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Top Iraqi cleric fears 'instability' from US pact: aide (AFP/File) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 02:49 AM CST AFP/File - Iraq's supreme Shiite religious authority Ali Husseini al-Sistani on Saturday expressed concern about a military pact approved by lawmakers that would allow US troops to remain another three years.

UN says 3 dead in attack near its Iraq compound (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 02:05 AM CST AP - A United Nations official says a rocket attack against a U.N. compound in Baghdad has killed three foreigners and wounded 14.

Iraqi lawmakers give US security pact the nod (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - For more than a year after he was first appointed Iraqi Foreign Minister in 2003, Hoshyar Zebari recalls, he was routinely stopped by junior American soldiers saying that he was not authorized to enter the Green Zone. "I'm the foreign minister!" he would tell them.

Two UN contractors killed in Baghdad rocket attack (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 02:54 AM CST AFP - Two foreign UN contractors were killed and another 15 wounded when a rocket slammed into Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone on Saturday, according to the United Nations.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,206 (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 07:01 PM CST AP - As of Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, at least 4,206 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Bomber strikes Shiite mosque after Iraq approves US pact (AFP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 04:46 PM CST AFP - A suicide bomber shattered Friday prayers in a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, killing nine people the day after Iraq's parliament approved a landmark pact allowing US troops to remain until 2011.

Iraq's PM may be weakened by dealmaking over pact (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 03:20 PM CST AP - Parliament's approval of a security pact with the U.S. has propelled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki into a position of strength unsurpassed among Iraqi political leaders since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Iraq says 80 dollars a 'reasonable' price for oil (AFP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 03:07 PM CST AFP - Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said on Friday that 80 dollars a barrel is a "reasonable" price for oil and that his country would support any OPEC decision to cut output.

Bush wants history to see him as a liberator of millions (AFP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 12:53 PM CST AFP - George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends.

Thousands of Iraqis protest U.S. security pact (Reuters) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 11:37 AM CST Reuters - A suicide bomber killed 12 people in an Iraqi mosque on Friday while thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad after parliament passed a pact allowing U.S. troops to remain through 2011.

Iraq presidency to review US pact in two weeks (AFP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 04:10 AM CST AFP - Iraq's landmark security pact with the United States will be sent to the presidential council for a final review following its ratification by the Iraqi parliament, an official said on Friday.

With Iraqi parliament approving pact, Maliki's stature grows (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 03:04 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — In a country where agreements are hard to reach, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki built a broad political coalition to muscle through a divisive U.S.-Iraq security pact that could set his place in his nation's history as the man who ended the American occupation.

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