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	<title>Trends Updates &#187; Iraq</title>
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		<title>The founder of the site WikiLeaks is in trouble</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-founder-of-the-site-wikileaks-is-in-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NARUTO</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian nationality law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prosecutor has asked Sweden said on Thursday that Julian Assange, founder of the site WikiLeaks, to be arrested on suspicion of rape, a charge he strongly denies. The Swedish prosecutor has begun an investigation into allegations of rape against Assange, an Australian citizen in September. The prosecutor&#8217;s office said in a statement that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks defends itself</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/wikileaks-defends-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NARUTO</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, on Saturday defended the release of nearly 400,000 American military secret memos that indicate that the Armed Forces of the United States ignored cases of torture by Iraqi authorities. The papers also have evidence that Americans were left behind in front of &#8220;hundreds&#8221; of civilian deaths at American checkpoints and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs: better, more accurate and more efficient</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/dogs-better-more-accurate-and-more-efficient/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/dogs-better-more-accurate-and-more-efficient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NARUTO</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discoveries &amp; Developments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sci + Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danger Room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Explosive material]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=41846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even with all the money spent by the U.S. government on technologies to detect explosives, the Pentagon assumes that its best weapon (and cheapest) is still smelling of dog. To the consternation of dogs. According to the Danger Room blog at Wired magazine, American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are only about 50% of bombs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the Iraq aid funds?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/where-are-the-iraq-aid-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NARUTO</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspector General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=38120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A supervisory body for U.S. federal criticized the Pentagon on Tuesday, 27, saying that it did not properly justify the expenditure of billions of dollars for the reconstruction of Iraq. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction said that the U.S. Defense Department is accountable for approximately $ 8.7 billion of the $ 9 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Terrain Systems: anthropology or intelligence gathering?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-human-terrain-systems-anthropology-or-intelligence-gathering/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/the-human-terrain-systems-anthropology-or-intelligence-gathering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghan civilians]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnic cleansing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[human cost of war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Terrain Mapping]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[information on local populations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insight into ethnic cultures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marjah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military tactic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operation Moshtarak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reduce military-civilian conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US military contractors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US troops in Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=32767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let us not kid ourselves. The heart of war is combat. David Price, a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologist and author of Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War, writes a counterpunch exclusive on the Human Terrain Systems (HTS). The HTS is a program by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Female Iraqi cops: more good news from a troubled land</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/female-iraqi-cops-more-good-news-from-a-troubled-land/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/female-iraqi-cops-more-good-news-from-a-troubled-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female Iraqi cops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom and rights of Arab women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illiteracy of Arab women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kurds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[male-dominated Arab world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political and economic repression of women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recognition of women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shiites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunnis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=30011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Iraq, there is a piece of news that’s more exhilarating than Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds ‘trying to resolve tough procedural issues over oil rights and shares of seats in parliament’ and preparations for a landmark democratic election proceeding full speed ahead towards its January schedule. The other good news, eclipsing the otherwise bleak news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq Gets A Taste Of The Mysterious Saddam Channel</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/iraq-gets-a-taste-of-the-mysterious-saddam-channel/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/iraq-gets-a-taste-of-the-mysterious-saddam-channel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajeev 
Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baathist party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eid al-Adha]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mysterious saddam channel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=29729</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Its been three years since the demise of the former President and dictator of the now liberated Iraq, but it seems that his popularity and his words are still entrenched in the hearts and minds of numerous individuals in the country and as well as across the Middle East. This weekend, the citizens of Iraq, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran +Turkey: new Middle East power shift</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/iran-turkey-new-middle-east-power-shift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alliance with the West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle Eastern oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nabucco pipeline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northern tier of Middle Eastern states]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[principal supplier of natural gas to central Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey has finally loosened its alliance with the West and ‘turned its focus toward its former Ottoman neighbors in Asia and the Middle East.’ Pursuing this trend, ‘it will be as strategically significant for the balance of power in the region as the emergence of Iran as a preeminent power thanks to the collapse of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Iran Began Preparing for the U.S. Bombing in 2002’</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/%e2%80%98iran-began-preparing-for-the-u-s-bombing-in-2002%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=29700</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an October 1 meeting, Western governments ‘proposed that Iran agree to ship up to 80 percent of its LEU to Russia in return for eventual shipments of 20 percent enriched uranium to fuel a small medical reactor in Tehran.’ At an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) negotiations in Vienna last month, outgoing IAEA Director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post War Iraq Now Wants Nuclear Power For Energy Purposes</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/post-war-iraq-now-wants-nuclear-power-for-energy-purposes/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/post-war-iraq-now-wants-nuclear-power-for-energy-purposes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajeev 
Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raed Fahmi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations Security Council]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=28412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The one reason that led to the war in Iraq in the year 2003 was the possession of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and it is the same reason, that has got the new Iraqi government all riled up. The new Saddam Hussein free Iraq is looking forward for its own nuclear [...]]]></description>
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