Word: mosul
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...city of Kirkuk, and reverse the effects of Saddam's expulsion of Kurds and settlement of Arabs in the city. And they want control over substantial oil revenues generated in their bailiwick. Those demands are rejected not only by the Arab and Turkomen minorities living in Kirkuk and Mosul, but also by the Shi'ite religious leadership which opposes minority vetoes and the dismembering of Iraq. The interim constitution brokered by the U.S. allows them to maintain their de facto autonomy and grants them a veto over any future Iraqi constitution not to their liking, but Shi'ite leader Grand...
Insurgent attacks that killed more than 80 people in Iraq campaign appear to have been tightly synchronized across hundreds of miles. The targets, mostly Iraqi police facilities, ranged from Mosul in the north, down through Baquba and out to the West in Ramadi - 60 miles from Baghdad - and Fallujah, 40 miles west of the capital...
...insurgents' synchronization occurred within each city, as well as across the country: in Mosul, seven car bombs exploded outside police stations, killing at least 56 people, according to the Ministry of Health. In Ramadi, two police stations were attacked, killing seven police officers and one Iraqi National Guard soldier...
...early on he had to go beyond the book." Chafing at the Pentagon's penny-pinching bureaucracy, Petraeus - whose Princeton thesis was entitled "The American military and the Lessons of Vietnam" -opted early on in the occupation to spend every cent of his discretionary budget on community projects around Mosul. Minutes into TIME's interview this week, he can scarcely wait to report that the defunct asphalt factory in Mosul which he reopened last year is now producing 200 tons a day. "There are trees falling in the forest and no one is hearing them," he says. "Of course...
Lieutenant General David Petraeus has just returned to his office in Baghdad's Republican Palace from visiting a close friend - a tribal sheikh he had come to know well during his 10-month command of the 101st Airborne Division in the northern city of Mosul. As is often the case, Petraeus is one lucky man: His friend, Sheikh Ghazi Yawar, was appointed as Iraq's new president three weeks ago. And Yawar's most critical priority is the one Petraeus is now charged with overseeing: getting Iraq's military and police forces up and running. "It was wonderful...