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An Iraqi talk show anchor planned to spend his hour today talking about the recent robbery and shooting spree against jewelry store owners. But after the third bombing with massive casualties in two days, he changed the subject. Here’s a sample of the...

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  • A Death Hits Close to Home

    Babak Dehghanpisheh | Mar 28, 2007 03:51 PM
    Baghdad, March 28, 2007. The violence in Iraq can often seem absurd. It can also hit close to home. On Monday morning, one of our Iraqi staff, who would like to be called Majid, lost his brother. It didn't grab any headlines that day, just another senseless... More
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  • An Ambassador's Farewell

    Babak Dehghanpisheh | Mar 26, 2007 04:37 PM
    Baghdad, March 26, 2007: As goodbyes go, it was a low key affair. After 21 months, Washington's man in Baghdad gathered the press corps in the Green Zone for his final remarks today. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad struck a somber tone and said he was cautiously... More
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  • The Missing Returnees

    Rod Nordland | Mar 24, 2007 12:50 PM
    Baghdad, March 24, 2007. The Baghdad Security Plan is going so well that Iraqis displaced by sectarian violence are flocking back to their homes in Baghdad, so a number of officials are telling us. The only problem with that: it's probably not true. General... More
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  • The Enemy Within

    Rod Nordland | Mar 23, 2007 05:33 PM
    Baghdad, March 23, 2007. Today it was Iraq's deputy prime minister, a Sunni, who was gravely wounded by a suicide bomber. Yesterday it was Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. Secretary General, whose press conference here was interrupted by a near miss from a rocket.... More
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  • Deployments: The Real Numbers

    Rod Nordland | Mar 22, 2007 02:40 PM
    Baghdad, March 22, 2007 : There will soon be more American soldiers in Iraq than at any point in the war so far. The incoming surge of 21,500 troops is only part of that picture; in addition, the U.S. commander, Gen. David Petraeus, has asked for an additional... More
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  • Fort Apache

    Rod Nordland | Mar 20, 2007 07:32 PM
    Patrol Base Apache, Baghdad, March 20, 2007 --This is the Baghdad Security Plan at its grass roots level, one of some 77 Combat Outposts (COPs) and Joint Security Stations (JSSs) that the U.S. military has set up in Baghdad's neighborhoods, with American... More
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  • Unhappy Anniversary

    Rod Nordland | Mar 19, 2007 10:33 AM
    Baghdad, March 19, 2007 : This is an anniversary that is only going to be commemorated by those who despise it. The war will conclude its fourth year today or tomorrow, depending how you count; U.S. bombing began on the night of March 19, and the ground... More
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  • At Last, Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq

    Rod Nordland | Mar 17, 2007 02:04 PM
    Baghdad, March 17, 2007. The rats have started devouring their own now in Anbar Province. Yesterday Sunni extremists, almost certainly al Qaeda terrorists, set off a coordinated series of three suicide truck bombs, each loaded with chlorine, which the... More
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  • Will the Real Dora Market Please Stand Up?

    Rod Nordland | Mar 16, 2007 05:00 PM
    The commander of U.S. troops in Baghdad had frank words Thursday about past failures of Baghdad security plans. "They don't have any lasting effect," said Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil Jr., head of the First Cavalry Division and Multinational Division - Baghdad,... More
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  • Iraqonyms: Technobabble for the Unspeakable

    Rod Nordland | Mar 15, 2007 07:42 PM
    Baghdad, March 15, 2007 -- The AO was full of AIFs and ECs who were planting IEDs, including EFP and HEPs, along the MSRs particularly near ECPs and TCPs, including complex attacks incorporating IDF and SAF. MI at the FOB assesses the actors were FRE... More
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  • Iraqonyms: A Glossary

    Rod Nordland | Mar 15, 2007 07:30 PM
    A civilian can be driven to distraction by the slew of military and security acronyms that punctuate briefings in Iraq. Here's an essential guide to the Iraqonyms of note: IRAQONYM LITERAL DEFINITION PLAIN ENGLISH AO Area of Operations here AIF Anti-Iraqi... More
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  • It's Not About Winning

    Rod Nordland | Mar 14, 2007 06:42 PM
    Now there's another subtle shift, even farther in the same direction, in which the military seems to be focusing away from any possible military solution, in favor of concentration on a political solution. The new U.S. commander, General David Petraeus,... More
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  • Just Another Day for Baghdad Security Plan

    Rod Nordland | Mar 13, 2007 01:22 PM
    Baghdad, March 13, 2007. Another day in the Baghdad Security Plan, and this report comes in from one of our translators, who is a Shia and basically pro-American. "Last night at 11 p.m., a U.S. force raided the College of Administration & Economy... More
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  • Ever Wonder What Iraqis Find Funny?

    Rod Nordland | Mar 12, 2007 02:30 PM
    Baghdad, March 12, 2007. Even in its darkest days, Iraq has proven to be a target-rich environment for its jokesters. Saddam Hussein made a particularly good foil . When the former dictator was hung, goes one of recent vintage, the executioners asked... More
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  • Talking At Iran

    Rod Nordland | Mar 10, 2007 03:27 PM
    As Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari was giving his opening address at Baghdad's eagerly-awaited international conference Saturday, two mortars landed in quick succession near the ministry compound just outside the Green Zone, sending journalists... More
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  • No Comment

    Rod Nordland | Mar 9, 2007 04:48 PM
    Press releases come at us from all sides in the Iraq war, and on the American side, they came fast and furious, from Corps at Camp Victory, from individual division and brigade public affairs offices throughout the theatre, from the Corps of Engineers... More
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  • Surviving Those Checkpoints

    Rod Nordland | Mar 8, 2007 02:51 PM
    March 8, 2007. Perhaps someone knows how many checkpoints there are in Baghdad these days, but all I know is that it's almost certainly in the thousands. Mostly we hear about these from our Iraqi staffers, who are scattered throughout the city in a fairly... More
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  • Of Budgets and Peacock Eggs

    Rod Nordland | Mar 7, 2007 04:15 PM
    Baghdad, March 7, 2007. This never would have happened during Saddam's regime. At a meeting today convened by the office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Barham Salih, to present the Iraqi government budget for 2007, in a week when suicide vest bombers were... More
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  • What's Up With Moqtada al Sadr?

    Rod Nordland | Mar 6, 2007 01:26 PM
    (Video: Joint Iraqi and American 'soft knock' operations are shown in footage provided by the U.S. military.) Baghdad, March 6, 2007. No neighborhood in Baghdad has proven more dangerous to American troops than the sprawling, multi-million resident slum... More
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  • Up, Up and Away

    Paul Waldschmidt | Mar 5, 2007 03:40 PM
    By Rod Nordland Baghdad, March 5, 2007. The Iraqi Air Force flies again. On Saturday, they had a little ceremony in the MNSTC-I compound in Baghdad to commemorate the acquisition of the first five American helicopters to join the Iraqi air fleet. MNSTC-I,... More
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  • Talking to Iran

    Paul Waldschmidt | Mar 3, 2007 01:38 PM
    By Rod Nordland Baghdad, March 3, 2007 . The Iraqis find themselves caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, as one official put it, meaning between the United States and Iran, or vice versa, depending on their point of view. Few governments have... More
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  • Good--and Bad--News

    Paul Waldschmidt | Mar 2, 2007 06:37 PM
    By Rod Nordland BAGHDAD: This week's passage of an oil law in Iraq has started people thinking: some good news at last. Like flacks the world over, Coalition press officers are forever reminding us that we continually give short shrift to, or even just... More
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  • The Constant Barber

    Paul Waldschmidt | Mar 1, 2007 05:45 PM
    By Rod Nordland We were hanging out in the reception annex of the Iraqi Government Building, being stripped of various possessions and waiting for our visitors' badges while enjoying the cool weather. It should be starting to get hot, but there's a cold... More
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