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India sets up team to probe Jaipur blasts
Published: May 16, 2008 at 11:01 AM
NEW DELHI, May 16 (UPI) -- India has set up a special investigative team to probe Tuesday's bomb explosions in the city of Jaipur in which 64 people were killed. -
Sadr fighters lay down their weapons
Published: May 15, 2008 at 10:44 PM
BAGHDAD, May 15 (UPI) -- Forces loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr laid down their weapons Thursday as reports emerged from Iraq of relative calm in the Baghdad district of Sadr City. -
U.S. claims Iranian weapons are in Iraq
Published: May 15, 2008 at 10:42 PM
BAGHDAD, May 15 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad said emerging evidence suggests Iran is backing the so-called special groups targeting coalition and Iraqi forces.
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Feature: U.S. cites attacks despite truce
Published: May 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
BAGHDAD, May 13 (UPI) -- A new cease-fire has been declared between the Iraqi government and Shiite gunmen of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, but U.S. and Iraqi forces say their troops are still coming under attack in Sadr City. -
Dogs of War: Blackwater, Najaf -- Take Two
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:28 AM
By DAVID ISENBERG
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- One aspect of private military and security contractors that is relatively ignored is their relationship with regular military forces. Such discussion, as there is, is generally limited to sound bites about the reported envy that soldiers have for allegedly better paid security contractors. -
Analysis: Indian agencies start blame game
Published: May 15, 2008 at 8:36 PM
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 15 (UPI) -- India's intelligence and security agencies are indulging in a blame game over a recent foiled infiltration bid by militants on the Pakistani border, with one agency accusing the paramilitary forces guarding the border of lacking alertness. -
Iraq press roundup
Published: May 15, 2008 at 7:20 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The daily Al Mashriq newspaper had an editorial Thursday titled "Last lines for the chaotic months" that said although Iraq has been in a war for five years, the government in the last few weeks has been chaotically carrying out quick military operations and offensives in many cities and areas around the country. -
Features: More graves found
Published: May 15, 2008 at 2:31 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
ZAHAMM, Iraq, May 13 (UPI) -- The number of human remains unearthed in an al-Qaida killing field northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province is nearing 70 with the discovery of more graves by villagers who had volunteered to search an abandoned pomegranate orchard. -
Analysis: USAF's cyber offense capability
Published: May 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- Procurement documents from the U.S. Air Force give a rare glimpse into the Pentagon's plans for developing an offensive cyberwar capacity that can infiltrate, steal data from and if necessary take down enemy information technology networks.
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The Saudi-based Al Basaer newspaper in an editorial Wednesday said those who accept the occupation and help its goals won't find a way to escape a fall.
"We see them more desirous to achieve the occupier's destructive projects," it said.
The editorial said the Iraqi government's "deadly defense" of the occupiers was like betting on a "sinking ship."
"The political process under the occupation, especially because the U.S. is relying on thousands of uneducated people to help it, is a burden," it said.
It said the corruption in Iraq encouraged the occupiers and other thieves to steal the wealth of Iraq. It said the occupier's attempts to reshape the Iraqi debate will neither be accepted in the United States nor in Iraq.
"The figures of the new equation are dependent on crimes and projects the invaders have carried out … the militias' crimes were blessed and supervised by the U.S. and the Iraqi government," it said.
The paper said the thousands who had "signed" on against the occupier's projects, which turned Iraq into a field for neighboring counties, are proof the occupation is the source of the problem that will fade as soon as the occupiers leave Iraq.
"The lesson the Iraqi people got out of the occupation's existence has alerted people in the entire region that there is no existence for a superpower in the world that can defeat the will of the people," it said.
Al Sabah Al Jadeed newspaper carried an editorial Wednesday with the headline: "The 1914 Ottoman map is in the U.S. Congress."
It said the congressional discussion on partitioning Iraq came after various studies and drafts on the concept of the "superpowers" in Iraq.
"In the project set up by the Congress, the concept of superpowers was abdicated but the idea of the division was still valid," the paper said. It said that in order for Iraq to be a confederation consisting of three republics there should be borders for each."
The paper commented on a speech by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., in which he said the map of Iraq during the Ottoman domination should be taken into consideration and that the mistakes of the past "should be valid lessons to the present and the future."
The paper quoted Brownback as saying: "We are committing the same mistakes because we didn't read the history of Iraq thoroughly."
According to the paper, he said that in the map of 1914, Iraq was divided in to three states: the northern with Mosul as its capital, the state of Baghdad, and the southern state of Basra.
The paper revealed the contradiction between the situations in 1914 and now. It demonstrated that the northern part of Iraq in Mosul was mixed as it is now. The state of Baghdad was mixed and still has sacred Sunni and Shiite cities. Shiites in Basra in 1914 were fewer than the Shiites who lived in Baghdad while Basra ruled the south.
UPI Correspondent
The Saudi-based Al Basaer newspaper in an editorial Wednesday said those who accept the occupation and help its goals won't find a way to escape a fall.
"We see them more desirous to achieve the occupier's destructive projects," it said.
The editorial said the Iraqi government's "deadly defense" of the occupiers was like betting on a "sinking ship."
"The political process under the occupation, especially because the U.S. is relying on thousands of uneducated people to help it, is a burden," it said.
It said the corruption in Iraq encouraged the occupiers and other thieves to steal the wealth of Iraq. It said the occupier's attempts to reshape the Iraqi debate will neither be accepted in the United States nor in Iraq.
"The figures of the new equation are dependent on crimes and projects the invaders have carried out … the militias' crimes were blessed and supervised by the U.S. and the Iraqi government," it said.
The paper said the thousands who had "signed" on against the occupier's projects, which turned Iraq into a field for neighboring counties, are proof the occupation is the source of the problem that will fade as soon as the occupiers leave Iraq.
"The lesson the Iraqi people got out of the occupation's existence has alerted people in the entire region that there is no existence for a superpower in the world that can defeat the will of the people," it said.
Al Sabah Al Jadeed newspaper carried an editorial Wednesday with the headline: "The 1914 Ottoman map is in the U.S. Congress."
It said the congressional discussion on partitioning Iraq came after various studies and drafts on the concept of the "superpowers" in Iraq.
"In the project set up by the Congress, the concept of superpowers was abdicated but the idea of the division was still valid," the paper said. It said that in order for Iraq to be a confederation consisting of three republics there should be borders for each."
The paper commented on a speech by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., in which he said the map of Iraq during the Ottoman domination should be taken into consideration and that the mistakes of the past "should be valid lessons to the present and the future."
The paper quoted Brownback as saying: "We are committing the same mistakes because we didn't read the history of Iraq thoroughly."
According to the paper, he said that in the map of 1914, Iraq was divided in to three states: the northern with Mosul as its capital, the state of Baghdad, and the southern state of Basra.
The paper revealed the contradiction between the situations in 1914 and now. It demonstrated that the northern part of Iraq in Mosul was mixed as it is now. The state of Baghdad was mixed and still has sacred Sunni and Shiite cities. Shiites in Basra in 1914 were fewer than the Shiites who lived in Baghdad while Basra ruled the south.
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