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Old Friday, June 16, 2006
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June 15, 2006:


1) The US military death toll in Iraq has neared 2,500, moving like a shadow behind President George W. Bush's efforts to gain momentum from last week's burst of good news from the war-torn country. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


2) President Bush, just back from Iraq, dismissed calls for a U.S. withdrawal as election-year politics and refused to give a timetable or benchmark for success that would allow troops to come home.(AP via Yahoo! News)


3) Security forces have seized al Qaeda in Iraq documents giving key information about the militant group's network and the whereabouts of its leaders, the country's national security adviser said on Thursday.(Reuters via Yahoo! News)


4) The U.S. military said Thursday the man claiming to be the new al-Qaeda in Iraq leader is Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian with ties to Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri.(USA Today)


5) Election-year politics colors debate on Iraq in the House and Senate, where both Republicans and Democrats are carefully staking out their positions on the increasingly unpopular war.(USA Today)





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