Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Marine sent to Calif. after conviction overturned (AP)
• Babylon ruins torn between preservation and profit (AP)
• 'Big ideas' key to US surge success in Iraq: Petraeus (AFP)
• Iraq vote winner asserts right to form government (AP)

Marine sent to Calif. after conviction overturned (AP) Posted: 07 May 2010 01:36 PM PDT AP - Jailed Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III has been returned to Camp Pendleton in California where he will remain in confinement until the outcome of his case is decided.

Babylon ruins torn between preservation and profit (AP) Posted: 07 May 2010 10:15 AM PDT AP - A U.S.-funded program to restore the ruins of Iraq's ancient city of Babylon is threatened by a dispute among Iraqi officials over whether the priority should be preserving the site or making money off it.

'Big ideas' key to US surge success in Iraq: Petraeus (AFP) Posted: 07 May 2010 09:22 AM PDT AFP - The US troop surge succeeded in Iraq because the army embraced new ideas about waging war against insurgents, focusing on winning the trust of local people, top commander General David Petraeus said.

Iraq vote winner asserts right to form government (AP) Posted: 07 May 2010 05:29 AM PDT AP - The leader of the top vote-getting coalition in Iraq's inconclusive March 7 elections insisted his bloc still has the right to form the next government despite an alliance forged this week between two rival Shiite groups.

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