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- Rocket blast near US Embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone in first such incident in WEEKS – reports
At least one rocket fell near Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the US Embassy and other diplomatic compounds in Iraq, according to reports, possibly marking the first attack on the facility in weeks. - Iraq regime needs to be changed again, argues ex-aide for Cheney and Bolton… referring to something he helped to installBaghdad’s ruling class is beyond saving, so it’s time to scrap it in its entirety, believes a neocon pundit who served in the Bush administration. What was the saying about doing the same thing and hoping for different results?
- Pentagon expects US public to buy ‘we weren’t keeping inventory’ excuse about missing weapons sent to Syria, IraqUS weapons worth $715 million dollars were warehoused poorly and soldiers handling them did not keep receipts or records, so it’s impossible to tell how many, if any, ended up in the wrong hands, the Pentagon says.
- RT contributing cameraman killed in southern IraqAn Iraqi cameraman, Safaa Ghali, who contributed to RT’s Ruptly video news agency as a stringer, has been killed in a shooting attack in southern Iraq alongside a local journalist.
- Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says crisis over, after Trump & Iran speakInfluential Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has declared the “crisis” between the US and Iran over, following statements from the two countries’ leaders in the wake of Tuesday’s Iranian strikes on US bases in Iraq.
- Even CNN is tired of Joe Biden lying about having been against the Iraq WarCNN has blasted Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for claiming once again that he opposed the Iraq War from the beginning, when in fact he was an advocate of the war, speaking in favor of it many times.
- Easier said than done: Making US troops actually leave Iraq will take more than parliament resolutionThe adoption of a resolution urging the expulsion of the US military from Iraq marks a very important step for the country, but actually making them leave will likely take more than that, analysts told RT.
- Iraqi parliament passes resolution asking government to cancel request for assistance from US-led coalitionIraq’s parliament passed a resolution, urged by its caretaker prime minister, calling for the removal of foreign troops from the country, after the US’ assassination of a top Iranian general and a commander of an Iraqi militia.
- Post-Iraq war US intel report predicting 2020 looks ‘eerily prescient’ only compared to agencies’ political blundersA 15-year-old intel report predicting the world of 2020 has been hailed for its accuracy, but much of the future it describes was already underway in 2004. Could today’s hyper-politicized intelligence community see even that much?
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