Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Investment a "success story" in Iraqi Kurdistan (Reuters)
• Political impasse deters Iraqis from going home: U.N. (Reuters)
• Lack of Iraq govt hurting security and refugee returns (AFP)
• Lack of Iraq govt hampering intel gathering: US general (AFP)
• Iraq's Allawi asks Syria to press Iran not to meddle (AFP)
• Iraqi PM candidate in Syria for talks (AP)
• Iraqi Shiite militia hints of Iran's hand in south (AP)

Investment a "success story" in Iraqi Kurdistan (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 06:06 PM PDT Reuters - While most Iraqis struggle under the detritus of a seven-year war, the people of Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan can frolic in a public pool, ride an elevated cable car over freshly planted parkland or escape stifling heat in a new ice skating hall.

Political impasse deters Iraqis from going home: U.N. (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 10:31 AM PDT Reuters - The flow of displaced Iraqis returning to their homes after years of war has slowed considerably since a March election as politicians wrangle over a new government, U.N. officials said Wednesday.

Lack of Iraq govt hurting security and refugee returns (AFP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 10:08 AM PDT AFP - A spike in unrest accompanying Iraq's failure to form a government is scaring people from passing on much-needed intelligence and deterring refugees from returning home, a general and diplomats said Wednesday.

Lack of Iraq govt hampering intel gathering: US general (AFP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 09:01 AM PDT AFP - Failure to form an Iraqi government nearly seven months after elections has hampered the efforts of security forces to gather intelligence on insurgents, a US general said on Wednesday.

Iraq's Allawi asks Syria to press Iran not to meddle (AFP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 05:37 AM PDT AFP - Former Iraqi premier Iyad Allawi said he had asked Syria on Wednesday to persuade Iran to keep out of his protracted battle for the premiership with incumbent Nuri al-Maliki.

Iraqi PM candidate in Syria for talks (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:19 AM PDT AP - A leading candidate in the contested race to lead Iraq's new government insisted during a visit to Syria on Wednesday that he would not take part in any coalition headed by his rival, the current prime minister.

Iraqi Shiite militia hints of Iran's hand in south (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:37 AM PDT AP - Nearly four minutes of shaky, hand-held video clips show roadside bombs hitting U.S. convoys, a battery of Katyusha rockets and a soldier who appeared to be downed by sniper fire.

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