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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq VP: 'Optimistic' signs on election accord (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:32 AM PST

Joan Baxer of Ramsey, New Jersey holds a photograph of her son Sergeant Brian Baxer, 22, who has done two tours in Iraq and is awaiting deployment to Afghanistan, attends a rally against the plan to try those accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks at New York's Federal Court, in New York December 5, 2009. REUTERS/Finbarr O'ReillyAP - Iraq's vice president said Saturday there are "optimistic signs" toward a political agreement on parliamentary elections, but warned he could again veto the plan if it does not meet his demands for greater Sunni outreach in the balloting.

Iraq MPs again fail to vote on new election law (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:23 AM PST

Iraqi MP Haidar al-Ibadi speaks during a press conference following a parliament session in Baghdad. Iraq's parliament met on Saturday to vote on a new electoral law for polls early next year but no quorum was reached and the session was postponed until Sunday, speaker Iyad Samarrai said.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraq's parliament met on Saturday to vote on a new electoral law for polls early next year but no quorum was reached and the session was postponed until Sunday, speaker Iyad Samarrai said.

A lost son returns to Iraq killing fields (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 06:53 AM PST

In this photo taken Friday Dec. 4, 2009 , Ali 21, left, embraces his mother Fatima Mohammed Salih 58, right, for the first time in more than two decades in Halabja, Iraq, Ali survived a poison gas attack by Saddam's military in 1988 during the war between the two countries, He was found by the Iranian military, which had moved into Halabja after the gas attack and was adopted by Iranian family in Iran. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)AP - Six families nervously awaited the DNA tests on the young man who returned from Iran. They wondered: Could this be their son who was just an infant in 1988 and somehow lived through a deadly chemical attack by Saddam Hussein's regime?

Ex-UN weapons inspector condemns Blair, Bush on Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 10:13 PM PST

George W. Bush and Tony Blair's conviction that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a threat blinded them to the lack of evidence justifying a war to depose him, ex-UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, pictured in New York in 2005, said Saturday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AFP - George W. Bush and Tony Blair's conviction that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a threat blinded them to the lack of evidence justifying a war to depose him, an ex-UN weapons inspector said Saturday.

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