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Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at Bush goes on trial (AFP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:52 AM CST AFP - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US former president George W. Bush went on trial amid high security on Thursday with his lawyers set to argue that the remarkable protest was lawful.

Trial begins for Iraqi journalist who threw shoes (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:45 AM CST AP - Court proceedings against the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then-President George W. Bush late last year have begun in Baghdad.

Iraq reporter who threw shoes at Bush goes on trial (Reuters) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:43 AM CST Reuters - The Iraqi journalist who became an icon for critics of the U.S.-led invasion when he hurled his shoes at former President George W. Bush went on trial on Thursday, facing up to 15 years in prison.

Testimony continues in soldier's court-martial (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:21 AM CST AP - The court-martial of a U.S. soldier accused of taking part in the execution-style killings of four Iraqi prisoners continued Thursday with more witnesses to be called to the stand.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,245 (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 07:19 PM CST AP - As of Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009, at least 4,245 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Soldier pleads guilty to assault in Iraq death (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 06:00 PM CST AP - An Army staff sergeant who was facing a murder charge in the death of an Iraqi detainee pleaded guilty to assault on Wednesday and received more than a year's confinement.

Obama urged to create special detainee commission (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 04:50 PM CST AP - The former general who investigated abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison is joining an ex-FBI director and others in seeking a presidential commission to investigate the Bush administration's treatment of terror detainees.

After praise, poetry, Iraqi shoe thrower faces trial (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 03:21 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — In the two months since he chucked a pair of shoes across a crowded Baghdad room and narrowly missed former President George W. Bush, Iraqi journalist Muntathar al Zaidi has emerged as a folk hero, poetry muse and minor irritant.

Iraq's Kurdish-Arab tensions threaten to escalate into war (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 02:43 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - MOSUL, Iraq — At the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, Khasro Goran, the deputy governor of Iraq's Nineveh province, is worried about the future.

Correction: Iraq exhibit story (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 12:59 PM CST AP - In a Feb. 11 story about an Iraq war exhibit, The Associated Pres misstated the year when U.S. Army psychological operations specialist Jonathan Harvey spent 10 months in Iraq. It was in 2008, not 2007.

Four Iraqis killed in collision with British vehicle (AFP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 07:44 AM CST AFP - Four Iraqi pilgrims were killed when their minibus ran into the back of a British army vehicle during a sandstorm near the southern city of Basra, officials said on Wednesday.

Iraq speaker vote goes to run-off (AFP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 07:38 AM CST AFP - Iraqi MPs will vote in a run-off on Thursday to choose a new parliament speaker, with an opponent of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in pole position after a first round, parliamentary sources said.

Iraq museum row shows turf wars as violence fades (Reuters) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 04:46 AM CST Reuters - A standoff over when to reopen Iraq's National Museum, plundered after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, offers a glimpse into the political turf wars that are replacing sectarian violence.

Turkey could furnish a safe way home as US departs Iraq (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - Turkey is likely to play a prominent role as the US begins to remove thousands of tons of equipment and supplies from Iraq over the next year or so.

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