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BBC News - US ex-defence head Rumsfeld defends Iraq war handling
Former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld maintains the US was right to wage war on Iraq Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld remains largely defiant about the Iraq war, saying in a new book that had Saddam Hussein remained in power, the Middle East would be "far more perilous than it is today". On the question of troops, he says in the 800-page Known and Unknown: "In retrospect, there may have been times when more troops could have helped." But he says that if senior military officers had reservations about the size of the invading force, they did not inform him.
Fewer Iraqi civilians met violent deaths in 2010 than any year since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, a human rights group reported today. It warned, however, that a persistent, low-level conflict may continue to kill civilians "for years to come."
Iraq Civilian Deaths Drop to Lowest Level Since 2003
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has said that ex-US President George W. Bush is not telling the truth in his memoirs, released on Tuesday. Schröder said he never offered his unconditional support for Bush's aggressive policy against Iraq. Both ex-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and former United States President George W.
A President's Memoirs: Ex-Chancellor Schröder Says Bush 'Is Not Telling the Truth' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Iraq Wardiary, one more leak, one more pearltree
EXCLUSIVE: WikiLeaks Prepares Largest Intel Leak in US History with Release of 400,000 Iraq War Docs
JUAN GONZALEZ : The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks plans to release the largest cache of classified US documents in history tomorrow. The group is expected to post up to 400,000 intelligence reports on the Iraq war. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is holding a press conference in London on Saturday morning to make the announcement. The disclosure of the documents would comprise the biggest leak in US history, far more than the 91,000 Afghanistan war logs WikiLeaks released this summer.Michael Eisenstadt The overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime provided Iran with a historic opportunity to transform its traditional Iraqi enemy into a partner or ally. A long, porous border and extensive political, economic, religious and cultural ties provide Iran the potential for significant influence in Iraq. Iranian attempts to wield this influence, however, have often backfired, leading to a nationalist backlash by Iraqis and tensions with the Iraqi government.
Iran and Iraq | The Iran Primer
Iraq Invites France to Build Nuclear Reactor - Defense News - Mo
BAGHDAD - Iraq Electricity Minister Karim Wahid on Feb. 22 invited France to help Iraq build a nuclear power plant, three decades after Paris constructed a reactor near Baghdad that was bombed by Israeli warplanes. "We have had very good relationships with French companies," the minister told AFP in an interview. "I am willing to enter into contacts with the French nuclear agency and to start to build a nuclear power plant, because the future is nuclear," he said. "This is my perspective." Under former dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraq sealed a 1976 deal with France to build the Osirak nuclear reactor, where construction started in 1979. But in June 1981, during the Iran-Iraq war, Israel sent warplanes to bomb the unfinished reactor south of the Iraqi capital, charging that Saddam's aim was to build nuclear weapons.
2009-02-22 - Une invitation qui plaira sans doute à Israël. by Mar 1
Dans l’Irak actuel, où la nouvelle Constitution adoptée en 2005 a instauré un régime fédéral, les Conseils régionaux, en attendant de se transformer en véritables gouvernements régionaux, sont dotés d’importants pouvoirs, notamment financiers. Quels sont les enjeux et que signifie les résultats ? L’un des enseignements le plus significatif de ces élections réside dans le retour de la communauté arabe sunnite dans le jeu politique irakien alors qu’elle en fut relativement absente jusqu’à aujourd’hui. En boycottant les précédents scrutins, les sunnites sont restés en quelque sorte sur le quai pour voir passer le train. Effectivement, ces deux ou trois dernières années, on a assisté au développement des provinces du Sud (chiites) et du Nord (kurdes), tandis que les provinces arabes sunnites apparaissaient comme les plus grandes perdantes.
Élections provinciales en Irak : un pas vers la stabilisation ?
The Iraq War via the National Security Archive
iCasualties: Iraq Coalition Casualty Count
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