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...Michael Symmons Roberts’ libretto is shaped in half-rhymed couplets that leave space for the music....
...Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, suggested in Brussels that there could be a difference between Iraqi officials’ public stance and their position in the negotiations....
...Mr Roberts says that he has tried to enlist a “neutral legal body” to return to sites visited by the researchers and verify that the raw data were accurate....
...Robert Gates, US defence secretary, said last month that the military should be able to withdraw five brigades, or around 20,000 soldiers, by mid-2008, and hoped to take out another five by the end of this...
...Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, appeared to change tack over Iraq on Monday by suggesting that Washington should pause its troop drawdown from Iraq after the “surge” winds down this summer....
...Adm Mullen added that Robert Gates, US defence secretary, had not changed his view that he would like to continue to reduce the number of combat brigades in the country from the 15 that will remain after...
...Les Roberts, one of the authors of the Lancet article, said the two articles had more in common than appeared at first glance....
...The two Democratic presidential contenders on Monday criticised suggestions by Robert Gates, US defence secretary, that the Pentagon might pause the troop drawdown in Iraq after the “surge” winds down this...
...Robert Gates, US defence secretary, said on a visit to Baghdad that the US would take into consideration Iraq’s progress in “reconciliation” between feuding sectarian groups when it evaluates whether the...
...Robert Gates, US defence secretary, said on June 16 that US troops were “buying [the Iraqis] time to pursue reconciliation”, but Iraqi politicians seem unable to reach a consensus on key issues and provide...
...The deputy US Treasury secretary Robert Kimmitt nonetheless told reporters on Wednesday that the conference would bring “billions of dollars both of new assistance and in debt relief,” although he declined...
...“Progress in reconciliation will be an important element in our evaluation in the late summer,” Robert Gates, the US secretary of defence, said in April, referring to the timeframe by which US commanders...
...Robert Kimmitt, US deputy Treasury secretary, said Iraq’s new hydrocarbons law could lead to economic self-sufficiency in five years’ time....
...Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, on Wednesday said he would send 2,200 military police to Baghdad to deal with the growing number of detainees who are expected as the coalition forces clamp down on...
...Robert Gates, defence secretary, on Tuesday said it was “categorically” untrue that the US was preparing to launch air strikes against Iran....
...The other, Sergeant Robert Thrasher, dies almost instantly....
...US defence secretary Robert Gates – fresh from a three-day visit to Baghdad – met George W Bush on Saturday to brief the President on his trip and to discuss the White House’s new Iraq policy....
...Additional reporting by Steve Negus...
...Most statements by senior officials have not provided specific figures, although one US commander in Baghdad, Colonel Robert Scurlock, said in a briefing on Friday that violent attacks had dropped 41 per...
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