Iraqi counterterror chief falls to his prey

He compared al-Qaida in Iraq to wolves, urging that the terrorist group be crushed since he believed its members would never reject violence. But the wolves got to the Iraqi counterterrorism officer first.

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Iraqi blasts stir worries of insurgent push

It's been a season of jarring flashbacks in Iraq: a spate of major suicide bombings, including more than 145 dead over two days of bloodshed capped by a blast Friday outside a Shiite shrine.

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Algerian jailed for 3 years for fighting in Iraq

An Algerian man was convicted and jailed for three years for traveling to Iraq to take part in attacks against U.S. forces, according to news reports Wednesday.

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US raid kills Iraqi blamed in 2004 reservist death

A father whose Army reservist son was captured, held hostage and killed in Iraq said Thursday that he's glad to learn one of the men responsible for his son's death has been "held accountable."

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US says al-Qaida regional leader killed

The U.S. military says U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed a senior al-Qaida in Iraq leader in the Tarmiyah area north of Baghdad.

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Iraqi Insurgents Now Fighting Each Other

At least two major insurgent groups are battling al-Qaida in provinces outside Baghdad, American military commanders said Friday, an indication of a deepening rift between Sunni guerrilla groups in Iraq.

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Al-Qaida Chief Appointed Minister of War

A Sunni insurgent coalition posted Web videos on Thursday naming the head of al-Qaida in Iraq as "minister of war" and showing the execution of 20 men it said were members of the Iraqi military and security forces.

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Thai Coup Leader to Hold Talks With Rebels

The Thai army chief who staged last month's coup said Thursday that he has agreed to hold talks with rebel leaders in the restive south, an abrupt policy change from the administration of the ousted prime minister.

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Iraq Insurgents Offer to Stop Attacks

Eleven Sunni insurgent groups have offered to halt attacks on the U.S.-led military if the Iraqi government and President Bush set a two-year timetable for withdrawing all foreign troops from the country, insurgent and government officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

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New Tape Says Zarqawi Death 'Great Loss'

A key insurgency leader in Iraq said the U.S. killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a "great loss," but one that will strengthen the militants' determination, according to an audio tape broadcast Friday.

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I KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – The Taliban kept to the shadows of Haji Baba on Wednesday as Canadian soldiers trying to seize control of the insurgent stronghold continued to pick up apart its defences.

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The Pakistani military launched a major ground offensive Saturday in the insurgent haven of South Waziristan, starting a much-awaited fight that could define the nation's increasingly bloody domestic struggle against Islamist extremism.

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We are fools if we think this war will ever end, there will always be more of these Abdullah al-Obeid to follow this one. This one vows to fight again if freed, his wife wants to be a suicide martyr.

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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has said Islamist insurgents now control most of the country, and have advanced to the edge of Mogadishu.

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Thinking about terrorism? Here's what you need to know.

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United States Special Forces based out of Iraq made a confirmed raid by helipcopter across the Euphrates River and into Syria where an attack was launched on the Sukkariyeh Farm in Abu Kamal.

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Tough Questions for the American Left

Watching Senator Barack Obama recently squirm and parse over whether or not the troop surge was working in Iraq, I had an epiphany, and it inspired me to approach my Left-leaning friends here on Newsvine with a series of questions.

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Researchers at Harvard say that publicly voiced doubts about the U.S. occupation of Iraq have a measurable "emboldenment effect" on insurgents there.

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Authorities in Dhoble say villagers are fleeing after an AC-130 plane with US markings mistook civilian dwellings for an Islamist hideout, killing six and wounding 20. Ethiopia and the US had helped the Somalian government throw the Islamists out of the capital, Mogadishu.

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FP: Daveed Gartenstein Ross, Michael Ledeen, Bill Roggio and Andy McCarthy, welcome to Frontpage Symposium. Michael Ledeen, let me begin with you.

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Molly Bingham says the information most people in America are getting about the insurgents who oppose the U.S. backed occupation of Iraq is very different from what she found when she talked with those insurgents.

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American officials have detained thousands of insurgents in the months since the surge of forces began this spring, in an effort that most agree has improved security in Iraq.

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American and Iraqi special forces killed a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist and captured eight others in a raid on a cell near Balad, Iraq, on Thursday, according to a Multi-National Corps-Iraq news release.

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Iraqi special weapons and tactics police targeted two known insurgent bomb makers during raids near Nasiriyah today, officials said.

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MOSUL, Iraq — Sgt. Mabon Briola has always enjoyed tinkering with things.

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Austin Community College student Gale Gleason writes about his experiences volunteering at a hospital in Iraq, while deployed with his Air Force Reserve Unit.

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("The Big Pharoah" is perhaps the most widely read of the English language Egyptian weblogs) Excerpts: "There is no God but Allah and America is the enemy of Allah.

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BAGHDAD, Sept. 8 — Seven months after the American-led troop "surge" began, Baghdad has experienced modest security gains that have neither reversed the city's underlying sectarian dynamic nor created a unified and trusted national government.

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During a high-level meeting in Riyadh in January, Saudi officials confronted a top American envoy with documents that seemed to suggest that Iraq's prime minister could not be trusted.

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GEN. David Petraeus, our nation's senior soldier in Iraq and the commander of Coalition forces, this week took the time to ex plain to Post readers where he believes we are right now - and where Iraq is headed.

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Three of Baghdad's 13 bridges over the River Tigris have been targeted by large explosions since March.

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Three part series from LA Times about wounded soldiers in Iraq. Not just articles, but a lot of pictures, graphs, and audio slide shows.

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The Good News and the Bad News -- WMDs Finally Discovered in Iraq

The good news is that the United States military has finally located viable chemical weapons in Iraq.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The U.S.

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