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	<title>Iraq Oil Report &#187; Iraq War</title>
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		<title>Iraq Shi&#039;ite militia to lay down weapons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leader of a Shi'ite militia which carried out some of the most prominent attacks on foreigners during the Iraq war, said the group will lay down its weapons and is prepared to join the political process. "This stage of the military conflict between the Iraqi armed resistance and the occupation forces is over, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bipartisan effort doomed U.S. venture in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Autocrat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Democrats and Republicans squabble in Congress, they do deserve bipartisan credit for one stunning achievement: the defeat of the United States in Iraq. The willful blindness and strategic stupidity of the Bush administration led us into the Iraq War and the postwar disaster. The 2007 troop surge (and Gen. David Petraeus) created a slim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographers bear witness in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Soldier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad Airport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basketball Star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bear Witness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Last Thursday]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shock And Awe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A handful of photographers showed up at the Baghdad airport last Thursday for a forlorn ceremony marking the end of the Iraq war. It seemed a fitting end — both for the military and the photojournalists — to a war that began eight years ago with “shock and awe,” and an enormous attendant gallery of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq war draws to a quiet close</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Government Officials]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American war in Iraq came to an unspectacular end Thursday at a simple ceremony held on the edge of Baghdad’s international airport, not far from the highway along which U.S. troops first fought their way into the capital more than eight years ago. No senior Iraqi government officials showed up for the event, though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VP Biden and the Great American Reposture in the Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bilateral Relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq Relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it’s over, or mostly so. The visit to Iraq by US vice-president Joe Biden this week marked the symbolic end of the US-led Iraq War and the beginning of a new era in which a so-called Strategic Framework Agreement will govern US-Iraq relations. First, don’t get fooled by that impressive framework term (yes, it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP photographers recall Iraq war in pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Troops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Invasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq Pictures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burned bodies hanging from a bridge. A boy buried under rubble from a bombing. A father gunned down in front of his 7-year-old daughter. These were some of the harrowing images captured by three Iraqi photographers of The Associated Press who have covered the Iraq war since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003. Now, as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi casualty count low on CBS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A December 1 CBS Evening News report about the Iraq War misled viewers about the start of the war and severely diminish the loss of civilian lives. The on-screen graphic is 50,152 dead, sourced to icasualties.org. The site suggests that readers visit Iraq Body Count or read a study in the Lancet British medical journal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq emerges from war a society divided by sect</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sounds of cars honking, shoppers shuffling and children laughing and playing drums fill the air in Hurriyah, a Baghdad neighborhood where machine-gun fire and death squads once kept terrified residents huddled in their darkened homes. But normalcy has come at a price: Few Sunnis who were driven from what was once a religiously mixed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maliki hopes for Japanese investment in oil plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Monday expressed hope that Japanese corporations will invest in oil and infrastructure development in Iraq, playing down security concerns in the country. "I think the various experiences and skills Japanese businesses have will be able to contribute to reconstruction of oil facilities and basic infrastructure" which sustained damage during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The daily struggle of Iraq&#039;s widows of war</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breadwinners]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medical Clinic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nine Years]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halima Dakhil lost her husband in the sectarian slaughter that engulfed Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003 and now spends her days tearful and scared, knowing her $250 monthly wage won't pay the rent and feed five children. One of an estimated 2 million women who are primary breadwinners in Iraq, Dakhil is but [...]]]></description>
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