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Baghdad blasts kill 19 as parliament mulls US troops pact (AFP) Posted: 24 Nov 2008 03:07 AM CST AFP - Three explosions rocked Baghdad on Monday, killing 19 people two days before parliament was to vote on a divisive military pact that would have all US troops leave the country by the end of 2011.

2 deadly bombings in Baghdad kill at least 18 (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2008 03:06 AM CST AP - A female suicide bomber blew herself up near an entrance to the U.S.-protected Green Zone and a bomb tore through a bus carrying Iraqi government employees in separate attacks Monday, killing at least 18 people, Iraqi officials said.

Blasts hit Baghdad bus, Green Zone, killing 16 (AFP) Posted: 24 Nov 2008 02:33 AM CST AFP - At least 16 people were killed on Monday in two separate bombings in Baghdad, including a blast caused by a female suicide bomber outside the heavily guarded Green Zone, security officials said.

In Iraq, Former Enemies on the US Payroll (Time.com) Posted: 24 Nov 2008 02:25 AM CST Time.com - Saif Abdallah used to help make bombs that killed Americans. Now he's been recruited to fight al-Qaeda

Rape's vast toll in Iraq war remains largely ignored (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Nov 2008 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - As though recoiling from her own memories, Khalida shrank deeper into her faded armchair with each sentence she told: of how gunmen apparently working for Iraq's Interior Ministry kidnapped her, beat and raped her; of how they discarded her on a Baghdad sidewalk.

Two Baghdad bomb attacks kill 18 (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2008 03:37 AM CST Reuters - A bomb blast killed 13 female government employees on a bus on their way to work in eastern Baghdad on Monday, and a female suicide bomber killed five people outside Baghdad's Green Zone compound, police said.

Female bomber kills five at Baghdad checkpoint (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2008 12:32 AM CST Reuters - A female suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest killed five people and wounded 12 at a checkpoint just outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone compound on Monday, police said.

U.S. alone critical of Syria at Iraq conference (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2008 05:09 PM CST Reuters - The United States stood alone at a conference on Sunday in accusing host Syria of sheltering militants attacking Iraq, while other countries adopted a more conciliatory tone, delegates said.

Iraq PM says U.S. troops will leave if no pact (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2008 03:18 PM CST Reuters - Iraq will not seek to extend the U.N. mandate of U.S. troops and they will pull out immediately if Iraqi parliament fails to approve a pact allowing them to stay until 2011, Iraq's prime minister said on Sunday.

Iraq's neighbors discuss security cooperation (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2008 02:33 PM CST AP - A top U.S. official in Syria said Sunday that militants driven out of Iraq continue to pose a threat and urged Iraq's neighbors not to tolerate them.

Iraq: Saddam Hussein-era officials face new trial (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2008 02:19 PM CST AP - Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," and another close aide to the dictator who represented him abroad appeared in court Sunday accused of orchestrating the bloody repression of Shiite riots after the 1999 assassination of the father of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Iraq security pact poses detainee dilemma for US (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2008 12:44 PM CST AP - The U.S. military is rushing to build criminal cases against some 5,000 detainees it deems dangerous — including suspected members of al-Qaida in Iraq — because the proposed security pact with Iraq would end its right to hold prisoners without charge.

Bush 'very pleased' with Iraq war outcome: report (AFP) Posted: 23 Nov 2008 12:23 PM CST AFP - US President George W. Bush believes the Iraq war was a success and is "very pleased" with what is happening there, he said in a pre-recorded interview broadcast on a Japanese television network Sunday.

Baghdad opens campaign to kill city's stray dogs (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2008 09:33 AM CST AP - Baghdad authorities killed more than 200 stray dogs on Sunday, the opening day of a campaign to cull dog packs roaming the capital that was prompted by a spate of fatal attacks on residents.

US urges Iraq's neighbours to root out terror networks (AFP) Posted: 23 Nov 2008 08:49 AM CST AFP - Iraq's neighbours should crack down on networks which are facilitating terrorism in the war-torn country, the United States on Sunday told a high-level meeting in Damascus on security in Iraq.

Iraqi ministers warn against rejecting US military pact (AFP) Posted: 23 Nov 2008 07:42 AM CST AFP - Iraq's Finance Minister Baqer Jabr Solagh on Sunday warned that parliament's rejection of a divisive US security pact could endanger the country's finances and hamper reconstruction efforts.

Jordan king, Iraqi speaker discuss US-Iraq pact (AFP) Posted: 23 Nov 2008 07:19 AM CST AFP - Iraq's parliament speaker Mahmud Mashhadani held talks on Sunday with Jordan's King Abdullah II on a Baghdad-Washington military pact a few days before Iraqi MPs vote on the controversial deal.

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