Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• With US drawdown in Iraq, shift from joint ops to training (AFP)
• UK former deputy PM doubted Iraq WMD intelligence (Reuters)
• UK's Iraq inquiry may recall witnesses (AP)
• Iraqi minister hurt, two Britons killed in Jordan accident (AFP)
• Spanish Court Seeks Arrest of U.S. Soldiers in Hotel Attack (Time.com)
• Al-Qaida plants flag, burns bodies in Iraq attack (AP)
• Gunmen and bombs kill at least 12 in Iraq (Reuters)
• Lack of Iraq government 'embarrassing': FM (AFP)
• 16 dead, 14 wounded in Baghdad attacks (AFP)
• Biden bets on no explosion of violence in Iraq (AFP)
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• Spain court seeks U.S. troops arrest for Iraq killing (Reuters)
• Kuwait gets $650 mln in Iraqi reparation: UN (AFP)
• Spain reissues US troop warrants over Iraq death (AP)
• Retrial of Hassan killer adjourned over missing defendant (AFP)
• Nepal lifts ban on travel to Iraq to save jobs (AFP)
• Al Qaeda in Iraq claims TV office bombing (Reuters)
• Al-Qaeda group claim Al-Arabiya TV bombing in Iraq (AFP)

With US drawdown in Iraq, shift from joint ops to training (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 07:01 AM PDT AFP - US and Iraqi military police slowly comb a strip of dirt road west of Baghdad, looking for tell-tale signs of hidden improvised explosive devices.

UK former deputy PM doubted Iraq WMD intelligence (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 05:34 AM PDT Reuters - Britain's deputy prime minister at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq said on Friday he had doubts about intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, describing some of it as "tittle tattle."

UK's Iraq inquiry may recall witnesses (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 04:19 AM PDT AP - Britain's Iraq inquiry says it may recall witnesses to offer new testimony — which could see ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair return to face the panel.

Iraqi minister hurt, two Britons killed in Jordan accident (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 02:49 AM PDT AFP - Iraqi Minister of Science and Technology Raed Fahmi was injured on Friday in a road accident in Jordan which killed six people including two British women, police said.

Spanish Court Seeks Arrest of U.S. Soldiers in Hotel Attack (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:55 PM PDT Time.com - Spain's National Court has re-opened its case against three U.S. troops implicated in a 2003 attack on Baghdad's Hotel Palestine that killed two journalists

Al-Qaida plants flag, burns bodies in Iraq attack (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:59 PM PDT AP - Militants flew an al-Qaida flag over a Baghdad neighborhood Thursday after killing 16 security officials and burning some of their bodies in a brazen afternoon attack that served as a grim reminder of continued insurgent strength in Iraq's capital.

Gunmen and bombs kill at least 12 in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:46 AM PDT Reuters - Attackers killed at least 12 people and wounded 31 in a series of shootings and explosions across Iraq on Thursday, security and hospital sources said.

Lack of Iraq government 'embarrassing': FM (AFP) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:38 AM PDT AFP - The lack of a government in Iraq nearly five months after general elections is "embarrassing" and is impeding any long-term decision-making, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told AFP on Thursday.

16 dead, 14 wounded in Baghdad attacks (AFP) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:02 AM PDT AFP - Sixteen people, including nine security force members, were killed and 14 wounded on Thursday in a string of attacks in the Iraqi capital's Sunni district of Al-Adhamiyah, the interior ministry said.

Biden bets on no explosion of violence in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 07:25 AM PDT AFP - Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview aired Thursday he would bet "everything" that there would be no explosion of sectarian violence when US combat troops leave Iraq next month.

(AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 06:27 AM PDT AP - Iraqi officials say 7 members of the security forces were killed in Baghdad attacks.

Spain court seeks U.S. troops arrest for Iraq killing (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 06:00 AM PDT Reuters - A Spanish High Court judge ordered on Thursday the arrest and extradition of three U.S. soldiers for killing a Spanish television cameraman during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Kuwait gets $650 mln in Iraqi reparation: UN (AFP) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 04:52 AM PDT AFP - The United Nations released 650 million dollars in Iraqi compensation to Kuwait on Thursday, the latest payment of a war reparation scheme that began in 1994.

Spain reissues US troop warrants over Iraq death (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 04:07 AM PDT AP - A Madrid judge reissued arrest warrants Thursday for three U.S. servicemen over the death of a Spanish journalist killed by American tank fire in Iraq in 2003.

Retrial of Hassan killer adjourned over missing defendant (AFP) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:12 AM PDT AFP - The retrial of an Iraqi man convicted of killing British aid worker Margaret Hassan was adjourned again on Thursday because the imprisoned defendant could not be found, a court official said.

Nepal lifts ban on travel to Iraq to save jobs (AFP) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 01:31 AM PDT AFP - Thousands of Nepalese workers in Iraq will be able to keep their jobs after the government lifted a ban on travel to the war-torn country, the employment ministry said on Thursday.

Al Qaeda in Iraq claims TV office bombing (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 11:07 PM PDT Reuters - The Iraqi arm of al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack this week on the Baghdad office of satellite television channel Al Arabiya, and warned of further strikes on media targets.

Al-Qaeda group claim Al-Arabiya TV bombing in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 07:14 PM PDT AFP - An Al-Qaeda group has claimed responsibility for this week's deadly car bomb attack on Al-Arabiya television's offices in Baghdad that killed four people, US monitors have said.

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