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Sunni party's rise in Iraq signals new nationalist current (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Feb 2009 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - Atheel al-Nujaifi, leader of an emergent Sunni Arab party, suddenly finds himself at the center of a sea change in this country's most turbulent province.

Likely U.S. envoy to Iraq is a fan of direct diplomacy (Reuters) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 08:17 PM CST Reuters - The man tipped as the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq said on Tuesday he believed it was vital in diplomacy to talk to enemies as well as friends.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,237 (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 06:51 PM CST AP - As of Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009, at least 4,237 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

'Mother' of Iraqi women bomber network arrested (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 06:43 PM CST AP - A woman accused of helping recruit dozens of female suicide bombers looked into the camera and described the process: trolling society for likely candidates and then patiently converting the women from troubled souls into deadly attackers.

Obama to name Iraq war pilot to veterans affairs (AFP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 04:50 PM CST AFP - President Barack Obama intends to nominate a US Army helicopter pilot who lost both her legs in an attack in Iraq as an assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the White House said Tuesday.

Voter confusion, exclusion stirs tensions in Iraq's Sunni areas (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 04:20 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — In the years of sectarian strife unleashed by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Ali Mahmood had to flee death squads and rogue cops. The 28-year-old led a nomadic existence, moving from his native Basra to Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul and then back to Basra.

Some attacks by female suicide bombers in Iraq (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 02:58 PM CST AP - A look at some of the deadliest attacks by female suicide bombers in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion:

Analysis: Iraq still faces hurdles after election (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 12:05 PM CST AP - Last week's peaceful Iraqi elections appear to have been a rousing success — a major step toward a stable democracy that will hasten the day when U.S. troops can leave.

US: Bombers arrested in lead up to election (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 11:59 AM CST AP - American and Iraqi forces arrested suspected suicide bombers and others during targeted sweeps in the hours leading up to last weekend's relatively violence-free provincial elections, the top U.S. commander in Baghdad said on Tuesday.

US: 50 detainees released a day in Iraq (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 09:53 AM CST AP - The U.S. military says it has started releasing 50 detainees a day in Iraq, under a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that requires that those in custody but not wanted by the Iraqis be released.

Iraqi woman recruited 80 suicide bombers (AFP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 09:06 AM CST AFP - Iraqi police have arrested a woman who has confessed to recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers and who helped orchestrate dozens of attacks, a senior officer said on Tuesday.

Iraq Kurds call regional vote but no date for provincial polls (AFP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 09:01 AM CST AFP - Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region is to hold elections to its regional parliament in May, the legislature's speaker Adnan Mufti said on Tuesday, setting no date for provincial elections held in most of the rest of the country last weekend.

Revival of Iraq National Oil Co 'key to output boost' (AFP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 08:29 AM CST AFP - Plans to revive the Iraqi National Oil company more than a decade after it was scrapped by Saddam Hussein would give a big boost to the flagging oil sector, South Oil chief Kifah Numan said.

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