Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush sought
to salvage his legacy on the world stage on Wednesday by
defending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and appealing to
Russia to drop opposition to a missile defense shield.
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AFP - Iraqi forces need to be strengthened and some troops are “not up to the task”, the US said Wednesday, after police and army units failed to crush Shiite militiamen despite a weeklong crackdown in Basra.
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AP - Black banners announcing the deaths of Mahdi Army fighters plaster the streets. Scores of Shiite militiamen gather at the funeral of a fallen comrade as a U.S. helicopter gunship hovers above.
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AFP - American military bases in Iraq have turned the United States into a “neighbouring” country, Jordan’s Prince Hassan told a security seminar this week.
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AFP - Iraq is expected to buy more than 590 million dollars in military equipment in 2008, including weapons and ammunition, the US military said on Wednesday.
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AFP - Insurgents killed at least 15 people and wounded several others in spate of bombings and shootings across Iraq on Wednesday, officials said.
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AFP - Three people were killed and another 13 wounded, including a cameraman with Iraq’s independent Al-Diyar satellite television, in a roadside bombing in Baghdad on Wednesday, officials said.
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AFP - The Iraqi government’s failure to wipe out Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army during a crackdown in Basra last week may leave the group stronger in the long run, a senior US senator said Tuesday.
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Reuters - A roadside bomb exploded near a
convoy carrying Iraqi generals in a Shi’ite militia stronghold
in the southern city of Basra on Wednesday, but the officials
were unhurt, one of the officers said.
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AP - The Iraqi commander of an offensive against Shiite militias has led a convoy into a Mahdi Army stronghold that has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the southern city of Basra.
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