Newsweek won for three issues surrounding the Abu Ghraib prison scandal:
"No Good Defense" (May 17), by Evan Thomas, which laid out the full scope of
the interrogations debacle and detailed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's
responsibility for creating the atmosphere in which it occurred; "The Roots of
Torture" (May 24) by John Barry, Michael Hirsh and Michael Isikoff, which
traced the abusive interrogation practices back to decisions made and memos
drafted a year or more earlier by senior officials in the administration; and
"A Tortured Debate" (June 21) by Hirsh, Daniel Klaidman and Barry which showed
for the first time that the interrogation techniques began as a series of
specific discussions inside White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez's office in
response to CIA requests for guidance in the handling of uncooperative Qaeda
suspects. The problem goes far beyond the seemingly limitless pool of suicide
bombers, write Baghdad Bureau Chief Scott Johnson and Beijing Bureau Chief
Melinda Liu in the June 27 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, June 20).
(Photo: http: //www. The fear is that they are working for the insurgency while
keeping up their ties in uniform . The Coalition has announced the killing of some 15,000 insurgents
over the past year.

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(Read full article at http://www.
This mosque is one of Shia Islam's holiest sites, and after it was bombed,
bands of armed militia began exacting revenge, with reprisal attacks on Sunni
mosques and random violence that took the lives of hundreds of innocent
Iraqis. The last
three years have tested our resolve.

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In effect, Iraq is producing
a new corps of master terrorists with an incandescent hatred for the United
States-the "Class of '05 problem," as it's called in the shorthand of CIA
analysts.
In the coming months, we will help prepare more Iraqi battalions to take the
lead in battle, and Iraqi forces will assume responsibility over more
territory.

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NEWSWEEK: Intelligence Officials in Baghdad Fear Hundreds of 'Ghost Soldiers' are Working for the Insurgency While Keeping Up Their Ties in Uniform

The Iraqi security forces have made great strides in the past year , and
they performed well after the recent bombing of the Golden Mosque of Samarra. The vast majority of
Iraqis have shown they want a future of freedom and peace. We're harnessing
every available resource, the ingenuity of our best scientists and engineers,
and the determination of our military to defeat this threat -- and we're not
going to rest until this danger to our troops has been removed . And the sacrifice
being made by our young men and women who wear the uniform has been heartening
and inspiring.

Sites in other languages should be submitted to the
appropriate World subcategory .

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We have changed our approach
in many areas to reflect the hard realities on the ground. Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq was an enemy of
America who shot at our airplanes, had a history of pursuing and using weapons
of mass destruction, threatened and invaded his neighbors, ordered the death
of thousands of his citizens, and supported terrorism.

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NEW YORK, Newsweek won two Sigma Delta Chi Awards
for excellence in journalism in Magazine Investigative Reporting category and
Online Investigative Reporting, the Society of Professional Journalists
announced.Newsweek. I strongly believe our country is better off with
Saddam Hussein out of power.

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In Iraq,
on the other hand, hostility toward America is practically the only thing that
all insurgents agree on-foreign infiltrators and native recruits alike. Our goal is to have the Iraqis control more territory than the
Coalition forces by the end of this year. The security of our country is
directly linked to the liberty of the Iraqi people .

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The awards, which
recognize work published in 2004, will be presented July 8 during the annual
Sigma Delta Chi banquet at the National Press Club in Washington, D. Gaps in the
process were quickly exploited in a strategic campaign of infiltration by the
insurgency. "A number way bigger than that is still active and
still in service," al-Inizi says.
Special Ops source, who required anonymity because of the sensitivity of his
work, the insurgents include an estimated 1,000 foreign jihadists, 500
homegrown Iraqi jihadists, between 15,000 and 30,000 former regime elements
and as many as 400 ,000 auxiliaries and support personnel.
On Monday, I will give the first of these speeches, focusing on the
security element of our strategy: the task of defeating the terrorists and
training Iraqi security forces so they can take the lead in the fight and
defend their own democracy.
As we take the fight to the terrorists, they realize they cannot defeat us
directly in battle, so they have resorted to brutal attacks against innocent
Iraqis and American forces using improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. IEDs
are homemade bombs that can be hidden in cars or by the side of a road and
detonated remotely, using everyday devices like garage door openers and
cordless phones.

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conservatives
and a known terrorist group that opposes the Iranian regime.newscom. One of the paper's main points is that America's
Iraqi troubles will not end with the insurgency. These forces moved rapidly
and effectively to protect religious sites, enforce a curfew, and re-establish
civil order where necessary .
After the liberation of the Iraqi people, al Qaida and their affiliates
have made Iraq the central front on the war on terror.

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S.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050619/NYSU010 )
According to intelligence officials in Baghdad, whose clearances bar them
from speaking publicly, Iraq's security services have hundreds of "ghost
soldiers" -- members who vanish, sometimes for months on end, but continue to
draw their pay.
Regarding the news that 176 Iraqi police officers were found to have
terrorist connections in the past two weeks, Iraq's Security minister, Abdul
Karim al-Inizi, says the ones who got caught are only a fraction of the total
number of infiltrators. They deployed Iraqi security forces to
Baghdad and other areas threatened by violence. Reports of kidnappings and
executions are being taken very seriously.

Websites submitted here must be war related and in
English .

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For online investigative reporting, the weekly, Web-exclusive column
"Terror Watch" on Newsweek ." Johnson and Liu also report that Inizi is critical of the
Americans for failing to cultivate reliable Iraqi sources and ignoring
repeated warnings about the loyalty of the Iraqis they had recruited.

com .
Immediately after the attack, Iraq's leaders came together and acted to
restore calm and end the violence.

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New insurgents seem to spring up faster than the allied forces can cut
them down. All told, the
insurgency is believed to include upwards of 40 reasonably distinct groups
that sometimes join forces for particular operations.

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"They penetrated
easily because [the former Iraqi] government brought them back without asking
enough questions.com/id/8272786/site /newsweek /

I will discuss the
progress we are making, the lessons we've learned from our experiences, and
how we're fixing what has not worked.
Amid the daily news of car bombs and kidnappings and brutal killings, I
can understand why many of our fellow citizens are now wondering if the entire
mission was worth it. By helping the Iraqi
people build a free and representative government, we will deny the terrorists
a safe haven to plan attacks against America.

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By their response over the past two weeks and their participation in three
successful elections last year , the Iraqi people have made clear they will not
let a violent minority take that future away by tearing the country apart.
The effective performance of the Iraqi security forces during this crisis
showed that our hard work to build up and train these forces is paying off.
These weapons are now the principal threat to our troops and to the future
of a free Iraq -- and to defeat this threat, my Administration has established
a new high-level command at the Department of Defense, led by retired four-
star General Montgomery Meigs. This will require more
difficult days of fighting and sacrifice, yet I am confident that our strategy
will result in victory, and then our troops can come home with the honor they
have earned.

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security
operations in Baghdad; for columns about the flow of money to terrorist
organizations and for a column which explored some of the complicated ties,
financial and otherwise, between both Saddam Hussein and U. Iraq Security Minister Al-Inizi Says Insurgents Who've Been Caught Represent
Only a Fraction of the Total Number of Infiltrators

NEW YORK, The June 11 attack at the headquarters
of the Wolf Brigade, which is supposed to be the cream of Iraq's
counterinsurgency forces, showed once again how vulnerable those forces
remain.msn.

Radio Address of President Bush to the Nation

We commend them for their good work.

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S.
In the long run, the insurgents' most powerful weapon may be one that is
practically silent: a vast network of infiltrators, spies and recruiters. Nevertheless, official briefers have recently estimated
that between 12,000 and 20,000 insurgents remain active.
The situation in Iraq is still tense.

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And
jihadists in Iraq are getting direct, on-the-job training in a real-life
insurgency , with hands-on experience in bombing, sniping and all the skills of
urban warfare, unlike the essentially artificial training that was given at Al
Qaeda's rural Afghan camps.

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He's especially concerned about moles from
Saddam Hussein's elite intelligence corps, the Mukhabarat.)

http: //www. The enemy
we face has proved to be brutal and relentless.

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com, by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, was
cited for several columns about Ahmed Chalabi and the investigation into
whether he and his aides gave Iran sensitive information about U. forces tried to institute a program to screen Iraqi
recruits, report Johnson and Liu. But with pressure on to find an exit
strategy for Iraq -- and to build significant Iraqi forces fast -- a lot of
doubtful characters seem to have slipped through the cracks. According to a U.S.
The CIA produced a study this May on a topic so sensitive that even the
title is classified. The paper discussed the environment in which jihadists
trained at Al Qaeda's camps in Taliban-run Afghanistan , contrasting that
against the environment in which Iraq's insurgents are mastering the
techniques of urban warfare. WASHINGTON, The following is a transcript of
President Bush's radio address to the nation:

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.

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msnbc.
This month will mark the three-year anniversary of the start of Operation
Iraqi Freedom, which liberated Iraq from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein.

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S. For starters, not all new recruits in Afghanistan
necessarily hated America before undergoing Al Qaeda indoctrination.

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This year's winners were chosen from more than 1,200 entries in 49
categories including print, radio, television and online. The Iraqi government has made
clear that such violent attacks cannot be tolerated .

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Newsweek Wins Two Sigma Delta Chi Awards for Investigative Reporting on Abu Ghraib Scandal and 'Terror Watch' Web Column

As
this milestone approaches, I will be giving a series of speeches to update the
American people on our strategy for victory in Iraq. And as Iraqis assume responsibility
over more territory, this frees American and Coalition forces to concentrate
on hunting down high-value targets like the terrorist Zarqawi and his
associates.

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C.
And the Iraqi security forces have shown that they are capable of rising above
sectarian divisions to protect the unity of a free Iraq.
Thank you for listening.

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Early on, when training procedures were
still being defined, U. This weekend, General Meigs is briefing me at
the White House on our plan to defeat the threat of IEDs .
In the coming days, there will be considerable reflection on the removal
of Saddam Hussein from power and our remaining mission in Iraq. The fighting has been tough.

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