I wonder how this story is going to develop in the near future.
news.yahoo.com
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Pentagon is preparing to build a military base near the Iraq-Iran border to try to curtail the flow of advanced Iranian weaponry to Shiite militants across Iraq, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday in its online edition.(visit the link for the full news article)
Originally posted by Ivanova
However... after reading about the fall of the King of Babylon in Isaiah 14....
if I were Bush, I wouldn't want to be the King of Babylon.. er.. Iraq.
A senior US marine officer says he is willing to apologise for the damage caused by his troops to the ancient Iraqi site of Babylon.
US forces built a helicopter pad on the ancient ruins and filled their sandbags with archaeological material in the months following the 2003 invasion.
Colonel Coleman was chief of staff at Babylon when it was occupied by the First Marine Expeditionary Force.
Babylon's Hanging Gardens were among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.