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18 MAR 08
Sunnis Boycott Iraq Reconciliation Event SAVE
[Progress?] Iraq's main Sunni bloc boycotted a conference Tuesday aimed at reconciling the nation's sectarian groups, a sign of the deep schisms still facing this country. Members of the Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front said they would not participate in theTAGS
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14 MAR 08
Petraeus: Iraqi Leaders Not Making 'Sufficient Progress' SAVE
PEOPLE
Pretty sure David "pants on fire" petraeus said that the Iraqi gov't was using the surge to progress... Must be time to face congress again.TAGS
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12 MAR 08
Data on violence point to stalemate in Iraq SAVE
Newly declassified statistics on the frequency of insurgent attacks in Iraq suggest that after major security gains last fall in the wake of an American troop increase, the conflict has drifted into at least a temporary stalemate, with levels of violenceTAGS
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27 FEB 08
Iraqi Council Strikes Down Key Law SAVE
...a major setback to U.S.-backed efforts to promote national reconciliation. The ruling came despite a reported last-minute telephone call by Vice President Dick Cheney to the main holdout on the three-member panel, which has to sign off on laws passed bTAGS
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21 FEB 08
Religious hard-liners out in Pakistan SAVE
voters in turbulent North West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan, gave their support to secular parties that promised to pave the streets, create jobs and bring peace through dialogue and economic incentives to the extremists. That may conflictTAGS
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20 FEB 08
US: Bombers Didn't Have Down Syndrome SAVE
PEOPLE
The U.S. military said Wednesday that two women used as suicide bombers in attacks earlier this month had undergone psychiatric treatment but there is no indication they had Down syndrome as Iraqi and U.S. officials initially had claimed.TAGS
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For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk SAVE
PEOPLE
A female lobbyist had been turning up with McCain at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from hTAGS
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24 JAN 08
Second Baker-Hamilton waiting on Baker SAVE
Legislation pushed by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), which is now law, directs the U.S. Institute of Peace to support a second version of the commission that would send former Rep. Lee Hamilton and former Secretary of State James Baker III and two other commissTAGS
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23 JAN 08
Pentagon Weighs Top Iraq General as NATO Chief SAVE
The Pentagon is considering Gen. David H. Petraeus for the top NATO command later this year, a move that would give the general, the top American commander in Iraq, a high-level post during the next administrationTAGS