The US governments Iraqi Survey Group, the group tasked to find the evidence of Iraqi WMD programs and weaponry will not be returning to Iraq reports the BBC today. They will instead be refocused to counter the insurgency in Iraq. Why are they stopping the search for WMD? Well.. because there are none. Funny, some …
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Iraqi PM says not all of Iraq will have elections
Well, it’s official. Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said today (BBC) that “some pockets” of Iraq will not participate in the elections on January 30th. Presumably it would be because of the security situation. He said the pockets “are not large”… but until we learn exactly who will and will not be voting we can’t …
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Canada ups pledge to $400 million
UPDATE 1: The CBC now reports that the government has officially announced $425 million over 5 years. What’s more, personal donations from Canadians has reached $100 million including the largest single personal donation every made, $5 million, to the Canadian Red Cross coming from “Music World’ music store millionaires Kroum and Evan Pindoff. Correction I …