Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Police: 3 more traffic cops killed in Baghdad (AP)
• Serbia delivers first military planes to Iraq: ministry (AFP)
• Obama 'asks Shiite cleric to help settle Iraq impasse' (AFP)
• Baghdad returns to map of global airlines (Reuters)
• Al-Qaida in Iraq offers cash to lure former allies (AP)
• Iraq: Requiem for a Profound Misadventure (Time.com)
• Obama's Afghanistan Policy Tracks Bush in Iraq (CQPolitics.com)
• US Senate confirms Mattis as Iraq, Afghan war head (AFP)
• US Senate OKs James Jeffrey as Iraq ambassador (AFP)

Police: 3 more traffic cops killed in Baghdad (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 02:34 PM PDT AP - A drive-by shooting and a bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed three traffic policemen in Baghdad on Friday, taking to eight the number from the city's force killed this week, police and hospital officials said.

Serbia delivers first military planes to Iraq: ministry (AFP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 09:54 AM PDT AFP - Serbia has delivered the first three of 20 military training aircraft to Iraq as part of a 100-million-dollar weapons deal between two former allies, the defence ministry said Friday.

Obama 'asks Shiite cleric to help settle Iraq impasse' (AFP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 06:34 AM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama has sent a letter to Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, urging him to persuade the country's squabbling political leaders to form a new government, Foreign Policy magazine reported Friday.

Baghdad returns to map of global airlines (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:01 AM PDT Reuters - Baghdad is getting back on the map of international airlines after 20 years of violence as the prospect of multi-billion oil deals lures business travelers.

Al-Qaida in Iraq offers cash to lure former allies (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 03:29 AM PDT AP - Al-Qaida in Iraq has begun offering cash to lure back former Sunni allies angry over the government's failure to give them jobs and pay their salaries on time, according to Sunni tribesmen and Iraqi officials.

Iraq: Requiem for a Profound Misadventure (Time.com) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 11:15 PM PDT Time.com - Obama's somber speech on Iraq is a reminder of when and why we should -- and should not -- go to war

Obama's Afghanistan Policy Tracks Bush in Iraq (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 09:10 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - President Barack Obama is an unremitting critic of George W. Bush, but in Afghanistan he's walking in Bush's shoes. How ironic. But also, how encouraging.

US Senate confirms Mattis as Iraq, Afghan war head (AFP) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 06:51 PM PDT AFP - General James Mattis has won unanimous senate confirmation as the new head of US Central Command, or CENTCOM, which has overall control of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

US Senate OKs James Jeffrey as Iraq ambassador (AFP) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 06:42 PM PDT AFP - The US Senate has unanimously confirmed career diplomat James Jeffrey to be ambassador to Iraq, replacing Christopher Hill, as the president has vowed to end combat operations there.

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