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US investigators have found that American troops who shot an Italian agent to death at a Baghdad checkpoint March 4 followed proper procedures, an Army official said yesterday. But Italy was disputing two factual issues in the report: the speed of the car and the nature of communications between the Italians and US forces before the shooting. Intelligence officer Nicola Calipari was killed while escorting freed Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena.
A front-page article yesterday about Bush administration pressure on Iraqi political leaders to reach a compromise on a government included an erroneous identification provided inadvertently by a State Department official for an Iraqi who had been telephoned by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He was Massoud Barzani, leader of a main Kurdish political party, not Jalal Talabani, an Iraqi Kurd who is the new president.
Following training, Iraqi soldiers will be capable of protecting the Green Zone
and its surrounding areas without assistance from the U.S. military.
U.S. soldiers assigned to the 6th Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division took the first steps toward the success of their new mission in Iraq April 18 -- training the ?Defenders of the Green Zone.?
More reports on training:
Staff Sergeant Lloyd Pegues (1-30th Infantry, Fort Benning, GA), an instructer at the Iraqi Army Academy, talks about the progress of the Iraqui forces.
Captain Michael Whitney (1-30th Infantry, Fort Benning, GA) went along for the ride as the Iraqi Army to house to house searches.
Coalition forces captured 18 suspected terrorists during a search-and-seizure operation conducted April 22-24 in Babil province, Iraq. Elsewhere, a security detainee died at a U.S. military hospital.
Jordanian rebel Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ? Iraq's most wanted fugitive ? recently eluded capture by American troops, but left behind a treasure trove of information, a senior military official told ABC News
Wrapping up his investigation into Saddam Hussein's purported arsenal, the CIA's top weapons hunter in Iraq said his search for weapons of mass destruction "has been exhausted" without finding any.
Report Finds No Evidence Syria Hid Iraqi Arms
U.S. investigators hunting for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have found no evidence that such material was moved to Syria for safekeeping before the war, according to a final report of the investigation released yesterday.
Insurgents fighting against US forces and the new government in Iraq are making a concerted effort to gain chemical weapons capability and have already used old Iraqi chemical munitions in their attacks, the top US weapons investigator has warned.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told the nation Monday that the collapse of the Soviet empire "was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century" and had fostered separatist movements inside Russia.
President Bush on Monday pressed Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah to help curb skyrocketing oil prices that are hurting the budgets of American families and businesses.
Crude oil futures slipped Monday as President Bush and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah met, in part, to discuss possible ways to bring down high oil prices.
The United States' top diplomat in Venezuela on Monday denied claims by President Hugo Chavez that a woman linked to the U.S. military had been arrested while photographing a military installation.
Zacarias Moussaoui?s guilty plea last week in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and his admission that he was training for a separate, post-9/11 attack on the White House, reveal a chilling truth about al Qaeda, the new secretary of homeland security said today.
An Afghan man regarded by the US as one of the world's most wanted heroin traffickers has been arrested, American officials have announced.
..."You are Muslim, aren't you?" he said to the Turkish manager of one fully stocked bar. "You aren't allowed to serve this liquor."
"We are Muslim," manager Cenk Acar said. "But this is business."
An Afghan woman was stoned to death in the northeastern Badakhshan province on the basis of a Fatwa (decree) issued by religious scholars after reportedly finding her guilty of adultery.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is downplaying suggestions the United States might seek United Nations approval for a blockade of North Korea to prevent it from exporting nuclear technology or material. Ms. Rice says the Bush administration remains committed to the Chinese-sponsored six-party talks to persuade Pyongyang to end its nuclear program.
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of four U.S. servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors.
Only one in two Germans below the age of 24 know that the term 'Holocaust' is used to describe the mass murder of Jews by the Nazi regime, the daily newspaper Die Welt reported on Saturday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has overcome fierce opposition attacks over his support for the Iraq war to hold a strong lead in the run-up to a May 5 general election, two opinion polls showed on Tuesday.
The government is bracing itself for the possibility that the 13 pages of legal advice drawn up by the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, in the build-up to the Iraq war will be leaked, as many expect, in the next few days.
Comic books and soldiers have been allies since the earliest days of World War II, when Superman and Captain America sold war bonds, promoted paper drives and battled Nazis at home and abroad.
Now superheroes are going back to the front.
