Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Biden visits Baghdad 'to celebrate progress' (AFP)
• Sadr return complicates US troop presence in Iraq (AP)
• Mich. jury deciding fate of accused Iraqi agent (AP)
• Biden addresses US troops in Baghdad (AP)
• Baghdad violence kills three, wounds 14 (AFP)
• Iraqi religious heads call for Christians' protection (Reuters)
• US troops killed in Iraq and Kuwait (AP)
• Biden and Maliki focus on economic ties in Baghdad talks (Reuters)
• Court questions overturning of Marine conviction (AP)

Biden visits Baghdad 'to celebrate progress' (AFP) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 11:38 AM PST AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden came to Iraq on Thursday "to help Iraqis celebrate" progress, he said, while warning during his surprise visit that Baghdad's forces will continue to need American support.

Sadr return complicates US troop presence in Iraq (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 11:22 AM PST AP - Iraqi politicians face the contentious question this year of whether to ask U.S. troops to stay beyond an end-of-2011 deadline for their departure. That decision has become far more complicated with the return to Iraq of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Mich. jury deciding fate of accused Iraqi agent (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 02:23 PM PST AP - Calling it a case of betrayal, a prosecutor urged jurors Thursday to convict a former Army translator who is charged with concealing his role as an agent of the Iraqi government in the U.S. in the 1990s.

Biden addresses US troops in Baghdad (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:41 AM PST AP - Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that the U.S. should make sure Iraq's stability and democracy are strong enough to make it "a country that was worthy of the sacrifices" the American military suffered during eight years of war.

Baghdad violence kills three, wounds 14 (AFP) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:00 AM PST AFP - Three bombings near mosques in central and northern Baghdad on Thursday killed two people, and gunmen also killed a jewellery shop owner, an interior ministry official said.

Iraqi religious heads call for Christians' protection (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 09:30 AM PST Reuters - Iraq's Muslim and Christian religious leaders on Thursday called for a united front in protecting Christians following a spate of attacks against them.

US troops killed in Iraq and Kuwait (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 06:57 AM PST AP - Army Pfc. David D. Finch

Biden and Maliki focus on economic ties in Baghdad talks (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 06:27 AM PST Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden had talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday focusing on long-term economic ties and Iraqi officials said the idea of delaying a U.S. military pullout did not come up.

Court questions overturning of Marine conviction (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2011 07:37 PM PST AP - The military's highest court is questioning last year's ruling by an appeals court that threw out the murder conviction against a Camp Pendleton Marine in the killing of an unarmed Iraqi man.

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