Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi judge orders Baath party plot suspects freed (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 03:04 AM CST

AP - An Iraqi judge ordered nearly two dozen officials freed after determining there was no evidence that they conspired to bring back Saddam Hussein's banned Baath party, Iraq's interior minister said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 07:05 PM CST

AP - As of Friday, Dec. 20, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraqi Sunnis embrace Shiite reporter who threw shoes at Bush (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 04:58 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush intends to press charges against the people who he says beat him as he was taken into custody, said a member of the Iraqi parliament who's urging his release.

US circulates UN resolution to protect Iraq assets (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 03:43 PM CST

AP - The United States circulated a U.N. resolution that would shield billions of dollars of Iraqi assets from legal actions after the mandate for the U.S.-led multinational force ends, U.N. diplomats said Friday.

Iraq minister dismisses coup plot (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 02:28 PM CST

Reuters - Iraq's Interior Minister vigorously denied Friday reports that the arrest of several officers was related to a plot to overthrow the government.

(AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 02:21 PM CST

AP - Iraqi Interior Minister says all arrested for allegedly conspiring to revive Saddam's Baath party have been released.

Protesters shake shoes at US Embassy in London (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 12:46 PM CST

AP - Protesters shook their shoes at the U.S. Embassy in London on Friday in a show of support for a jailed Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a news conference in Iraq.

Iraq preachers demand release of Bush shoe attacker (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 09:41 AM CST

Reuters - Muslim preachers from both sides of Iraq's once-bloody Sunni-Shi'ite divide appealed to the government on Friday to release the journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush.

Iraqi shoe-thrower's family asks for his release (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 07:48 AM CST

AFP - The family of the Iraqi journalist arrested for throwing his shoes at US President George W. Bush gathered on Friday in central Baghdad to ask for his immediate release, an AFP correspondent said.

Palestinian offers shoe-throwing reporter a bride (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 05:48 AM CST

AP - The head of a large West Bank family wants to reward the Iraqi journalist who lobbed his shoes at President George W. Bush by sending him a bride.