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Iraq’s deputy prime minister for energy affairs Hussein al-Shahristani has warned Israel that it would “bear the consequences” for a violation of Iraqi airspace during any potential raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The comment from al-Shahristani is the first time a senior Iraqi official has publicly warned Israel against entering its airspace — the 
Iraqi officials thwart an alleged plot to manufacture chemical weapons to smuggle to Europe and North America. Five suspects in jumpsuits are presented at a news conference Authorities in Iraq say they have uncovered an al Qaeda cell working to produce poison gas at two locations in Baghdad for future attacks both home and abroad. 
A businessman sold fake bomb detectors to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Georgia and Niger, the Old Bailey has been told. James McCormick’s Advanced Detection Equipment was based on a golf ball finder device and marketed to military, governments and police, the jury heard. Prosecutors said fake detectors sold for up to $40,000 (£27,000) had no Despite the official US military withdrawal last December, American special forces “recently” returned to Iraq on a counter-terrorism mission, according to an American general in charge of weapons sales there. The mission was reported by the New York Times, in the fifteenth paragraph of a story [1] about deepening sectarian divides. The irony 
Iran has been using civilian aircraft to fly military personnel and large quantities of weapons across Iraqi airspace to Syria to aid President Bashar al-Assad in his attempt to crush an 18-month uprising against his government, according to a Western intelligence report seen by Reuters. Earlier this month, U.S. officials said they were questioning With the removal of all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year looking more likely, absent an agreement to extend legal immunity, a large contingent of U.S. contractors will still remain facing their own legal and logistical ambiguities and challenges. The complexity of the situation is not lost on top officials at Shocking video footage which appears to show British soldiers beating an Iraqi civilian during the investigation into the murder of six of their fellow Servicemen is being examined by the Ministry of Defence. The attack allegedly left the victim badly hurt, covered in blood and with his jaw ‘literally hanging off’. It was apparently recorded American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recently-exposed US military documents. The troops operated under the command of an unnamed US major, who had been involved in the rape of an Iraqi female, showed one such document posted on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The incident took place after Never mind the dead civilians. Forget about the stolen guns. Get over the murder arrests, the fraud allegations, and the accusations of guards pumping themselves up with steroids and cocaine. Through a “joint venture,” the notorious private-security firm Blackwater has won a piece of a five-year State US plans to fortify its embassy in Iraq have raised new suspicion about the diplomatic outpost’s purpose in the politically-gridlocked country. The White House has reduced the number of its troops in Iraq to around 50,000 and said it would take all its forces out of the country by the next year. But Washington has Soldiers in Chowkay Valley, Afghanistan Three former U.S. soldiers involved in the infamous “Collateral Murder” helicopter gunship attack on Baghdad civilians in July 2007, say that attack was nothing out of the ordinary. The massacre—that killed more than a dozen Iraqis, two of them employed by Reuters—ignited a wave of international revulsion against A U.S. audit has found that the Defense Department can’t properly account for how it spent about 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil money earmarked for rebuilding the war-ravaged country. The U.S. Special Investigator for Iraq Reconstruction report released Tuesday said there was shoddy record keeping and a lack of oversight of the Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company employees and intelligence officials. The raids against suspects occurred on an almost nightly basis during So far, 5,000 men and women gave their lives while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are nearly 1,000 thousand more soldiers who are coming home with devastating injuries. Amputations, skin grafts and plastic surgeries are the painful battles these wounded warriors face on the home front. Now, science has a way to re-grow If you thought the end of American intervention in foreign wars was nearing, think again. President Obama has been replacing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with private contractors—some 250,000 are currently deployed overseas—including Blackwater (operating under another alias.) Contractors are not subject to the same guidelines as our soldiers, and thus, have not WASHINGTON – The U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of weapons valued at up to $6 billion, including 400 Stryker wheeled vehicles, military radios, training aircraft, 20 coastal patrol boats and 140 M1A1 Abrams tanks. The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which WASHINGTON– Blackwater Worldwide security guards opened machine gun fire on innocent, surrendering Iraqis and launched a grenade into a girls’ school during a gruesome Baghdad shooting last year, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against five guards. See Video Below Detailing This Case A sixth guard involved in Video of US and Iraqi Special Operations Forces conducting a combat mission inside Sadr city, Baghdad in order to capture known insurgents and terrorists. The Operation was conducted at an undisclosed date and time in support of operation Iraqi Freedom. [flashvideo filename=http://sites.google.com/site/dgvidsproject/Home/spec-ops-raid.flv /] This Article details how the US came to the conclusion that Iraq was a threat concerning weapons of mass destruction and how and why an over zealous Bush administration led the US to this extremely expensive multi-year Occupation in Iraq. To the surprise of few, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency-led survey group hunting Apparently the following article cites “secret military technology” as being the key component to the rapid decline in violence that we have seen in Iraq over the past several months. I was just wondering why we have not heard of these operational capabilities mentioned anywhere else in the mainstream media, although the mention of it |
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