Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• AP Exclusive: Kuwait may host US Iraq backup force (AP)
• Killer Androids to Hit the Sands in Iraq (ContributorNetwork)
• Iraqi reporter who criticized government shot dead (AP)
• UK issues findings of Iraqi abuse inquiry (AP)
• Iraq withdrawal: How many US troops will remain? (The Christian Science Monitor)

AP Exclusive: Kuwait may host US Iraq backup force (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:10 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration is considering staging American troops in Kuwait next year as a backup or rotational training force for Iraq, after the Pentagon completes the scheduled withdrawal of its current 45,000-strong force from Iraq in December, U.S. officials said.

Killer Androids to Hit the Sands in Iraq (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 01:17 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - No, not the killer androids that shot up the human resistance in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. These are smartphones running Google's open-source Android operating system, the one with the friendly green robot mascot. He's had adventures in space already ... and now it looks like the US Army has plans for him, Short Circuit style.

Iraqi reporter who criticized government shot dead (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 12:08 PM PDT AP - An Iraqi journalist who criticized the country's government and was claimed he was abused by the Iraqi army for protesting shoddy services was shot to death Thursday, police said.

UK issues findings of Iraqi abuse inquiry (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:33 AM PDT AP - The brutal death of an Iraqi man held by British soldiers months after the U.S.-led invasion of the country was an "appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence" and partly a result of the U.K.'s failure to properly train troops on interrogation techniques, a report said Thursday.

Iraq withdrawal: How many US troops will remain? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:59 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The Obama administration is considering dropping the president’s commitment to withdrawing all US troops from Iraq by the end of the year in favor of keeping several thousand military trainers there.

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