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While everyone focuses on Blago, there are still serious problems in the world: A suicide bomber struck Thursday inside a popular restaurant in northern Iraq where Kurdish officials were meeting with Arab tribal leaders, killing at least 55 people and wounding about 120, police said. Police Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir, who gave the casualty figures, […]

It looks like Bush is moving ahead with talks on his US/Iraq pact treaty: The Iraqi government will begin talks with U.S. officials later in February on a pact that would lay the basis for long-term strategic ties between Washington and Baghdad, an Iraqi official said on Monday. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Prime Minister […]