Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Return to Baghdad: Sunnis Warn of a Revived Insurgency (Time.com)
• U.S. Troops Find Noncombat Pretty Violent (Time.com)
• Army Corps worker accused in Iraq contract bribes (AP)
• US welcomes Iraq-Syria talks (AFP)
• Marine Corps asks court to reinstate conviction (AP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,424 (AP)
• Assad tells visiting Maliki new Iraq govt will help ties (AFP)
• Court cuts jail for plot to kill US troops in Iraq (AP)
• Iraq's ambitious oil goals questioned by experts (AFP)
• Condoleezza Rice admits mistakes, but not in memoir (Reuters)
• Iraq's Maliki in Syria to mend strained ties (Reuters)
• Iraq bombs wound 28, including seven Iranian pilgrims (AFP)
• Condoleezza Rice describes youth in segregated south (AFP)

Return to Baghdad: Sunnis Warn of a Revived Insurgency (Time.com) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 05:10 PM PDT Time.com - A TIME reporter meets two old Sunni contacts and discovers the bitterness that remains

U.S. Troops Find Noncombat Pretty Violent (Time.com) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 05:10 PM PDT Time.com - The majority of the action for U.S. troops stationed at Saddam Hussein's old Ministry of Defense complex has come after the Aug. 31 decree that brought U.S. combat operations to an official end

Army Corps worker accused in Iraq contract bribes (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 03:55 PM PDT AP - An employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from a construction company seeking contracts for projects in Iraq worth millions of dollars, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.

US welcomes Iraq-Syria talks (AFP) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 03:08 PM PDT AFP - The United States welcomed Wednesday's talks in Damascus between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, saying they can help bring Baghdad back to the regional fold.

Marine Corps asks court to reinstate conviction (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 02:55 PM PDT AP - The Marine Corps has asked an appeals court to reinstate the conviction of a Camp Pendleton Marine over the killing of an unarmed Iraqi.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,424 (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 01:22 PM PDT AP - As of Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010, at least 4,424 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Assad tells visiting Maliki new Iraq govt will help ties (AFP) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 11:13 AM PDT AFP - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told visiting Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday that better ties between the two nations will be strengthened by the formation of a new Iraqi government.

Court cuts jail for plot to kill US troops in Iraq (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 10:40 AM PDT AP - A Dutchman of Iraqi decent convicted and sentenced to 25 years in the U.S. for plotting to kill American troops in Iraq will be set free late Wednesday after a Dutch court slashed his sentence.

Iraq's ambitious oil goals questioned by experts (AFP) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 09:48 AM PDT AFP - War-torn Iraq may recently have unveiled a surge in oil reserves, as it bids to bolster its standing in the world energy market, but experts wonder if it can really meet its ambitious production aims.

Condoleezza Rice admits mistakes, but not in memoir (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 08:18 AM PDT Reuters - Condoleezza Rice admits the Bush administration made mistakes after the September 11 attacks but readers seeking her view on the decisions leading to the war in Iraq will find no such grist in her new memoir.

Iraq's Maliki in Syria to mend strained ties (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 07:57 AM PDT Reuters - The leaders of Iraq and Syria met on Wednesday for the first time since withdrawing envoys from each other's capitals last year, as Iraq's Nuri al-Maliki seeks regional support to remain in power.

Iraq bombs wound 28, including seven Iranian pilgrims (AFP) Posted: 13 Oct 2010 06:17 AM PDT AFP - Targeted explosions in Baghdad and northern Iraq wounded 28 people on Wednesday, among them seven Iranian pilgrims and nine policemen, security sources and the interior ministry said.

Condoleezza Rice describes youth in segregated south (AFP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 06:10 PM PDT AFP - Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has written a memoir that has nothing to do with Saddam Hussein or weapons of mass destruction, but instead looks at her upbringing in the racially segregated southern United States.

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