Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• U.S. court dismisses Iraq contractor torture cases (Reuters)
• Iraq needs U.S. trainers after troops leave: Zebari (Reuters)
• Appeals court in Va. tosses 2 Abu Ghraib lawsuits (AP)
• Iraqi budget crunch slowing US troops decision (AP)
• Turkey strikes more Kurdish rebel targets in Iraq (AP)
• Mullen: Troop total in Iraq to drop sharply (AP)
• Lauding Libya success at UN, Obama makes subtle digs at Iraq war (The Christian Science Monitor)

U.S. court dismisses Iraq contractor torture cases (Reuters) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:42 PM PDT Reuters - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday dismissed lawsuits claiming employees of two defense contractors conspired to torture and abuse Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad and at other locations.

Iraq needs U.S. trainers after troops leave: Zebari (Reuters) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:26 PM PDT Reuters - Iraq will need U.S. military trainers even after American combat troops leave this year, ending a mission that began with the 2003 invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said.

Appeals court in Va. tosses 2 Abu Ghraib lawsuits (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:02 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court in Virginia has dismissed two lawsuits by former Iraqi detainees who claimed they were tortured at the Abu Ghraib prison.

Iraqi budget crunch slowing US troops decision (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 09:48 AM PDT AP - Budget battles are the latest roadblock delaying a decision by Baghdad on how many U.S. troops it might request stay in Iraq, although a top government official predicts the American military will remain as a training force beyond a year-end departure deadline.

Turkey strikes more Kurdish rebel targets in Iraq (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 07:06 AM PDT AP - Turkey on Wednesday reportedly bombed the main Kurdish rebel base in northern Iraq and chased rebels in a mountainous area in Turkey's southeast in response to escalated attacks by the autonomy-seeking guerrillas.

Mullen: Troop total in Iraq to drop sharply (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 07:11 PM PDT AP - The number of American troops in Iraq will fall to roughly 40,000 by the end of this month as the U.S. winds down the war, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.

Lauding Libya success at UN, Obama makes subtle digs at Iraq war (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 02:08 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When President Obama told a United Nations high-level meeting on Libya Tuesday that the world’s decision to intervene in Libya this year was both courageous and correct, the unstated comparison was to Iraq.

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