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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq reclaims a Jewish history it once shunned (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

AP - It was seized from Jewish families and wound up soaking in sewage water in the basement of a secret police building. Rescued from the chaos that engulfed Baghdad as Saddam Hussein was toppled, it now sits in safekeeping in an office near Washington, D.C.

Kuwait needs security, not money from Iraq: FM (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:54 AM PST

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah speaks during a parliament session in Kuwait City in 2009. Coordinating aid over a faltering phone line, Haiti's first lady Elizabeth Preval insists her country will make it through the disaster of the quake and calls on her compatriots to be strong.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)AFP - Kuwait is not asking its former occupier Iraq to repay a multi-billion-dollar debt but only for assurances on security and good neighbourly ties, the Kuwaiti foreign minister has said.

Iraqi former pilot accused in 2003 U.N. bombing (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:25 AM PST

Rescue workers clear debris after a massive truck bomb devastated the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad in August 2003. The Iraqi army says it has detained a suspected Al-Qaeda leader implicated in the 2003 bombing of the UN's Baghdad headquarters which killed 22 people.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)Reuters - A former Iraqi airline pilot who has been in custody for seven months was accused on Saturday by Iraqi authorities of orchestrating the 2003 bombing of the U.N. Baghdad headquarters in which 22 people were killed.

Iraq says it captures man who oversaw UN bombing (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:03 AM PST

Iraqi military spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, right, stands next to a television display showing Ali al-Azzawi, a senior leader of a militant group linked to al-Qaida, following his arrest in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. Al-Moussawi identified al-Azzawi as a high-level commander in the Islamic State of Iraq who supervised numerous attacks, including the 2003 bombing of the United Nations' headquarters in Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Iraqi authorities have captured a senior leader of a militant group linked to al-Qaida in Iraq who oversaw the 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad and other attacks, the military said Saturday.

Iraq arrests Qaeda chief tied to 2003 blast at UN HQ (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 08:18 AM PST

Rescue workers clear debris after a massive truck bomb devastated the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad in August 2003. The Iraqi army says it has detained a suspected Al-Qaeda leader implicated in the 2003 bombing of the UN's Baghdad headquarters which killed 22 people.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The Iraqi army said on Saturday it had detained a suspected Al-Qaeda leader implicated in the 2003 bombing of the UN's Baghdad headquarters which killed 22 people.

Former Iraq PM Allawi unveils election bid alliance (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 06:33 AM PST

Secular Shiite Muslim former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi seen here in Baghdad, in 2009. Iraq's former pro-Western prime minister Iyad Allawi has unveiled a broad secular alliance of candidates to contest the country's general election on March 7.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraq's former pro-Western prime minister Iyad Allawi on Saturday unveiled a broad secular alliance of candidates to contest the country's general election on March 7.

Iraq to hold first full census since '87 in October (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:46 AM PST

Reuters - Plans are on track to take Iraq's first complete census in 23 years, a process that will help answer questions critical to the future of Iraq's northern oilfields, such as "how many Kurds live in Kirkuk?"

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