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Inspector general report: U.S. cannot account for $1.7 billion spent in Iraq
After invading Iraq ten years ago, the United States spent $60 billion on a vast reconstruction effort that left behind few successes and a litany of failures, an auditor’s report said Wednesday. The ambitious plan to transform the country after the fall of Saddam Hussein has been marked by half-finished…
Former British prime minister Tony Blair: ‘Ugly’ Iraq decision is ‘not nearly’ what he hoped
Former British prime minister Tony Blair admitted on Tuesday that the situation in Iraq is “not nearly” what he hoped it would be when Britain joined the US-led invasion to depose Saddam Hussein ten years ago. He said he had made the best of an “ugly” choice between taking action…
Group of Congress members warns Iraq after attack on Iranian refugees
A team of US Congressmen met with the Iranian dissident group MEK in Paris on Sunday and threatened to declare Iraq’s prime minister a sponsor of terrorism after a deadly attack on an Iranian exile camp there. The bi-partisan team, led by Dana Rohrabacher — the chair of the sub-committee…
Double-arm transplant Iraq vet says he now has ‘second chance’
On Wednesday’s edition of “CBS This Morning,” the program featured a segment on Iraq War veteran and double-arm transplant recipient Brendan Marrocco, who gave a press conference on Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to discuss his recovery and progress. “I feel like I’m getting a second chance to…
Iraq finds extra billion barrels of oil: ministry
Iraq said on Sunday it has discovered deposits of crude equivalent to one billion barrels of oil after the first exploration work by state-owned firms in almost 30 years. The deposits were found after exploration in Maysan province, in southern Iraq near the border with Iran, and could potentially make…
Iraq looks to put squeeze on pudgy police
Ihsan Ghaidan, a policeman in one of Iraq’s most volatile provinces, admits he stands little chance of promotion and notes his performance is increasingly under the microscope, for one simple reason — he is overweight, and Iraq’s security leaders are not happy. In fact, he is not just overweight —…
At least 12 killed in Iraq attacks
Attacks in Iraq including a string of bombings against Shiite places of worship and a car bomb at a Kurdish political office killed at least 12 people and wounded at least 75 on Sunday, officials said. Two car bombs and seven roadside bombs targeted two Shiite places of worship, known…
Iraqi PM warns country to be wary of ‘ethnic conflict’
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday warned of the danger of “ethnic conflict” in Iraq, after negotiations aimed at easing Arab-Kurd tensions in the country’s north stalled this week. “If conflict erupts, it would be unfortunate and painful, and it will be an ethnic conflict” that is “not in the…
UN: More than 5 million children in Iraq lack ‘basic rights’
More than five million children in Iraq are deprived of “basic rights,” the United Nations said in a statement on Tuesday, calling for urgent action. “One in every third child in Iraq, 5.3 million children, is still currently deprived of many of their fundamental rights,” it quoted Marzio Babille, the…
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The country of my birth, already so damaged, is now crippled by fear of all-out civil war. But in the people there is hope It has always been painful for me to write about Iraq and Baghdad, the land of my birth and the city of my childhood. They say…
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