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Car bombings in Iraqi capital kill 4, wound 22 (AP) Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:32 AM CST AP - A bomb exploded in a parked car in a bustling section of downtown Baghdad early Wednesday, killing four people and wounding 15 others, police said, the third consecutive day of morning rush hour blasts in the Iraqi capital.

US soldier to face court martial over Iraqi deaths (AP) Posted: 12 Nov 2008 04:12 AM CST AP - A U.S. Army sergeant accused of involvement in the killing of four Iraqi prisoners is facing a court martial.

US military to abandon Iraqi cities (AP) Posted: 12 Nov 2008 03:32 AM CST AP - The U.S. military in Iraq is abandoning — deliberately and with little public notice — a centerpiece of the widely acclaimed strategy it adopted nearly two years ago to turn the tide against the insurgency. It is moving American troops farther from the people they are trying to protect.

Iraqi forces arrest top 'butcher' in deadly province (AFP) Posted: 12 Nov 2008 02:58 AM CST AFP - Iraqi and US forces have arrested the "number one butcher" responsible for beheadings in the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad, a defence ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.

Baghdad car bomb kills four: police (AFP) Posted: 12 Nov 2008 02:28 AM CST AFP - A car-bomb attack on a main thoroughfare in central Baghdad killed four people on Wednesday, including two police officers who had been patrolling the area, Iraqi police said.

Iraqi town defies Al Qaeda (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Nov 2008 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - Dulaim is an Iraqi village transformed. Where masked gunmen from Al Qaeda in Iraq once imposed their will with killings and even stole irrigation pumps, today numerous Iraqi Army, police, and local Sunni militia checkpoints attest to new levels of security.

Music returns to Baghdad as vice squad enforcers retreat (AFP) Posted: 12 Nov 2008 12:05 AM CST AFP - After years on the run from Shiite and Sunni militias and morality police, Iraqi musicians are slowly returning to the streets of Baghdad, looking to fill the silence left by the fading civil war.

Bush Says He Regrets Use of Iraq `Mission Accomplished' Banner (Bloomberg) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 11:01 PM CST Bloomberg - Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said he regrets the display of the ``Mission Accomplished'' sign as backdrop for a speech he gave about a month after the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

China's CNPC says signed 3 bln dlr Iraq oil development deal (AFP) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 10:55 PM CST AFP - China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's largest oil producer, said Wednesday that it had signed a three-billion-dollar deal to develop an oil field in Iraq.

Insurgents vow to resist security pact (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 09:47 PM CST AP - Ten Iraqi insurgent groups have agreed to escalate attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces to derail the proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, an Internet monitoring service said Tuesday.

Taliban urges Obama to end Bush's foreign policies (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 09:13 PM CST AP - Taliban insurgents battling the U.S.-backed Afghan government urged President-elect Barack Obama to change course in U.S. foreign policy and withdraw American troops from both Afghanistan and Iraq, an Internet monitoring service said Tuesday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,193 (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 07:22 PM CST AP - As of Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008, at least 4,193 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraqi Sunni guards join Shi'ite government payroll (Reuters) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 07:20 PM CST Reuters - From a money-counting table stacked with cash to a staircase out in the hallway, a long line of U.S.-backed Iraqi fighters wait patiently for their dues.

Opening of bridge reconnects Shiite, Sunni Iraqis (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 06:07 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The Shiites approached the Aimma bridge from Baghdad's Shiite district of Kadhimiyah, and the Sunnis came from the Sunni side of Adhamiyah on Tuesday. When they met in the middle, they hugged and then cried over the waters of the Tigris River.

Kurdish expansion moves threaten stability in northern Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 03:08 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BASHIQA, Iraq — Kurdish forces have detained Murad Kashtu al Asi three times in the isolated district of Sinjar in Nineveh province. First, they beat him and accused him of being a terrorist and a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a mostly Sunni Arab political party. The second time, they detained him for several hours, he said.

Iraq will never be base to attack neighbours: FM (AFP) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 01:58 PM CST AFP - Iraq will never be used as a base for attacks against its neighbours, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said at a meeting in Damascus on Tuesday with counterpart Walid Muallem, the official Sana news agency reported.

Battle for Iraq's 3rd city hangs in the balance (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 01:45 PM CST AP - It's not a pretty sight: Sagging skeletons of two- and three-story buildings under a threatening gray sky. Abandoned shops with corrugated iron fronts riddled by bullet holes. And amid the garbage heaps and pools of fetid rainwater, a roadside bomb set to explode.

UK doctor on trial says he backed Iraq insurgents (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 01:32 PM CST AP - An Iraqi doctor on trial for allegedly attempting a suicide bombing in Britain testified Tuesday that he supported Sunni insurgents in his homeland but felt no grudge against the British people.

Backers of Iran opposition enter third month of UN sit-in (AFP) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 01:21 PM CST AFP - Supporters of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, the main Iranian opposition group, began the third month of a protest in front of UN headquarters Tuesday, seeking protection for residents of a group encampment in Iraq.

Iraq FM visits Syria in wake of US raid (AFP) Posted: 11 Nov 2008 12:31 PM CST AFP - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari flew in to Damascus on Tuesday, on a surprise visit two weeks after a US raid on a Syrian village launched from Iraq that caused tension with Baghdad.

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