longwarjournal.org - 11/6/2008
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Iraq will purchase 516 military aircraft from the United States and France for its new Air Force, a senior Iraqi military official said this week. The planes and helicopters will provide Iraq with its first significant air combat and strike capability, and are expected to cost billions of ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 10/31/2008
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news.bbc.co.uk —
Spain's new prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
has given orders for Spanish troops in Iraq to...
be brought home in "as short a time as possible". In a televised address to the nation, he said he could not ignore what he called the will of the ...
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Spain PM orders Iraq troops home
washingtonindependent.com - 11/7/2008
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washingtonindependent.com —
Barely a week ago, the Iraqi government was
refusing to sign a status of forces agreement with...
the U.S. military, despite the agreement’s guarantee of a full-scale troop withdrawal by 2011. Prominent Iraqi dignitaries were talking about ...
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Now That Obama’s Elected, Iraq Will Sign Basing Deal
longwarjournal.org - 11/7/2008
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longwarjournal.org —
Abu Ghazwan. Image is from an Iraqi wanted
poster. Iraqi troops scored a blow against al Qaeda...
in Iraq's network during a series of operations in the Tarmiyah region. Iraqi soldiers, backed by the local Sons of Iraq and US ...
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Iraqi troops kill senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader
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Bill Roggio: Iraq announces plan to expand the Air Force
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Thursday, 06 November 2008 Iraq will purchase 516 military aircraft from the United States and France for its new Air Force. The planes and helicopters will provide Iraq with its first significant air combat and strike capability. read ...
Iraq Update from DJ Elliott.
Theo Spark —
Iraq announces plan to expand the Air Force. They will soon be bigger than the RAF. Brown's systematic distruction of out Armed Forces is a disgrace. ...
Colonizing Iraq
Commondreams.org Views —
... is unwilling to allow Iraqi officers to command American soldiers, they obviously can't make decisions about firing artillery, launching and directing U.S. Air Force planes, or sending U.S. logistical personnel into war zones. All major Iraqi missions are, then, fated to be accompanied by U.S. advisors and support personnel for an unknown period to come. The Iraqi military is not expected to get a wing of modern jet fighters (or have the trained pilots to fly them) until at least 2015 . This means that, wherever U.S. air power might be stationed, including the massive air ...
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. military will reduce the number of troops in Iraq this month as violence has dropped and Iraqi security forces have shown vast improvements, senior military officials told CNN Wednesday.
The military said it is ...
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