Secret Reports Reveal All

It is sometimes disorienting to note that a federal bureaucracy that we have grown to mistrust over the past decade occasionally can be a source of reliable information that actually discredits what the government itself is saying. On those all too rare occasions...

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Clashes in Iraq Intensify: 47 Killed, 60 Wounded

Over 10,000 people were killed in Iraq during 2013, making it the worst year since 2008 by most measures. In December, this column found 1180 reported fatalities from various sources. Across the country today at least 47 people were killed today, and another 60 were wounded.
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