| France's Sarkozy flies into Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:55 AM CST  Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday on the first visit to Iraq by a French head of state since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, which Paris strongly opposed.
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| Sarkozy on surprise visit to Iraq (AFP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:46 AM CST  AFP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Tuesday, the first ever trip to Iraq by a French head of state.
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| French president arrives on first trip to Iraq (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:09 AM CST  AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived Tuesday in Baghdad on his first trip to Iraq a major step in his efforts to rebuild ties with Iraq and end any lingering U.S.-French animosity over the 2003 Iraq invasion.
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| A Quiet Election Masks the Iraqi Option for Violence (Time.com) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 11:30 PM CST Time.com - Hailed as a success, the ballot nevertheless highlighted trouble areas and the country's propensity for solving problems through killing |
| U.S. senator seeks Bush-era "truth commission" (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 08:56 PM CST  Reuters - A U.S. "truth commission" should investigate Bush administration policies including the promotion of war in Iraq, detainee treatment and wiretapping without a warrant, an influential senator proposed on Monday.
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| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,243 (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 07:36 PM CST  AP - As of Monday, Feb. 9, 2009, at least 4,243 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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| Four Guantanamo prisoners handed over to Iraq: ICRC (AFP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 03:50 PM CST  AFP - Four Iraqi prisoners from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have been handed over to the authorities in Baghdad, a Red Cross official told AFP on Monday.
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| Oregon soldier's death is under investigation (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 03:15 PM CST AP - Army criminal investigators have opened a probe into the death of an Oregon soldier who was electrocuted while swimming in Iraq at a U.S.-operated base. |
| Four US soldiers killed in Iraq suicide bombing (AFP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 01:32 PM CST AFP - Four American soldiers and an interpreter were killed in a suicide car bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, in the deadliest attack since last May, the US military said. |
| Suicide bomber kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 12:36 PM CST Reuters - A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle laden with explosives near a U.S. patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing four U.S. soldiers and their interpreter, the U.S. military said. |
| U.S. says Iran still supporting Iraq militants (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 12:23 PM CST  Reuters - Iranians are still supporting Shi'ite militants in Iraq with weapons and training, despite a reduction in violence in Iraq, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad said in a television interview on Monday.
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| Saddam and Bush are taboo as Iraq schools recover (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 09:43 AM CST  Reuters - For Baghdad schools, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush and the sectarian slaughter unleashed after U.S. troops invaded six years ago are non-issues, banned from books and their discussion taboo.
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| Iraq to arrest foreigners without Baghdad visa (AFP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 08:06 AM CST  AFP - Foreigners who enter Iraq through the Kurdish north of the country without a visa issued by the authorities in Baghdad will face arrest and legal charges, the interior ministry warned on Monday.
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| Iraq far from peace and wracked by sectarianism: Allawi (AFP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 05:44 AM CST  AFP - Former prime minister Iyad Allawi told AFP on Monday Western nations should not delude themselves that Iraq is on the brink of peace, warning them a "fireball" could engulf planned general elections.
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