Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraqi FA votes to end spat with FIFA (AFP)
• CIA denies spying on US critic of Iraq war (AFP)
• Al-Qaida claims killing of anti-Saddam purger (AP)
• Foreign laborers earn little payoff in Iraq (AP)
• Holder defends terror trials in civilian courts (AP)

Iraqi FA votes to end spat with FIFA (AFP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:00 AM PDT AFP - Four contestants have entered the fray to head the Iraqi Football Association (IFA) in an election Saturday that is expected to end two years of paralysis and problems with FIFA.

CIA denies spying on US critic of Iraq war (AFP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:36 AM PDT AFP - The Central Intelligence Agency on Friday denied allegations by an ex-spy that it had sought information on a US professor who was critical of the Iraq war in order to discredit him.

Al-Qaida claims killing of anti-Saddam purger (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:53 AM PDT AP - An al-Qaida-linked group in Iraq claimed responsibility Friday for the killing of a prominent Shiite official who was tasked with purging loyalists of deposed ruler Saddam Hussein and who was once implicated in a bombing that killed Americans.

Foreign laborers earn little payoff in Iraq (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 12:34 AM PDT AP - At times, as he describes how he sleeps on the floor of the store where he works or misses the family he left in Nepal to find a job, Mohan Rai punctuates his gloomy tale with a laugh.

Holder defends terror trials in civilian courts (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:16 PM PDT AP - Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended the prosecution of terrorism suspects in civilian court after the top-ranking Senate Republican urged him to send two Iraqis to Guantanamo Bay rather than try them in Kentucky.

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