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John Rentoul: The really disturbing question about Iraq
Basra :: Iraq | about 19 hours ago
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Certainly not in the intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. All four previous Iraq inquiries have focused on this subject. What the Chilcot inquiry ought to be about, instead, is the weakness of planning for, and the poor handling...
Tags: post-Saddam Iraq, Sir John, John Rentoul, Saddam Hussein, Blair, British, Iraq, Basra, Operation Red Dawn, Mahdi Army, Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations timeline, Politics, Iraqi insurgency, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, War Conflict
Iraqi PM: election dispute poses risks to security
Basra :: Iraq | 3 days ago
Credibility its a good thing our troops have another war to go to. there isnt much to come home to here but unemployment and misery...Examiner Reader says: Its been two weeks since Obama has taken office...I smell a payoff... motown67 says: There will be some...
Tags: Examiner Reader, Iraqi Islamic Party, Iraq, Basra, Iraqi National List, Politics, Muslim Brotherhood, Iraqi Accord Front, Elections in Iraq
Bloom Properties Looks To Build Iraq City
Basra :: Iraq | 5 days ago
Credibility Bloom Properties, a developer based in Abu Dhabi, is in talks with the government of Iraq to build a multibillion-dollar property development in Karbala. Karbala is one of the holiest cities for Shiite Muslims and it drew 2 million pilgrims to the Imam...
Tags: Iraq, UAE, Dunia Frontier Consultants, Bloom Properties, property developers, Karbala, Basra, Western Asia, Politics of Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, Fertile Crescent, Arab League member states, Persian Gulf states, Business Finance
Does this picture show British soldiers broke Geneva Conventions?
Basra :: Iraq | 5 days ago
Credibility Lawyers for the men say the photograph, held by the Army since May 2004 but only disclosed this year, supports evidence of the routine abuse of Iraqi prisoners. The covering of a prisoner's face and rear handcuffing on the ground is a breach of Common...
Tags: British Army, degrading treatment, British Field Army, Human Rights, Iraqi, Iraq, Basra, Criminal law, Morality, Torture, Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, Human rights abuses, Violence, Crimes against humanity, War Conflict
Officials: 4 dead in attacks around Iraq
Basra :: Iraq | 7 days ago
Credibility its a good thing our troops have another war to go to. there isnt much to come home to here but unemployment and misery...Examiner Reader says: Its been two weeks since Obama has taken office...I smell a payoff... motown67 says: There will be some...
Tags: Iraqi Islamic Party, examiner reader, Iraq, Basra, Iraqi Accord Front, Elections in Iraq, Muslim Brotherhood, Iraqi National List, Politics
Soldier guilty of abusing subordinates in Iraq
Basra :: Iraq | 8 days ago
Credibility Jarrett Taylor, 23, of Edmond, Oklahoma, was convicted at a special court martial at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, that ended on Friday, the military said. He was found guilty of making false official statements and cruelty and maltreatment of subordinates. The...
Tags: Jarrett Taylor, Kevin Olson, Keiffer P. Wilhelm, court martial, Iraq, Basra, War Conflict, Platoon, films, Law Crime
Iraqis demonstrate to slam election law veto
Basra :: Iraq | 9 days ago
Credibility The demonstrators have called on Sunni Arab vice president Tariq al-Hashemi to reverse the veto against a key election legislation voted by a majority of the Iraqi parliament. The protestors also denounced the return of former Baathists in the upcoming...
Tags: Iraqi, Iraq, Basra, Government of Iraq from, U.S.￢ﾀﾓIraq Status of Forces Agreement, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Occupation of Iraq, Tariq Al-Hashimi, Politics, Iraqi insurgency, Ali al-Sistani, Hashemi
Woman awarded $3M in assault claim against KBR
Basra :: Iraq | 10 days ago
Credibility R An arbitrator has awarded a woman nearly $3 million to settle her claims that she was raped in Iraq by a State Department employee in 2005 while working for a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary. An arbitrator has awarded a woman nearly $3 million to...
Tags: Tracy Barker, Halliburton Co., Iraq, Basra
Baha Mousa Inquiry Hears Corporal Accuse Officer of Abusing Iraqi Detainees
Basra :: Iraq | 10 days ago
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Last minutes of Iraqi detainee Baha Musa punched and kicked by troops
Basra :: Iraq | 10 days ago
Credibility Baha Musa, who was arrested by soldiers from the 1st Battalion the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment in 2003 during an arms search at the hotel where he worked, had collapsed and his breathing had stopped. During his detention he had been forced to wear two...
Tags: Baha Musa, Mr Musa, Iraqi, Steven Winstanley, Iraq, Basra, Baha Mousa, Islamic history, Year of birth missing, Musa
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