Second trip to Iraq frustrating (Knoxville News Sentinel)
OAK RIDGE – Former Oak Ridge Mayor Jerry Kuhaida first left Iraq in 2003 in fear after violence there exploded and the insurgency ramped up.

Conyers Questions Iraq ‘Forgery’ (Middle East Online)
Suskind s new book cites statements indicating that the White House ordered the CIA to produce the bogus letter to retroactively justify the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, says Jason Leopold .

U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have come to an agreement to pull out US troops from Iraq by 2011 (Warsaw Business Journal)
U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed on 2011 as the date to pull out troops from Iraq with a few details remaining to be worked in creating a final accord that governs the future of military presence in Iraq.

FATA is Pakistan’s Fallujah (rediff.com)
After the US occupation of Iraq, Fallujah became the launching pad of terrorist strikes in the rest of Iraq. Only after the US ruthlessly pacified Fallujah and destroyed the terrorist launching pads there, did it start making progress in its counter-insurgency operations in the rest of the Sunni areas of Iraq. The NATO forces will continue to bleed in Afghanistan and the jihadi virus will …

Rethinking the war (Las Vegas Sun)
Fri, Aug 22, 2008 (2 a.m.) Albuquerque The Iraq war has defined American politics for most of the decade, but now, with the endless campaign entering the climactic stretch, the war is losing its clarity and importance as an election issue.

Aide: Iraq s al-Sadr may stay in Iran for years (Las Vegas Sun)
Fri, Aug 22, 2008 (9:54 a.m.) Militant Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr plans to make a series of short visits to Iraq starting within weeks but has decided to make Iran his home base for years to come, a key aide says.

Baghdad Warns MKO to Leave Iraq in 6 Months (Payvand Iran News)
Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad said that the Iraqi government has set a six-month deadline for the terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) to leave Iraq.

Shiite-led government in Iraq driving out Sunnis helping U.S. (International Herald Tribune)
The Shiite-dominated government in Iraq is driving out many leaders of Sunni citizen patrols, the groups of former insurgents who joined the U.S. payroll.

Iraq cleric Muqtada Sadr critical of draft plan on U.S. troop withdrawal (Los Angeles Times)
The Shiite Muslim cleric denounces the draft of an Iraq-U.S. accord on troops for not setting a firm date for a pullout. The debate over a deal that would chart the future of U.S. troops in Iraq has reignited the rhetoric coming from Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr, who denounced the plan Friday for not setting a firm date for American withdrawal.

US troops may quit Iraqi cities from June: US official (Space War)
by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) Aug 21, 2008 US forces could begin withdrawing from Iraqi cities as early as June under a draft agreement reached between US and Iraqi negotiators, a senior US military official said Thursday.

Iraqi mom ridicules cops over suicide bombings (CNN.com)
The woman ridicules the Iraqi police who question her about ties to suicide bombers.

Aide: Iraq’s al-Sadr may stay in Iran for years (The Charlotte Observer)
Militant Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr plans to make a series of short visits to Iraq starting within weeks but has decided to make Iran his home base for years to come, a key aide says.

Specialist deploys to Iraq (The Colony Courier-Leader)
Army Spec. Nicole Sanchez, a 1997 graduate of The Colony High School, is deploying to Iraq to support the mission of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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