Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Panel faults Marine for response to Iraq killings (AP)
• Iraq defence minister asks for budget to pay informers (AFP)
• Lawmaker: Iraqi security had tip-off before bombs (AP)
• Intelligence on Baghdad blasts mishandled: interior minister (Reuters)
• Iraq eyes top spot after oil auction 'victory' (AFP)
• Interior minister wants Iraq to turn page on Baathists (AFP)
• Blair defends Iraq war, even without WMD (AFP)
• Iraq oil deal auction a "success," sees huge output (Reuters)
• US military: Soldier dies in Iraq (AP)

Panel faults Marine for response to Iraq killings (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 02:49 PM PST AP - A military panel found that a Marine officer displayed substandard performance in his response to the deaths of 24 Iraqis but said he should maintain his rank.

Iraq defence minister asks for budget to pay informers (AFP) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 01:34 PM PST AFP - Iraqi Defence Minister Abdel Qader Obeidi on Saturday asked parliament for funds to recruit informers, saying that the authorities lacked sufficient information on insurgents.

Lawmaker: Iraqi security had tip-off before bombs (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 11:46 AM PST AP - Iraqi security forces were tipped off to this week's suicide bombings in Baghdad just hours before the blasts killed 127 people, a Shiite lawmaker said Saturday after a closed-door parliamentary briefing by the nation's defense minister.

Intelligence on Baghdad blasts mishandled: interior minister (Reuters) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:04 AM PST Reuters - Iraqi security officials had prior warning of bloody bombings this week that police said killed 112 people, but bureaucracy and blunders tripped up efforts to stop them, the interior minister said on Saturday.

Iraq eyes top spot after oil auction 'victory' (AFP) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 07:49 AM PST AFP - Iraq on Saturday awarded oil contracts to foreign giants at an auction it hopes will hike output to 12 million barrels a day and put it on a par with the world's top producer Saudi Arabia.

Interior minister wants Iraq to turn page on Baathists (AFP) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 05:50 AM PST AFP - Interior Minister Jawad Bolani, who faced a grilling in parliament on Saturday over this week's bombings, wants Iraqis to turn the page on ex-dictator Saddam Hussein's Baathists who ruled the country.

Blair defends Iraq war, even without WMD (AFP) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 05:41 AM PST AFP - Britain would have backed the invasion of Iraq even if it knew that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), former British premier Tony Blair said in comments released Saturday.

Iraq oil deal auction a "success," sees huge output (Reuters) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 01:53 AM PST Reuters - Iraq, emerging from the shadow of war, expects to boost its oil output to rival the level of top producer Saudi Arabia after awarding some of its most attractive oilfields to global oil companies this week.

US military: Soldier dies in Iraq (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 11:53 PM PST AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier in northern Iraq has died of injuries unrelated to combat.

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