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IRAN: Can P5+1 Offer Break the Nuclear Stalemate?
Analysis by Trita Parsi*
WASHINGTON - The P5+1 -- the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany -- will present Tehran with a secret incentive package in the next few days to convince Iran to suspend its enrichment programme and enter negotiations.
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IRAQ: Running Out of Water in Rising Heat
By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail*
BAQUBA - Water supply is drying out in what was once the agriculturally rich Diyala province north of Baghdad. Baquba, the capital city of Diyala, is now running out of water both for drinking and for irrigation.
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POLITICS-US: Lawmakers Seek Probe of "Media Generals"
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - As U.S. television networks continue their silence about their use of retired military officers to "sell" progress in Iraq, members of the U.S. House of Representatives are calling on the Defence Department Inspector General to investigate the Pentagon-sponsored public relations effort.
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US/IRAQ: Pressure to Cut Costs, Troops Strains "Surge"
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Growing impatience in Congress over the enormous costs being racked up by the Iraq war, as well as the Pentagon's belief that it needs more troops in Afghanistan to fight insurgents there, is putting the vaunted success of the George W. Bush administration's "surge" strategy to the test.
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RIGHTS-US: Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - As human rights groups demanded the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, new torture claims were leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib "ghost" detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released without charge.
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POLITICS-US: Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - Three weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East, according to a document quoted extensively in then Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith's recently published account of the Iraq war decisions.
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US/IRAQ: "Divide and Rule" Strategy Called Shortsighted
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - Five years since U.S. president George W. Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech, critics say the administration has yet to show a credible way to actually "accomplish" the mission that could see a peaceful Iraq and a return home of U.S. troops.
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IRAQ: Refugees Look to Europe
By Zack Baddorf
DAMASCUS - "I'll go to any country," says Zirgon Tomas al-Aya, a 60-year-old Iraqi standing outside the UN Refugee Agency headquarters in Damascus.
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IRAQ: Corruption Eats Into Food Rations
By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail*
FALLUJAH - Amidst unemployment and impoverishment, Iraqis now face a cutting down of their monthly food ration – much of it already eaten away by official corruption.
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RIGHTS-US: Vets Await Verdict in Class Action Lawsuit
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - Arturo Gonzalez delivered his closing arguments inside a packed courtroom on the 17th floor of the Federal Building in downtown San Francisco.
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POLITICS-US: Economy High in Public's Foreign Policy Worries
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - The price of oil and other international economic issues are rapidly taking centre stage among the dominant foreign policy concerns of the U.S. public, which has also become increasingly sceptical about the effectiveness of military action to further Washington's interests abroad, according to a major new survey released Wednesday by the influential Foreign Affairs journal.
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BULGARIA: Two Iraqis Did Make It
By Claudia Ciobanu
SOFIA - Bulgaria, sometimes considered a safe haven for Iraqi asylum seekers, has denied refugee status to all but two applicants from Iraq since December last year. Bulgaria's move contributes to blocking land access to Europe for Iraqis fleeing violence.
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IRAQ: Poverty Gets the Survivors
By Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail*
DAMASCUS - More than a million Iraqis were lucky enough to flee into Syria. But in this relatively safe haven, there is no getting away from poverty.
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Unlike most other international news media, who report on Iraq from inside the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, IPS's Iraqi correspondents spread across the country to bring you some of the boldest reporting about this war-torn nation. To this IPS adds incisive coverage from the international centres of power where the future of Iraq is being moulded.