The Pentagon has notified about 21,000 Army soldiers and Marines that they are scheduled to be sent to Iraq late this year as part of the latest deployment rotation. Four major combat brigades from Texas, Alaska and Colorado are scheduled to replace troops returning home from the war, the Pentagon said. Thus, the announcement does not signal an increase in troop strength in Iraq.In a press release Tuesday, the Pentagon said the planned assignments could change depending on the conditions in Baghdad. The move comes as Pentagon officials and the Bush administration are under increasing pressure from Congress and the public to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq. Combined with last November's announcement of 92,000 American service members scheduled to go to Iraq in the 2006-2008 rotation, ...
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 Gunmen Abduct About 85 Workers As They Leave Work at Industrial Plant North of Baghdad, Police Say |
Gunmen abducted about 85 workers Wednesday as they left work at an industrial plant north of Baghdad, police and a witness said. The workers were thought to be mostly Shiite and the plant is located in a predominantly Sunni Arab area. The witness said that about 85 workers were taken near the plant's parking lot, while police Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said they filled up a bus and a minivan. They were taken at the al-Nasr General Complex in Taji, 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Baghdad. Taji is predominantly Sunni Arab area that has seen much insurgent activity. Under Saddam Hussein, the complex was a military plant, but it now makes metal doors, windows and pipes. Kamel Mohammed, an engineer working at the plant, said by telephone he saw two of the plant's buses and a minivan intercepted by gunmen in three sedans...
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| Baghdad gunmen kill third Saddam defense lawyer |
One of Saddam Hussein's main lawyers was shot dead on Wednesday after men in police uniforms took him from his home, police and relatives said, the third defense attorney to be killed since the trial opened in October. The killing of Khamis al-Obaidi was a new setback for the U.S.-backed court. It fueled complaints that sectarian violence, some by Shi'ite militias within the police against Saddam's once dominant Sunni Arab minority, is crippling a fair trial. The lead defense lawyer called for the case to be suspended and the defendants taken abroad after the death of his deputy. ...
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| Catholic Priest Gets 10 Years for Sending Porn to Teen |
A former Roman Catholic priest convicted of sending pornographic images to a sheriff's investigator posing as a teenage boy has been sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison. Thomas Crandall, 51, was convicted earlier this month of two counts of transmitting materials harmful to minors. He was sentenced Tuesday.Crandall sent pornographic pictures of men to Christopher Buchanan, a Gulf County sheriff's investigator who had posted messages on the Internet claiming he was a teenage boy....
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| Bush on Guantanamo: ‘I’d like it to be over’ President tells Europeans that some inmates are ‘cold-blooded killers’ |
Bush on Wednesday acknowledged European concerns about the 460 detainees the United States is holding at Guantanamo Bay, but said some are “cold-blooded” killers that need to be brought to justice.“I understand their concerns,” Bush said at a U.S.-European Union summit being held here. “I’d like to end Guantanamo. I’d like it to be over with.”Bush said that 200 detainees had been sent home, and that of the 460 remaining, most are from Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Afghanistan. “There are some who need to be tried in U.S. courts,” Bush said. “They’re cold-blooded killers. They will murder somebody if they are let out on the street.”...
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| Democratic fissures in Senate's Iraq debate Competing proposals pit party leaders Reid and Kerry |
Fissures in the Democratic Party over Iraq will be on display Wednesday when the Senate takes up two proposals to withdraw U.S. forces, touching off an election-year showdown between Republicans and Democrats."Setting a deadline to redeploy U.S. troops from Iraq is necessary for success in Iraq," Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said in remarks planned for his introduction of a proposal that would require U.S. combat forces to begin leaving the war zone immediately and be out of Iraq completely by July 1, 2007. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and most of his rank-and-file colleagues don't exactly agree.They back a separate nonbinding resolution that would not set such a hard-and-fast deadline. It would simply call for - not require - the administration to begin a phased redeployment of U.S. forces this year...
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