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...Baghdad An Echo of Iraq's Dark Days A pair of deadly suicide attacks in the Iraqi capital have stoked fears that Sunni extremists may be preparing more violence in anticipation of the U.S. troop pullout later this year. On March 10, 33 people were killed in a blast following a reconciliation meeting in the town of Abu Ghraib on the outskirts of Baghdad. Two days earlier, at least 28 died in a similar attack outside Baghdad's police academy...
...increasingly caught in the middle even as it continues its military mission against die-hard insurgents in places like Mosul, mindful of the fast-approaching deadline to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraqi cities by the end of June, ahead of a complete pullout by 2011. "I don't know if I'm a mediator," says Colonel Gary Volesky, brigade commander of the 3rd Heavy Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, stationed in Mosul, adding that his mission was to rout out insurgents. Still, Kurdish leaders, including Nechirvan Barzani, Prime Minister of Kurdistan, have said they want the U.S. to stay...
Still, as Democrats weigh another bank bailout and a potential second stimulus bill, the global-warming legislation may get knocked another rung down the ladder - a terrible waste of a rare opportunity for dramatic action, in the eyes of U.S. environmentalists still smarting from the Bush Administration's pullout from the Kyoto Protocol. "Right now we have a degree of flexibility [regarding] what we need to do and what other countries are willing to do," says David Doniger, policy director at the NRDC's Climate Center. "That tremendous opportunity may be lost at this moment if this drags...
...really more of a multimedia curriculum for Evangelical small groups than it is a traditional magazine - a trade more than a consumer publication. The magazine, which will come out four times a year, comes packaged with a DVD that features six half-hour talks by Warren and a pullout companion guide for groups to facilitate discussion. (Read "Finding God on YouTube...
...Army bosses in Baghdad didn't. "Maybe because of my experience - and certainly because the Marines were doing so well - I had a sense that things were doable," Kelly said, "perhaps before other people had a sense that they were doable." As Obama unveils the specifics of his pullout plan, he can only hope he's as sure-footed as Kelly...