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Huge Series Of Blasts Kill At Least 95 In Baghdad (www.talkingpointsmemo.com)

Huge bombings near Iraq's foreign and finance ministries killed 95 and wounded over 500 today.

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Iraq May Hold Vote On U.S. Withdrawal (www.washingtonpost.com)

U.S. troops could be forced by Iraqi voters to withdraw a year ahead of schedule under a referendum the Iraqi government backed Monday.

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U.S. 'Concerned' By Iraqi Raid Of Iranian Camp (www.washingtonpost.com)

At least eight Iranians have been killed and 400 wounded since Tuesday, when hundreds of Iraqi police and soldiers in riot gear plowed into Camp Ashraf. Camp residents described the day's events as a... More

Tags: iraq,iran,iraqi security forces,violence,casualties,mek

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Blair To Testify in Public in Iraq War Probe (rawstory.com)

A British investigatory committee examining pre-war failures plans to call the country's former head of state, former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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Top Military Adviser On Iraq: 'Declare Victory And Go Home' (www.nytimes.com)

Col. Timothy R. Reese, a senior American military adviser in Baghdad, has concluded in an unusually blunt memo that it is time “for the U.S. to declare victory and go home.”

Tags: iraq,withdrawal,strategy,us military

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Gates Says Iraq Troop Withdrawal Could Be Accelerated (www.nytimes.com)

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said on Wednesday that as many as 5,000 United States troops could come home from Iraq earlier than the Pentagon had planned.

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Gates in Iraq: Security Has Improved 'Amazingly' (news.bbc.co.uk)

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said on a visit to Iraq that its security situation has improved "amazingly" in the past three years.

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Iraqi Forces Raid Camp of Iranian Exile Group MEK (www.cbsnews.com)

Four people were killed by the Iraqi police and scores more injured in a raid on Camp Ashraf, headquarters of the Iranian exile group MEK.

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'Coalition of the Willing' Ends in Two Days (www.nytimes.com)

Two days from now, there will no longer be any other foreign nations with troops in Iraq — no "multi" in the Multi-National Force. The United States will become the last of the "coalition of the... More

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IG Report: Big Cuts Needed at Huge Baghdad Embassy Built by Bush (www.mcclatchydc.com)

"There is a clear consensus from the top to the bottom of the embassy: The time has come for a significant rightsizing," says the report Wednesday by the department's inspector general.

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