BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, making a surprise visit to Iraq aimed at containing the prisoner abuse scandal, said Thursday administration lawyers are advising the Pentagon not to publicly release any more photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused by U.S. soldiers. As far as I'm concerned, I'd be happy to release them all to the public and to get it behind us," Rumsfeld told reporters traveling with him from Washington. "But at the present time I don't know anyone in the legal shop in any element of the government that is recommending that.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A car bomb exploded Thursday at a hotel in the southern city of Basra as a British military patrol passed by, killing five Iraqi bystanders -- the latest in a series of attacks just before the anniversary of the start of the war. In Baghdad, rescue crews called off their search for survivors of Wednesday's bombing of another hotel just days before the anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The U.S. military confirmed Thursday the hotel attack was a suicide bombing and lowered the death toll to 17 civilians.
Larry Roberta's every breath is a painful reminder of his time in Iraq. He can't walk a block without gasping for air. His chest hurts, his migraines sometimes persist for days and he needs pills to help him sleep. James Gentry came home with rashes, ear troubles and a shortness of breath. Later, things got much worse: He developed lung cancer.
WASHINGTON -- Emboldened by a successful first vote against President Bush's Iraq war policy, Senate Democrats said Thursday they were wary of the administration's anticipated $1.2 billion request for reconstruction there. Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he wants assurances from the administration that the money would not fuel corruption or the insurgency in Iraq.
By Patrick Wilson and Louis Hansen The Virginian-Pilot
- The number of American troops killed in Iraq in October reached the highest monthly total in a year Thursday after four Marines and a sailor died. The U.S. military said 96 U.S. troops have died so far in October, the most in one month since October 2005, when the same number was killed. The U.S. military said the five service members killed in the volatile Anbar province included a sailor assigned to the 3rd Naval Construction Regiment. Two of the Marines were attached to Regimental Combat Team 5, and two others to Regimental Combat Team 7. All died from wounds suffered in attacks Wednesday. - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the United States would increase its support for Iraqi security forces. "We intend to increase their budgets," he said, and their capabilities, and offic...
BAGHDAD Sometime soon, the U.S. military will suffer the 4,000th death of the war in Iraq. When the 1,000th American died in September 2004, the insurgency was just gaining steam. The 2,000th death came as Iraq held its first elections in decades, in October 2005. The U.S. announced its 3,000th loss on the last day of 2006, at the end of a year rocked by sectarian violence.
The formal end of the U.S. war in Iraq on Thursday enhanced neighboring Iran as a major, unpredictable factor in the U.S. presidential election of 2012. First, a look back: Iran's mullahs already had one opportunity to affect American politics, in 1980. Their seizure and occupation of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for 444 days haunted President Carter's re-election campaign and - thanks to such developments as yellow ribbons, a "Rose Garden" strategy, a failed rescue operation and ABC's "America Held Hostage" program - contributed to his defeat. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini rebuffed Mr. Carter's hopes for an "October surprise" release of the hostages and twisted the knife one final time by freeing them exactly as Ronald Reagan took the presidential oath. Today, Iran has two potential roles ...
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