Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US Army cancels plans to send brigade to Iraq: Pentagon (AFP)
• Ex-contractor pleads guilty to sex assault in Iraq (AP)
• UN: Most Iraqi refugees in program go to US (AP)
• U.S. brigade won't go to Iraq, speeding withdrawal (Reuters)
• Suicide bomber kills 15 at mosque in northern Iraq (AP)
• An Iraqi primary election draws crowds but lacks safeguards (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Destination death: an Al-Qaeda bus in Iraq (AFP)
• Sadrists choose candidates for Iraq parliamentary poll (AFP)
• Cruelty charges dropped against Michigan soldier (AP)
• Suicide bomber kills 15 in north Iraq mosque (AFP)
• Iraqis deported from Britain barred from homeland: officials (AFP)
• Suicide bomber kills 15 in northern Iraq mosque (Reuters)
• Sadrists choose candidates for Iraqi poll (AFP)
• Five convicted for Australia terror attack plot (AFP)
• Twist in Iraq's democracy: anti-American party pushes electoral reform (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Five guilty of plotting Australian jihad (AFP)
• Iraqi drama lauded at Asia's top film festival (AFP)

US Army cancels plans to send brigade to Iraq: Pentagon (AFP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 04:41 PM PDT AFP - The US military on Friday cancelled plans to send a 3,500-strong Army brigade to Iraq because of improving security conditions there, possibly freeing up troops for the war in Afghanistan.

Ex-contractor pleads guilty to sex assault in Iraq (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 03:18 PM PDT AP - A former civilian defense contractor accused of sexually assaulting a female co-worker at an air base in Iraq has pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact.

UN: Most Iraqi refugees in program go to US (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 03:08 PM PDT AP - More than 30,000 Iraqis have moved to the United States under a resettlement program that began in 2007 while much smaller numbers have gone to other countries, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.

U.S. brigade won't go to Iraq, speeding withdrawal (Reuters) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 02:01 PM PDT Reuters - The Pentagon said on Friday that it has scrapped plans to deploy a 3,500-member Army brigade to Iraq in January, accelerating a U.S. drawdown as the White House weighs sending more troop to Afghanistan.

Suicide bomber kills 15 at mosque in northern Iraq (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 01:46 PM PDT AP - A suicide bomber who hid among the Sunni congregation in a northern Iraqi mosque sprayed gunfire at Muslim worshippers Friday and then blew himself up, killing at least 15 people, including the imam leading prayers, officials said.

An Iraqi primary election draws crowds but lacks safeguards (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 01:40 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Muqtada al Sadr voted in primary elections Friday in an attempt by the radical Shiite Muslim cleric to restore his party's popularity, which was shaken in the last elections early this year.

Destination death: an Al-Qaeda bus in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 01:32 PM PDT AFP - The bombers had done their work well, and the bus found at a farm west of Baghdad appeared quite normal. But this one had been modified by Al-Qaeda to transport death.

Sadrists choose candidates for Iraq parliamentary poll (AFP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 01:31 PM PDT AFP - Large crowds of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr voted on Friday to select candidates to run in Iraq's election in January, in the first such vote since the fall of Saddam.

Cruelty charges dropped against Michigan soldier (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 01:06 PM PDT AP - Charges have been dropped against one of four U.S. soldiers accused of mistreating others in their platoon in Iraq following an investigation into the suicide of an Ohio serviceman, the military said Friday.

Suicide bomber kills 15 in north Iraq mosque (AFP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 12:27 PM PDT AFP - Fifteen worshippers were killed in an Iraqi mosque on Friday as a suicide bomber shot dead the prayer leader and then blew himself up in a town near the restive northern city of Mosul.

Iraqis deported from Britain barred from homeland: officials (AFP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 12:07 PM PDT AFP - Around 30 Iraqi asylum seekers who Britain tried to send back to Iraq were refused entry to their homeland and are now back on English soil, officials said Friday.

Suicide bomber kills 15 in northern Iraq mosque (Reuters) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 09:29 AM PDT Reuters - A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people and wounded 90 on Friday in a Sunni Muslim mosque in northern Iraq whose imam had criticized al Qaeda, officials said.

Sadrists choose candidates for Iraqi poll (AFP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 06:39 AM PDT AFP - Large crowds of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr voted on Friday to select candidates to run in Iraq's election in January, in the first such vote since the fall of Saddam.

Five convicted for Australia terror attack plot (AFP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 04:07 AM PDT AFP - Five Muslim men were Friday found guilty of plotting a jihadist attack using guns and explosives to protest Australia's involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Twist in Iraq's democracy: anti-American party pushes electoral reform (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - In an unexpected twist for Iraq's nascent democracy, an anti-American party is speeding ahead with electoral reform while the Iraqi parliament is gridlocked over how to run national elections slated for January.

Five guilty of plotting Australian jihad (AFP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 11:31 PM PDT AFP - Five Muslim men were Friday found guilty of plotting a jihadist attack using guns and explosives to protest Australia's involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Iraqi drama lauded at Asia's top film festival (AFP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 08:12 PM PDT AFP - An Iraqi-Kurdish drama centred around a wartime football match and a South Korean film about the wanderings of a third-rate poet took top honors at Asia's premiere film festival Friday.

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