| US troops to stay in Iraqi cities after June (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2008 02:30 AM CST  AP - Some American troops will remain in Iraqi cities after a June 30 deadline for combat soldiers to leave urban areas, the top U.S. commander said Saturday.
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| Commander: Some US troops to stay in Iraqi cities (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2008 12:23 AM CST  AP - U.S. troops will stay in cities to support and train Iraqis despite a summer deadline to pull American combat forces, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday, a move that could leave thousands in the urban areas.
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| Commander: Troops to stay in cities past deadline (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 10:36 PM CST  AP - U.S. troops will remain in Iraqi cities at local security stations, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday, a move that could leave thousands in the urban areas despite a summer deadline to have combat troops out.
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| U.S. troops may be in Iraqi cities beyond next June (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 10:03 PM CST  Reuters - The top U.S. commander in Iraq said on Saturday that some U.S. troops may remain in Iraqi cities after next June, even though a U.S.-Iraq security pact calls for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from urban areas by then.
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| Iraq's reconstruction a 100-billion failure: report (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 09:33 PM CST  AFP - An unpublished US government report says US-led efforts to rebuild Iraq were crippled by bureaucratic turf wars, violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society, resulting in a 100-billion-dollar failure, The New York Times reported on its website.
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| New report slams U.S. reconstruction of Iraq: report (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 08:00 PM CST  Reuters - An unpublished federal draft report depicts the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq as a $100 billion failure doomed by bureaucratic infighting, ignorance of basic elements of Iraqi society and waves of violence there, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.
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| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 06:19 PM CST  AP - As of Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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| Iraqis hurt in bomb blast treated in Turkey (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 01:14 PM CST  AFP - Fourteen Iraqis wounded in a bomb attack on a restaurant near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk have been flown to Turkey for treatment, the Turkish foreign ministry said Saturday.
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| US attorneys visit Iraqis in Blackwater shooting (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 01:11 PM CST  AP - U.S. prosecutors visited on Saturday the site of last year's shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead in a Baghdad square and briefed victims' families about the case against Blackwater Worldwide guards indicted in the deadly incident.
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| U.S. prosecutors in Iraq Blackwater case meet victims (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 11:53 AM CST Reuters - Some of the Iraqi victims of a shooting by security guards working for American security firm Blackwater said they had faith in the U.S. legal system after meeting federal prosecutors in Baghdad on Saturday. |
| US prosecutors meet Blackwater case families (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 10:02 AM CST  AFP - Three US federal prosecutors on Saturday in Baghdad met families of Iraqi victims in the case of Blackwater security guards charged with killing 14 civilians.
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| US troops to stay in Iraq cities: commander (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 08:47 AM CST  AFP - US troops will stay in Iraqi cities in a support and training role even after a June target date set for a pullback by a new security agreement between the two governments, the top US commander in Iraq said on Saturday.
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| Iraq repeats debt-cancellation plea (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 07:30 AM CST  AFP - Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh reiterated on Saturday a call for Iraq's creditors to cancel the foreign debt of the country that was accumulated by the former regime.
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| US defence chief in surprise visit to Iraq (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 05:30 AM CST  AFP - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates flew in to Iraq for a surprise visit on Saturday for talks with military commander General Raymond Odierno, an AFP correspondent travelling with him said.
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| Fort Hood soldiers to participate in marathon (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2008 04:32 AM CST AP - Thousands of miles away in Iraq, more than 160 soldiers from Fort Hood will participate in Sunday's White Rock Marathon in Dallas. |
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