iraq
Ahmad i come from iraq, or E-r@K as i like to call it.

its a nice place, i have been there a few times, dont bom it! cos it fuckes the place up and that aint good. wanna argu with me about it, come here.
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phil untapped goodness. 030204
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phil Look buddy, I won't bomb your place, but this isn't about you and me, it's about a whole bunch of assholes, and there isn't a goddamn thing I can do about it. And that's the truth. 030204
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poiuytrewq ...and oil, dont forget oil.
...and keeping the american eye off the economy
...and them being evil
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celestias_shadow it's all about oil. because americans have used up so much oil so their huge SUVs can flip over and kill them, that there's no oil left for anyone else. so *brilliant idea* let's bomb another country, get everyone in the world pissed at us, and get lots of oil so every american man, woman, and child can have their own Hummer. that's the american way, right? 030220
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cube The world asks America, "Show us what proof you have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction".
Bush replies, "Easy. We kept the receipts".
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. Saddam_City - Falluja &

Holy_city - Najaf
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. Sadr_City - Baghdad slum 040908
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10 Sep 2004 Rebels Begin to Control More Areas in Iraq

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. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/oneworld/20040910/wl_oneworld/6573937651094806675 040910
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a "point" BAGHDAD, Sep 10 (IPS) - Armed groups and foreign terrorists have established new camps in central Iraq (news - web sites) as government forces attack rebels in the north and south, 040910
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gif Insurgent control Cities:-

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Maps/Mideast/0909_Iraq_insurgents.gif
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911 Latest headlines:
· Heavy fighting in central Baghdad
AFP - 42 minutes ago
· Fighting in Central Baghdad, at Least 5 Killed
Reuters - 44 minutes ago
· Explosions Rock Baghdad Near U.S. Offices
AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

2004 911
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12 Sep 2004 Latest Developments

Nearly 60 Dead in Surge of Baghdad

(AP) - Insurgents hammered central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that killed nearly 60 people nationwide as security appeared to spiral out of control. At least 37 people were killed in Baghdad alone.

Many of them died when a U.S. helicopter fired on a disabled U.S. Bradley fighting vehicle as Iraqis swarmed around it
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14 Oct 2004 Auditors Can't Account for Iraq Spent Funds AP - 1 hour ago
Blasts at Cafe, Market Kill 10 in Iraq AP - Oct 14 3:59 PM
Martin won't commit troops to Iraq; will continue 'key role' in Afghanistan Canadian Press -
4:13 PM
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17 Oct 2004 News Results for Iraq
U.N.'s Annan: Iraq War Done Little to Halt Terrorism - Reuters via Yahoo! News - 19 minutes ago
Detainees Freed From Infamous Iraq Prison - AP via Yahoo! News - 47 minutes ago
Six American soldiers killed in Iraq, US warplanes pound Fallujah - AFP via Yahoo! News - 43 minutes ago
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17 Oct 2004 Many Iraqi Intellectuals Seek Exile

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041017/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_academics_in_peril&cid=540&ncid=1473
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Since the war ended 18 months ago, at least 28 university teachers and administrators have been killed, while 13 professors were kidnapped and released on payments of ransom,

Americans are frequently blamed for violence clearly carried out by insurgents and others on the theory that the current lawlessness has resulted only because the United_States invaded and occupied the country.
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19 Oct 2004 100 Iraqis Killed or Wounded in Attack

AP - 17 minutes ago

A mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad on Tuesday killed or wounded at least 100 Iraqis, officials said, while U.S. troops battled insurgents in a major city west of the capital ("falluja").
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25 OCT 2004 U.N. (United_Nations): 400 Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
AP -
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377 News Video Is at Center of Storm Over Iraq Explosives Los Angeles Times - 1 hour, 22 minutes ago 041030
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30 Oct 2004 Japan Says Body Found Not Iraq Hostage AP - 47 minutes ago 041030
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113 New Challenges Will Confront Bush in Iraq AP - 31 minutes ago
Iraq Gunmen Seize Second American in Week AP - 50 minutes ago
Bin Laden Accuses Bush of Iraq Quagmire AP -

November 3 2 hours, 33 minutes ago
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3 Nov 2004 Troops Accused of Not Sealing Iraq Graves AP -
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6 Nov 2004 U.S. Bombs Rain on Falluja, Rebels Attack in Samarra

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Samarra U.S. forces poised to assault Falluja bombarded the rebel stronghold on Saturday, while insurgents launched deadly attacks that killed 34 people in Samarra, another city in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland. 041106
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. Insurgents detonated four car bombs and attacked police stations in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday,
killing at least 37 people and wounding 62,
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Ramadi 20 American soldiers wounded west of Baghdad

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6403689/
7:37 a.m. ET Nov. 6, 2004

Attack in Ramadi comes as 10,000 troops ring nearby Fallujah
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Falluja Iraq's Falluja Finds Devastation After U.S. Raids

November 6 (116), 2004 53 minutes ago
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U.S. The fiercest U.S. air and artillery bombardment of Falluja in months destroyed a hospital, a medical warehouse and dozens of homes overnight, residents said on Saturday.

's Shock_and_Awe - Falluja
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8 Nov 2004 Japan says its Iraq base safe as poll shows opposition to deployment AFP -
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Japan * Live_Vote *

But a poll by the Mainichi Shimbun published Monday found 51 percent oppose keeping soldiers in Iraq past next month when their one-year mission expires, nearly double the 27 percent in favor.
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Iraq · Car Bomb North of Baghdad Kills 4 Iraqis, Wounds 19
Reuters - 19 minutes ago
· Suicide Bomber Rams U.S. Convoy in Iraq
AP - 31 minutes ago
· Iraq Oil Infrastructure Losing Billions
AP - 53 minutes ago
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. Iraq War Is Public Health Disaster - Report - Reuters via Yahoo! News (Nov 30, 2004) 041130
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somebody 11_30_2004 041130
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1201 Evidence is mounting that America's war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and perhaps well over 100,000. Yet this carnage is systematically ignored in the United States...

Iraq's civilian dead get no hearing in the United States - Daily Star -
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1203 Iraq log: 3 December 2004 041204
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. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2004/iraq_log/default.stm 041204
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1209 Sponsored Links
Is Iraq in a Civil War?
The New York Times reports on the
building conflict between factions.
www.nytimes.com
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1209 Sponsored Links
Is Iraq in a Civil War?
The New York Times reports on the
building conflict between factions.
www.nytimes.com
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. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/weekinreview/05wong.html?ex=1104987600&en=f3c35513bd4da4a3&ei=5087&excamp=GGGNiraq 041210
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1210 Results of AP-Ipsos Poll (Dec. 6-8) on Iraq

Fri Dec 10, 2:40 AM ET

How likely is it that a stable, democratic government will be established in Iraq?
(Results from AP poll in April in parentheses)

_Very likely, 9 percent (11)

_Somewhat likely, 38 percent (44)

_Not too likely, 32 percent (31)

_Not at all likely, 19 percent (13)

_Not sure, 2 percent (1)

* Live_Vote *
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1213 U.S. Military 'Obstructing' Medical Care in Iraq

Mon Dec 13 (1213), 8:17 PM ET
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. The Americans have snipers all along the road between here and Fallujah, he said. They are shooting our ambulances if they try to go to Fallujah. 041214
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1214 Eight More Bodies Found in Mosul

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Mosul U.S. troops discovered eight more bodies in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul, bringing the number of bodies found there since Nov. 10 (110) to more than 150, 041214
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Mosul U.S. troops discovered eight more bodies in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul, bringing the number of bodies found there since Nov. 10 (1110) to more than 150, 041214
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1214 Assailants Set Fire to Iraq Oil Pipeline

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. Iraqis find bodies of 14 slain men in Mosul
AFP - 5 minutes ago

The bodies of 14 men killed with a single bullet to the head were found in a cemetery in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul,
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1216 Powerful Blast Shakes Central Baghdad
Reuters - 54 minutes ago
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somebody Rebel Strikes Across Baghdad Kills Five
27 minutes ago, AP
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1217 Four men dragged from taxi and killed in northern Iraq, one decapitated
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. Three Kurds killed in troubled Iraq oil city
AFP - Fri Dec 17, 6:46 AM ET
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1220 Last Hungarian Soldiers Leave Iraq - AP via Yahoo! News
Dec 20 (1220) 2004
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somebody Yemeni Youths Seeking Martyrdom in Iraq - AP via Yahoo! News (Dec 20, 2004) 041220
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1221 Iraqi northern oil pipeline hub ablaze after attack
AFP - 1 hour, 42 minutes ago
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1221 Iraq continues to riddle foreign policy
Attack in Mosul underscores vulnerability for Bush

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6741862/

2004"s Top News Stories
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1222 Major US contractor withdraws from Iraq reconstruction effort: report
AFP - 25 minutes ago
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- WASHINGTON (AFP) - Contrack International Inc. has reportedly become the first major US contractor to pull out of the reconstruction effort in Iraq, adding that high security costs were to blame. 041222
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1223 Four US military personnel killed in Iraq as base bombing probed 041223
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1224 Iraqis' Dismay Surges as Lights Flicker and Gas Lines Grow
washingtonpost.com - Fri
Dec 24,12:00 AM ET
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1225 Gunmen Kill Professor of Medicine in Baghdad
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1229 54 Die in String of Iraq Insurgent Attacks

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somebody The string of attacks — including one in which 12 policemen's throats were slit in their stationwere the latest by the insurgency targeting Iraqis working with the American military or the U.S.-backed government ahead of the Jan. 30 national elections. 041229
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1230 US Soldiers Kill 25 Insurgents in Iraq - ABC News - 4 hours ago
At least 54 people killed in latest Iraq mayhem - Taipei Times -
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. Gas shortage fuels resentment in Iraq
USATODAY.com - 18 minutes ago
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1230 Violence Against Iraq Troops Takes Toll

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041230/480/nyet26312302026

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Yahoo! Search THE TOLL (Death_'Toll'): The U.S. military suffered at least 348 deaths in Iraq over the final four months of the year, more than in any other similar period since the invasion in March 2003.


THE ATTACKS: The number of attacks on U.S. and allied troops grew from an estimated 1,400 in September to 1,600 in October and 1,950 in November. A year earlier, attacks numbered 649 in September, 896 in October and 864 in November.
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Yahoo! Search THE TOLL (Death_'Toll'): The U.S. military suffered at least 348 deaths in Iraq over the final four months of the year, more than in any other similar period since the invasion in March 2003.


THE ATTACKS: The number of attacks on U.S. and allied troops grew from an estimated 1,400 in September to 1,600 in October and 1,950 in November. A year earlier, attacks numbered 649 in September, 896 in October and 864 in November.
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somebody Iraq Ushers in New Year with Deadly Attacks

Sat Jan 1, 1:50 PM ET
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. Al-Qaida Video Shows Police Execution
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152005 "As many as 30,000 well-trained terrorists are actively operating throughout Iraq at the behest of former regime leaders based in Syria, Iraq's intelligence chief said in Wednesday edition of a pan-Arab newspaper." 050105
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"Insurgent" "We officially call them terrorists,"

"They are between 20,000 and 30,000 armed men operating all over Iraq, mainly in the Sunni areas where they receive moral support from about 200,000 people."
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172005 Iraq extends emergency laws for elections - China Daily -
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somebody http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/07/content_406713.htm

Iraq's U.S.-backed government said on Thursday it was extending emergency powers equivalent to martial_law for a further 30 days to try to safeguard Jan. 30 elections under threat from deadly attacks by insurgents.
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Martial law OOps...

a Spice of the_Saddam_Magic
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1162005 Bush: U.S. Not Rushing to Leave Iraq

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What Bush Said "The way I would put it is, American troops will be leaving as quickly as possible, but they won't be leaving until we have completed our mission," 050116
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IOM Syria: 500,000
Jordan: 360,000
US: 313,000
UK: 250,000
Iran: 134,137
UAE: 100,000
Sweden: 91,600
Germany: 75,000
Australia: 75,000
Netherlands: 44,000
Turkey: 40,000
Canada: 36,000
Denmark: 26,000
France: 8,000
Number of Iraqis living in 14 nations where voting is to be held

International Organisation for Migration
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. http://www.iraqocv.org/php/index.php?lang=eng 050117
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1202005 Iraq Militants Promise Long War as Bush Takes Vow
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Yahoo! News Iraqi militants said on Thursday the