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Chalabi Aide Accused of June Bombing, U.S. Deaths

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U.S. troops were waiting at the Baghdad International Airport for Ali Faisal Lami, an associate of Ahmed Chalabi, to climb down from his plane and when he did, they grabbed him. The allegations are serious: leading Iranian-backed cells of Muqtada Sadr's...

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VOICES OF THE FALLEN

The War In the Words of the Dead

Jon Meacham

Read our complete series on the war in Iraq, told through the letters home from men and women who died in the line of duty

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Iraq: Still a Dangerous Place

Rod Nordland | Nov 19, 2007 03:11 PM

This chart from the Coalition Press Information Center, the military's press office in Baghdad, is striking in its detail about the level of violence in Iraq--information the military in the past has been very reluctant to share in such depth. While it dramatically shows the drop in violence lately--it also underscores just how many attacks still continue. Fardh al-Qanoon is the Arabic name for Baghdad Security Plan, which is what the Iraqi government refers to the surge as. The surge of U.S. troops, an additional 30,000 mostly in Baghdad, reached its peak in early July, after which there's a dramatic dropoff in "sigacts". More

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