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28 May 2008 - Iraq Special Weapons News

Operations
Deployments
US Policy
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
Foreign Reactions
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Current Operations

Deployments

  • 'Surge' Brigade redeploys (Diyala) MNF-I 28 May 2008 -- Approximately, 4,000 Soldiers from the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, are redeploying back to Fort Lewis, Wash., next month.

US Policy

  • Former Bush Aide Says Iraq Invasion Was Blunder VOA 28 May 2008 -- A controversial new book by former White House Spokesman Scott McClellan says President Bush's decision to invade Iraq five years ago was a serious strategic blunder
  • Bush misled US on Iraq: McClellan IRNA 28 May 2008 -- Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that a sophisticated 'political propaganda campaign' led by President Bush 'manipulated public opinion' and 'downplayed the major reason for going to war'.
  • Former Top White House Aide Says Bush Misled US on Iraq War VOA 28 May 2008 -- The former spokesman for U.S. President George Bush, Scott McClellan, says in a new book that the president led a "propaganda" campaign aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" to sell the Iraq war to the American people.
  • Rice to Push Sunni Arabs on Iraq Ties VOA 28 May 2008 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joins delegates from about 100 countries and organizations Thursday at a conference in Stockholm aimed at reinforcing Iraq's security and economy. She will push for greater support for Iraq's Shiite-led coalition government among its Sunni-Arab neighbors

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

  • PRESS CONFERENCE: Iraqi Security Forces: May 28, 2008 MNF-I 28 May 2008 -- Mr. Adnan al-Asadi, Senior Deputy Minister of Interior; General Nasr Abadi, Vice Chief of Staff, Iraqi Armed Forces; Lt. Gen. James Dubik, Commanding General, Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq; and Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, spokesman for Multi-National Force - Iraq, discuss developments in preparedness of the Iraqi Security Forces
  • Violence Against Women Widespread in Northern Iraq VOA 28 May 2008 -- An Amnesty International report on worldwide human rights says violence against women is widespread in northern Iraq

Foreign Reactions

News Reports



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