US Democrats target Iraq security as kidnappings increase
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The Egyptian foreign ministry has confirmed the abduction of six Egyptians employed by an Iraqi unit of the Egyptian telecom giant Orascom.
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US Democrats opened a new front in their battle for the White House, attacking Vice President Dick Cheney and his old company Halliburton for alleged &quot;cronyism&quot; that reaped billions of dollars of business in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON : The United States is to shift more than three billion dollars in aid to Iraq from reconstruction programs to largely beefing up security, US officials said as violence flaring over Iraq spiked in the past two weeks.
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Iraqi kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their home and office in Baghdad Thursday, CNN reported. US and British officials in Iraq said they were looking into the report from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under death threat.
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The Pentagon death toll in Iraq reached  at least 1,002 Wednesday nearly 18 months after the U.S.-led  invasion, as the brazen abduction of two Italian women aid  workers in central Baghdad sparked a new hostage crisis.
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The United States is dispatching an additional 1,500 troops to Iraq and extending the stays of more than 10,000 others to bolster security ahead of January&#39;s scheduled elections.
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US Democrats urge caution after American officials say they have evidence that Iran is arming militants in Iraq.
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The leading Democratic presidential candidates and their allies on Capitol Hill have launched fierce attacks in recent days on a White House plan to forge a new, long-term security agreement with the Iraqi government, complaining that the administration is trying to lock in a lasting U.S. military...
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US Democrats urge the Bush administration to release in full a report linking the Iraq conflict and global terrorism.
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US Senate Democrats are launching a bid to handcuff President George W. Bush's power to wage war in Iraq, lining up a possible constitutional showdown in their latest try to bring troops home.
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The leader of opposition Democrats in the US Senate stepped up his assault on President George W. Bush, warning Iraq had slumped into civil war and assailing the US refusal to engage Iran.
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Iraqi fighters mounted fresh attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday and a US-Lebanese contractor became the latest victim of a kidnapping spree in the run-up to a threatened US assault on resistance-held Iraqi cities of
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Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton on Thursday in a brazen attack on a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many embassies and foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. It was the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq.
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Gunmen have kidnapped a Briton and two Americans from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighbourhood, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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The Pentagon death toll in Iraq has reached at least 1,002 nearly 18 months after the US-led invasion, as the brazen abduction of two Italian women aid workers in central Baghdad sparked a new hostage crisis.
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BAGHDAD -- Gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese-American entrepreneur, the second US citizen seized this week in Baghdad, and videotape yesterday showed the beheadings of three Iraqi National Guardsmen and an Iraqi officer.