Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Syrian envoy denies aiding insurgency in Iraq (AP)
• Iraq PM warns of threat in run-up to January vote (AP)
• UN says ensuring Jan Iraq election 'herculean' task (AFP)
• Troops sue KBR over toxic waste in Iraq, Afghanistan (AFP)
• UN calls organizing Iraq elections a "Herculean task" (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Report: Blackwater OK'd $1M plan to pay off Iraqis (AP)
• British newspaper ordered to compensate Iraqi PM (AFP)
• US firm Blackwater in Iraq bribery scandal: report (AFP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,362 (AP)
• Blackwater approved payments in Iraq shooting: report (Reuters)

Syrian envoy denies aiding insurgency in Iraq (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2009 01:05 PM PST AP - Disputing an assertion by the top U.S. general in Iraq, Syria's ambassador to Washington on Wednesday denied that his government allows foreign fighters to cross the Syrian border into Iraq.

Iraq PM warns of threat in run-up to January vote (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2009 08:28 AM PST AP - Iraq's prime minister warned on Wednesday that insurgents will try to undermine the country's fledgling democracy in the run-up to January's national elections.

UN says ensuring Jan Iraq election 'herculean' task (AFP) Posted: 11 Nov 2009 08:24 AM PST AFP - Iraq's general election expected to take place on January 18 will be vital for national reconciliation, but ensuring it goes ahead on time will be a herculean task, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

Troops sue KBR over toxic waste in Iraq, Afghanistan (AFP) Posted: 11 Nov 2009 03:04 AM PST AFP - Dozens of US military personnel have filed 34 lawsuits against US defense contractor KBR for allegedly incinerating toxic waste and releasing it into the atmosphere in Iraq and Afghanistan.

UN calls organizing Iraq elections a "Herculean task" (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 Nov 2009 01:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The United Nations special representative to Iraq appealed on Tuesday to Iraqi officials to meet a series of deadlines in what he called the "Herculean task" of holding national elections in a little more than two months.

Report: Blackwater OK'd $1M plan to pay off Iraqis (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 11:42 PM PST AP - Former top executives at Blackwater Worldwide say the U.S. security contractor sent about $1 million to its Iraq office with the intention of paying off officials in the country who were angry about the fatal shootings of 17 civilians by Blackwater employees, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

British newspaper ordered to compensate Iraqi PM (AFP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 07:40 PM PST AFP - A British newspaper has been ordered to pay Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki financial compensation for describing him as increasingly autocratic in an article, the paper said Wednesday.

US firm Blackwater in Iraq bribery scandal: report (AFP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 06:47 PM PST AFP - Executives at US security firm Blackwater approved secret payments of about one million dollars to Iraqi officials to "silence their criticism" after company guards killed 17 civilians in Baghdad in 2007, the New York Times has said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,362 (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 06:28 PM PST AP - As of Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, at least 4,362 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Blackwater approved payments in Iraq shooting: report (Reuters) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 05:49 PM PST Reuters - Top Blackwater executives authorized about $1 million in payments to Iraqi officials to buy support and silence criticism of the private security firm after a deadly shooting in Baghdad in 2007, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

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