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Merced Sun-Star executive editor Mike Tharp is in Iraq, covering the U.S. occupation for McClatchy Newspapers' Baghdad Bureau. He also covered the War in Iraq during Summer 2008. His stories appear below.
E-mail: mtharp@mercedsun-star.com
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Coverage from Executive Editor Mike Tharp's first tour covering the war in Iraq for McClatchy's Baghdad Bureau:: Alcohol is flowing again in Baghdad BAGHDAD -- Iraqis no longer have to settle just for the thick Turkish coffee, cardamom-laced tea, strawberry-flavored milk or bottled water to quench their summertime thirst. Sadr plots new steps to gain influence in Iraq's fall voting BAGHDAD -- Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr, foe of the United States' presence in Iraq, announced a strategy Sunday for influencing Iraq's fall elections, including backing independents, technocrats and tribal... Maliki raises possibility that Iraq might ask U.S. to leave BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki raised the possibility that his country won't sign a status of forces agreement with the United States and will ask the U.S. ... Maliki says talks over U.S. troop presence at an impasse BAGHDAD -- Two of Iraq's most powerful politicians took decisive but separate steps Friday that will affect U.S. interests and actions in the war-ravaged nation. Does a calmer Iraq mean that U.S. troops can come home? BAGHDAD -- After weeks of relative calm, two questions are being asked in war-torn Iraq and in the United States: Will it last? And when can American forces start coming home? More Sunnis joining Iraq's National Police BAGHDAD -- Some 800 Sunni Muslims are among 2,000 newly-trained recruits in the Iraqi National Police, a force that a Pentagon report a year ago called a ... Post-traumatic stress: The battle after the battle KIRKUK, Iraq -- Sgt. Seth "Doc" Musikant could be a recruiting poster for the Army's new approach to PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. U.S. commander in Kirkuk lowers profile, raises popularity KIRKUK, Iraq — For the past 11 months Col. David Paschal has back-slapped, noogied and high-fived his soldiers. He's been kissed on both cheeks by local Iraqis, and he's upbraided or atta-boyed his counterparts in the Iraqi army and police. He's sent his gunfighters after the "bad guys." U.S. military in Iraq celebrates the 4th with reenlistments BAGHDAD — The U.S. military in Iraq celebrated the Fourth of July with what it billed as "the largest reenlistment ceremony ever held," and 1,215 soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen raised their hands and re-pledged allegiance to America. U.S., Iraq narrow differences over forces pact, Iraq says BAGHDAD — Iraq's foreign minister said Wednesday that the wide gap between Iraq and the United States over the future of U.S. forces in Iraq had narrowed after the American side had shown "excellent flexibility" on some key issues that had threatened to derail or postpone the accord. Iraqis' drubbing of U.S. troops shows who rules the soccer field MULTAKA, Iraq — A soccer game on a dirt field between two amateur teams_ one U.S. Army soldiers, one local Iraqis — may not seem like a big deal in the scope of the wider war. U.S., Iraqi forces claim big weapons cache BAGHDAD -- In a weekend blitz that U.S. military officials said "severely degrades" the capability of Iraqi insurgents, American and Iraq troops seized one "huge" and three smaller weapons and munitions caches in Baghdad. U.S. military in Iraq celebrates the 4th with reenlistments BAGHDAD — The U.S. military in Iraq celebrated the Fourth of July with what it billed as "the largest reenlistment ceremony ever held," and 1,215 soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen raised their hands and re-pledged allegiance to America. |
