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Sgt. Eli Chagoya, assigned to Multi-National Division – Baghdad’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, meets with a 6th Iraqi Army Division Soldier during a patrol on the streets of Baghdad in support of Operation Together Forward. Department of Defense photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Keith DeVinney. BAGHDAD -- On the same day the Iraqi parliament reopened after a month-long recess, the Iraqi president predicted an end to sectarian violence in Iraq, while the British foreign secretary discussed the importance of handing over security responsibility to the Government of Iraq.In Baghdad on Tuesday, Iraq’s Council of Representatives reconvened with...

Commission on 9/11 reconvenes as watchdog By Holly Yeager in Washington Published: June 6 2005 19:02 Members of the federal commission that investigated the September 11 terrorist attacks were back at work on Monday, following through on a pledge to monitor the US government's implementation of their recommendations. “We wanted to avoid the fate of so many commissions that do good work and create a brief ripple and then find their report and their recommendations slipping beneath the waves,” said Jamie Gorelick, a deputy attorney-general in the Clinton administration, who chaired the session. The 10-member bipartisan commission, which often met...