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    • Obama visits Basra and Baghdad

      Posted by Jeff from International Herald Tribune

      Obama met with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the United States ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, the Iraqi national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, and other Iraqi officials.

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    • Bush Urges Iraqis To Pass Amendment Banning Gay Marriage

      Posted by Jeff from Feeds.theonion

      BAGHDAD—In a private meeting with Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum, President Bush urged the Iraqi Governing Council president to amend the recently ratified Iraqi constitution to protect the sanctity of heterosexual marriage. "The Iraqi constitution, signed just a few short weeks ago, will usher in a new era of democratic freedom in Iraq," Bush said. "But there are some unlawful and unholy acts that the constitution's original drafters could not have possibly intended to protect." Bush then told al-Ulloum he must act quickly and decisively to preserve his country's most sacred tradition.

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    • Bomb Kills 22 at Baghdad Bus Station

      Posted by Jeff from Feeds.sfgate

      A car bomb killed 22 people Thursday in a bus station in western Baghdad, and police said 20 beheaded bodies had been discovered on the banks of the Tigris River southeast the capital. Government security officials raised doubts about the decapitation report.

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    • US Finds IDs of Two GIs Missing in Iraq

      Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner

      The identification cards of two American soldiers missing since an attack on their unit in May were found in an al-Qaeda safe house north of Baghdad, along with video production equipment, computers and weapons. American soldiers approaching the building were wounded before air support could arrive.

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    • Old Problems Plague New Security Plan for Iraq

      Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner

      Three months after additional US troops began pouring into Baghdad in the most recent effort to stanch violence in Iraq's capital, military observers are fretting that the same problems that torpedoed last summer's Baghdad security plan are cropping up again.

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