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• General Says 5 Iranians Should Stay In Custody

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: General, Says, Iranians, Should, Stay, Custody, Iraq, United States, Iran, Jalal Talabani, Raymond Odierno, Arbil, Baghdad, Tehran, The White House, The Washington Post Company, Ryan Crocker, The Pentagon, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran S Liaison Office, U S De

  Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the top commander of day-to-day operations in Iraq, said he will recommend that five Iranians captured by U.S. forces in January not be released when their case is reviewed this month, a move that could further increase tensions between Washington and Tehran.

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• Leaving for the Chinese Dream

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Leaving, For, The, Chinese, Dream, China, Moatasem Anwar, Khaled Rasheed, Adamou Salissou, Iraq, United States, Beijing, Shanghai, Niger, Arbil, Baghdad, Xiamen University, Fujian Province, Zhejiang Province, Al Sabeel General, Bala Barzam, Caribbean, Nanjing, Nour Mahamane, Sad

  YIWU, China -- For more than three years, Khaled Rasheed and his family spent the nights huddled in fear as bombs exploded near their home in Baghdad. Like generations of would-be emigrants before him, he dreamed of a better life elsewhere. But where?

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• Chasing the Chinese Dream

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Chasing, The, Chinese, Dream, China, Moatasem Anwar, Khaled Rasheed, Adamou Salissou, Iraq, United States, Beijing, Shanghai, Niger, Arbil, Baghdad, Xiamen University, Fujian Province, Zhejiang Province, Al Sabeel General, Bala Barzam, Caribbean, Nanjing, Nour Mahamane, Saddam

  YIWU, China -- For more than three years, Khaled Rasheed and his family spent the nights huddled in fear as bombs exploded near their home in Baghdad. Like generations of would-be emigrants before him, he dreamed of a better life elsewhere. But where?

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• Kurdish Guerrillas Release 8 Turks

  Published: November 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Kurdish, Guerrillas, Release, Turks, Iraq, Kurdistan Workers Party, Turkey, United States, Baghdad, U S Armed Forces, Sean Mccormack, Babil Province, The Washington Post Company, Abdul Rahman Al Chaderchi, Alex Jimenez, Arbil, Brad Leighton, Byron Fouty, George W Bush

  BAGHDAD, Nov. 4 -- Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq on Sunday freed eight Turkish soldiers captured during a cross-border ambush last month.

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• U.S. Frees 9 Iranians From Custody in Iraq

  Published: November 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Frees, Iranians, From, Custody, Iraq, Iran, U S Armed Forces, United States, Wasit Province, Baghdad, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Anbar Province, Diyala Province, Qadisiyyah, Arbil, The Washington Post Company, Ali Al Adeeb, Fallujah, Mark Mueller, Mohammad

  BAGHDAD, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. military on Friday released nine Iranian citizens, including two described as diplomats, who had been held in American custody in Iraq for as long as three years.

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• Blast Kills at Least 40 Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq

  Published: February 25, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Blast, Kills, Least, Shiite, Pilgrims, Iraq, Kurdistan Workers Party, United States, Ahmed Denize, Iskandariyah, Nechirvan Barzani, Al Mahdi Army, Iraqi Police Service, Najaf, Ahmed Ali, Arbil, Baghdad, Ellen Knickmeyer, George W Bush, Imam Hussein, Istanbul, Karbala

  BAGHDAD, Feb. 24 -- A suicide bomber killed at least 40 people Sunday in southern Iraq when he attacked a crowd of pilgrims marching to commemorate one of Shiite Islam's holiest days, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

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• Bush Officials Condoned Regional Iraqi Oil Deal

  Published: July 3, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bush, Officials, Condoned, Regional, Iraqi, Oil, Deal, Hunt Oil Company, U S Department Of State, George W Bush, Kurdistan Regional Government, Arbil, Ray Lee Hunt, Iraq, Kurdistan, Tom Casey, President S Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Baghdad, Condoleezza Rice, David

  Bush administration officials told Hunt Oil last summer that they did not object to its efforts to reach an oil deal with the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq, even while the State Department was publicly expressing concern that such contracts could undermine a national Iraqi petroleum...

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• A Baghdad Bookseller, Bound to His Country

  Published: July 12, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Baghdad, Bookseller, Bound, His, Country, Iraq, Beirut, Cairo, United States, Nabil Al Hayawi, Najah Al Hayawi, Abdul Rahman, Damascus, Imad Abdul Hamid, Abdul Rahman Al Hayawi, Ahmed Khudair, Al Azhar, Arbil, Bediyah Al Hayawi, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain

  BAGHDAD Upstairs, the blue bedroom door of Nabil al-Hayawi's only son was locked, sealing in the artifacts of his short life. Downstairs, the frail bookseller's voice quivered as he recalled the car bombing that killed his son and his brother and razed his family's bookshop on Baghdad's storied...

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• A Baghdad Bookseller, Bound to His Country

  Published: July 12, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Baghdad, Bookseller, Bound, His, Country, Iraq, Beirut, Cairo, United States, Nabil Al Hayawi, Najah Al Hayawi, Abdul Rahman, Damascus, Imad Abdul Hamid, Abdul Rahman Al Hayawi, Ahmed Khudair, Al Azhar, Arbil, Bediyah Al Hayawi, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain

  BAGHDAD Upstairs, the blue bedroom door of Nabil al-Hayawi's only son was locked, sealing in the artifacts of his short life. Downstairs, the frail bookseller's voice quivered as he recalled the car bombing that killed his son and his brother and razed his family's bookshop on Baghdad's storied...

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