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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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By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
In an editorial Tuesday titled "Specific mistakes," the association of Muslim Scholars' Al Basaer newspaper said disasters brought by the crippled political process make the situation in Iraq no clearer than it was.
It said the political process in Iraq will always be unsuccessful because the occupier decided to build a deformed entity it called a "political process."
"Divisive figures based on sectarianism and narrow partisanship took positions and have become the rulers," it said.
The editorial said acting national was a process that is merely an attempt to pacify the Iraqis' miseries.
"The image, of what Iraqi civilians think is "relief," is represented in three laws the current Iraqi Parliament passed with the support of the occupiers," it said.
It added that occupation forces soothed their way announcing that the change being introduced would affect the form of the government only, but many other things changed, too.
"The occupiers dissolved the army and other state institutes and kept what they wished," it said.
The paper said a "fabricated" process took place to establish a process that led to all obstacles Iraqis face today: A crippled constitution was written to set up "chronic" problems and elections took place in view of the occupier's vision.
"The three laws that were recently passed serve U.S. interests," it said.
"The Iraqi decision-makers are not trustworthy because they don't have principles," it said. "They don't understand the meaning of the Iraqi people's suffering."
Al Baser said Iraq was heading toward smaller -- a version of the political failures in Lebanon.
"This plan of separating Iraq is to ensure and keep the current Iraqi government ... as players," it said.
The editorial said, "Iraq is under the mercy of the occupier and its allies on the Iraqi side on one hand and the opposition and resistance, which will be victorious, on the other."
UPI Correspondent
In an editorial Tuesday titled "Specific mistakes," the association of Muslim Scholars' Al Basaer newspaper said disasters brought by the crippled political process make the situation in Iraq no clearer than it was.
It said the political process in Iraq will always be unsuccessful because the occupier decided to build a deformed entity it called a "political process."
"Divisive figures based on sectarianism and narrow partisanship took positions and have become the rulers," it said.
The editorial said acting national was a process that is merely an attempt to pacify the Iraqis' miseries.
"The image, of what Iraqi civilians think is "relief," is represented in three laws the current Iraqi Parliament passed with the support of the occupiers," it said.
It added that occupation forces soothed their way announcing that the change being introduced would affect the form of the government only, but many other things changed, too.
"The occupiers dissolved the army and other state institutes and kept what they wished," it said.
The paper said a "fabricated" process took place to establish a process that led to all obstacles Iraqis face today: A crippled constitution was written to set up "chronic" problems and elections took place in view of the occupier's vision.
"The three laws that were recently passed serve U.S. interests," it said.
"The Iraqi decision-makers are not trustworthy because they don't have principles," it said. "They don't understand the meaning of the Iraqi people's suffering."
Al Baser said Iraq was heading toward smaller -- a version of the political failures in Lebanon.
"This plan of separating Iraq is to ensure and keep the current Iraqi government ... as players," it said.
The editorial said, "Iraq is under the mercy of the occupier and its allies on the Iraqi side on one hand and the opposition and resistance, which will be victorious, on the other."
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