Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq sends thousands more police to Syrian border (AP)
• Chalabi aide: I went from White House to secret prison (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Ex-soldier gets life in prison for Iraqi assault (Reuters)
• Ex-US soldier gets life for Iraqi girl's rape, murder (AFP)
• Ex-soldier gets 5 life sentences Iraqi deaths (AP)
• Officials: Serbia may offer Iraq air force planes (AP)
• US base in Iraq honors killed Oregon soldier (AP)
• Iraq attacks death toll rises to eight (AFP)
• Maliki wants probe of Baghdad bombings (AFP)

Iraq sends thousands more police to Syrian border (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 02:38 PM PDT AP - Iraq has deployed thousands of reinforcements along its border with Syria to prevent insurgents from crossing the desert frontier, as the government said Friday it has provided Syria with evidence linking Iraqis there to bombings.

Chalabi aide: I went from White House to secret prison (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:51 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. authorities detained a top aide to former Iraqi exile leader and Bush administration ally Ahmad Chalabi last year and accused him of helping Iranian-backed militants kidnap and kill American and British soldiers and contractors.

Ex-soldier gets life in prison for Iraqi assault (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:33 PM PDT Reuters - A federal judge sentenced a former U.S. Army soldier to life in prison without parole on Friday for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaying of her family in 2006.

Ex-US soldier gets life for Iraqi girl's rape, murder (AFP) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:28 PM PDT AFP - A former US soldier will spend his life in prison for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaughter of her family, a judge ruled Friday.

Ex-soldier gets 5 life sentences Iraqi deaths (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:15 PM PDT AP - A former soldier received five consecutive life sentences Friday for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the slaying of three of her family members.

Officials: Serbia may offer Iraq air force planes (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 11:26 AM PDT AP - Serbia may offer Iraq some planes from its aging air force and train pilots to partly make up for fighter jets sent here for maintenance during the Saddam Hussein era that have now been deemed useless, officials said Friday.

US base in Iraq honors killed Oregon soldier (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 11:23 AM PDT AP - An air passenger terminal at a base northeast of Baghdad has been named for a soldier from Oregon who died from injuries in the Iraq war.

Iraq attacks death toll rises to eight (AFP) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 12:09 AM PDT AFP - Eight people were killed and 57 wounded in two bomb attacks targeting Shiite Muslims in Iraq late on Thursday, the health chief in Babil province said on Friday.

Maliki wants probe of Baghdad bombings (AFP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 08:04 PM PDT AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is calling for an international probe of last month's deadly bomb attacks on two government ministries in Baghdad, according to letters recently viewed here.

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