Cas" Werda lost his vision last year as a result of pieces of shrapnel from an incendiary explosive device in Iraq, he didn't let it slow him down.

05/01/08 AP: 2-Year-Old Boy Killed in Iraq Battle

Dozens of fighters ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold Tuesday, firing rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun bursts as the American push into Sadr City increasingly faces pockets of close urban combat.

05/01/08 VOA: Car Bomb Kills 9 Iraqis in Baghdad

Iraqi police say a car bomb has exploded in a Baghdad commercial district, killing nine people and wounding about 20 others. Police say the bomb went off Thursday morning in eastern Baghdad as a U.S. military patrol passed through the area.

Iraq Civilians Reportedly Among Sadr City Dead

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