Insurgents Kill Marine and Police Ahead of Elections
Insurgents killed a U S Marine and nine Iraqi police in attacks across western Anbar and northern Iraq. Fourteen Americans were wounded as insurgents pressed to disrupt the planned nationwide Jan. 30 elections. Police officers were shot in Beiji and southwest Baghdad.
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Fallujah
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Associated Press
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Najeeb al-Joubouri
Beiji
Saidiyah
Saddam's illicit oil profits funded Iraqi purchases
CIA investigators say Saddam Hussein turned to illicit oil sales to Syria and trade with Syria, Jordan and Turkey to finance missile and air defense purchases from North Korea and Belarus. U.S. and allied knowledge or tacit consent fed Baghdad's illegal finances, surpassing the oil for food program in scale.
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Turkey
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D-Calif
GOP
Christopher Shays
Connecticut
House
National Security
Arafat nephew hints death may be unnatural
Nasser al-Kidwa, Yasser Arafat’s nephew and UN envoy, suggested the Palestinian leader’s death could have been unnatural after presenting the 558 page medical dossier in Ramallah. Doctors had not found poisons in Arafat’s body, and the remarks threaten to renew poisoning rumors amid shifting Middle East diplomacy.
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