Rice to boost oversight of contractors in Iraq
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday ordered tougher oversight of private guards in Iraq, including tighter rules on the use of force, following deadly shootings involving U.S. security contractor Blackwater.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 17 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Baghdad Saturday for meetings with U.S. and Iraqi officials, arriving in the embattled capital as the Iraqi government reported initial success in a new security effort.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Iraq on Tuesday for meetings with the Iraqi government, which last week passed the first in a series of long-awaited laws aimed at reconciling Iraqis, officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 5 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the embattled Iraqi government on Thursday to accelerate efforts to foster national reconciliation and help end sectarian violence.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Saturday, arriving as American and Iraqi troops made initial gains in a new crackdown against militants in the Iraqi capital.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 17 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed support for a nascent Baghdad security plan during an unannounced visit to the capital Saturday, but she reminded Iraq's leaders that Americans were growing increasingly frustrated with the unyielding lethality and cost of the war.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Riceâs visit comes after Turkey bombed Kurdish militants in Iraq on Sunday.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday that his concerns over insufficient oversight of private security firms in Iraq led him this week to dispatch a team to the country to investigate the issue, while also instructing commanders to tighten their controls over the armed guards.
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US President George W. Bush plans to nominate National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state in place of Colin Powell after his resignation, two senior administration officials said on Monday.
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The United States will shift more than $US3 billion in aid to Iraq from reconstruction programs to strengthening security, US officials have said.
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Ryan C. Crocker, the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, bluntly told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a cable dated May 31 that the embassy in Baghdad -- the largest and most expensive U.S. embassy -- lacks enough well-qualified staff members and that its security rules are too restrictive for...
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Tuesday to urge Iraqi leaders to speed up national reconciliation to secure recent military gains that have sharply curbed violence.
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The U.S. envoy to Iraq wants to  shift $3.3 billion set aside for Iraqi water, sewer, power and  other reconstruction projects to improve security, boost oil  output and create jobs, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit Tuesday to the city that Iraq's Kurds call their Jerusalem, an oil-rich territory claimed by many where the United States says it sees new signs of cooperation and progress.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Iraqi leaders on Tuesday to speed up national reconciliation on a trip overshadowed by an incursion by several hundred Turkish troops into northern Iraq.
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The United States and the Iraqi government are launching a new diplomatic initiative to invite Iran and Syria to a "neighbors meeting" on stabilizing Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
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Iraq is spearheading a new diplomatic initiative that will invite Iran and Syria to a spring "neighbors conference" that also will include the United States, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a Senate committee this afternoon.