Portal:Current events/2007 February 17
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February 17, 2007 (Saturday)
- 2008 United States presidential election: Presidential contender and U. S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has called for a 90-day deadline to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. She states in a video on her website: "If George Bush doesn't end the war before he leaves office, when I'm president, I will." (Reuters via ABC Australia Online)
- United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Iraq for talks. (Reuters Alertnet)
- A suicide bomb in a district court in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, Pakistan kills at least 13 people. (Times of India)
- Italians demonstrate against the expansion of a United States Army base in Vicenza, home of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. (BBC)
- Former professional wrestler Mike Awesome is found dead in his Tampa, FL residence. He was 42. [1]
- Vietnamese New Year