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Iraqi forces search for suspects in UN rocket attack (AFP) Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:00 AM CST AFP - Iraqi forces surrounded a working-class neighbourhood in Baghdad on Sunday, searching cars and houses for militants behind a rocket attack that killed two UN contractors, officials said.

US training Iraqis to defeat deadly roadside bombs (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2008 01:51 AM CST AP - Two Iraqi soldiers acting as insurgents hook up a cellular phone detonator to a 155mm artillery shell with a coiled red wire, bury the mock bomb in a pile of dirt next to a rusty electricity pole and then disappear down the street.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,206 (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 06:52 PM CST AP - As of Saturday, Nov. 29, 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.

Rare downpour swamps Baghdad (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 03:56 PM CST AFP - The Iraqi capital ground to a standstill Saturday after a rare rain and hail storm flooded city streets, leaving scores of cars stranded in muddy water half a metre (yard) deep.

Key clerics criticize new U.S.-Iraq security deal (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 02:51 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD - Influential religious leaders across Iraq are voicing reservations about a U.S.-Iraq security agreement that allows Americans to remain in the country for another three years.

Iraq's Sistani has concerns about U.S. pact: source (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 12:07 PM CST Reuters - Iraq's influential Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has reservations about a pact allowing U.S. troops to stay for three more years, but politicians must decide its value, a source said on Saturday.

Iraq, US push for quick implemenation of forces deal (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:07 AM CST AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki met with US officials on Saturday to push for rapid implementation of an accord to end the US military presence in Iraq, as the country's top Shiite cleric said he feared the deal would sow instability.

Iraqis find 33 bodies beneath former Al-Qaeda 'court' (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:01 AM CST AFP - Iraqi authorities have uncovered several shallow graves north of Baghdad containing the bodies of 33 people believed to have been executed by Al-Qaeda earlier this year, officials said on Saturday.

Iraqi MP reinstated after visit to Israel: aide (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 09:33 AM CST AFP - An Iraqi court has overturned a decision by parliament to strip Sunni MP Mithal Alusi of his immunity for visiting Israel earlier this year, Alusi's aide said on Saturday.

Iraqi army finds 30 bodies in shallow graves (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 09:00 AM CST Reuters - The Iraqi army unearthed 30 decomposed bodies in a series of shallow graves in northern Iraq's volatile Diyala province, the army said on Saturday.

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