Iraqi oil-exploration team resumes work after 20 years Iraq resumed oil exploration yesterday after 20 years to determine whether more oil lies beneath its territory, an Oil Ministry official said. Iraq has confirmed reserves of an estimated 115 billion barrels, but it is believed that its actual reserves could be twice as much. During a ceremony attended by Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani, a seismic team began work yesterday in the Gharraf field in Nasiriyah in southern Iraq.
Embedded reporters or Republican activists? Members of Vets for Freedom have campaigned for John McCain and made anti-Obama ads, but while they're in Iraq, you're paying for their gas, food and lodging. By Alex Koppelman ...Gather a group of veterans of the Iraq war who also have journalism experience, including some highly decorated soldiers. Then send them back to the areas of Iraq in which they served, this time as reporters embedded with the troops still fighting there, and get their assessment of the security situation and whether the surge is working. Someone has organized just such an expedition, and this Monday eight veterans left for Iraq. But the "Back to Iraq" trip wasn't put together by the Washington Post or the New York Times; it's the brainchild of Vets for Freedom (VFF), a pro-war group. VFF is nominally nonpartisan, but it has a remarkable number of ties -- some previously unreported -- to Republicans generally and John McCain's campaign specifically. And it has run attack ads against Barack Obama.
Chairman: New sanctions on Iran will harm West Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran's parliament, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said Saturday that imposing new sanctions on the Islamic Republic will harm the West, the official IRNA news agency reported. "Any measure by the European Union ahead of the end of talks between Iran and the five permanent members of UN Security Councilplus Germany (Group 5+1) will be unacceptable," the report quoted Boroujerdi as saying.
Iran's UN envoy responds to U.S. propaganda Iran’s mission to the United Nations has strongly condemned the violence and terrorist acts committed by the occupying forces in Iraq and rejected Washington's anti-Iran allegations.
1,500 Reported Killed in Georgia Battle Russian air attacks over northern Georgia intensified on Saturday morning, striking two apartment buildings in the city of Gori and clogging roads out of the area with fleeing refugees. Russian authorities said their forces had retaken the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, from Georgian control during the morning hours. They reported that 15 Russian peacekeepers and 1,500 civilians have been killed in the conflict. The escalation risked igniting a renewed and sustained conflict in the Caucasus region, an important conduit for the flow of oil from the Caspian Sea to world markets...
Lawyers sue to have Harper repatriate Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay Lawyers for Omar Khadr filed suit Friday in an effort to compel Prime Minister Stephen Harper to demand the Canadian citizen be repatriated from Guantanamo Bay, where he is due to stand trial for "war crimes" before a U.S. military commission in October. The suit, filed in Federal Court, argues Canada is obliged under international law to ensure Khadr's rehabilitation and social reintegration, given that he was just 15 when he allegedly killed an American medic in Afghanistan in July 2002.
In Loose Style, McCain Leads a Camp Divided — WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain is so quick to pick up his gold-colored cellphone to solicit advice — from senators, campaign consultants, even the stray former deputy press secretary — that aides, concerned about his tendency to adopt …
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Haha Vets for WHOSE Freedom?? They are traitors of the worst kind-they betrayed their own troops by perpetrating the biggest lie ever told. They'll have egg on their faces when the truth comes out this
war was manufactured on forged evidence-which was the BEST evidence
they had...shame on them, they cheat, lie AND tolerate those who do. They bring dishonor to the uniform and their mothers should be ashamed of them.
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