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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Rove admits to error on Iraq as Bush strategist (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 05:27 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2009, file photo, Karl Rove, former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to former President George W. Bush answers a question before a debate healthcare at Penn State University in State College, Pa. In his new memoir Rove says President George W. Bush made the right decision to launch the Iraq war in 2003, but admits the failure to find weapons of mass destruction badly damaged the administration's credibility. (AP Photo/John Beale)AP - Republican strategist Karl Rove says in a new memoir that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq badly damaged the Bush administration's credibility and led to dwindling public support for the war.


A Q&A on Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 03:44 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — On Sunday, Iraqis will vote in parliamentary elections that will shape their country's future. Here are some of the major questions along with answers culled from United Nations, U.S. and other international and Iraqi sources.

Iraqi elections have high stakes, but low bar (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 03:02 PM PST

Residents walk under an election campaign poster in Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Iraqis head to the polls on March 7 for the national election. Writing in Arabic on poster reads 'Abdul Hussein Abtan. Iraqi National Alliance. 316. Number 2.' (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The candidates include sitting judges and journalists who are covering the elections, but in Iraq, no one's complaining about conflicts of interest. Handing out guns, cash and appliances to woo voters? No big deal. The names on the ballot include officials accused of large-scale corruption, fielding death squads and spying for Iran.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,380 (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:41 PM PST

AP - As of Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at least 4,380 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq: Shiite cleric faces warrant over 2003 murder (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:13 PM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, May 2, 2009 file photo, Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, left, is followed by an advisor as he leaves his hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. In a surprise move ahead of Iraq's elections this weekend, Iraq's highest judicial body has renewed an arrest warrant against the anti-U.S. Shiite leader in the murder of a moderate cleric nearly seven years ago, a senior government official and a spokesman for the leader said Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Muqtada al-Sadr, who heads one of the major Shiite parties competing against Iraq's Shiite prime minister, is believed to have been living in neighboring Iran for the past two years.  (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta, File)AP - In a surprise move ahead of weekend elections, Iraq's highest judicial body has renewed an arrest warrant against an anti-U.S. Shiite leader for the murder of a moderate cleric nearly seven years ago, a senior government official and a spokesman for the leader said Tuesday.


Iraq's Sunnis bracing for chaos after election (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 10:23 AM PST

In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010,Iraqi men are seen in a market in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's vote for parliament is still a week away, but Sunni candidate Saadoun al-Dulaimi already is feeling gloomy about the results. Looming political disarray could bring deadly chaos back to Iraq if Sunnis believe they've been denied a fair shot at winning — a far cry from the confident exuberance usually on display in Anbar province, the birthplace of the insurgency's brazen turnabout against al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Here in the birthplace of Iraq's insurgency and its later turnabout against al-Qaida, Sunni Arabs are pushing to get out the vote in an election they see as their best hope of restoring some of their lost power. But they are gloomy over their chances of succeeding.


Iraqi candidate locked in election limbo over Baath row (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 09:44 AM PST

The deputy governor of the Iraqi province of Babil, Iskander Witwit Salman al-Zargani, speaks during an interview with AFP at his home in Hilla, the capital of Babil about 95 kilometres (60 miles) south of Baghdad, in February 2010. Witwit was originally barred from running in the March 7 general election for alleged links to the Baath, but he was later reinstated, and still may be barred again.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Sitting in his living room, Iskander Witwit opens a dossier with documents he says exonerate him of the charges against him: that he is a supporter of Saddam Hussein's banned Baath Party.


Iraq's February oil exports at highest level since 1990 (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 09:35 AM PST

An aerial view shows the Halfaya oil field near the southern Iraqi city of Amara. Iraq's oil exports reached their highest level in February since Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in two decades, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad told AFP on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - Iraq's oil exports reached their highest level in February since Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in two decades, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad told AFP on Tuesday.


Iraqi Christians attacked ahead of Iraq election (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 08:16 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - In the living room of a cousin’s house, Vivian al-Dahan and her brothers pour out the details of how their father was kidnapped and killed a week ago in Mosul. Their mother, suddenly a widow, keeps trying not to cry.

Iraq wants to improve relations with Syria (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 06:22 AM PST

AP - Visiting Syria, Iraq's vice president said Tuesday his country wants to improve relations, months after Iraq charged Damascus with harboring suspects from huge Baghdad bombings last summer that killed about 100 people.

Iraq says it wants better Syrian ties (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 04:55 AM PST

A handout picture released by the official Syrian news agency SANA shows Syrian President Bashar al Assad (right) during a meeting with Iraq's vice president Tarek al-Hashemi in Damascus. Hashemi said his country wanted to improve relations with its neighbour, which soured following last year's massive bomb attacks in Baghdad.(AFP/SANA)AFP - Iraq's vice president said in Damascus on Tuesday that his country wanted to improve relations with its neighbour, which soured following last year's massive bomb attacks in Baghdad.


Iraq Elections: Violence Fears Ahead of U.S. Withdrawal (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 04:25 AM PST

Time.com - Despite local successes against al-Qaeda, Sunni-Shi'ite and Arab-Kurd tensions raise the threat of post-election violence

Iraq 'names first envoy to Kuwait in two decades' (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:46 AM PST

A building in Kuwait City is decorated with the national flag during celebrations in 2009. Iraq has named Mohammed Hussein Bahr al-Ulum as its first ambassador to Kuwait since Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of the emirate, a senior Iraqi official has been quoted as saying.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)AFP - Iraq has named Mohammed Hussein Bahr al-Ulum as its first ambassador to Kuwait since Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of the emirate, a senior Iraqi official was quoted as saying on Tuesday.


Iraqi minister says oil deal with Japan failed: report (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:41 AM PST

An Iraqi labourer works at an oil refinery in the southern town Nasiriyah in 2009. Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani has said that talks over a huge oil development deal with a Japanese energy consortium had broken down, a leading Japanese newspaper has reported.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani has said that talks over a huge oil development deal with a Japanese energy consortium had broken down, a leading Japanese newspaper reported Tuesday.


Iraq war takes centre stage at Oscars (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 06:47 PM PST

A US soldier secures the site of a bomb blast in northern Baghdad. AFP - Seven years after Michael Moore was booed off the Oscars stage for protesting the invasion of Iraq, a film depicting the conflict is poised to take the top prize at the Academy Awards.


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