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...pictures of Obama behind the scenes in Iraq...
...torture memos at the center of the hearing are only part of the growing interrogation controversy. After taking heat over the right to release the memos, Obama now faces flak from the left over his decision to try to prevent the release of new photos showing prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. The White House had previously indicated that it would not contest an earlier federal appeals court ruling, in a case brought by the ACLU, that the images should be released. But now, citing national security and the safety of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Administration says...
...surge of violence in Iraq hasn't changed the Obama Administration's plans to withdraw American troops from the country, it has certainly forced many Iraqi refugees to put off plans to return to the country. A series of bombings across Iraq in April killed more than 200, the highest monthly body count in roughly a year. Andrew Harper, head of the Iraq Support Unit created by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told TIME that the rate of refugee return slowed dramatically in April. And a "significant number" of returnees have turned around and fled the country again...
...rise in violence is also a quandary for Iraq's neighbors, which play reluctant host to the refugees. The exact number of refugees is hard to gauge, but the Iraqi government estimates there are 2 million. The majority of them live in Syria and Jordan, which are struggling with weak economies and mounting joblessness among their own populations. Government officials in Damascus and Amman have been counting on the improving security environment in Iraq to persuade many refugees to go home. Aid workers in both countries say many refugees are being pressured to leave. (See pictures of the recent revival...
...JSOC is awesome." - George W. Bush, praising McChrystal for his "collaborative warfare" approach to gathering intelligence in Iraq and hunting down high-profile insurgents (Washington Post, Sept...