Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Wife: Iraq war changed soldier accused in slayings (AP)
• Iraq president calls on parliament to meet on election law (AFP)
• Iraq VP holds out hope for election law compromise (AP)
• Iraq violence kills eight, including senior anti-terror cop (AFP)
• Fourteen swine flu deaths in Iraq since May: health ministry (AFP)
• Suicide bomber kills five in attack on Iraq police (Reuters)
• Iraq election decision postponed until Sunday (Reuters)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,367 (AP)

Wife: Iraq war changed soldier accused in slayings (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 03:28 PM PST AP - Relatives of a Fort Drum soldier accused of stabbing his two Army buddies to death said Thursday that he told them he saw his best friend "blown to pieces" in Iraq and came back a changed man: abusive, violent, sleepless, edgy and plagued by flashbacks.

Iraq president calls on parliament to meet on election law (AFP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 12:16 PM PST AFP - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has called on parliament to hold an emergency meeting on Saturday in order to vote on a draft law to govern legislative elections, a senior official said.

Iraq VP holds out hope for election law compromise (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 11:34 AM PST AP - Iraq's vice president said Thursday he remains open to talks to break an impasse on holding parliamentary elections scheduled for next month but stands by his demand that minority Sunnis have a greater voice in the voting.

Iraq violence kills eight, including senior anti-terror cop (AFP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 10:22 AM PST AFP - Attacks in Iraq on Thursday killed eight people, including a senior anti-terror officer who led a key fightback against Al-Qaeda in his province, police said.

Fourteen swine flu deaths in Iraq since May: health ministry (AFP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 09:54 AM PST AFP - Swine flu has killed 14 people in Iraq since May, a spokesman for the health ministry said on Thursday, doubling the previously disclosed toll.

Suicide bomber kills five in attack on Iraq police (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 09:06 AM PST Reuters - A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed a police commander and four of his bodyguards in Tikrit, the hometown of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, on Thursday, police said.

Iraq election decision postponed until Sunday (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 06:21 AM PST Reuters - Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Thursday he had postponed until Sunday a decision on whether to sign or veto an election law required for next year's critical poll, after a court gave him more time.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,367 (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2009 06:10 PM PST AP - As of Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, at least 4,367 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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