Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq sends forces to oil well seized by Iran (AP)
• ON THE ROAD WITH MULLEN: Parking concerns in Iraq (AP)
• U.S. Companies Shut Out as Iraq Auctions Its Oil Fields (Time.com)
• Iran, Iraq seek diplomatic end to border dispute (Reuters)
• Firms to sign pre-contracts for 7 Iraqi oil fields (AFP)
• Iran acknowledges oil well takeover (AFP)
• Iraq says new mass grave found near Kirkuk (AP)
• Adm. Mullen tours Iraqi market (AP)

Iraq sends forces to oil well seized by Iran (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 06:19 PM PST AP - Iraq deployed security forces Saturday near a remote oil well seized by Iran, officials said, and its government pressed Tehran to withdraw its forces from the area along their disputed southern border.

ON THE ROAD WITH MULLEN: Parking concerns in Iraq (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 11:50 AM PST AP - The merchant who buttonholed the top U.S. military officer at a street market on the outskirts of Baghdad wasn't worried about car bombs or infiltrators in suicide vests.

U.S. Companies Shut Out as Iraq Auctions Its Oil Fields (Time.com) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 07:40 AM PST Time.com - Antiwar protestors insisted that the U.S. invaded Iraq for its oil, but nobody seems to have told the Iraqis. They've awarded most oil contracts to countries that opposed the war

Iran, Iraq seek diplomatic end to border dispute (Reuters) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 07:03 AM PST Reuters - Tehran and Baghdad pledged on Saturday to pursue a diplomatic solution to a border dispute over accusations that Iranian troops seized an oil well inside Iraq.

Firms to sign pre-contracts for 7 Iraqi oil fields (AFP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 05:38 AM PST AFP - Iraq will sign preliminary contracts, from Sunday, with oil companies that bid successfully last week for seven fields, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad told AFP.

Iran acknowledges oil well takeover (AFP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 03:54 AM PST AFP - Iran on Saturday acknowledged its takeover of an oil well on the Iraqi border but insisted the well lies on its land, playing down the fallout from the first such incident since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Iraq says new mass grave found near Kirkuk (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 01:14 AM PST AP - A mass grave discovered in northeast Iraq contains dozens of bodies, mostly of women and children believed killed during a crackdown against Kurds by former dictator Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi official said Saturday.

Adm. Mullen tours Iraqi market (AP) Posted: 18 Dec 2009 11:30 PM PST AP - The top US military officer toured a bustling market on the outskirts of Baghdad on Saturday that is returning to normal as violence ebbs in Iraq.

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