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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US commander in Iraq says troop drawdown on track (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:12 PM PST

Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, talks to the Associated Press during a visit to soldiers at Forward Operating Base Cobra in the Diyala province, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. The top U.S. general in Iraq says the delay in holding Iraq's elections will not keep American combat forces from leaving Iraq as scheduled by the end of August. Gen. Ray Odierno said Saturday during an interview with The Associated Press that he expects the U.S. to have about 100,000 troops in the country during the March 7 elections.(AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)AP - The nearly two-month delay in holding Iraq's nationwide elections will not keep American combat troops from leaving the country as scheduled by the end of August, the top U.S. commander in Iraq told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.

Iraqis outraged as Blackwater case thrown out (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 01:02 AM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 25, 2007 file photo, an Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday Dec. 31, 2009 against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Iraqis seeking justice for 17 people shot dead at a Baghdad intersection responded with bitterness and outrage Friday at a U.S. judge's decision to throw out a case against a Blackwater security team accused in the killings.

US military: Soldier dies in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:20 AM PST

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki speaks while meeting senior Iraqi security officers in Baghdad January 2, 2010. REUTERS/Iraqi Government/Handout (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS)AP - The U.S. army says a soldier has died in Iraq of injuries unrelated to combat.

Judge tosses Blackwater case, Iraqis angry (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 05:33 PM PST

FILE - In a Monday, July 21, 2008 file photo, Blackwater Worldwide's headquarters is seen in Moyock, N.C. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. Urbina said the Justice Department overstepped its bounds and wrongly used evidence it was not allowed to see. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)AP - A federal judge cited repeated government missteps in dismissing all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a case that inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad.

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