U.S. denies plan for giant trench around Baghdad
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The U.S. military denied reports on   Saturday that Iraq plans to dig a giant ring of trenches around   the city of Baghdad.
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The US denies it gave permission for Turkish aircraft to carry out strikes against the PKK in northern Iraq.
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Surging violence in Iraq this month has  disrupted reconstruction work in parts of the country, but  plans are still on track for a tenfold increase in the number  of projects, a U.S. general said Sunday.
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Iraq will not rush to expel U.S. firm Blackwater, under investigation over a shooting which killed 11 Iraqis, because it would leave a "security vacuum" in Baghdad, a government official said on Sunday.
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The commander of U.S. Marines in Iraq   denied on Tuesday his troops had lost the vast province they   patrol, after newspapers said his intelligence chief had   written the grimmest report from the field since the war began.
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The U.S. military and Iraqi government denied reports on Thursday that al Qaeda's leader in Iraq had been killed in a raid but said DNA tests would be conducted on bodies recovered after the attack to make sure.
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The United States on Tuesday suspended all land travel by U.S. diplomats and other civilian officials in Iraq outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, amid mounting public outrage over the alleged killing of civilians by the U.S. Embassy's security provider Blackwater USA.
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A $27 million U.S. project has not improved Iraq's largest dam, which is in danger of failing and potentially killing thousands, the U.S. inspector for Iraq reconstruction said on Tuesday.
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The White House staunchly defended its Iraq policy Tuesday as new questions emerged about President Bush's prewar decisions and postwar planning. An impending weapons report undercut the administration's main rationale for the war, and the former head of the American occupation said the United States had too few troops in Iraq after the invasion.
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The chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday denied a newspaper report that he will urge President George W. Bush to cut U.S. troop levels in Iraq next year.
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Iraq's president said on Sunday he rejected a long-anticipated list of recommendations by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to change U.S. policy in the region.
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U.S. plans for handling Iraq after the  2003 invasion were &quot;fatally flawed,&quot; a retired British general  said, adding that the U.S. administration had refused to listen  to British concerns about postwar planning.
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US commander of operations north of Baghdad says Iraqi forces are unable hold areas taken from insurgents.
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Officials in Jerusalem are denying allegations that a Pentagon employee was leaking secret information to them about White House deliberations on Iran.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on  Tuesday rejected criticism of a plan to remove U.S. troops from  Europe and Asia, saying the United States had no intention of  abandoning allies to establish a "Fortress America."
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American military commanders now seriously doubt that Iraqi security forces will be able to hold the ground that U.S. troops are fighting to clear &#151; gloomy predictions that strike at the heart of Washington's key strategy to turn the tide in Iraq.
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The specter of the war in Iraq -- a war the Bush administration denied it was planning, supported by evidence that turned out to be false -- looms large over administration policy toward Iran.