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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 London-based Azzaman newspaper ran an editorial Thursday with the headline, "Iraqi planners hadn't realized powers relations between Iraq, U.S."
The paper said that in strategic planning, there is a chance of a calculated risk being taken when the strategic interests of a country are at stake.
"Thus, the United States insisted it was keen on containing Iraq," the paper said.
"Saddam's regime has failed in realizing the consequences of a calculated risk based on a deceptive strategy that made simple as well as high-ranking people think Saddam owned enough weapons of mass destruction to respond to U.S. attacks," the paper said.
It said the United States used this strategy to present to the Security Council intelligence reports to "prove" that Saddam had WMD. The paper said it was unclear if the United States would have attacked Iraq even if Saddam had responded to its demands.
The paper said Saddam's strategy provided an answer to many governments -- especially those that were dictatorships that fail to get out of crises with their people, their region or with global powers. It said the invasion of Iraq served not only U.S. interests but also the interests of other regional countries.
It said Saddam predicted that global power had retreated once the Soviet Union fell.
It said the U.S. invasion of Iraq was the central point Washington used as an excuse for its plans to contain Iraq.
"Although the U.S. evicted Iraq by military force from Kuwait, it gave Iraq's government the light to stay in power," the paper said.
It also said Saddam's government failed in 14 out of 198 provinces.
"The other four provinces feared Saddam's previous power containing the Shiites cities in the south and the north as well as the Kurds," it said.
The paper said that Saddam's full control and suppression of the south and north of Iraq granted the United States another excuse to target the regime in Iraq.
"Reaching the target," the paper commented, "the U.S. used the same Iraqi figures affected during 1991 to fulfill its goal."
The paper said Iraqi strategic planners have the responsibility to realize Iraq's strengths and weaknesses that affect relations with the United States.
UPI Correspondent
The London-based Azzaman newspaper ran an editorial Thursday with the headline, "Iraqi planners hadn't realized powers relations between Iraq, U.S."
The paper said that in strategic planning, there is a chance of a calculated risk being taken when the strategic interests of a country are at stake.
"Thus, the United States insisted it was keen on containing Iraq," the paper said.
"Saddam's regime has failed in realizing the consequences of a calculated risk based on a deceptive strategy that made simple as well as high-ranking people think Saddam owned enough weapons of mass destruction to respond to U.S. attacks," the paper said.
It said the United States used this strategy to present to the Security Council intelligence reports to "prove" that Saddam had WMD. The paper said it was unclear if the United States would have attacked Iraq even if Saddam had responded to its demands.
The paper said Saddam's strategy provided an answer to many governments -- especially those that were dictatorships that fail to get out of crises with their people, their region or with global powers. It said the invasion of Iraq served not only U.S. interests but also the interests of other regional countries.
It said Saddam predicted that global power had retreated once the Soviet Union fell.
It said the U.S. invasion of Iraq was the central point Washington used as an excuse for its plans to contain Iraq.
"Although the U.S. evicted Iraq by military force from Kuwait, it gave Iraq's government the light to stay in power," the paper said.
It also said Saddam's government failed in 14 out of 198 provinces.
"The other four provinces feared Saddam's previous power containing the Shiites cities in the south and the north as well as the Kurds," it said.
The paper said that Saddam's full control and suppression of the south and north of Iraq granted the United States another excuse to target the regime in Iraq.
"Reaching the target," the paper commented, "the U.S. used the same Iraqi figures affected during 1991 to fulfill its goal."
The paper said Iraqi strategic planners have the responsibility to realize Iraq's strengths and weaknesses that affect relations with the United States.
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