<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : iraq : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Iraq: 9 U.S. soldiers killed by car bomb ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17648/1/" /><id>17648</id><summary><![CDATA[Iraq: 9 U.S. soldiers killed by car bomb ]]></summary><issued>2007-04-24T09:15:59+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-24T09:15:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In one of the deadliest attacks on American ground forces since the Iraq war started more than four years ago, a suicide car bomber struck a patrol base northeast of Baghdad and killed nine U.S. soldiers and wounded 20.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Three candidates slain 2days before Iraq holds polls]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/91693/1/" /><id>91693</id><summary><![CDATA[Three candidates slain 2days before Iraq holds polls]]></summary><issued>2009-01-29T15:54:32+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-29T15:54:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In separate incidents, 3 candidates were gunned down Thursday in Iraq. This just two days before Iraq holds their first polls which were to test the fragile democratic system now in place.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Searching For A New American Policy For Iraq]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/62707/1/" /><id>62707</id><summary><![CDATA[Searching For A New American Policy For Iraq]]></summary><issued>2008-05-21T23:48:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-21T23:48:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[retired CIA station chief and head of the Agency's counterterrorism staff examines the Bush administration's Iraq policy and finds that it cannot be successful. He calls for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, a &#8220;complete change&#8221; in U.S. goals and tactics in the Middle East, and rebuilding bridges to allies.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Iraq Asks for Help to Stop Violence]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/12769/1/" /><id>12769</id><summary><![CDATA[Iraq Asks for Help to Stop Violence]]></summary><issued>2007-03-10T16:44:41+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-10T16:44:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Iraq&#8217;s Prime Minister, at a regional conference in Baghdad asked Iraq&#8217;s neighbors for help. He opened the conference with an address to back his efforts to stop violence in Iraq by refusing to finance attacks. The conference was quite tensionate mainly because of the two main players who attended the meeting: United States and Iran.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Iraq Unveils Shoe Statue]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/91672/1/" /><id>91672</id><summary><![CDATA[Iraq Unveils Shoe Statue]]></summary><issued>2009-01-29T13:21:44+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-29T13:21:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The shoe-ing that former President Bush received during a trip to Iraq has inspired an Iraqi artist to create a large &quot;sofa-sized&quot; copper and fiberglass shoe statue.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Iraq war has 26 percent chance of success, University's statistical system predicts]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/23529/1/" /><id>23529</id><summary><![CDATA[Iraq war has 26 percent chance of success, University's statistical system predicts]]></summary><issued>2007-06-12T09:33:10+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-12T09:33:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA['Mission creep' in the Iraq conflict has dropped US chances of success from 70 percent to 26 percent, says a University of Georgia researcher. The predictions were made by a statistical system that has been accurate in 80 percent of former conflicts, said assistant professor Patricia L. Sullivan. The same approach gave a 93% chance of success for the first Iraq War in 1991.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Official: Iraq Gov't Missed All Targets]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26789/1/" /><id>26789</id><summary><![CDATA[Official: Iraq Gov't Missed All Targets]]></summary><issued>2007-07-10T01:22:07+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-10T01:22:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;A progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reform...&quot;<br/><br/>These news blurbs never seem to get a lot of attention here on plime. Well, I think you all should know, anyway.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Saddam Faked Having WMD To Prevent Iran From Invading Iraq]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48360/1/" /><id>48360</id><summary><![CDATA[Saddam Faked Having WMD To Prevent Iran From Invading Iraq]]></summary><issued>2008-01-25T12:51:14+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-25T12:51:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein initially didn't think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Power of a Single Picture, and the Story of Staff Sgt Joe Cox]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/79480/1/" /><id>79480</id><summary><![CDATA[The Power of a Single Picture, and the Story of Staff Sgt Joe Cox]]></summary><issued>2008-10-14T23:32:53+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-14T23:32:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I met him half way through his second tour in Iraq. Cox&#8217;s story was one of the most human and powerful stories I have ever reported and you responded with hundreds of emails. Cox is trying to change Iraq &#8220;one picture at a time.&#8221;<br/><br/>He takes pictures of Iraqi kids, prints them out back at base, and then gives them to the kids. It maybe the only picture their family has.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Obama: Don't Stay in Iraq Over Genocide]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/28137/1/" /><id>28137</id><summary><![CDATA[Obama: Don't Stay in Iraq Over Genocide]]></summary><issued>2007-07-20T04:53:32+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-20T04:53:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Suicide blasts kill at least 30 in Iraq]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/25079/1/" /><id>25079</id><summary><![CDATA[Suicide blasts kill at least 30 in Iraq]]></summary><issued>2007-06-25T06:31:50+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-25T06:31:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Three suicide bombings killed at least 30 people in Iraq today, mostly policemen, prisoners and tribal leaders, as insurgents launched fresh assaults in the violence-plagued country.ir]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A New Iraq]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/83356/1/" /><id>83356</id><summary><![CDATA[A New Iraq]]></summary><issued>2008-12-02T12:17:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-02T12:17:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Military blogger Michael Yon writes about the New Iraq as he goes on his last mission embedded with US forces.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Why we are so slow in pulling out of Iraq]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40814/1/" /><id>40814</id><summary><![CDATA[Why we are so slow in pulling out of Iraq]]></summary><issued>2007-11-06T13:57:26+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-06T13:57:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Here is a video of U.S. soldiers teaching Iraq soldiers jumping jacks.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Queen To Lead Iraq War Dead Remembrance ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/134326/1/" /><id>134326</id><summary><![CDATA[Queen To Lead Iraq War Dead Remembrance ]]></summary><issued>2009-10-08T19:57:20+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-08T19:57:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Queen is to lead a congregation at St Paul's Cathedral in paying tribute to those who fought and fell in the six-year war in Iraq]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blackwater might lose license to work in Iraq]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/85991/1/" /><id>85991</id><summary><![CDATA[Blackwater might lose license to work in Iraq]]></summary><issued>2008-12-21T10:57:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-21T10:57:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/q/blackwater/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Blackwater</a> has been investigated for numerous misdeeds and even outright crimes while in Iraq. It is thought that when their license expires next year that they will not get a renewal.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[American Soldier Removed From Iraq For Using Qur'an As Target Practice]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62364/1/" /><id>62364</id><summary><![CDATA[American Soldier Removed From Iraq For Using Qur'an As Target Practice]]></summary><issued>2008-05-19T13:36:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-19T13:36:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Such an act of desecration of the Muslim holy book could inflame anger against the U.S. military presence in Iraq, but an Iraqi community leader told Reuters an apology by senior American military commanders had helped calm tensions. Discussion <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/18/50038.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/19/iraq.quran/?iref=mpstoryview" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here.</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Iraq to auction contracts on oil fields]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/126241/1/" /><id>126241</id><summary><![CDATA[Iraq to auction contracts on oil fields]]></summary><issued>2009-06-30T13:48:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-30T13:48:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[On June 29 and 30, Iraqi officials are going to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE55T1NM20090630" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">auction</a> off oil contracts to foreign oil companies, with the aim of reviving production in six developed oil fields that have suffered from neglect since the Iraq war began in 2003]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How to withdraw from Iraq, ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5178/1/" /><id>5178</id><summary><![CDATA[How to withdraw from Iraq, ]]></summary><issued>2006-11-04T22:36:42+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-04T22:36:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<i>&quot;The real choices facing the US at this point all involve withdrawals of one kind or another of US military forces from Iraq. But all withdrawals are not equal. Besides, failing in Iraq, however expensive, would not preclude succeeding elsewhere.&quot;</i><br/>Article delves into the various options open to the US]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush to bring home 8000 troops from Iraq in February ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/75366/1/" /><id>75366</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush to bring home 8000 troops from Iraq in February ]]></summary><issued>2008-09-08T21:25:37+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-08T21:25:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One Marine battalion, about 1,000 troops, will go home in November and not be replaced. An Army brigade of around 4,000 troops will leave in February. In addition, about 3,400 support forces will also be removed from Iraq]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Soldier Intentionally Misses Flight back To Active Duty In Iraq As The War There Is 'Immoral']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/96614/1/" /><id>96614</id><summary><![CDATA[Soldier Intentionally Misses Flight back To Active Duty In Iraq As The War There Is 'Immoral']]></summary><issued>2009-02-26T13:12:19+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-26T13:12:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Wisconsin soldier refuses to go back to Iraq as it would contradict his moral beliefs. After much soul searching and going through the chain of command he has now decided his only option is to risk becoming a deserter.<br/><br/>Watch a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETmjHDd9NeM&amp;e" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">video here</a>.]]></content></entry></items></xml>