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• People's Front Of Judea Dept.: Maliki to Sunnis: Drop Dead

  Published: July 27, 2007, 7:12 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, People S Front Of Judea Dept, War

  We know all of you were distracted by Fred Thompson’s dirty letters and America’s cumstain, but remember how the biggest Sunni bloc in Iraq’s government said they were going to quit...

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• Nobody Likes Nouri Dept.: Levin Joins Anti-Maliki Bandwagon

  Published: August 21, 2007, 9:47 am

  Tags: Carl Levin, Iraq, Nobody Likes Nouri Dept, Nouri Al Maliki, Senate, War

  win in Iraq if we just brutally occupy it for a couple more months and maybe throw out their Prime Minister and replace him with Rudy Giuliani or something. So, as always, it’s a bad week to be Nouri al-Maliki, but the guy is pretty crafty, so maybe we will end up having to update our little memorial bug graphic after all. Because once

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• Nouri Al-maliki To Be Killed By Top Washington Lobbyists: Ayad Allawi (remember him?) is paying Washington ...

  Published: August 23, 2007, 6:31 pm

  Tags: Ayad Allawi, Iraq, Lobbyists, Nouri Al Maliki, Nouri Al Maliki To Be Killed By Top Washington Lobbyists

  Ayad Allawi (remember him?) is paying Washington lobbyists big, big bucks to convince the White House and Congress to green-light the Maliki putsch. [IraqSlogger]

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• Progress

  Published: August 24, 2007, 11:12 pm

  Tags: Ayad Allawi, Nouri Al Maliki, Iraq, David Petraeus

  an umbrella group of several political parties composed of secular Sunnis and Shiites, had boycotted cabinet meetings since Aug. 7 because of frustrations with what they saw as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's divisive leadership style. The party, headed by former prime minister Ayad Allawi, will now submit the official resignations, National

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• Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Blast US Critics Sunday

  Published: August 26, 2007, 11:29 am

  Tags: Iraq S Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki Blast Us Critics Sunday

  to be removed from office... Nouri Maliki singled out senators Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin... He said the Democratic senators were acting as if Iraq was "their property" and that they should "come to their senses" and "respect democracy".Read this story in full at link below...Maliki returns fire at US criticsNBC4.com website has this take on

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• More "Progress" In Iraq

  Published: August 27, 2007, 9:05 am

  Tags: Iraq, George W Bush, Nouri Al Maliki

  can't be overlooked that it also benefits the embattled Maliki. After all, this is a man who heads a government that nearly half of the cabinet ministers are boycotting.  A government who recently saw the largest Sunni bloc withdraw, and whose largest Shiite bloc, the group whose support got Maliki elected, has: ...threatened to bring

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• Twenty-seven B-stroke-six Dept.: Ayad Allawi Subverting Two Democracies At Once

  Published: August 29, 2007, 10:47 am

  Tags: Ayad Allawi, Iraq, Lobbying, Nouri Al Maliki, Twenty Seven B Stroke Six Dept, War

  opposition dude Ayad Allawi is campaigning for the ouster of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the old-fashioned way: paying a foreign lobbying firm with close ties to the leader of his country’s occupying power to back him. Democracy! There’s just a slight problem — no, not the “making a mockery of all claims of Iraqi

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• Lifting the Curtain on Dave & Ryan's Wondrous Iraq All-Star Minstrel Show

  Published: September 7, 2007, 6:10 am

  Tags: 2008 Elections, Congress, Middle East, Iraq, Sunnis, George W Bush, Shi Ites, Al Qaeda, Sectarian Violence, Surge, Gen Petraeus, Withdrawal, Military Affairs, Bush Administration, Refugees, Nouri Al Maliki

  General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker set to testify before Congress next week and President Bush planning to deliver his own progress report on the Iraq war, here are five things you should know about these hugely anticipated events: (1.) THE BIG COVER-UP This dog-and-pony show is a cover-up for a White House-manufactured catastrophe of

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• Blackwater USA License Being Pulled in Iraq

  Published: September 17, 2007, 9:16 am

  Tags: Iraq, Blackwater Usa, State Department, Nouri Al Maliki

  according to Iraqi officials. According to U.S. officials, the Blackwater USA security contractors, "escalated the force to defend themselves," while Iraqi officials say the incident, "involved excessive force and killed innocent civilians."  And today: The Interior Ministry said Monday that it was pulling the license of an American

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• Iraqi Civilian Casualty Sats: It Takes Lotsa Chefs to Cook These Books

  Published: September 26, 2007, 6:24 am

  Tags: Iraq, George W Bush, Nouri Al Maliki, Sectarian Violence, Surge, Withdrawal, Military Affairs, General David Petraeus

  sends a clear message to the Al-Maliki regime that the pressure to work toward national reconciliation — which is necessary if modest military gains are to be sustained — is off because its American helpmates, who are busily arming both sides in the civil war, won’t not be leaving anytime soon. Then there is the feckless

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• The world according to Nouri

  Published: September 26, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Middle East, War, Iran, Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, Sectarian Violence, Surge

  of the year, Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki said this in New York yesterday: I can’t say there is a picture of roses and flowers in Iraq. However, I can say that the greatest victory, of which I am proud… is stopping the explosion of a sectarian war. He also said that Iranian intervention in Iraq has “ceased to exist”.

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• $934,892,570 and Counting

  Published: September 27, 2007, 7:27 am

  Tags: Iraq, George W Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Nouri Al Maliki, Military Affairs, Bush Administration, Pentagon

  State has informed the California Democrat that no one from Blackwater will be permitted to talk without White House approval. That, of course, is shorthand for “drop dead.” Waxman calls the move “extraordinary” and “unusual.” I call it business as usual. As for State officials themselves, Condi Rice is

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• Ex-Investigator Details Iraqi Corruption

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Ex Investigator, Details, Iraqi, Corruption, Henry Waxman, Larry Butler, Nouri Al Maliki, U S Department Of State, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Iraqi Commission On Public Integrity, Christopher Shays, Condoleezza Rice, Dan Burton, David Walker, Radhi Hamza Al Radhi, Stuart W Bo

  The Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has thwarted investigations into corruption at the top levels of his administration, including probes of his relatives, while nearly four dozen anti-corruption employees or their family members have been brutally murdered, the former top...

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• Top Iraqis Pull Back From Key U.S. Goal

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Top, Iraqis, Pull, Back, From, Key, U S, Goal, Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, Saddam Hussein, United States, Humam Hamoudi, Tariq Al Hashimi, Ba Ath Party, U S Armed Forces, Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, Barham Saleh, Joseph Anderson, Palestine, Saad Al Izzi, Z Al Zobaee, Al Qaeda In Iraq

  BAGHDAD -- For much of this year, the U.S. military strategy in Iraq has sought to reduce violence so that politicians could bring about national reconciliation, but several top Iraqi leaders say they have lost faith in that broad goal.

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• Memo From Baghdad: The Surge Is Dead. By the Way, Partition Is, Too

  Published: October 9, 2007, 9:24 am

  Tags: Iraq, Democrats, George W Bush, Republicans, Joe Biden, Nouri Al Maliki, Sectarian Violence, Surge, Gen Petraeus, Withdrawal, State Department

  Al-Hashimi gifts children who lost fathers in civil war When the definitive history of the sad affair known as the Iraq war is written, a meeting on September 27 between Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, the country’s most influential Shiite politician, and Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most respected Shiite religious leader, will

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