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by QuestionGirl
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59 U.S. deaths thus far in September.
Turkey and Iraq have signed an agreement and pledged to stop terrorist activity in Northern Iraq, primarly the PKK.
You’re gonna love this one. Yesterday an intelligence official testified to congress that part of the reason they couldn’t find three kidnapped soldiers in Iraq last May was because they had to wait ten hours to get a wiretap. Sounds like bullshit to me. They can set a wiretap and then have 72 hours to get approval. The delay had nothing to do with the FISA law. It had to do with them deciding if it was legal or not and then trying to get ahold of the travelling Gonzo for final approval. They have the authority to wiretap and THEN get approval. And mind you, this is three days after the kidnapping.
al-Maliki rejects the U.S. Senate’s proposal of decentralization of Iraq’s government and giving more control to the country’s ethnically divided regions. Iraq expert Reidar Visser discusses this vote and whether it’s unconstitutional.
A document from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad states that the Iraqi government isn’t capable of even rudimentary enforcement of anti-corruption laws” and the prime minister’s office is openly hostile to the idea of an independent anti-corruption agency.
It’s now reported that one of the Blackwater Security guards at the scene of the September 16th shooting incident was screaming “Stop shooting….stop shooting.” An U.S.-Iraqi commission is to meet today to work out details of oversight of private security contractors in Iraq.
The U.S. carried out an airstrike early this morning in the Al-Saha neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad that killed 10 people, including women and children.
Filed: Meanwhile Back in Iraq
