June 22, 2006:


1) Prime Minister John Howard is to commit Australian troops in Iraq to a new and more risky role when the Japanese military engineers they are guarding are withdrawn. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


2) The gruesome deaths of the two young American soldiers, Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and Pfc. Thomas Tucker, as well as the death of another at the sight of the ambush this past week, Spc. David Babineau, is likely a move by Al Qaeda in Iraq to herald its resiliency following the death of its leader, Abu Musab al- Zarqawi. (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)


3) US-led coalition forces in Iraq have found some 500 chemical weapons since the March 2003 invasion, Republican lawmakers said, citing an intelligence report. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


4) Iraq's trade minister threatened on Thursday to reconsider trade deals with wheat supplier Australia after Australian troops killed one of his bodyguards in a shooting incident in the capital. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)


5) The governor of Iraq's southern province of Muthanna said foreign troops began their withdrawal on Thursday, days after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced a handover of security in the region. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)


6) Ahead of votes on U.S. troop presence in Iraq, Republicans argued Thursday that the United States must stay put to help the fledgling Iraqi government while Democrats demanded the Bush administration make clear that American forces won't be in Iraq forever. (AP via Yahoo! News)


7) President Bush on Thursday acknowledged the world's impatience with Iraq's turbulent transition to democracy, but said Hungary's decades-long struggle to break the grip of Soviet oppression underscores the power of freedom. (AP via Yahoo! News)





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