Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq court ruling is 'threat to democracy' (AFP)
• Straw: UK ministers had `great anxiety' over Iraq (AP)
• Iraq urges approval of settlement for US victims (AP)
• US warned WikiLeaks suspect unfit for Iraq: report (AFP)
• Iraqi regime change was not 'UK objective' (AFP)
• Iraq readies to protect overseas funds (AFP)
• Iraqi Kurdistan to resume oil exports 'soon' (AFP)
• Britain's Iraq war inquiry to hold final hearing (AFP)

Iraq court ruling is 'threat to democracy' (AFP) Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:00 AM PST AFP - Iraq's parliament speaker on Wednesday warned that a court ruling placing bodies such as the central bank under ministerial control was a danger to democracy, and threatened to revamp the judiciary.

Straw: UK ministers had `great anxiety' over Iraq (AP) Posted: 02 Feb 2011 09:57 AM PST AP - Britain's former foreign secretary said Wednesday he advised then-Prime Minister Tony Blair that the U.K. could play a much smaller role in the invasion of Iraq, days before the conflict began in 2003.

Iraq urges approval of settlement for US victims (AP) Posted: 02 Feb 2011 08:24 AM PST AP - The Iraqi government called on parliament Wednesday to approve a $400 million settlement for Americans who claim they were abused by Saddam Hussein's regime.

US warned WikiLeaks suspect unfit for Iraq: report (AFP) Posted: 02 Feb 2011 06:14 AM PST AFP - Immediate commanders of Bradley Manning, the US Army private suspected of passing secret government files to WikiLeaks, defied a mental health expert's recommendation that he not be deployed to Iraq, The Washington Post reported online Tuesday.

Iraqi regime change was not 'UK objective' (AFP) Posted: 02 Feb 2011 05:13 AM PST AFP - Britain's former foreign minister Jack Straw told the country's Iraq war inquiry on Wednesday that removing Saddam Hussein had never been London's priority, as he gave evidence on the final day of the probe's public hearings.

Iraq readies to protect overseas funds (AFP) Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:46 AM PST AFP - Iraq has told its central bank to open accounts to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars out of a post-Gulf war US fund to protect the money from foreign claims, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.

Iraqi Kurdistan to resume oil exports 'soon' (AFP) Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:41 AM PST AFP - Iraqi Kurdistan is preparing to resume oil exports "soon" after a long standoff with central government authorities in Baghdad, the autonomous region's prime minister said on Wednesday.

Britain's Iraq war inquiry to hold final hearing (AFP) Posted: 02 Feb 2011 01:29 AM PST AFP - Former British foreign minister Jack Straw was on Wednesday to give evidence to the country's Iraq war inquiry for the third time as the panel prepared to hold its final public hearing.

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