Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• AP Interview: Iraqi top cop expects more attacks (AP)
• Prospects are dismal for returning Iraqi refugees (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Iraqi anger over US soldier being spared death (AFP)
• Muslims protest alleged defacement of Quran (AP)
• Iraqi relatives decry life for U.S. rape soldier (Reuters)

AP Interview: Iraqi top cop expects more attacks (AP) Posted: 22 May 2009 12:28 PM PDT AP - A top Iraqi security official predicted Friday that insurgent groups will attempt more attacks similar to those that killed at least 66 people this week after U.S. combat soldiers leave Baghdad and other cities by the end of next month.

Prospects are dismal for returning Iraqi refugees (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 22 May 2009 09:45 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — When Dhafir Hussein left Iraq last year for Sweden, he hoped it would be for good. Sectarian killings and armed gangs had turned his old Baghdad neighborhood, Sheik Omar, into a ghost town. Business had disappeared at the small engine-repair shop where he once made a decent living.

Iraqi anger over US soldier being spared death (AFP) Posted: 22 May 2009 08:14 AM PDT AFP - A US court decision sparing ex-soldier Steven Dale Green the death penalty for raping and murdering an Iraqi teenager after killing her family was met with anger by the girl's relatives on Friday.

Muslims protest alleged defacement of Quran (AP) Posted: 22 May 2009 07:42 AM PDT AP - Authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades at hundreds of Muslims in central Athens on Friday as they protested a Greek policeman's alleged defacement of a Quran owned by an Iraqi immigrant.

Iraqi relatives decry life for U.S. rape soldier (Reuters) Posted: 22 May 2009 06:31 AM PDT Reuters - Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who was raped and killed along with her family by U.S. soldiers expressed outrage Friday that the ringleader received a life sentence in a U.S. court instead of execution.

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