August 3, 2006:


1) The UK's outgoing ambassador to Baghdad warned government ministers that a civil war in Iraq is more likely than a successful transition to democracy, according to a news report. (CNN.com)


2) The Pentagon is trying to convince lawmakers that the war in Iraq is not breaking the Army and that extending the tours of some troops is necessary to quell increasing violence in the region. (AP via Yahoo! News)


3) Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso announced his country was giving Iraq a 3.5 billion yen (30 million dollars, 23.8 million euros) loan for reconstruction during a visit to Baghdad. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


August 4, 2006:


1) A German prosecutor is investigating the possibility that an American contractor who was ordered to pay the government millions of dollars for cheating on a contract in Iraq may be using his wife to funnel money through foreign bank accounts, according to a letter from the prosecutor. (Washington Post)


August 5, 2006:


1) Two dozen people died in a surge of violence in northern Iraq, including 10 at a soccer game hit by a suicide car bombing, police said Friday, while the country's spiraling sectarian and political bloodshed killed at least 17 others elsewhere. (AP via Yahoo! News)


August 6, 2006:


1) Iraq is not on track to become another Iran despite the disconcerting images last week of Iraqis burning U.S. flags and chanting "Death to America," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. (AP via Yahoo! News)


2) The United States has "no good options" left in Iraq, and the war "is not going to turn out the way that we were promised," an increasingly outspoken Republican critic of the war said Sunday. (CNN.com)


3) Four witnesses took the stand Sunday as a preliminary hearing began for four U.S. soldiers charged in connection with the rape and slaying of an Iraqi and the killing of her family in Iraq. (CNN.com)





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August 8, 2006:


1) The U.S. ambassador to Iraq accused Iran on Tuesday of having forces in Iraq and said Tehran could use the war between Hizbollah militants and Israel in Lebanon to try and further destabilize the country. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)


2) The conflict in Iraq could claim its biggest US political casualty this week, as Joseph Lieberman faces likely election defeat to a little-known challenger who attacked the senator for backing the war. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


3) 28 dead in new violence in Iraq; U.S. launching new operation to control sectarian bloodshed. (ABC News)




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angelfalls!!

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August 10, 2006:


1) A suicide bomber detonated a belt of explosives near a highly revered Shiite shrine in southern Iraq Thursday, killing at least 35 people and injuring 122, an official said. (AP via Yahoo! News)


2) Calls for Iraq's partition have increased as the Sunni-Shia death toll rises, reports analyst Roger Hardy. (BBC News)


3) Essential military kit must be sent to Iraq urgently to protect British troops who are under-equipped and overstretched despite escalating violence there, a parliamentary committee reported. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


4) Shiite Iran has called for foreign troops to leave war-torn Iraq following a deadly bombing near one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines in the southern city of Najaf. (AFP via Yahoo! News)




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angelfalls!!

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August 12, 2006:


1) America's top general said Saturday he would not rule out U.S. troop reductions in Iraq this year, even though troop levels were just increased in response to rising sectarian violence. (Fox News)


2) A Sunni insurgent group claimed responsibility for the attack in Southern Iraq, two days ago. (CBS News)


3) U.S. forces raid funeral, capture 60 men suspected of links to al-Qaida cell in Iraq. (ABC News)




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angelfalls!!

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August 13, 2006:


1) Iraq's health minister, who is aligned to a powerful Shiite militia, claimed Sunday that U.S. forces arrested seven of his personal guards in a surprise pre-dawn raid on his office. The reason for the alleged arrests was unclear. (AP via Yahoo! News)


2) Three successive explosions killed 20 people and wounded more than 70 Sunday night in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in southern Baghdad, police said. (Washington Post)


August 14, 2006:


1) Iraq could be stabilized faster if the United States increased the size of its force, but the costs would outweigh the benefits, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday. (AP via Yahoo! News)


2) Through proxies, Iran is giving weapons, bomb technology and training to Shiite Muslim militias in Iraq, U.S. military officials said Monday. (Washington Post)


3) About 300 U.S. soldiers who just weeks ago returned home to Alaska after a year in Iraq are being ordered back to try to help bolster security in Baghdad, the U.S. Army said on Monday. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)


August 15, 2006:


1) Rival visions of how to halt the carnage in Iraq have been put on show as US troops built walls around a restive suburb of Baghdad and a Shiite leader announced a plan to set up local militias. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


2) A suicide bomber killed nine people outside the headquarters of the Iraqi president's political party in northern Iraq, while fierce fighting between Shiite gunmen and Iraqi security forces left at least seven people dead in the south. (CBS News)





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3) US President George W. Bush rejects suggestions that Iraq be partitioned as a way of heading off worsening violence there, White House spokesman Tony Snow said. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


August 16, 2006:


1) Clashes between rival Shiite Muslim militias erupted Wednesday in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, when scores of gunmen stormed the governor's office after accusing his supporters of assassinating their tribal leader. Meanwhile, car bombs in Baghdad killed 25 people. (Washington Post)


August 17, 2006:


1) At least 18 people have been killed around Iraq including seven by a car bomb in Baghdad's most populous Shiite district of Sadr City. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


2) President George W. Bush rejected calls by opposition Democrats for an early withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, warning such a move could result in a "terrorist state" with vast oil reserves. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


3) About 3,500 Iraqis were killed in July in sectarian or political violence, the highest monthly tally of the war, Iraq's health minister said. (CBS News)


4) Iraq has doubled the money allocated for importing oil products in August and September to tackle the country's worst fuel shortage since Saddam Hussein's 2003 ouster, a senior Iraqi official said Thursday. (AP via Yahoo! News)


5) President Bush said critics of his Iraq policies are advocating a "cut and run" strategy that would draw terrorists to American soil. (CNN.com)




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angelfalls!!

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August 22, 2006:


1) US President George W. Bush has defiantly reaffirmed his "stay-the-course" message on Iraq, even as some of the unpopular war's strongest defenders have turned critical ahead of key November elections. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


August 23, 2006:


1) A suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday outside a police headquarters in northern Iraq, killing at least one person, while British officials said a barrage of mortars hit one of their bases in the south. (AP via Yahoo! News)


2) The number of U.S. troops in Iraq has climbed back to 138,000, driven up in part by the need to control the escalating violence in Baghdad and the decision to delay the departure of an Alaska-based Army brigade. (AFP via Yahoo! News)




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by date wise keep the dat is a excellent job.


Looking forward some more concern labnan

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@ irum:

Thanx for appreciation. Ur suggestion is really superb n I had dis in mind before but cudn't do it due to shortage of time. Anyhow, may be sum other member tries dis out



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August 24, 2006:


1) Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), once an ardent supporter of the war in Iraq, said yesterday that the Bush administration should set a time frame for withdrawing U.S. troops. He added that most of the withdrawal could take place next year. (Washington Post)


August 25, 2006:


1) Despite last month's death toll in Iraq, U.S. military leaders expressed confidence in their latest security operation, highlighted by the arrival of 12,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops in Baghdad. The top U.S. commander there says he's "very optimistic." (CBS News)


2) Raging violence has claimed at least nine victims around Iraq as Muslims from the bitterly divided Sunni and Shiite communities gathered in their respective mosques to pray for peace. (AFP via Yahoo! News)





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