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...offs may have wider reverberations. Two months after sovereignty was handed over to Iraqis, large swaths of the country are controlled by a flourishing assortment of insurgents. U.S. forces have abdicated power in Fallujah, been chased out of Ramadi and Samarra, and are scrambling to keep hold of Baqubah, Tikrit and Mosul. Even in Baghdad, gunmen have turned areas of the capital into deadly no-go zones. While U.S. and Iraqi officials insist they have the firepower to contain the violence, the agonizing search for a way out in Najaf was the latest reminder that military might isn't enough...
...Harvard Republican Club (HRC) Secretary Lauren K. Truesdell ’06 said a Wednesday United Press International article that featured unnamed sources claiming three nuclear warheads were found in Tikrit, Iraq, could cause a swing back towards Bush...
...KILLED. OSAMA KASHMOULA, governor of Nineveh province in northern Iraq; in a roadside grenade ambush; between the cities of Tikrit and Bayji. The former professor of agriculture, appointed governor in April, was the highest-ranking Iraqi official to be killed by insurgents since May. The ambush occurred as Kashmoula was on his way to meet Iraqi President Sheik Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar...
...Baghdad, began waking to the sound of explosions. A convoy of U.S. troops from the 1st Infantry Division had been ambushed by insurgents nearby, leaving two American soldiers dead, according to Maj. Debra Stewart,a spokeswoman for the Division which is headquartered nearby in Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit. At the same time, insurgents laid siege to the home of Diyala province's police chief, and torched...
...late afternoon, calm had been restored in most of the target cities. Maj. Stewart said the 1stID had regained control of the Blue Dome - although from Tikrit, Division commanders seemed unclear about whether all police stations were now in coalition hands...