Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq may be safest Arab country: Maliki (AFP)
• British security contractor Danny Fitzsimons gets life in prison for murder in Iraq (The Christian Science Monitor)
• British guard gets life for killing colleagues in Iraq (AFP)
• Sadr says Iraq PM Maliki must address mass demands (Reuters)
• Iraqi court gives Briton 20 years over slayings (AP)
• After protests, Iraq PM urges early local vote (AP)
• Briton gets life in prison for killings in Iraq (Reuters)
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Iraq may be safest Arab country: Maliki (AFP) Posted: 28 Feb 2011 01:43 PM PST AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that Iraq may be the safest country in the Arab world, as protests and violence rage across much of the region.

British security contractor Danny Fitzsimons gets life in prison for murder in Iraq (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Feb 2011 11:14 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - In a test of Iraq’s judicial sovereignty, an Iraqi court sentenced a British contractor who killed two co-workers to life in prison but spared him the death penalty.

British guard gets life for killing colleagues in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 28 Feb 2011 11:01 AM PST AFP - An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced a British security guard to life in jail for killing a fellow Briton and an Australian in Baghdad, the first conviction of a Western contractor since the 2003 invasion.

Sadr says Iraq PM Maliki must address mass demands (Reuters) Posted: 28 Feb 2011 08:30 AM PST Reuters - Anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Monday urged Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to address peoples' demands after weeks of nationwide protests over better basic services inspired by regional uprisings.

Iraqi court gives Briton 20 years over slayings (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2011 08:10 AM PST AP - An Iraqi court on Monday convicted a British man and sentenced him to 20 years in prison over the shooting deaths of two contractors, making him the first Westerner convicted in an Iraqi court since the 2003 U.S. invasion.

After protests, Iraq PM urges early local vote (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2011 07:12 AM PST AP - Iraq's prime minister called for new provincial elections Monday following anti-government protests that killed 14 people last week in a demonstration of the simmering anger many Iraqis feel at a government they say fails to provide basic services.

Briton gets life in prison for killings in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 28 Feb 2011 02:17 AM PST Reuters - A British security contractor was sentenced Monday to life in prison by an Iraqi court for the killing of two colleagues in 2009, a court official said.

(AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2011 10:42 AM PST AP - Reformist website says Iran's opposition leaders have been taken to a prison in Tehran.

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