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Ammar al-Saffar

More than 20 gunmen stormed the house of Iraq's deputy health minister Ammar al-Saffar and abducted him. Al-Saffar's abduction came as U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces continued searching for five Western security contractors seized... [more]

More than 20 gunmen stormed the house of Iraq's deputy health minister Ammar al-Saffar and abducted him. Al-Saffar's abduction came as U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces continued searching for five Western security contractors seized in southern Iraq as well as hostages taken in a mass kidnapping at a Baghdad research institute.

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... Hezbollah Brigades, a Shiite extremist group that the US believes is backed by Iran. Tehran denies US allegations that it is supporting violence in Iraq.  
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... the ouster of Saddam Hussein's regime in April 2003, but McCain touted the success of Bush's troop surge last year in bringing down violence in Iraq. ...  
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... the epiphany that they needed a new strategy for the spiraling violence in Iraq, is far less gripping than any of the previous Woodward books on Bush. ...  
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Visits to Baghdad by Middle Eastern leaders have increased as violence in Iraq has dropped to a four-year low. "We call upon the international community to ...  
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By spring 2008, as the number of deaths and other violence in Iraq began to drop, Bush and other supporters — including McCain — were hailing the "surge" as ...  
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Thanks to a number of factors - despite what certain politicians would have you think, the surge was only one of them - violence in Iraq has plummeted ...  
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Gunmen ambushed and killed 12 policemen and eight anti-Qaeda fighters in Diyala province north of Baghdad on Wednesday. The gunmen struck at around 3:30 pm ...  
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What many suspected was the case turns out to be the case — violence in Iraq fell because a period of ethnic cleansing went so well that the cleansers ran ...  
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Overall levels of violence in Iraq have fallen 80 percent, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday, but he cautioned ...  
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... development of the Awakening and the US forces' deft use of it have been major factors -- if not decisive ones -- in the quelling of violence in Iraq. ...  
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