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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq: Sunni tribal leader says he can prove fraud (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 06:56 PM CST

An Iraqi soldier stands near a damaged vehicle after a candidate for the provincial council was targeted in a roadside bomb attack in Basra, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. Ahmed al Yasiri, a candidate for the al-Fadhila party list and an administrative official at the Basra provincial headquarters, was headed to work when a roadside bomb struck his convoy, police said. No one was injured in the attack. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)AP - A senior Sunni tribal leader claimed Wednesday to have hundreds of documents proving fraud in weekend elections in Anbar province, escalating a crisis that has threatened to reignite violence in the former insurgent stronghold.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,237 (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 06:53 PM CST

Blackwater security guards aboard a helicopter as it flies over Baghdad in 2006. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged to reduce the government's use of private security contractors abroad, in comments Wednesday.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AP - As of Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009, at least 4,237 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Ballots recounted amid growing furor in Iraq's Anbar province (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 05:09 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials moved to quell rising tensions between rival Sunni Muslim Arab factions in once-restive Anbar province Wednesday by recounting some of the ballots that were cast in last Saturday's provincial elections, even before the official results are known.

US warns of Iraq violence as poll results due (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 03:00 PM CST

US soldiers stand to attention during a handover ceremony at the al-Awad joint security station in Taji, north of Baghdad. The US military warned on Wednesday that election results in Iraq could trigger a fresh outbreak of violence, as allegations of fraud swirled ahead of the winners being announced.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The US military warned on Wednesday that election results in Iraq could trigger a fresh outbreak of violence, as allegations of fraud swirled ahead of the winners being announced.

Iraq elections a setback for Iran (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 01:19 PM CST

In this Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, Iraqis pass campaign posters, including those depicting Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, right, prior to the country's provincial election in the Shiite city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad. Iran appears to have suffered a political setback in last weekend's Iraqi elections, with Tehran's closest allies suffering surprise losses in key races in Shiite areas of the country. That would represent a surprising reversal for Shiite-led Iran, which had appeared to have been the big winner in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime and installed Iraqi Shiites in power. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani, File)AP - Iran appears to have suffered a setback in last weekend's Iraqi elections, with Tehran's closest allies losing key races in what suggests a public backlash to what many Iraqis see as undue Iranian influence in their country.

Polling group censures Iraq death toll researcher (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 08:49 AM CST

Blackwater security guards aboard a helicopter as it flies over Baghdad in 2006. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged to reduce the government's use of private security contractors abroad, in comments Wednesday.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AP - A prominent group of polling researchers has accused the lead author of a 2006 study suggesting massive civilian deaths in Iraq of violating the polling profession's codes and ethics.

Afghanistan says foreign fighters coming from Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 07:42 AM CST

In this picture released exclusively to Reuters on January 17, 2009, Taliban militants are seen with their weapons in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan January 16, 2009. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - With the reduction of violence in Iraq, foreign militants were now flooding into Afghanistan to join Taliban insurgents battling Afghan and international troops, the Afghan defense minister said Wednesday.

Iraq investigating serious vote fraud allegations (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 07:03 AM CST

Electoral officials tally votes at a ballot counting centre in Baghdad February 2, 2009. (Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)Reuters - Electoral officials are examining serious complaints of vote fraud in Iraq's western Anbar province, where Sunni Arab tribal leaders are disputing provincial election results.

US cmdr: Iran still supporting extremists in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 06:07 AM CST

A U.S. soldier mans a machinegun aboard a helicopter as it flies over north of Baghdad February 4, 2009. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ)AP - The No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq says Iran is still providing weapons, training and funding to Shiite extremists in Iraq — an allegation the Iranians have consistently denied.

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