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Brig. Gen. Ken Watkin, left, Canada's former chief military prosecutor, and David Trimble, Nobel peace laureate from Northern Ireland and a member of the British House of Lords, attend the opening session of the Israeli commission of inquiry into last month's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, in Jerusalem, Monday, June 28, 2010. The Israeli commission of inquiry into last month's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla will summon Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to testify, the chief investigator announced as the five-member panel began work Monday.
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Prosecution resumes case in 2009 Iraq shooting
Tue 9 Aug 2011
| FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. - Army prosecutors begin a second day of their case against a soldier charged with the shooting deaths in 2009 of five service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq. | Sgt... (photo: AP / Dan Balilty)
The radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, gestures while delivering a Friday sermon, in a Mosque, in Kufa, Iraq, Friday Sept. 22, 2006. During his sermon al-Sadr demanded that all the detainees held by coalition forces in Iraq, should be released. (AP P
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Iraq's Sadr warns against post-2011 US presence
Mon 8 Aug 2011
| NAJAF, Iraq - Anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr warned that any US training mission in Iraq after 2011 would amount to an occupation force and need to be opposed by "military means," in a letter seen o... (photo: AP Photo/Alaa Al-Marjani)
U.S. Navy Seabees, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Two Three (NMCB-23), secure a severely damaged school in Fallujah, Iraq.  WorldNews.com  Mon 8 Aug 2011
Iraq, U.S. and SOFA: Legal Immunity or Illegal Impunity?
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | "The American pact is nothing but humiliation to the Iraqis. This is against the interest and the sovereignty of the Iraq people and no none sh... (photo: US Navy / Journalist 1st Class Jeremy L. Wood)
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Iraq ' s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks at the Invest Iraq London 2009 conference in London. April 30 2009  Khaleej Times  Sun 7 Aug 2011
Iraq PM moves to fire minister over power deals
BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered that his electricity minister be fired for approving $1.7 billion in allegedly improper contracts, officials said on Sunday. | The dismissal o... (photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny)
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Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr, center, speaks during the Friday prayers sermon in Kufa, southern Iraq, Friday, April 23, 2004. The anti-U.S. Shiite Muslim cleric warned Friday that his followers will launch suicide attacks if the holy city of Naj The Siasat Daily Sun 7 Aug 2011
Iraq's Sadr warns against post-2011 US presence
| Baghdad, August 07: Radical anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr warned that any US training mission in Iraq after 2011 would amount to an occupation force and need to be opp... (photo: AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (right) answers a question from the media during a joint press conference with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro The Boston Globe Thu 4 Aug 2011
American once held in Iraq can sue Rumsfeld, judge rules
| WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ruled that former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a former US military contractor who says h... (photo: US Navy / Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway.)
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File - US Marine Corps (USMC) AH-1 Super Cobra provides air support for Marine personnel assaulting a small town at the intersection of Route 7 and Route 17, in southern Iraq on March 27, 2003, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Middle East Online Wed 3 Aug 2011
US troops might stay in Iraq on training mission
| Iraq will open talks with Washington over a military training mission to last beyond a 2011 pullout deadline, Baghdad's Foreign Minister said on Wednesday, after months... (photo: USMC / Cpl. Mace M. Gratz)
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File - A 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Soldier and Kentucky state native, Maj. Jason Tussey, patrols in downtown Bayji, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Guardian Tue 2 Aug 2011
US troops must have legal immunity to stay in Iraq
| REBECCA SANTANA | Associated Press= BAGHDAD (AP) — The top U.S. military officer said Tuesday that American troops must be given protection from prosecution as part o... (photo: US Army / Maj. Johnpaul Arnold)
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Iraqi Special Forces Soldiers assigned to the 1st Marines, patrol south clearing every house on their way through Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Al Fajr (New Dawn). The State Mon 1 Aug 2011
Delay on Iraq decision threatens smooth withdrawal
| MOSUL, Iraq - Iraq's indecision on whether to ask American forces to stay beyond the end of the year is pushing the U.S. close to the point where a smooth, safe troop w... (photo: US Navy / Lance Cpl. James J. Vooris)
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Protesters shout anti-government slogans as they demonstrate at the Jordanian Martyr Statue, demanding and end to corruption, the expulsion of the Prime Minister Marouf al-Bahkit and political reform in Amman, Jordan, Friday Aug. 5, 2011. In Tunisian Town of Arab Spring Martyr, Disillusionment Seeps In The New York Times
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak listens to questions during a presser with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, not pictured, after they sign bilateral accords at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Egypt's Mubarak to face trial set to rattle Arab rulers The Star
In this Feb. 9, 2011 file photo, anti-government protesters stamp on a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as they pose for a photo, outside the Egyptian Parliament in Cairo. Egypt's vice president says Mubarak resigned on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 as president and handed control to the military. Robert Fisk: Egypt awaits first trial of an Arab Spring dictator The Independent
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File - A Soldier carries a wounded Iraqi child into the Charlie Medical Centre at Camp Ramadi, Iraq, 20th of March, 2007. Censorship of war casualties in the US Al Jazeera
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, speaks to deployed servicemembers before administering the oath of enlistment while Command Sgt. Maj. Marvin Hill, senior enlisted leader for NATO ISAF, looks on, during an Independence Day re-enlistment ceremony on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, July 4, 2011. The costly errors of America's wars The Guardian
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clenches his fists as he arrives in a gathering of recovered drug addicts for a ceremony commemorating the International Day Against Drug Abuse at the Azadi (Freedom) sports complex in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 26, 2011. CIA veteran: Israel to attack Iran in fall Al Jazeera
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