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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(Dec. 16) -- Iraqi officials are warning that al-Qaida is planning a series of Christmastime suicide attacks in the United States and Europe. The officials say the information, obtained from captured insurgents who are said to have confessed to the plots, is credible. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari described the claims as "a critical threat," according to The Associated Press. Brian Harkin, Getty Images A police officer searches a man at a security checkpoint in New York's Times Square on Dec. 31, 2009. Security is tight amid preparations for the annual New Years Eve ball ...
BAGHDAD (Dec. 15) -- Iraqi authorities have obtained confessions from captured insurgents who claim al-Qaida is planning suicide attacks in the United States and Europe during the Christmas season, two senior officials said Wednesday. Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told The Associated Press that the botched bombing in central Stockholm last weekend was among the alleged plots the insurgents revealed. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, in a telephone interview from New York, called the claims "a critical threat." Both al-Bolani and Zebari said Iraq has informed Interpol of the ...
If this story is true, it is the most important revelation of the election. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has apparently revealed that the centerpiece of Barack Obama's conversation with Iraqi leaders in July was his hope of delaying the draw-down of American military forces in Iraq. Zebari's recounts that Obama "asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington." Obama also reportedly insisted that Congress steer negotiations on the time-table of troops withdrawal, rather than the Bush ...
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