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Jun 25, 2010 Iraq’s Ancient Ruins Face New Looting

QUOTE: Thousands of archaeological sites — containing some of the oldest treasures of civilization — have been left unprotected, allowing what officials of Iraq’s antiquities board say is a resumption of brazenly illegal excavations, especially here in southern Iraq.

 New York Times
Jun 12, 2010 Vital River Is Withering, and Iraq Has No Answer

QUOTE: In the 1980s Iran and Iraq fought over the Shatt al Arab, which forms the southernmost border between the countries and is still littered with the rusting hulks of sunken ships from that war. Now, despite improved relations after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the river has once again become a source of diplomatic tension.

 New York Times
Apr 21, 2010 Secret Baghdad Jail Held Sunnis From the North

QUOTE: An Iraqi security force under Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s direct command held hundreds of detainees from northern Iraq in an undisclosed prison in Baghdad, torturing dozens of them, until the country’s human rights minister and the United States intervened late last month...

 New York Times
Jul 14, 2008 Bush Lifts Drilling Moratorium, Prodding Congress

QUOTE: Mr. Bush said some experts believe that drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf could yield a decade’s worth of oil for the United States, and that exploiting it could be done unobtrusively, without damaging coral reefs or creating spills. He said Congress was “the only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil resources.”

 New York Times
May 22, 2008 Fear of Troop Exodus Fuels Debate on G.I. Bill

QUOTE: With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan far from over, President Bush is threatening to veto a bill that would pay tuition and other expenses at a four-year public university for anyone who has served in the military for at least three years since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A main reason is the fear that it would hasten an exodus from the ranks.

 New York Times
Jun 02, 2006 Putin Dismisses Russia's Chief Prosecutor

QUOTE: President Vladimir V. Putin dismissed Russia's chief prosecutor, officials said today, only a week after the prosecutor had promised to disclose "new so-called high-profile criminal cases" involving government corruption.

 New York Times
Jan 28, 2004 Siberians Tell Moscow: Like It or Not, It's Home

QUOTE: ...it will be one of the largest mass migrations of Russians since the Soviet Union began forcibly populating the region at the height of Stalin's terror in the 1930's. But the experience so far shows the difficulty of undoing by persuasion what was accomplished by decree.

New York Times
Nov 16, 2001 Rumsfeld Offers Assurances About Use of Military Courts

QUOTE: "I don't think anyone wants to see Osama bin Laden brought before a court here to be defended by Johnnie Cochran," he said.

 New York Times
Jan 22, 2000 Deal is Reached to Bar Use of Child Soldiers

QUOTE: ...new international agreement prohibiting the use of child soldiers in war after the United States dropped its opposition to establishing 18 as the minimum age for sending soldiers into combat.

 New York Times