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• Editorialist sums up the costs of the Iraq war

  - 2008-04-14

  "Wasted dollars are just one of the costs. Nearly 4,000 U.S. troops and at least tens of thousands of Iraqis have lost their lives. The conflict has left Iraq divided along its religious and ethnic fault, strengthened the theocracy in Iran, and made Uncle Sam a pariah in much of...

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• "Liberated" Fallujah as a "model city"

  - 2004-12-27

  "The US military is drawing up plans to keep insurgents from regaining control of this battle-scarred city, but returning residents may find that the measures make Fallujah look more like a police state than the democracy they have been promised," reported a December 5 Boston Globe dispatch from Iraq. ...

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• As Kurds return to oil-rich city, a fragile ethnic detente emerges.

  - 2004-12-14

  By Thanassis Cambanis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 14--KIRKUK, Iraq -- Hassan Mohammed Amin brought his seven children to a 200-square-yard patch of mud and set up home on the edge of this city in August as part of...

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• Kerry to travel to Iraq, meet with troops.

  - 2004-12-09

  By Glen Johnson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 9--Senator John F. Kerry, who rooted his unsuccessful presidential campaign in an alternate vision of the Iraqi occupation, will visit that nation next month during a swing through the Middle ...

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• Soldiers headed to Iraq grill Rumsfeld.

  - 2004-12-09

  By Rick Klein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 9--WASHINGTON -- US soldiers in Kuwait who are headed to Iraq put Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on the defensive yesterday, grilling him about extended tours of duty and the continued lack...

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• Military interrogators objected to tactics at Iraqi prison, documents show.

  - 2004-12-08

  By Charlie Savage, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 8--WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration's aggressive techniques for extracting information from detainees captured in Afghanistan and Iraq sparked sharp dissent among some experienced interrogators in the military and the ...

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• Fear of ethnic conflict charges unrest in Mosul, Iraq.

  - 2004-11-30

  By Thanassis Cambanis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 30--MOSUL, Iraq -- After Saddam Hussein was ousted and his security apparatus collapsed, many Iraqis predicted ethnic war. They feared ethnic militias like the Kurdish Peshmerga would fill the security...

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• In Mosul, Iraq, Kurdish militia helps keep order.

  - 2004-11-18

  By Thanassis Cambanis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 18--MOSUL, Iraq -- Real power on Iraq's streets often lies in the hands of men like Sadi Ahmed Pire. Iraqi police fled in the face of the insurgent offensive in...

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• US, Iraqi troops fight to retake control in Mosul.

  - 2004-11-17

  By Thanassis Cambanis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 17--MOSUL, Iraq -- American and Iraqi troops yesterday fought to reclaim police stations from insurgents who seized control of broad swaths of this sprawling northern city in what a top Kurdish...

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• Powell resignation to prompt broad shift in Bush foreign policy approach.

  - 2004-11-16

  By Anne E. Kornblut, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 16--WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and three other members of the Bush Cabinet announced their resignations yesterday, clearing the way for a broad transformation, particularly in ...

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