Word: iraqi
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...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...
...public, the U.S. rejects any comparison between the two cases. While Saberi is a journalist who was jailed in the course of her professional work, Washington says the three Iranian diplomats, arrested in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil in January 2007, are in fact members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which oversees Tehran's ties with militant groups elsewhere in the Middle East. Following Saberi's release on Monday, the U.S. State Department said hers was a humanitarian issue rather than a diplomatic one, and that there was no deal linking it with the detained Iranians. "There...
...Still, a different pretext could be found for releasing the detained Iranians. The U.S. is trying to hand over to Iraqi authorities all 15,000 or so detainees currently held by the U.S. in Iraq, and that would include the three Iranians (whose detention was publicly condemned by Iraqi authorities). "We're in the process of working with the Iraqis on how to transfer the Iranians and all detainees to Iraqi custody," said Geoff Morrell, spokesman for the Defense Department. If that happens, it's a safe bet they'll be freed...
...would anticipate that the major combat engagements are over because the major Iraqi units on the ground cease to show coherence." - Talking to reporters a month after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, adding: "I think we will move into a phase where it is smaller, albeit sharp, fights" (Washington Times...
Five years ago, people around the world were sickened by photographs that surfaced showing U.S. troops abusing Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Act I resulted in an avalanche of congressional hearings, 15 Pentagon probes and courts-martial. More than 400 U.S. troops - but no senior officials - went to jail or were otherwise punished. Congress passed the Detainee Treatment Act to try to prevent future atrocities...