Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi: Saddam 'delighted' in terror attacks on US (AP)
From start, Bush team focused on war with Iraq: documents (AFP)
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,421 (AP)
Two Iraqis jailed for life for UN bombing, French kidnap (AFP)
Group of Iraqis deported from Europe return home (AP)
How goes Iraq? view from a bookstore is revealing (AP)

Iraqi: Saddam 'delighted' in terror attacks on US (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 06:17 PM PDT

AP - Former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, a prominent member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle, told the FBI that the dictator "delighted" in the 1998 terrorist bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa but had no interest in partnering with Osama bin Laden, declassified documents show.

From start, Bush team focused on war with Iraq: documents (AFP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 04:52 PM PDT

AFP - Former president George W. Bush's advisers focused on toppling Saddam Hussein's regime as soon as he took office and discussed how to justify a war in Iraq shortly after invading Afghanistan in 2001, official documents showed Wednesday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,421 (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 12:26 PM PDT

AP - As of Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, at least 4,421 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Two Iraqis jailed for life for UN bombing, French kidnap (AFP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 11:00 AM PDT

AFP - A court sentenced two Iraqis to life in jail on Wednesday for taking part in the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad and the kidnap of two French journalists a year later.

Group of Iraqis deported from Europe return home (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 09:15 AM PDT

AP - Several dozen Iraqis who failed to gain asylum in Europe returned to Iraq on Wednesday despite concerns the country is still too dangerous, the U.N. refugee agency said.