By WALTER F. ROCHE JR. , Los Angeles Times
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BBC NEWSNIGHT REPORT - BROADCAST 03/22/06
This is the account of a nine year old survivor. " watched them shoot my grandfather First in the chest then in the head, then they killed my granny."
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 04:31 PM ET
By Michael Georgy |
Thursday, March 23, 2006; Page A21
Almost 1,000 members of the U.S. Foreign Service have volunteered for duty in Iraq since 2003. The Foreign Service Journal, the magazine of the American Foreign Service Association, recently surveyed active-duty Foreign Service officers (FSOs) about their tour there. Fifty-seven who replied served or currently serve in Iraq either at the embassy in Baghdad or elsewhere in the country. Here are some of their responses, as excerpted from an article in the March issue by Shawn Dorman, titled "Iraq Service and Beyond."
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
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Thursday, March 23, 2006
Readers have repeatedly asked me for a criterion by which we might fairly objectively decide if Iraq is in a Civil War (contrary to Bush's and Rumsfeld's denials). I have attempted such an argument at Salon.com. Excerpt:
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By CHRISTINE HAUSER
The New York Times March 23, 2006 Three Western peace workers who were held hostage in Iraq for four months were freed in a military operation today, two weeks after their American colleague was killed in captivity.
The three men - James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, both from Canada; and Norman Kember, 74, of Britain - had been kidnapped last November along with the American man, Tom Fox, in Baghdad. Comment: And it only took FOUR MONTHS to free them!
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By Amanda Paulson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
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AFP
Thu Mar 23, 3:18 AM ET WASHINGTON - The White House downplayed President George W. Bush's suggestion that US troops would still be in Iraq when his term ends in January 2009. [...]
"The question was ... when will there be zero or no American troops in Iraq," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. "So he was referring to that specific question." The president did not mean that a strong military presence would be remain nearly six years after the US-led invasion, but merely was addressing a theoretical question about when the troops will be withdrawn, McClellan told reporters. [...] Comment: Riiiight. So the question was when will there be no troops in Iraq, and Bush's "theoretical" answer of 2009 was supposed to mean that troops will be gone by next month - which means they will still be gone in 2009. Now do you understand? Ya know, these political leaders have such complex minds that it is often difficult for us, the little people, to understand what they are saying...
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