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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,275 (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 05:13 PM PDT AP - As of Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at least 4,275 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. |
Pentagon: Insurgent attacks likely to rise in Iraq (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 04:06 PM PDT AP - The Pentagon's top Middle East adviser said Wednesday insurgent attacks in Iraq will probably increase as U.S. forces start to leave, but there's no plan now to delay troop departures. |
Report links CIA to military harsh interrogations (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT AP - The brutal treatment of prisoners by the military at Guantanamo Bay, Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and Afghanistan was systematic and a direct result of the CIA's early use of harsh interrogation tactics, according to a Senate report. The 232-page report released Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee came less than a week after President Barack Obama released the Aug. 1, 2002 memo that justified the use of severe methods by the CIA. |
Lawyer asks Marines to drop Iraq murder charge (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 02:59 PM PDT AP - A Marine's lawyer says the military will decide as early Friday whether to drop charges that his client murdered an unarmed detainee in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. |
Can Iraqis tweet their way to a state of normalcy? (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 02:57 PM PDT |
UN gives Iraq report on troubled Kirkuk (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 02:44 PM PDT |
US soldier killed in Baghdad, military says (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 01:29 PM PDT AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed in Iraq. |
British man admits guilt in NY oil-for-food case (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 12:28 PM PDT AP - A British oil company employee has admitted his role in a scheme to cheat the United Nations oil-for-food program by paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's Iraq regime. |
Uneasy calm for Iraq, Kurdish troops in disputed area (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 11:13 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. Colonel Ryan Gonsalves' soldiers were already on their way to their new post in Baghdad when he got news his brigade was being diverted to Iraq's tense city of Kirkuk. |
U.N. launches report on Iraq's contested Kirkuk (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 11:05 AM PDT |
Iraq and Syria in pipeline repair deal (AFP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 11:05 AM PDT |
U.N. experts urge power sharing in Kirkuk (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 09:46 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD A special U.N. task force urged Iraqis on Wednesday to resolve their bitter dispute over oil-rich Kirkuk by preserving the city's territorial integrity and sharing control between the Kurds and Arabs who lay claim to it. |
Tensions rise in Iraq's Mosul amid Kurdish boycott (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 08:37 AM PDT Reuters - Tensions between Kurds and Sunni Arabs are rising in Iraq's volatile northern city of Mosul and the surrounding province following local elections in January which saw Sunni representation jump dramatically. |
UN report on Iraq says no break-up of Kirkuk (AFP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 08:24 AM PDT |
Army officer feels vindicated by Senate report (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 04:34 AM PDT AP - An Army Reserve brigadier general demoted because of prisoner abuses at the Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq says a new Senate report supports claims that uniformed military people were made "scapegoats" for Bush administration prisoner interrogation policies. |
Americans loom large on 'Iraqi-led' operation (AFP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 08:29 PM PDT |
Coercive Interrogation Was Common in Iraq, Senate Report Says (Bloomberg) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 07:00 PM PDT Bloomberg - April 22 (Bloomberg) -- Forced nudity, stress positions and police dogs were commonly used by military interrogators to intimidate prisoners at the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq, a Senate panel has concluded. |
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