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huffingtonpost.com - 11/4/2008
US-Iraq Security Pact Unlikely To Pass, Says Senior Iraqi Leader
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A senior Iraqi political leader said yesterday he is "doubtful" that a bilateral agreement authorizing U.S. forces to remain in Iraq after the end of the year would be approved by the Iraqi cabinet and parliament. Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, said most ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 10/31/2008
BBC NEWS | Europe | Spain PM orders Iraq troops home
— 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 ... (more) BBC NEWS | Europe | Spain PM orders Iraq troops home

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washingtonindependent.com - 11/7/2008
Now That Obama’s Elected, Iraq Will Sign Basing Deal
— 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 ... (more) Now That Obama’s Elected, Iraq Will Sign Basing Deal

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Iraqi troops kill senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader
longwarjournal.org - 11/7/2008
Iraqi troops kill senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader
— 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 ... (more) Iraqi troops kill senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader

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Remember 2006
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... Giving Bush all the money he ever needed to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even going as far as to strike from the vetoed version of the bill a nonbinding resolution that called for a timetable for withdrawal (one that the Iraqi Congress seems better suited to bring about than our own and in much better time than Obama's own 16 month timetable). ...

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