Baghdad Province

US to drop charges against one Blackwater guard

U.S. Justice Department prosecutors asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the charges against one of five Blackwater security guards accused of killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad. In a brief...

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Surveillance State, USA: How America’s Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties

How America’s Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties CBS | Nov 12, 2009 by Alfred W. McCoy In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military...

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Nine arrested during combined U.S., IA sweep (Baghdad)

Multi-National Corps – IraqPublic Affairs Office, Camp VictoryAPO AE 09342MNDB_PAO_CIC@MND-B.ARMY.MIL (mailto:MNDB_PAO_CIC@MND-B.ARMY.MIL) OR BY PHONE AT: COMMERCIAL (703) 621-0781 OR IRAQNA 011-964-770-252-3225. FOR THIS PRESS...

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Judges Get First-Hand Look at Forensics Evidence Lab (Baghdad)

Multi-National Security Transition Command – IraqPublic Affairs Office, Phoenix BaseAPO AE 09348PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASERelease No. 091121-01Nov. 21, 2009Contact: PAO@IRAQ.CENTCOM.MIL (mailto:PAO@IRAQ.CENTCOM.MIL) OR...

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Leaving Iraq would bring 53bn dlrs reconstruction back to square one, fears America

Baghdad, Nov. 21 (ANI): The United States has spent 53 billion dollars in relief and reconstruction work in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, but American officials fear that Iraq will not be able to maintain the facilities once...

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UN to dispatch assessment mission to Iraq for counter terrorism

The UN late Friday promised a visiting Iraqi delegation that it would dispatch to Baghdad an assessment mission to provide the country with technical support and to study its infrastructure of counter-terrorism, the Iraqi...

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Army general defends rules for detainees

By Abbie Boudreau and Scott Zamost, CNN Special Investigations Unit Four Iraqi detainees were killed by three decorated Army sergeants at a Baghdad canal Frustration over detainee policy may have led to 2007 slayings, CNN...

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Blind students sing upon school supplies' arrival

Kids in school rarely smile so much, or sing so loudly. But at Baghdad's Al-Noor School for the Blind, there was reason to celebrate, as much-needed Braille learning materials from the U.S. had finally arrived.

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U.S. Troops and the Wounds of War in Baghdad

The 2nd Battalion of the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division—the 2-16, as it's called—spent 15 months in 2007 and 2008 in one of the toughest areas of Baghdad at the height of the surge. Excerpts: You were in a Shiite...

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Getting Big Things Done In Government

I found: If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Governmentto be a book I couldn’t put down. This great read is about results and how to get them. And, as the title implies, it focuses on big results in...

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