Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Marine's dad ordered to pay protesters' court fees (AP)
• Iraqi panel wants to bar 4 elected on winning list (AP)
• Iraqi commission moves to disqualify winning candidates (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Iraq panel says to appeal six election results (Reuters)
• Bombs in Iraq holy city kill five, wound 64 (Reuters)
• Twin car bombs kill five in Iraqi holy city (AFP)
• Commission to examine level of contractors in Iraq (AP)
• Oud maker labors in secret on Baghdad rooftop (AP)

Marine's dad ordered to pay protesters' court fees (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:03 PM PDT AP - The father of a Marine killed in Iraq and whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters was ordered to pay the protesters' appeal costs, his lawyers said Monday.

Iraqi panel wants to bar 4 elected on winning list (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:07 PM PDT AP - A committee that vets candidates for ties to Saddam Hussein's regime is recommending four people elected to parliament from the winning list of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi be disqualified, an official on the committee said Monday. The challenge risks deepening Iraq's sectarian tensions.

Iraqi commission moves to disqualify winning candidates (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:01 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Six winning candidates in Iraq's parliamentary elections will be stripped of their votes and lose their seats — which would cost secular politician Ayad Allawi's bloc its narrow victory — if a federal court upholds a broad purge of candidates who are suspected of past involvement with the late dictator Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party, Iraqi officials said Monday.

Iraq panel says to appeal six election results (Reuters) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:04 AM PDT Reuters - Six candidates who won seats in Iraq's parliament should have been barred from running due to alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, a panel said on Tuesday, raising new uncertainty about March 7 election results.

Bombs in Iraq holy city kill five, wound 64 (Reuters) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:18 AM PDT Reuters - Two car bombs struck the Iraqi city of Kerbala Monday, killing five people and wounding 64 others, authorities said.

Twin car bombs kill five in Iraqi holy city (AFP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:16 AM PDT AFP - Twin blasts caused by car bombs rocked Iraq's holy Shiite shrine city of Karbala on Monday, killing at least five people, medical officials and witnesses said.

Commission to examine level of contractors in Iraq (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:57 AM PDT AP - The independent Commission on Wartime Contracting wants to know whether American contractors in Iraq are adequately reducing the number of employees in the country as U.S. troops are withdrawn.

Oud maker labors in secret on Baghdad rooftop (AP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 09:01 PM PDT AP - In a tiny workshop on the roof of his home in a Baghdad slum, Farhan Hassan works in secret, lovingly curving wood and tightening strings to make his ouds — a traditional Arabic instrument.

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