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Sunday, December 30, 2007 : Graffiti inTikrit praise the slain leader one year after he was hanged....
Posted: Sun, Dec 30, 2007 9:27am PST
From a Sunday, December 30, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sun, Dec 30, 2007 9:16am PST
Saturday, December 29, 2007 :In the wake of the formal conclusion on December 17 of day-to-day policing by British troops in the Iraqi city of Basra, there are signs that the US military and the Iraqi government are preparing a new operation to shatter Shiite fundamentalist influence in the city and its surrounds, including the oil industry and the country’s only port, Umm Qasr....
Posted: Sat, Dec 29, 2007 12:36pm PST
Saturday, December 29, 2007 :Over the weekend and again on Tuesday and Wednesday, Turkey carried out new air raids against Kurdish areas in northern Iraq. According to a representative of the Kurdish Peschmerga, villages in the province of Dohuk were bombed on Wednesday. There are as yet no reliable reports on the number of victims or the material damage from the attacks....
Posted: Sat, Dec 29, 2007 12:35pm PST
Friday, December 28, 2007 :On December 17, the British Army transferred formal control of Basra province to Iraqi authorities, four-and-a-half years after the US-led invasion of the country. In September, British forces had pulled back from Basra city to Basra Airport. The formal relinquishing of control followed a visit by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Basra on December 10....
Posted: Fri, Dec 28, 2007 7:50am PST
Unidentified gunmen stormed government ware houses in the southern city of Basra and stole 375 government cars and 20 tons of lead from government warehouses in central Iraq, police sources say....
Posted: Thu, Dec 27, 2007 4:10pm PST
From a Thursday, December 27, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Thu, Dec 27, 2007 7:53am PST
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 : Iraq's government backs a draft law to release thousands of suspected insurgents held by US and Iraqi forces....
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 8:41am PST
From a Wednesday, December 26, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 8:39am PST
From a Wednesday, December 26, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 8:38am PST
Tuesday, December 25, 2007 : Turkish forces have killed hundreds of Kurdish rebels and struck more than 200 targets in northern Iraq in the past 10 days, the Turkish military has said....
Posted: Tue, Dec 25, 2007 3:36pm PST
Tuesday, December 25, 2007 : Bombers target Sunnis working with the US at a checkpoint and at a funeral....
Posted: Tue, Dec 25, 2007 3:34pm PST
From a Tuesday, December 25, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Tue, Dec 25, 2007 3:33pm PST
From a Tuesday, December 25, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Tue, Dec 25, 2007 3:33pm PST
Monday, December 24, 2007 : Exclusive footage shows how Iraqi fighers are adapting their techniques....
Posted: Mon, Dec 24, 2007 11:40am PST
Monday, December 24, 2007 : The leader of Iraq's northern Kurdish region condemns Turkish air strikes, saying innocents have died....
Posted: Mon, Dec 24, 2007 11:35am PST
From a Monday, December 24, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Mon, Dec 24, 2007 8:55am PST
Monday, December 24, 2007 :The fall in US military and civilian casualties over the past several months has seen supporters of the Iraq occupation claim that the Bush administration’s boost of troop numbers to over 160,000 this year—the so-called “surge”—was a total success. Senator John McCain, for example, has made strident advocacy of sending more troops to Iraq the focus of his bid to become the Republican Party presidential candidate in 2008....
Posted: Mon, Dec 24, 2007 8:53am PST
Sunday, December 23, 2007 : Turkish warplanes again bomb Kurdish rebels across the border in Northern Iraq, according to local officials....
Posted: Sun, Dec 23, 2007 9:23am PST
From a Sunday, December 23, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sun, Dec 23, 2007 9:20am PST