RPST
clue: 'terror proxies in Iraq & beyond'
where is 'beyond'?
Is it connected to USA ds?
Dig Qods, Qassem also.
Not sure what will find but feelz like crumbs
Iraq, Baghdad, biden 2009 election unannounced visit car bomb 2008 obama election troop pullout by 2010
'Soleimani was in Baghdad, is putting down the markers, trying to defend the PM. At a meeting in the Palace in Baghdad, it was Soleimani who chaired the meeting. “We know how to deal with these protestors,” said he. Why isn’t Soleimani a dead man? Why hasn’t the NSC given the kill order?
Hand-launched drones in Iran. Tarpad drones are a new threat.
Rockets in Gaza.'
'Hill and Odierno said they share the concerns of Ambassador Ad Melkert, U.N. special envoy to Iraq and head of the U.N. Assistance Mission there, who called on Iraq’s Council of Representatives to revise the legal framework for the elections.'
'7 April – U.S. President Barack Obama makes a surprise visit to troops in Iraq.[23]'
'28 July – Australia, the United Kingdom and Romania end their Iraq troop presence, leaving the United States with the only foreign combat troops in the country.[33][34][35]'
'Governorate or provincial elections were held in Iraq on 31 January 2009, to replace the local councils in fourteen of the eighteen governorates of Iraq that were elected in the 2005 Iraqi governorate elections.[1][2] 14,431 candidates, including 3,912 women, contested 440 seats. The candidates came from over 400 parties, 75% of which were newly formed.[3] '
'In 2008, fighting continued and Iraq's newly trained armed forces launched attacks against militants. The Iraqi government signed the US–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement, which required US forces to withdraw from Iraqi cities by 30 June 2009 and to withdraw completely from Iraq by 31 December 2011. '
'In 2009, al-Abadi was identified by the Middle East Economic Digest as a key person to watch in Iraq's reconstruction.[15]'
'The Sept. 16, 2007, incident outraged Iraq and drew worldwide condemnation. The Blackwater guards claimed they had acted in self-defense, but witnesses and victims say the guards, escorting a heavily armed convoy through Baghdad traffic, unleashed an indiscriminate, unprovoked attack.
Victims said Blackwater guards had blocked traffic at the crowded Nisour Square intersection and randomly opened fire at everything and everyone around them.'
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