A series of explosions ripped through Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 23 people and dealing a shattering blow to the new Iraqi government's attempts to impose a security blanket on the capital. The seven separate blasts at locations across the city are likely similarly to frustrate the efforts of the White House to demonstrate a degree of progress in Iraq since the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi earlier this month, and the surprise visit to Baghdad last Monday by President George Bush.In the meantime, a new Pentagon investigation revealed details of abusive treatment of detainees in Iraq early in 2004 by members of US special forces. The report said the soldiers were continuing to use interrogation techniques that had been ruled unacceptable several months earlier by the Pentagon because they were too harsh, including feeding one inmate on bread and water only for 17 days....
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 String of Blasts by Insurgents Kills at Least 27 in Baghdad Despite Move to Boost Security |
Insurgents foiled heightened security in Baghdad and killed more than two dozen people Saturday after an al-Qaida threat to avenge the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, dealing a blow to the Iraqi government's pledge to bring peace to the capital. Eleven more Iraqis, including four in Baghdad, died in shooting attacks across Iraq. U.S. troops, meanwhile, combed through the "Triangle of Death," a predominantly Sunni Arab region south of the capital looking for two soldiers missing since an attack Friday on a traffic checkpoint that also killed one of their comrades. The spree of bombings and mortar attacks in Baghdad was an embarrassment for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who ordered more police and army checkpoints for the city last week to restore security for its 5 million residents. ...
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| The Medical Home, Catching on in the United States, May Be Future of Primary Care |
The frustration used to start on the phone. Every time Donna Dunlop called her daughter's pediatrician, she started from scratch, describing the girl's complex history of seizures and other neurological problems to someone in a remote office who had never heard of her. Specialists arrived at appointments clutching Elena Spahr's medical history a stack of bulging folders well over a foot high yet failing to grasp the bigger picture. An oblivious X-ray technician once asked her mother, "Can you just have her stand over here?" "The kid's in a wheelchair and completely unable to do that," Dunlop said. "It seems small, and yet I can't tell you how hard it is when no one has been clued into the reality that child faces." Several years later, Elena,...
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| Mexico's Leftist Presidential Candidate Takes Hard Line Against NAFTA |
Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said for the first time Saturday he would not honor Mexico's commitment under NAFTA to eliminate tariffs on U.S. corn and beans if he is elected. Tariffs on all agricultural products must be removed in 2008 under the North American Free Trade Agreement. But Lopez Obrador said he opposed eliminating tariffs on U.S. white corn and beans, showing no allegiance to a deal he sees as harmful to Mexican farmers. "We are not going to accept this clause that they signed," Lopez Obrador told supporters in Chiapas, an extremely poor farming state. With two weeks to go before the July 2 election, the fiery ex-Mexico City mayor is running about even with his main opponent, Felipe Calderon of the conservative governing National Action Party, or PAN. ...
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| Kazakhstan puts its first satellite into space |
The former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan launched its first communications satellite into orbit on Sunday, joining the club of world space powers. Russian President Vladimir Putin joined Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to witness the launch of the unmanned, Russian-built KazSat 1 as the sun rose over the barren steppe surrounding the Baikonur Cosmodrome in western Kazakhstan. The $65 million satellite is part of Nazarbayev's wider plan to raise the profile of his country, one of the world's top 20 oil producers, as a key player in the Central Asian region while maintaining good ties with neighbouring Russia. ...
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| Report: Insurgents captured soldiers Witness tells NY Times he saw two U.S. soldiers being led away |
Iraqi witnesses say they saw 2 US soldiers who survived an attack at a checkpoint near Baghdad being led away by masked insurgents to a pair of cars, The N Y Times is reporting in its Sun edition. "There are intelligence indicators [that] they may have been captured alive rather than killed," a senior military official told CNN on Sat night. One US soldier was killed in the attack, and a massive search was under way Sat for the 2 who are unaccounted for. The paper cited Iraqis in the area, who were interviewed by telephone from Baghdad, as saying the attack appeared to have been intended to lure some soldiers away and separate the force. What are we going to do if they put our soldiers in dog cages and treat them like we did those at Getmo? All that our stupid leaders have done to prisoners that fell into our hands may come back to haunt us. Remember our fearless leaders think torture is ok. I wonder if they would still be talking so tough if they were on the receiving end? ...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/17/soldiers.missing/index.html?section=cnn_world
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