Listen to what the armed forces have to say about Iraq.
By Buzz Patterson
Operation Arrowhead Ripper, as the latest American offensive is called, has successfully swept into al Qaeda-infested Baquba, the capital of Diyala Province northeast of Baghdad, killing and capturing hundreds of terrorists. The battles in Iraq and Afghanistan time and time again have resulted [...]

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By O. Winter and E. Glass* 
 
Numerous cartoons recently published in the Arab press dealt with the Hamas takeover of Gaza.
Some of the cartoons condemned the brutal murders perpetrated by Hamas, implied that they have led the movement, as well as the Palestinian cause, to a dead end, and presented the fighting among the Palestinians [...]

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From correspondents in Baghdad
NATO is considering a request to supply Iraq with 70 Russian-made T72 tanks, an official said on Friday, while Iraqi state television said an offer for 120 T72 tanks was already on the table.
A public information officer for the NATO training and equipment mission in Iraq said no decision had yet been [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 29 (UPI) — Appeals from political leaders and the Iraqi government have convinced rebel Shiite Cleric Moqtada Sadr to postpone a planned march to Samarra.
A source close to the cleric told the KUNA, Friday that the event scheduled for next week was put on the back burner partly because of the government’s inability [...]

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BAGHDAD, June 29 (Reuters) - A number of mortar bombs struck the Green Zone in Baghdad on Friday and Reuters reporters saw smoke rising from the vicinity of the U.S. embassy.
There was no immediate reports of casualties from the attack, an almost daily occurrence against the heavily fortified compound which is also home to key [...]

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LONDON (AP) - Police thwarted an apparent terror attack Friday, discovering a parked silver Mercedes that was packed with gas containers and a large number of nails. The attack would have caused "significant injury or loss of life," police said. A British security official told The Associated Press that there were similarities between the device [...]

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IRBIL, June 29 (KUNA) — An insurgent was killed and two others detained in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul while a policeman was killed in Kirkuk, the Iraqi police said on Friday.
Clashes took place between the Iraqi police and insurgents in Mosul that left one militant dead. Two others were detained in the course [...]

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Little Effort Made to Find Deserters
There is no crack team of bounty hunters, no elite military unit whose job is to track them down. Despite a rise in desertions from the Army as the Iraq war drags on into a fifth year, the U.S. military does almost nothing to find those who flee and rarely [...]

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About 180 members of the Wisconsin National Guard’s Bravo Company, based in Plymouth, are scheduled to return home in mid-July after a yearlong tour of duty in Iraq, a military public affairs officer said Thursday.

"They got into theater, as we call it, in mid-July last year and we would normally expect their mission to be [...]

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BAGHDAD — A bomb exploded Friday under an oil pipeline south of Baghdad, spilling crude oil and sparking a huge fire, Iraqi police said.
The explosives were planted under a pipeline in the al-Mowehlah area of Haswa, a town 30 miles south of the Iraqi capital, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he [...]

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