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	<title>Crikey &#187; Iraq</title>
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		<title>Obama fulfils a promise and brings the troops home</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/15/obama-fulfils-a-promise-and-brings-the-troops-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/15/obama-fulfils-a-promise-and-brings-the-troops-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mitt romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's not quite over yet, but the Iraq war is in its last days. US president Barack Obama yesterday welcomed home American troops, saying "the final work of leaving Iraq has been done."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Manne vs. The Australian: more needs to be said about The Oz&#8217;s coverage of Iraq&#8217;s WMD</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/this-blog-harms/2011/10/17/manne-vs-the-oz-on-iraq%E2%80%99s-wmd-%E2%80%93-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/this-blog-harms/2011/10/17/manne-vs-the-oz-on-iraq%E2%80%99s-wmd-%E2%80%93-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wmd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WMDs in Iraw]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=253106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more salient – yet overlooked – aspects of Robert Manne's <em>Quarterly Essay</em> <em>Bad News</em> is its assessment of <em>The Oz’s</em> coverage of the Iraq War and its aftermath, writes <b>NAJ Taylor</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>War on terror: how to calculate if it has been worth it</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/20/war-on-terror-how-to-calculate-if-it-has-been-worth-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/20/war-on-terror-how-to-calculate-if-it-has-been-worth-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost benefit analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost of the war on terror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on terror]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=230089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a way to calculate how much value we've got from our war on terror spending. The result isn't encouraging.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The winners from the war on terror</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/17/the-winners-from-the-war-on-terror-terrorists-and-property-owners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/17/the-winners-from-the-war-on-terror-terrorists-and-property-owners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost of the war on terror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counter terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on terror]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=229932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our $16.7 billion spending on the war on terror had ended up in some interesting hands -- and hasn't necessarily reduced the threat of terrorism.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/17/the-winners-from-the-war-on-terror-terrorists-and-property-owners/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>WikiLeaks spokesman: Guardian, NYT wanted to rush war logs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/16/wikileaks-spokesman-guardian-nyt-wanted-to-rush-war-logs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/16/wikileaks-spokesman-guardian-nyt-wanted-to-rush-war-logs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomatic cables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Assange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristinn Hrafnsson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mirabella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Guardian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=229578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The doyens of the mainstream media were the ones flirting with danger over Wikileaks material, not the site itself, Kristinn Hrafnsson reveals. <b>Bernard Keane</b> and <b>Matthew Knott</b> report.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gillard in DC: plus ça change, plus c&#8217;est la même chose?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/09/gillard-in-dc-plus-ca-change-plus-cest-la-meme-chose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/09/gillard-in-dc-plus-ca-change-plus-cest-la-meme-chose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no-fly zone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=209001</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While Julia Gillard adopts the time-honoured position of an Australian leader in Washington, Kevin Rudd is having a great time doing his own thing]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to holiday in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2285548/pagenum/all/#p2</link>
		<comments>http://www.slate.com/id/2285548/pagenum/all/#p2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurdistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=206932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iraq isn't on most people's 10 holiday destination lists, but the Tourism Minister for Kurdistan -- a renegade state of Iraq -- is trying to change that. Sure, there may not be public bathrooms, but a deep sense of history and beautiful landscape makes it an interesting spot for a getaway.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Egypt-Iraq parallel</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/16/the-egypt-iraq-parallel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/16/the-egypt-iraq-parallel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flying foxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=203891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers have their say.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rumsfeld on Rumsfeld</title>
		<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-02/donald-rumfeld-still-defiant-in-new-book-known-and-unknown</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-02/donald-rumfeld-still-defiant-in-new-book-known-and-unknown#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Rumsfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wmds in iraq]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=201264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly, Donald Rumsfeld's forthcoming memoirs <em>Known and Unknown</em> defends his legacy and its numerous controversies. On the issue of WMDs in Iraq, Rumsfeld insists neither he nor Dubya lied. "The less dramatic truth is that we we wrong," Rummy writes. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iraq War Logs: the Australian contingent</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/25/iraq-war-logs-the-australian-contingent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/25/iraq-war-logs-the-australian-contingent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian defence force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War Logs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=180639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crikey has started sifting through the nearly 400,000 US military records that make up Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs and has identified over 60 reports as most likely referring to Australian troops, writes <b>freelance writer Luke Miller</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hung parliaments around the world</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/06/crikey-clarifier-hung-parliaments-around-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/06/crikey-clarifier-hung-parliaments-around-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey Intern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Clarifier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hung parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Netherlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK election]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=169695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia is in political limbo. To address the concerns <em>Crikey</em> takes a look at other hung parliaments around the world -- and the only previous federal one in Australia -- to see exactly how everyone else coped or is coping.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nothing surprising about Coalition figures</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/02/nothing-surprising-about-coalition-figures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/02/nothing-surprising-about-coalition-figures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=169069</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That the Coalition election promises do not add should surprise no one]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama could be turning the page on Iraq too early</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/01/obama-could-be-turning-the-page-on-iraq-too-early/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/01/obama-could-be-turning-the-page-on-iraq-too-early/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US military]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=168868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has announced the end of the seven-year US combat mission in Iraq today. But an expert has told <em>Crikey</em> that the withdrawal is premature and violence in the troubled nation could escalate.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/01/obama-could-be-turning-the-page-on-iraq-too-early/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iraqi Freedom isn&#8217;t there&#8230; yet</title>
		<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704271804575405131508298408.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</link>
		<comments>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704271804575405131508298408.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=160709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the US prepares to wind back its military operations in Iraq, the Iraqi government is still a faction-filled mess. The makings of a democracy are there, now it's time for the Iraqis to move themselves forward.]]></description>
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		<title>The villages still mutilating their children</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/05/female-genital-mutilation-kurdish-iraq</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/05/female-genital-mutilation-kurdish-iraq#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[genital mutilation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kurdish region]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=150918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A graphic but insightful look into the practice of female genital mutilation occurring in Kurdish Iraq to help "purify" young girls and their families.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Trash &amp; treasure, Iraq style</title>
		<link>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100621/wl_nm/us_iraq_usa_waste</link>
		<comments>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100621/wl_nm/us_iraq_usa_waste#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=147648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Garage sales aren't just limited to the junk filled house down the block. The U.S. military in Iraq are staging their own everything-must-go spring clean out -- with fridges, air-cons and other items for sale while stocks last. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Aid workers will face terror charges after new US court ruling</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/22/aid-workers-will-face-terror-charges-after-new-us-court-ruling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/22/aid-workers-will-face-terror-charges-after-new-us-court-ruling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanitarian aid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tamil Tigers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=147497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bringing warring terrorist groups to the negotiating table and using them to help deliver aid is a desirable means of reducing conflict. But a US Supreme Court ruling has just made it a whole lot harder.]]></description>
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		<title>Detainee torture at secret Iraqi prison</title>
		<link>http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/04/27/iraq-detainees-describe-torture-secret-jail</link>
		<comments>http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/04/27/iraq-detainees-describe-torture-secret-jail#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muthanna prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=134157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Human Rights Watch</em> has a shocking investigation into the torture of detainees at a secret Iraqi prison in Baghdad recently: inmates were handcuffed, blindfolded, hung upside down, kicked, whipped, beaten, and once they'd passed out from pain, woken with electric shocks to the genitals.]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: US military slays citizens and journos in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.collateralmurder.com/en/index.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.collateralmurder.com/en/index.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[citizen casualties]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=128169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>WikiLeaks</em> has released a classified US military video which it says shows the "indiscriminate slaying" of civilians and Reuters journalists in Iraq in 2007, on a comprehensive website called <em><a href="http://www.collateralmurder.com">Collateral Murder</a></em>, including a <a href="http://www.collateralmurder.com/en/timeline.html">timeline</a> and <a href="http://www.collateralmurder.com/en/transcript.html">transcript</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi police: a $6-billion black hole</title>
		<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/235221/page/1</link>
		<comments>http://www.newsweek.com/id/235221/page/1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=124959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The US has invested $6 billion into training Iraq's police force -- yet most are barely trained, can't operate on their own, and the organisation is rife with corruption. ]]></description>
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		<title>Friedman: It&#8217;s in the capable hands of the Iraqis now</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/opinion/10friedman.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/opinion/10friedman.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=122654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent election in Iraq is a big deal. Iraqis overcame major sectarian disputes and voted despite the violence and bombings. This is how peace will be achieved in the region: when the citizens are prepared to fight for it. Watch out, Ahmadinejad.]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblogging the Iraqi election</title>
		<link>http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/iraqi-elections-live-blogging-election-day/?hp</link>
		<comments>http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/iraqi-elections-live-blogging-election-day/?hp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=121456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-iraq-vote7-2010mar07,0,268014.story">bomb and rocket attacks</a> by insurgents, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7053236.ece">millions of Iraqis</a> have turned out to vote in the country's pivotal election. The <em>NYT</em> is liveblogging the vote, the results and the fallout as it occurs.]]></description>
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		<title>How social networking toppled Saddam</title>
		<link>http://www.slate.com/default.aspx?id=2245228</link>
		<comments>http://www.slate.com/default.aspx?id=2245228#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=118589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first in a fascinating five part series on how the US military managed to finally capture Saddam Hussein. By changing how the military views the enemy -- focusing on their social networks not just a hierarchy system -- it's become a success story for modern warfare.]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Kissinger: Obama needs to do more in Iraq than just leave</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020202682.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020202682.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=114424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Iraq, Barack Obama needs to focus on more than just withdrawing US troops. The war is shifting the whole geopolitics of the region and the future of radical Islam, writes former Secretary of State <b>Henry Kissinger</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to Yasser, Times driver and unsung hero of the Iraq war</title>
		<link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7003347.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&#038;attr=797093</link>
		<comments>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7003347.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&#038;attr=797093#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=112989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK <em>Times</em> pays tribute to its driver in Baghdad of seven years, who was killed in a recent bombing attack on the city. A touching piece that highlights the unsung heroes who make war reporting possible.]]></description>
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