Yahoo! News: Iraq

Kidnap survivor asks Australia to save 2 Iraqis (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 08:43 PM CST AP - An Australian who was kidnapped in Baghdad in 2005 has appealed to the government to resettle two Iraqi soldiers he claims are in danger for rescuing him.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,250 (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 08:03 PM CST AP - As of Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, at least 4,250 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq's treasure trove national museum reopens (AFP) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 07:24 PM CST AFP - The Iraq Museum reopened almost six years after its ancient treasures were looted in the chaotic aftermath of the US-led invasion.

Baghdad museum reopens 6 years after looting (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 03:18 PM CST AP - Iraq's restored National Museum reopened Monday with a red-carpet gala in the heart of Baghdad nearly six years after looters carried away priceless antiquities as American troops largely stood by in the chaos of the city's fall to U.S. forces.

3 US soldiers, interpreter killed in Iraq (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 03:09 PM CST AP - Three U.S. soldiers and an interpreter were killed Monday during fighting north of Baghdad, the military announced.

Iraqi lawmaker disputes claims that he ordered attacks (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 02:55 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — An Iraqi lawmaker on Monday blasted accusations that he'd ordered mafia-like murders, charging that the case was politically motivated because of his hard-line stance on human rights issues.

(AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 02:34 PM CST AP - The U.S. military in Iraq says 3 U.S. soldiers and an interpreter have died in combat north of Baghdad.

Iraq arrests Shiite gang accused of killing Sunnis (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 12:46 PM CST AP - Iraq's Interior Ministry says it has arrested a Shiite police gang accused of killing the Sunni vice president's sister.

Seven killed in Iraq attacks (AFP) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 12:17 PM CST AFP - Bombers and gunmen killed at least seven people in attacks in central and northern Iraq on Monday, the interior ministry and security officials said.

Iraq arrests police in law-and-order crackdown (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 11:14 AM CST Reuters - Iraq on Monday accused a dozen Shi'ite policemen of murdering minority Sunnis at the height of the sectarian violence that roiled the country.

Iraq MP rejects charge of ordering parliament bombing (AFP) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 08:43 AM CST AFP - A Sunni Arab MP accused of ordering a deadly 2007 bombing of Iraq's parliament dismissed the charges on Monday as a politically-motivated "fabrication" due to his party's defence of human rights.

Kuwait receives $13 bln compensation from Iraq (AFP) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 08:05 AM CST AFP - Kuwait said on Monday it has received a total of 13.3 billion dollars in compensation from Iraq for the 1990 invasion and occupation of the oil-rich emirate by Saddam Hussein's forces.

A brief window opens into rarely seen Iraq Museum (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Feb 2009 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - Iraq Museum director Amira Edan, swamped by a pile of papers on her desk, sighs as she tries to explain the political firestorm swirling around the opening of the Iraq Museum, which became a symbol of the postinvasion looting that devastated Baghdad.

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