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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,275 (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 05:13 PM PDT AP - As of Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at least 4,275 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Pentagon: Insurgent attacks likely to rise in Iraq (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 04:06 PM PDT AP - The Pentagon's top Middle East adviser said Wednesday insurgent attacks in Iraq will probably increase as U.S. forces start to leave, but there's no plan now to delay troop departures.

Report links CIA to military harsh interrogations (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT AP - The brutal treatment of prisoners by the military at Guantanamo Bay, Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and Afghanistan was systematic and a direct result of the CIA's early use of harsh interrogation tactics, according to a Senate report. The 232-page report released Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee came less than a week after President Barack Obama released the Aug. 1, 2002 memo that justified the use of severe methods by the CIA.

Lawyer asks Marines to drop Iraq murder charge (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 02:59 PM PDT AP - A Marine's lawyer says the military will decide as early Friday whether to drop charges that his client murdered an unarmed detainee in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

Can Iraqis tweet their way to a state of normalcy? (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 02:57 PM PDT AP - "Breakfast time ... Lots of helicopters ... Met the president of Iraq ... Amazing palace."

UN gives Iraq report on troubled Kirkuk (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 02:44 PM PDT AP - Iraqi leaders received on Wednesday a highly anticipated U.N. report on proposals to ease ethnic rifts in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk and other disputed areas, a U.N. spokesman said.

US soldier killed in Baghdad, military says (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 01:29 PM PDT AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed in Iraq.

British man admits guilt in NY oil-for-food case (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 12:28 PM PDT AP - A British oil company employee has admitted his role in a scheme to cheat the United Nations oil-for-food program by paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's Iraq regime.

Uneasy calm for Iraq, Kurdish troops in disputed area (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 11:13 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. Colonel Ryan Gonsalves' soldiers were already on their way to their new post in Baghdad when he got news his brigade was being diverted to Iraq's tense city of Kirkuk.

U.N. launches report on Iraq's contested Kirkuk (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 11:05 AM PDT Reuters - The United Nations handed the Iraqi government a report on Wednesday it hopes will help end decades of deadlock over Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed region that sits on as much as 4 percent of the world's oil supply.

Iraq and Syria in pipeline repair deal (AFP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 11:05 AM PDT AFP - Baghdad and Damascus have agreed a plan for the repair of an oil pipeline through Syria as a part of a strategic accord on energy and trade, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced on Wednesday.

U.N. experts urge power sharing in Kirkuk (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 09:46 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — A special U.N. task force urged Iraqis on Wednesday to resolve their bitter dispute over oil-rich Kirkuk by preserving the city's territorial integrity and sharing control between the Kurds and Arabs who lay claim to it.

Tensions rise in Iraq's Mosul amid Kurdish boycott (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 08:37 AM PDT Reuters - Tensions between Kurds and Sunni Arabs are rising in Iraq's volatile northern city of Mosul and the surrounding province following local elections in January which saw Sunni representation jump dramatically.

UN report on Iraq says no break-up of Kirkuk (AFP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 08:24 AM PDT AFP - The United Nations handed over an eagerly awaited report on disputed districts of Iraq on Wednesday, in which it refused to contemplate the division of the deeply-contested oil-rich Kirkuk province.

Army officer feels vindicated by Senate report (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2009 04:34 AM PDT AP - An Army Reserve brigadier general demoted because of prisoner abuses at the Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq says a new Senate report supports claims that uniformed military people were made "scapegoats" for Bush administration prisoner interrogation policies.

Americans loom large on 'Iraqi-led' operation (AFP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 08:29 PM PDT AFP - The American lieutenant in full battle gear strode like a giant in front of the wiry Iraqi soldiers in tilted helmets and oversized flak jackets lined up in front of him.

Coercive Interrogation Was Common in Iraq, Senate Report Says (Bloomberg) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 07:00 PM PDT Bloomberg - April 22 (Bloomberg) -- Forced nudity, stress positions and police dogs were commonly used by military interrogators to intimidate prisoners at the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq, a Senate panel has concluded.

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