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• Deadly Rocket & Mortar Attack on Iranian Exile Camp in Iraq: Iran Policy Committee Finds Camp Liberty to be Unsafe; Return Exiles to Camp Ashraf, Iraq
• 6 dead in rocket attack on Iraqi refugee camp
• U.N. chief condemns attack on Iran dissidents in Iraq
• Journey to Normal: Women of War Come Home
• Liberal in domestic issues, Obama a hawk on war
• Top U.S. officer says sufficient troops to remain in Afghanistan
• Bush's Paintings and the Art of Projecting Guilt
• Attack on Iranian dissident camp in Iraq kills five
• Iraq's Maliki: Assad could hold on for years
• Family of victim in gun range death defends outing

Deadly Rocket & Mortar Attack on Iranian Exile Camp in Iraq: Iran Policy Committee Finds Camp Liberty to be Unsafe; Return Exiles to Camp Ashraf, Iraq Posted: 09 Feb 2013 02:29 PM PST WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Major newspapers, including The New York Times, report rocket and mortar attacks on Iranian dissidents in Iraq. The BBC reports an Iraqi interior ministry official as stating the rockets were thought to have been fired from an area west of Baghdad where the Badr Brigade operates. It is the military wing of the Badr Organization, a Shia group aligned with the Iranian regime. ...

6 dead in rocket attack on Iraqi refugee camp Posted: 09 Feb 2013 10:34 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Rockets and mortar rounds struck a refugee camp for Iranian exiles next to Baghdad's international airport before dawn Saturday, killing six people and wounding about 40, police and U.N. officials said.

U.N. chief condemns attack on Iran dissidents in Iraq Posted: 09 Feb 2013 08:54 AM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned a deadly attack on an Iranian dissident camp in the Iraqi capital early on Saturday and demanded an investigation by Iraqi authorities. "(Ban) strongly condemns the mortar attack today on Camp Liberty, the temporary transit facility near Baghdad for former residents of Camp Ashraf," his press office said in a statement. At least five people were killed and more than 25 wounded in the rocket attack, police sources said. ...

Journey to Normal: Women of War Come Home Posted: 09 Feb 2013 07:39 AM PST PITTSBURGH, Feb. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Join the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania on Monday, Feb. 25, at noon to hear from JulieHera DeStefano, producer and director of "Journey to Normal: Women of War Come Home," a feature-length documentary about women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.  She launched this project in 2009 to explore the psychological and social dynamics of their service, to follow their re-integration into civilian life, and to preserve their stories.  It is due for theatrical release nationwide in fall 2013. ...

Liberal in domestic issues, Obama a hawk on war Posted: 09 Feb 2013 06:58 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — For all of his liberal positions on the environment, taxes and health care, President Barack Obama has proved to be a hawk when it comes to fighting terrorism.

Top U.S. officer says sufficient troops to remain in Afghanistan Posted: 09 Feb 2013 04:50 AM PST RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer said on Saturday he was confident enough U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan after 2014 to accomplish the three-part mission agreed to by allies at last year's NATO summit in Chicago. Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he did not know whether President Barack Obama would announce the size of the post-2014 U.S. force for Afghanistan during his upcoming State of the Union address. ...

Bush's Paintings and the Art of Projecting Guilt Posted: 09 Feb 2013 04:11 AM PST What's George W. Bush more annoyed about, getting hacked or getting psychoanalyzed? Hard to know, but I'm betting on the latter.

Attack on Iranian dissident camp in Iraq kills five Posted: 09 Feb 2013 03:15 AM PST BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and more than 25 wounded in a rocket attack on an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq's capital Baghdad early on Saturday, police sources said. The dissident group Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK) said six people including a woman died after its camp was hit by mortars and missiles, while the U.N. mission in Iraq said it was aware of a number of deaths. MEK calls for the overthrow of Iran's clerical leaders and fought alongside the forces of former Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. ...

Iraq's Maliki: Assad could hold on for years Posted: 09 Feb 2013 03:10 AM PST RIYADH (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could survive two more years of revolt despite U.S. expectations of a more imminent fall, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was quoted as saying on Saturday. Maliki, a Shi'ite Muslim, is seen as close to Assad's main ally Iran, but has been careful not to express support for either the Syrian leader, fighting a rebellion since early 2011, or the predominantly Sunni opposition. In an interview in Cairo with the Saudi-owned, London-based Asharq al-Awsat, Maliki said U.S. ...

Family of victim in gun range death defends outing Posted: 08 Feb 2013 06:47 PM PST MIDLOTHIAN, Texas (AP) — The man killed alongside a former Navy SEAL sniper at a Texas shooting range was helping his friend work with a troubled war veteran, and the outing was intended to be a "therapeutic situation," his relatives said Friday following his funeral.

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