| Pentagon leaders to urge caution in troop cuts (AP) Posted: 10 Sep 2008 02:56 AM CDT  AP - Top defense leaders are telling Congress the U.S. must be cautious as the Pentagon begins to cut troops in Iraq and focus more attention on the escalating fight in Afghanistan.
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| Odierno next in line to lead Iraq (AP) Posted: 10 Sep 2008 02:32 AM CDT AP - Ray Odierno will be the fifth four-star Army general to lead U.S. forces in Iraq since the war began in 2003. |
| Petraeus' former deputy returns as Iraq chief (AP) Posted: 10 Sep 2008 02:31 AM CDT  AP - Home barely long enough to knock the Iraq dust off his boots, Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno is returning to Baghdad to command a slowly shrinking force in possibly the final phase of American combat action.
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| Bush touts Iraq troop reduction, not big picture (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 11:52 PM CDT  AP - President Bush boasts that he's bringing 8,000 troops home from Iraq by February. What he doesn't say is he'll leave office with more troops there than before last year's big military buildup and few options for shoring up the force in increasingly violent Afghanistan.
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| Iraqi parliament still gridlocked over provincial-election law (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:20 PM CDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD Iraqi lawmakers returned from their summer recess Tuesday, still gridlocked over the critical law on provincial elections and with no new vote in sight. |
| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,155 (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:17 PM CDT  AP - As of Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008, at least 4,155 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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| Obama: Bush plan for Afghanistan not enough (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:01 PM CDT  AP - Barack Obama said President Bush isn't acting quickly or forcefully enough to get more U.S. forces into Afghanistan and out of Iraq.
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| Why Bush Scaled Back the Drawdown (Time.com) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 06:45 PM CDT  Time.com - By removing just 8,000 troops from Iraq, the President is acknowledging that the fight there isn't yet won
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| Democrats hit Bush on troop plan for both wars (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 06:26 PM CDT  Reuters - President George W. Bush's plan to modestly reduce U.S. troops in Iraq and send a few thousand others to Afghanistan drew criticism on Tuesday from top Democrats, led by presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
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| Bush's Iraq withdrawal modest because gains are fragile, officials say (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 06:23 PM CDT  McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON President Bush's announcement Tuesday that he'll maintain troop levels in Iraq through the end of his presidency suggests that despite his claim that the surge of additional U.S. troops in Iraq has succeeded, the security gains could be temporary, defense officials and experts said.
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| No need for diplomatic draft for Baghdad embassy (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 05:51 PM CDT AP - The State Department said Tuesday that enough diplomats have volunteered for duty at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq next year to avoid having to draft potentially unwilling candidates to serve there. |
| U.S. allies in Iraq to drop to "handful": official (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 03:24 PM CDT  Reuters - The number of U.S. allies involved in the Iraq war will be reduced to just a "handful" in the next 90 days, a senior Bush administration official said on Tuesday.
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| Al-Qaida figure: Death to Iraqi Sunni leaders (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 03:16 PM CDT  AP - The purported leader of an al-Qaida-dominated insurgent umbrella group in Iraq has called for the murder of all members of the country's main Sunni Arab political party, in an audio message posted Tuesday on militant Web sites.
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| TV journalist escapes assassination in Baghdad (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 02:39 PM CDT  AP - An Iraqi journalist for one of the Middle East's best-known satellite television stations escaped assassination Tuesday when a bomb was found under the seat of his car as he prepared to leave home for work.
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| Obama savages Bush redeployment plan (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 12:45 PM CDT  AFP - Democrat Barack Obama lambasted Tuesday President George W. Bush's plans for a limited military redeployment from Iraq to Afghanistan as woefully insufficient to counter extremists behind the attacks on the United States of seven years ago.
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| Al-Arabiya journalist escapes booby-trapped car in Baghdad (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 12:13 PM CDT  AFP - Al-Arabiya television said its bureau chief in the Iraqi capital, Jawad Hattab, escaped a car-bomb attack on Tuesday after his vehicle was booby-trapped.
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| Iraqi government tries to reassure anti-Qaeda fighters (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 12:12 PM CDT  AFP - Iraq's Shiite-led government pledged on Tuesday not to abandon the nearly 100,000 mostly Sunni Arabs fighting Al-Qaeda after it takes over responsibility for their payment from the United States.
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| Back-to-work MPs urged to resolve Iraq disputes (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 12:06 PM CDT  AFP - The speaker of the Iraqi parliament Mahmud Mashhadani urged MPs on Tuesday to resolve a dispute over provincial elections and oil-rich Kirkuk as they returned from a four-week summer recess.
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| Shell agrees landmark 4.0 bln-dlr gas deal with Iraq (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 12:03 PM CDT  AFP - Royal Dutch Shell will form a gas venture with energy-rich Iraq worth up to four billion dollars, the oil ministry said Tuesday of the first Western oil major to do a deal with the central government since the 2003 invasion.
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