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Jane Arraf spent time this week embedded with a Stryker brigade, also covering the fighting in Amiriya and the death of an Iraqi journalist, killed defending his neighborhood from militant gunmen.
In Baquba, she shows how difficult it can be for an Iraqi family to endure a search by US forces. Arraf also talked to Iraqi torture victims rescued by soldiers from the 3-2 Stryker Brigade’s 5th Battalion 20th Infantry Regiment, and took time out of her day to answer CitizenSlogger questions.
Former National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski expressed dismay about recent White House inferences to imposing the "Korean model" on Iraq.
Robert Young Pelton offered a bleak assessment for the progress on the surge.
Sen. Joe Lieberman visited Baghdad this week, offering a positive assessment of what he learned during his trip, though he may have faced some tough questions from troops.
President Bush will be sending Meghan O'Sullivan to Iraq to assist the Iraqis "meet the benchmarks that the Congress and the President expect to get passed," he announced in a press conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
In a little-discussed phenomenon, an article out of Louisville, Kentucky profiles a Vietnam war vet who suffered a PTSD relapse from watching coverage of the Iraq war.
In one of the deadliest weeks for journalists of the Iraq war, the editor-in-chief of a weekly newspaper was shot by unidentified gunmen in front of his house in Kirkuk, two more Iraqi journalists were killed on Wednesday, one killed at home with family, second shot standing on street corner. An Iraqi cameraman working for the Associated Press was shot and killed in Baghdad on Thursday
The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based press freedom and safety watchdog issued a statement after the four Iraqi journalists were murdered in one week.
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