Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Rove admits to error on Iraq as Bush strategist (AP)
• A Q&A on Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Iraqi elections have high stakes, but low bar (McClatchy Newspapers)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,380 (AP)
• Iraq: Shiite cleric faces warrant over 2003 murder (AP)
• Iraq's Sunnis bracing for chaos after election (AP)
• Iraqi candidate locked in election limbo over Baath row (AFP)
• Iraq's February oil exports at highest level since 1990 (AFP)
• Iraqi Christians attacked ahead of Iraq election (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Iraq wants to improve relations with Syria (AP)
• Iraq says it wants better Syrian ties (AFP)
• Iraq Elections: Violence Fears Ahead of U.S. Withdrawal (Time.com)
• Iraq 'names first envoy to Kuwait in two decades' (AFP)
• Iraqi minister says oil deal with Japan failed: report (AFP)
• Iraq war takes centre stage at Oscars (AFP)

Rove admits to error on Iraq as Bush strategist (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2010 05:27 PM PST 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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