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Hospital's recovery signals rising well-being in Iraq (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Dec 2008 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - His colleagues warned it was too soon to return. Iraq was still dangerous, they said, especially for a doctor whose driver was killed in a failed assassination attempt.

AP Interview: General says Iraq work far from over (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2008 01:49 AM CST AP - Iraq's security forces must develop intelligence, battlefield medicine and logistics before they can stand on their own, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said.

US general: Iran backs off worst bombs in Iraq (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2008 12:39 AM CST AP - Iran is no longer actively supplying Iraqi militias with a particularly lethal kind of roadside bomb, a decision that suggests a strategic shift by the Iranian leadership, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said Thursday.

Panel blames White House, not soldiers, for abuse (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 11:11 PM CST AP - The physical and mental abuse of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was the direct result of Bush administration detention policies and should not be dismissed as the work of bad guards or interrogators, according to a bipartisan Senate report released Thursday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 07:27 PM CST AP - As of Thursday, Dec. 11, 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.

Senate probe blames top Bush officials for abuses (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 07:02 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Top officials — including former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — were responsible for the use of "abusive" interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay, in Afghanistan and at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a bipartisan Senate report concluded Thursday.

Suicide bomber kills 55 in packed Iraq restaurant (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:42 PM CST AP - A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people Thursday in a packed restaurant near the northern city of Kirkuk where Kurdish officials and Arab tribal leaders were trying to reconcile their differences over control of the oil-rich region. The brazen attack — the deadliest in Iraq in six months — occurred at a time of rising tension between Kurds and Arabs over oil, political power and Kirkuk.

Iraq urges Obama to talk to Iran, Syria (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:17 PM CST AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama and his future administration must open dialogue with Iran and Syria to "solve" long-standing issues plaguing the Middle East, the Iraqi government said Thursday.

Suicide bomber kills 55 at Kirkuk restaurant (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 04:30 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — A suicide attack at a posh restaurant in the northern city of Kirkuk killed 55 people Thursday and wounded 102, security authorities said, shattering a calm that had settled over Iraq during the four-day Eid al Adha religious holiday.

Iranian support for Iraq insurgency appears to wane: US general (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 04:18 PM CST AFP - Numbers of Iranian-made "explosively formed penetrators" (EFPs) in Iraq decreased in recent months, reflecting an apparent decline in Tehran's support for Iraqi insurgents, a US general said Thursday.

Iraq may need U.S. troops for decade: Iraqi official (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 03:14 PM CST Reuters - Iraq will need a U.S. troop presence to help build up its military forces past the newly agreed three-year deadline for the withdrawal of American soldiers, a senior Iraqi official said Thursday.

Suicide bomber kills 50 in Iraqi restaurant (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 01:47 PM CST Reuters - A suicide bomber killed about 50 people and wounded more than 100 Thursday, including Kurdish and Arab officials, in a crowded restaurant near Iraq's ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk.

A look at attacks in or near Kirkuk (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 01:40 PM CST AP - A look at deadly attacks in or near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk over the past few years:

US to begin transfer of Iraqi prisoners on Feb 1 (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 12:40 PM CST AFP - American forces in Iraq will begin to transfer coalition-held prisoners to the Iraqi authorities from the beginning of February, a top US commander said in a statement on Thursday.

Women in Baghdad take to the road again (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 11:21 AM CST AFP - The last time Manal Hakim was in the driving seat she was pistol-whipped by armed Islamists. Two years later, the 38-year-old Iraqi teacher is behind the wheel again, but now with a smile on her face.

Iraq restaurant bomb kills 55: police (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 10:48 AM CST AFP - At least 55 people were killed and 95 were wounded in a suicide bomb attack in a restaurant near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on the final day of the annual Feast of the Sacrifice holiday.

UN denounces plight of foreign workers in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 10:09 AM CST AFP - The UN special representative in Iraq denounced on Thursday the plight of foreigners brought in with promises of work and then left without jobs, singling out the case of Baghdad's international airport.

Iraq asks Obama to hold new U.S.- Iran talks (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:52 AM CST Reuters - The Iraqi government has called for the administration of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to initiate sustained dialogue with Iran in hopes of greater Middle Eastern stability, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

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