guardian.co.uk - 11/25/2008
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US intelligence officials kept a file on former prime minister Tony Blair 's "private life", a former US navy communications operator claimed today. David Murfee Faulk, who worked at a listening post in Fort Gordon, Georgia, told ABCNews.com he saw the file on Blair in 2006. But he refused to ...
mcclatchydc.com - 11/20/2008
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WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed
the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from...
Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for ...
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Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq
mcclatchydc.com - 11/26/2008
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Iraqi legal jurisdiction over U.S. troops or military
contractors who kill Iraqis on operations. The agreement calls...
for Iraq to prosecute U.S. troops according to court procedures that have yet to be worked out. Those negotiations, administration ...
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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/25/2008 | U.S. staying ...
longwarjournal.org - 11/19/2008
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An unmanned US Predator aircraft attacked a Taliban
and al Qaeda safehouse in the Bannu Frontier Region...
east of North Waziristan early today, according to reports from the region. At least five people were killed in the early morning airstrike, ...
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US Predator strikes al Qaeda & Taliban outside of ...
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20 Killed in Baghdad Bombings; Al-Maliki New Strong Man?
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... It is being alleged that the US kept a file on the private life of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, a serious violation of an informal agreement of the British and US governments not to spy on one another. The US was allegedly also listening in to the pillow talk of Iraqi interim president Ghasi al-Yawar. ...
Report: US spied on Tony Blair
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... times ten. Did Blair really think that Bush - the man who wanted to spy on everyone including his own citizens - would really abide by an agreement with the UK and not spy on Blair himself? That said, Blair's own policies of spying on everyone would make Bush blush so it was a real match made in heaven with those two. ...
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