Iraq: On Ground Updates
Posters
of Iran’s Smiling Supreme Leader Appear all Across Iraq - U.S. and Iraq Negotiating Agreement for Return of Small Units of
American Soldiers to Iraq for Future Training Missions - Iraq Prevents North Korean Plane from Entering Its Airspace on Suspicion
of Carrying Weapons for Syria - Michael
Gordon's New Book on Iraq - 11
Killed, 25 Injured in Insurgents' Attacks Across Iraq
Wednesday, September 26, 2011
File photo by
Iranian Supreme Leader Office
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* The Huffington Post had this report posted on their website
Tuesday morning and it goes in part like this. …posters of Grand Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei first appeared in at least six Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad and
across Iraq's Shiite-dominated south in August, as part of an annual
pro-Palestinian observance started years ago by Iran. They have conspicuously remained up since then… "When I see
these pictures, I feel I am in Tehran, not Baghdad," said Asim Salman, 44,
a Shiite and owner of a Baghdad cafe. "Authorities must remove these
posters, which make us angry."… In Basra, located 550 kilometers (340
miles) south of the capital, they hang near donation boxes decorated with
scripts in both countries' languages - Arabic and Farsi… A senior official in
Baghdad's local government said municipal workers fear retribution from Shiite
militias loyal to Iran in if they take them down…
Read the
rest of this report at link below…
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* ForeignPolicy.com had the following article posted Tuesday and
it starts off like this… Has
Obama fulfilled his most famous national security campaign commitment from 2008:
to end the Iraq war "more responsibly" than he says we began it? According
to this excerpt from Michael Gordon's new book on
Iraq, the answer may well turn out to be no… Read the rest at link below…
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* The New York Times had the following report posted on their
website Monday and it goes in part like this. …Iraq and the United States are negotiating an agreement that could
result in the return of small units of American soldiers to Iraq on training
missions. At the request of the Iraqi government, according to General
Caslen, a unit of Army Special Operations soldiers was recently deployed to
Iraq to advise on counterterrorism and help with intelligence… So even as the
country leans closer to Iran and contemplates buying weapons from Russia, it
still seeks the military support of the United States. This is because Iraq is
still facing a potent insurgency whose frequent recent attacks have raised
questions about the ability of Iraq’s counterterrorism forces to face the
threat…
Read this report in full at link below…
Read this report in full at link below…
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* The Washington Post had the following AP report posted up on their website back on September 21st
and it starts off like this… Iraq prevented a North Korean plane from
entering its airspace on suspicion it was carrying weapons for Syria, prompting
praise from the U.S. on Friday but also demands for a ban of Iranian
aircraft with similar suspect cargo… Iraq’s decision could potentially close a
supply line for Syrian President Bashar Assad’s embattled regime, which is
fighting a civil war against rebels trying to topple him… U.S. officials have
accused Baghdad of allowing Iran -like North Korea an ally of Syria - to fly
weapons to Syrian forces through Iraqi airspace, a charge Iraq has denied…
Read the rest of this report in full at link below…
Read the rest of this report in full at link below…
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* The Muslim News out of the UK had the following report today, (Wednesday)
and it starts off like this… A
total of 11 people were killed and 25 others injured Tuesday in bomb and
gunfire attacks in Iraq, the police said… Read this
report in full at link below…
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The news out of Iraq is never ending…
AubreyJ………
ROMNEY/RYAN2012
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