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US mulls unusual tactic as Blackwater charges loom (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2008 03:42 AM CST AP - The Justice Department is readying indictments that could send Blackwater Worldwide guards to prison for at least 30 years for their involvement in the deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting of Iraqi civilians, people close to the case said.

US cmdr spells out Iraq mission under new pact (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2008 03:14 AM CST AP - A top U.S. military commander says the new security pact that sets a timetable for American troops to leave Iraq will require a shift in how the U.S. carries out combat missions in the country.

U.S. military frets over Iraqi prisoners (Reuters) Posted: 05 Dec 2008 02:40 AM CST Reuters - They have outraged Iraqis and been condemned by human rights groups, but next year the prisons in which U.S. forces hold thousands of Iraqis will be flung open under a U.S.-Iraq security pact.

Halliburton, KBR sued for unsafe conditions at Iraq base (AFP) Posted: 05 Dec 2008 02:29 AM CST AFP - A civilian employee of US oil services giant Halliburton and government contractor KBR has charged in a lawsuit the companies exposed thousands of workers to unhealthy, contaminated conditions at an Iraqi military base.

Baghdad mayor dreams big in former rebel bastion (AFP) Posted: 05 Dec 2008 01:05 AM CST AFP - When Saber al-Essawy, the mayor of Baghdad, looks out across the crumbling concrete tenements and cratered streets of Baghdad's largest slum he envisions decades of neglect melting away, money flooding in and the gardens blooming.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 08:23 PM CST AP - As of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

NY soldier acquitted of murder in officers' deaths (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 07:50 PM CST AP - A soldier was acquitted of murder Thursday in the 2005 bombing deaths of two superiors in Iraq, triggering loud outbursts and gasps from the slain officers' families.

Bush thanks Iraqi leaders for security pact help (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 05:12 PM CST AP - President Bush called Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday to thank him for pushing through an agreement that sets a three-year time frame for U.S. troops to leave the country, a pact the administration said will put future U.S.-Iraqi relations on a strong footing.

Warehoused Asian workers in Iraq will be sent home (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 04:09 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Asian men who've been living in warehouses near the Baghdad airport while awaiting promised jobs with a military subcontractor now are in line to be sent home, and they're still not sure how they'll be paid for their time in Iraq.

Tonga, most other coalition countries leaving Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 03:46 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The Tongan marines left with a song, their vowel-rich war choruses echoing in the marble halls of a palace built for Saddam Hussein but now occupied by the U.S. military.

US hails Iraq accord, sees ties on 'strong footing' (AFP) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 03:20 PM CST AFP - The White House on Thursday hailed Iraq's approval of a controversial security pact that gives US combat troops three years to leave, saying it will set long-term ties on a "strong footing."

Testimony doesn't link US soldier to 4 dead Iraqis (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 01:17 PM CST AP - A defense lawyer told a military court Thursday that witnesses had provided insufficient evidence to support charges that a U.S. Army sergeant was involved in killing four Iraqi men found bound, blindfolded, shot and dumped in a Baghdad canal.

Bombers return to Fallujah as Iraq-US pact endorsed (AFP) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 12:03 PM CST AFP - Car bombers killed at least 15 people in a former rebel bastion on Thursday as Iraq's security pact with Washington won final approval before its launch at the end of the month.

Iraq Presidency Council approves U.S. troop pact (Reuters) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 10:47 AM CST Reuters - Iraq's Presidency Council has approved a security pact with the United States that paves the way for a complete U.S. troop pullout by the end of 2011, a spokesman for the council said on Thursday.

Iraqi army finds 80 bodies in four mass graves (Reuters) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 09:34 AM CST Reuters - The Iraqi army unearthed 80 decomposed bodies from four mass graves in northern Iraq's volatile Diyala province, a security source for the region said on Thursday.

Two US soldiers killed by car bomb in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 08:18 AM CST AFP - Two US soldiers were killed and nine Iraqis wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, the US military said.

At least 15 dead, 147 hurt in Fallujah bombings (AFP) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 08:03 AM CST AFP - At least 15 people died and 147 were hurt, including many schoolchildren, by two suicide vehicle bombs in the former rebel bastion of Fallujah on Thursday, an interior ministry official said.

Iraq presidential council endorses US security pact (AFP) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 07:38 AM CST AFP - Iraq's presidential council on Thursday gave its blessing to a landmark security pact with the United States which calls for American combat troops to withdraw by the end of 2011.

Iraqi council gives final approval to pact with US (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2008 07:35 AM CST AP - Iraq's three-member presidential council on Thursday approved a security pact with the United States that sets out a three-year timeframe for the full withdrawal of American troops, a spokesman said.

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