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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 Association of Muslim Scholars' Al Basaer newspaper said Friday in its editorial that attempts to keep U.S. troops in Iraq is a "precooked meal" and that Iraqis have chosen the path of resistance and will keep considering this option as long as the U.S. troops continue in Iraq.
The editorial, titled "The game of lining up is an excuse the occupier uses for its collaborators," said the agreement between the Iraqi government and the United States to keep U.S. troops in Iraq is illegitimate because it was taken by a government manufactured by the occupier.
It said Iraqis were not bound to this agreement.
The editorial said that the Iraqi minister of foreign affairs announced that at the end of January there will be talks regarding long-term agreements with the United States on the future of U.S. forces in Iraq.
"The U.S. president announced that keeping the troops in Iraq for 10 more years is possible, then the Iraqi minister of defense said there is a need for U.S. forces to stay in Iraq for one decade, adding Iraqi forces are unable to defend Iraq from outside assaults before 2020," the paper said.
It said the decision to keep troops in Iraq was preplanned.
"Existence of foreign forces on any land lacks a sovereign decision," it said.
It said forces that are involved in occupying, destroying infrastructure and displacing hundreds of thousands of people of a country are considered "suicide."
"The current Iraqi government is essentially the occupier's creation and is the fruit of its political projects; this means any decision taken by such a government is illegitimate and disrespectful."
The paper said the reason the Iraqi army was failing to provide security in Iraq was because the wrong basis was used to establish it and that sectarian and ethnic militias were being used to rebuild it.
Describing Iraqi forces, the paper said, "Such a chronic disease will be without a remedy as long as the occupation forces exist in Iraq."
It added: "The Iraqi army needs tens of years to be competent but keeping the troops in Iraq will only serve the U.S. occupation interests and likely lead to worsening and complicating the Iraqi crisis."
The paper said the ideal solution was for the occupation forces to leave and for the Iraqis to rebuild their army "professionally," away from sectarian and ethnic divisions.
"The people of Iraq have chosen to resist the occupier and will keep resisting until the last soldier is out of our land," it said.
UPI Correspondent
The Association of Muslim Scholars' Al Basaer newspaper said Friday in its editorial that attempts to keep U.S. troops in Iraq is a "precooked meal" and that Iraqis have chosen the path of resistance and will keep considering this option as long as the U.S. troops continue in Iraq.
The editorial, titled "The game of lining up is an excuse the occupier uses for its collaborators," said the agreement between the Iraqi government and the United States to keep U.S. troops in Iraq is illegitimate because it was taken by a government manufactured by the occupier.
It said Iraqis were not bound to this agreement.
The editorial said that the Iraqi minister of foreign affairs announced that at the end of January there will be talks regarding long-term agreements with the United States on the future of U.S. forces in Iraq.
"The U.S. president announced that keeping the troops in Iraq for 10 more years is possible, then the Iraqi minister of defense said there is a need for U.S. forces to stay in Iraq for one decade, adding Iraqi forces are unable to defend Iraq from outside assaults before 2020," the paper said.
It said the decision to keep troops in Iraq was preplanned.
"Existence of foreign forces on any land lacks a sovereign decision," it said.
It said forces that are involved in occupying, destroying infrastructure and displacing hundreds of thousands of people of a country are considered "suicide."
"The current Iraqi government is essentially the occupier's creation and is the fruit of its political projects; this means any decision taken by such a government is illegitimate and disrespectful."
The paper said the reason the Iraqi army was failing to provide security in Iraq was because the wrong basis was used to establish it and that sectarian and ethnic militias were being used to rebuild it.
Describing Iraqi forces, the paper said, "Such a chronic disease will be without a remedy as long as the occupation forces exist in Iraq."
It added: "The Iraqi army needs tens of years to be competent but keeping the troops in Iraq will only serve the U.S. occupation interests and likely lead to worsening and complicating the Iraqi crisis."
The paper said the ideal solution was for the occupation forces to leave and for the Iraqis to rebuild their army "professionally," away from sectarian and ethnic divisions.
"The people of Iraq have chosen to resist the occupier and will keep resisting until the last soldier is out of our land," it said.
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