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Friendly Fire Tape Leaked

US attack on British convoy kills British soldier.

How Not to Occupy a Country Militarily

Libby Trial: Late Update

This is a good rundown of the story that came up in FBI testimony last week: Libby admitted that he and Cheney “may have” talked about outing Plame on July 12, 2003 (the day that Libby in fact did out Plame to Matt Cooper of TIME magazine). This was perhaps the most important piece of […]

Senate Intelligence Committee Lied for Cheney

Documents released in the Libby trialshow that Cheney was told by the CIA in 2002, before Joe Wilson’s trip to Niger, that the yellowcake story was likely bogus. Cheney has always said exactly the opposite, and these new documents show that the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee lied in their 2004 report on the affair about […]

Troops In Iraq Say “Surge” Will Fail

Another great story from Tom Lasseter. And the Washington Post reports that, the authors of the plan also doubt that it can succeed.

Iraqi Colonel Killed; US Forces Wound pro-US Television Anchor

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Feb 4 Sun 4 Feb 2007 15:22:29 GMT Feb 4 (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1500 GMT on Sunday:

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* BAGHDAD – A car bomb killed four people and wounded nine in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, police […]

Truck Bomb Kills 135 in Iraq

Reuters

Lack of Equipment Hurting Soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan

Reuters reports this, but also reports that the Iraqi military is outgunned as well. If someone had told me seven years ago I’d be reading about the US military in a war not having the weapons it needs to fight, I would have believed they were crazy.

NIE On Iraq Partially Released

The NIE on Iraq, which has been embargoed for many months, has been partially declassified. It does use the term “civil war” despite reports in major media last night that said it did not. Here’s one summary and here’s a good analysis.

4th US Helicopter Shot Down in Two Week Period

North of Baghdad