Powell irked at some allies for declining to train Iraqi troops
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Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed irritation Thursday with six NATO members that have barred their military officers from an alliance-approved program to train Iraqi forces.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell Wednesday urged Europeans to put aside their differences with the United States over the Iraq war, arguing that Americans and Europeans
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U.S. allies in Europe have so far mustered fewer than 100 trainers to go to Iraq to assist in the modest NATO mission there, but a top American general said Thursday he was hopeful they would offer several dozen more in the coming weeks.
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The United States has made a controversial request to Britain to re-deploy some of its troops in Iraq.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell told President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair last month that there were too few troops in Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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More and more Sunni fighters want to be allied -- and paid -- by the U.S. military. But they don't want to join the Shi'ite government's security forces
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Despite a stepped-up commitment from the United States to take in Iraqis who are in danger because they worked for the military, few are signing up to go, officials say.
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BEHIND THE scenes, Secretary of State Colin Powell was reported to have been a voice for restraint as plans for an invasion of Iraq picked up steam.
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Reports that British troops based in the relatively calm south of Iraq could be redeployed under US command near strife-torn Baghdad drew a storm of criticism from opposition parties.
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The United Nations has rejected  a request from Iraqi leaders to train some 30 judges and  prosecutors who would be trying former President Saddam  Hussein, in part because Baghdad has the death penalty, a U.N.  spokesman said on Friday.
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The killings of Iraqis who work on U.S. military bases send a chilling message not to cooperate with the Americans.
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A senior U.S. commander in Iraq yesterday criticized the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for "foot-dragging" in failing to hire thousands of Sunni and other volunteers needed to expand and balance the police force.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell accused European allies of undermining NATO on Thursday by refusing to allow staff seconded to the alliance to take part in its military training mission in Iraq.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell  on Friday rejected suggestions that Washington was trying to  edge out the United Nations as leader of the international  relief effort for the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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The United States chided its allies for not doing more to force Sudan to accept the deployment of UN peacekeepers in its war-torn Darfur region.
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BAGHDAD : US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under fire from American troops over their safety in Iraq, as Secretary of State Colin Powell urged Europe to look beyond differences over last year&#39;s invasion.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell dismissed assertions Thursday by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry that failed diplomacy by the Bush administration deprived the United States of Arab and European support in the Iraq war.