Posted on October 7th, 2008 by mideast
Source: BBC
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7656356.stm
Summary:
A deal between the Iraqi government and US a troop to keep troops in Iraq past 2008 is close to being passed. A UN mandate requiring multi-national forces in Iraq ends at the end of 2008, but the Iraqi government does not yet feel ready to take on its country without military aid [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by mideast
Iraq Withdrawal
Signe Wilkinson
10/06/08
http://cartoonbox.slate.com/hottopic/?image=19&topicid=47
What issue, event or idea does the cartoon address?
This cartoon deals with the time of withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. There is no real answer to the question to when the troops will be taken out of Iraq. There is no consensus in popular opinion or even with in the U.S. [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by mideast
Title of newspaper article: US soldier jailed for Iraq deaths
Newspaper: BBC News
Summary:
US soldier Ribordy is jailed for being part in the unlawful killing of four Iraqi prisoners in April 2007. He has to spend eight months in prison. He stood guard and watched how six other soldiers shot the prisoners and helped to through their [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by mideast
Article Name: “2 U.S. Helicopters Crash, Poland ends its Iraq Role”
Newspaper name: The New York Times
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/middleeast/05iraq.html?_r=2&ref=middleeast&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Summary:
Two American black hawk helicopters crashed in Northern Baghdad. One solider was killed and two Iraqi soldiers and three Americans were wounded. Lt. Patrick Evans said that the military didn’t think the crash was caused by enemy [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by mideast
New Site: Reuters
Date of Publication: Sunday October 5, 2008
Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4940N120081005?rpc=64
Summary:
Last month Tehran rejected a resolution from the United Nations, demanding that they suspend any activities related to enriching uranium. Israel declared that they would not wait for Tehran to produce nuclear weapons before they would respond. When France caught wind of the idea that Israel [...]
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