washingtonindependent.com - 11/7/2008
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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 scrapping the document entirely and securing another ...
longwarjournal.org - 11/7/2008
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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
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 ...
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Iraq announces plan to expand the Air Force
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Obama already affecting Iraq policy
Political Animal —
... respect for the schedule of troop withdrawal by Dec. 31, 2011," said Hadi al-Ameri, a powerful member of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, a major Shiite party. "If Republicans were still there, there would be no respect for this timetable. This is a positive step to have the same theory about the timetable as Mr. Obama." Jabeer Habeeb, an independent Shiite lawmaker and a political scientist at Baghdad University, put it simply: "Obama's election shifts Iraq into a new position." Spencer Ackerman added : [T]he agreement really does guarantee U.S. troop withdrawal by 2011 ...
Imagine
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... Imagine ” . . . Obama won’t be able to enter office with the Iraq problem solved. But it will be well on its way to being solved.“ ...
MIDDAY ROUNDUP
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... . Because Obama and Iraqis see eye-to-eye over a U.S. presence there, Obama will have the credibility that Republicans lack to talk to Iraqis about a political compact between the country's various factions, writes the Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman . It's no surprise that talks are moving now that the United States no longer has a leader with "neo-imperial fantasies," writes ...
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... Spencer Ackerman has more on this. For background, understand that this deal was dead, completely, and the American forces were by the end of the year going to be in the country illegally. Plus, with ...
Blogging Obama's Administration
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... We'll continue to bring "news less travelled" and foreign affairs posts, as well as domestic politics. Offtimes, we will agree with President-Elect Obama's policies and broad style - as we do with his emphasis on negotiation and diplomacy rather than unwarranted belligerence. That's already showing fruit: Iraqi politicians are sure that Obama can help them make a transition to being the determiners of their own nation's future once again, ...
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SOFA Text?
mudvillegazette.com 11/26/2008 — Actually, McClatchy calls it an " unofficial translation from the Arabic ".
There are some bits that are more interesting than others ("Iraqi airspace control and monitoring will be transferred to the Iraqi authorities immediately as this ...
McCain Completely Misrepresents U.S.-Iraq Basing Deal
washingtonindependent.com 10/23/2008 — My colleague Matt DeLong caught Sen. John McCain’s interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and passed along a quick discussion about the U.S.-Iraq basing deal that calls for a total withdrawal of all U.S. forces by Dec. 31, 2011. Long story…
Report: Maliki Won't Sign US Forces Deal
newshoggers.com 10/28/2008 — By Cernig
According to a senior Iraqi lawmaker, Maliki-ally Sheikh Jalal al Din al Sagheer, the deputy head of the Shiite Muslim Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, neither Maliki nor Iraq's parliament are ready to sign the status of forces ...
Iraq's prime minister won't sign U.S. troop deal
mcclatchydc.com 10/25/2008 — BAGHDAD — Fearing political division in the parliament and in his country, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki won't sign the just-completed agreement on the status of U.S. forces in Iraq, a leading lawmaker said Friday.
How comfortable is the U.S.-Iraq SOFA?
theiraqinsider.blogspot.com 11/25/2008 — Yesterday we posted a new analysis of the U.S.-Iraq status of forces agreement on the website. The takeaway, if you don't feel like reading the whole thing (it's kinda long), is that a research and advocacy organization (aka us) that has opposed ...
Iraqi Parliament: Troops out in 3 years
swamppolitics.com 11/28/2008 — by Mark Silva
That light at the end of the tunnel you see just might be the end of active U.S. military involvement in Iraq.
One way or another: President-elect Barack Obama has promised to withdraw combat forces within 16 months of taking ...
Iraq SOFA Approved
mudvillegazette.com 11/28/2008 — It's official: Barack Obama's "16 month" withdrawal from Iraq must begin no later than two years from next September. Unless conditions change, then it might be sooner or later.
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Thanksgiving in America, and in Iraq the Parliament approved ...
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