Rumsfeld Flies to Northern Iraq for Visit
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Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld will speak at a conference in Munich this weekend after the German prosecutor's office announced Thursday that it would not pursue a request to investigate war-crimes allegations against him arising from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, U.S. defense officials said.
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BAGHDAD - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is on his first visit to Iraq since its interim government was installed in June. Speaking to 1,500 Marines at an air base he said the insurgent violence is likely
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MOSUL, Iraq -- US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited wounded soldiers and brought holiday greetings today amid tight security at the air base in northern Iraq where an insurgent&#39;s attack killed 22 people earlier this week.
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Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a secret farewell trip to Iraq, ABC News reported on Saturday.
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Iraq's prime minister said today his country's troops are on their way to the northern city of Mosul for a "decisive" confrontation with militants there.
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-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited wounded soldiers and brought holiday greetings on Christmas Eve at an air base in Mosul where a suicide bomber killed 14 US troops and eight other people earlier this week.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  paid U.S. troops in Iraq a surprise Christmas Eve visit after  weeks of controversy over his handling of the war and perceived  lack of sensitivity to American forces and their families.
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A rocket attack and suicide car bombing  killed at least four people in Baghdad Sunday as Defense  Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began an unannounced visit to Iraq to  gauge efforts to calm violence before January elections.
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld makes a surprise visit to the Iraqi city of Mosul, where a bomb killed 22 people.
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Landing under the cover of darkness, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in northern Iraq early Friday for an unannounced Christmas Eve visit with US troops at a base where 22 people died at the hands of a suicide bomber this
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  paid a surprise Christmas visit on Friday to troops in the  Iraqi city of Mosul, scene of the deadliest attack on Americans  since last year's war to oust Saddam Hussein.
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Condoleezza Rice has made a surprise visit to the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk, a day after the US appeared to give tacit approval to the bombing of rebel Kurdish bases by Turkish jets.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was  set to meet defense chiefs from about 18 nations aboard a U.S.  aircraft carrier in the Gulf Saturday as the United States  looks to improve the security situation in Iraq with January  elections looming.
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[World News]: Baghdad, Dec 24 : US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Friday visited US troops at a main base outside the restive Iraqi city of Fallujah, a hotbed of insurgency.
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MOSUL Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on a surprise Christmas Eve visit with the troops in Iraq after an attack on a US military dining hall here, told them on Friday that he remained confident of defeating the insurgency and stabilizing the country.
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The Iraqi vice-president, Tariq al-Hashemi, visits Turkey to head off threatened military action against Kurds in northern Iraq.
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TONY EASTLEY: A visit to American troops who&#39;ve been stationed in Iraq has not gone according to plan for the US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.