Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Biden calls on Iraqi leaders to work out disputes (AP)
• U.S. general returns from Iraq with Baghdad flag (Reuters)
• Iraqi tensions are policy, political challenge for Obama (Reuters)
• David Hickman -- Last U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq (ContributorNetwork)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,485 (AP)
• Iraq VP denies charges of running death squads (AP)
• How America Can Welcome Back Its Troops from Iraq (ContributorNetwork)
• Iraqi Sunni leaders denounce PM Maliki (Reuters)
• Iranian exiles ready to leave Iraq camp (AP)
• U.S. "obviously concerned" about Iraqi Hashemi probe (Reuters)
• With deadline looming to close MEK's Camp Ashraf in Iraq, what next? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Maliki acting "like Saddam": Sunni bloc leader (Reuters)
• Iranian exiles in Iraq may accept U.N. plan (Reuters)
• Obama to mark end of Iraq war (AP)
• Was the Iraqi War Worth the Cost? (ContributorNetwork)
• Why the Bush and Blair Convictions Will Not Be Recognized (ContributorNetwork)

Biden calls on Iraqi leaders to work out disputes (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:48 PM PST AP - Vice President Joe Biden is stressing an "urgent need" for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (NOO'-ree ahl-MAHL'-ih-kee) to meet with leaders of other political blocs in Iraq to help resolve potentially explosive sectarian differences emerging in the wake of the U.S. troop withdrawal.

U.S. general returns from Iraq with Baghdad flag (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:35 PM PST Reuters - The last commander of U.S. forces in Iraq returns to the United States on Tuesday carrying the command flag that flew over Baghdad.

Iraqi tensions are policy, political challenge for Obama (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:33 PM PST Reuters - The Iraq war may be over for the U.S. military, but it may not be for the Iraqis - or for the U.S. government, as it tries to avert sectarian strife following the departure of American troops.

David Hickman -- Last U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 01:45 PM PST ContributorNetwork - David Hickman, 23, of Greensboro, N.C., was the last U.S. casualty in Iraq when he died in November, reports the Associated Press. Hickman was killed by an improvised bomb, which was a trademark weapon of the Iraq war. On Nov. 14 he was driving his armored tank through the streets of Baghdad when it hit a roadside bomb.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,485 (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 01:33 PM PST AP - As of Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, at least 4,485 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq VP denies charges of running death squads (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 01:09 PM PST AP - Iraq's Sunni vice president denied Shiite accusations that he organized death squads, describing the charges Tuesday as a trumped-up case brought only after the departure of U.S. troops about assassinations allegedly committed five years ago.

How America Can Welcome Back Its Troops from Iraq (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 12:49 PM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | After 10 years of grueling warfare in Iraq, the soldiers are finally on their way home. The troops retreat marks a welcome end to this decade long war. For years, U.S. troops fought our fight through rough circumstances; after nearly 4,500 American soldiers died, it's encouraging that our fight, at least in Iraq, is over.

Iraqi Sunni leaders denounce PM Maliki (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 12:14 PM PST Reuters - The Iraqi vice president accused of running death squads hit back at the prime minister on Tuesday in a sectarian feud that risks wrecking Iraq's fragile balance of power, just days after U.S. troops finally withdrew.

Iranian exiles ready to leave Iraq camp (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 11:22 AM PST AP - The head of an Iranian exile group says more than 3,000 of its members holed up in a camp in eastern Iraq are ready to leave if they get U.S. and U.N. security guarantees.

U.S. "obviously concerned" about Iraqi Hashemi probe (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 11:15 AM PST Reuters - The White House on Tuesday voiced concern over an arrest warrant issued by Iraqi authorities for the country's Sunni Muslim Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi and urged that the probe be conducted according to law.

With deadline looming to close MEK's Camp Ashraf in Iraq, what next? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:10 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The fate of some 3,200 anti-Iran militants on the US terrorism list hang in the balance, as an end-of-year deadline looms to close Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

Maliki acting "like Saddam": Sunni bloc leader (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:09 AM PST Reuters - Iraq's Nuri al-Maliki is acting like Saddam Hussein in trying to silence opposition and he risks provoking a new fightback against dictatorship, one of Maliki's predecessors as prime minister said on Tuesday.

Iranian exiles in Iraq may accept U.N. plan (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:45 AM PST Reuters - The leader of an exiled Iranian opposition group said on Tuesday it would agree to a United Nations plan to move residents of a dissident camp in Iraq to a new location, depending on certain conditions and guarantees.

Obama to mark end of Iraq war (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:02 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama will mark the end of the war in Iraq at a special ceremony Tuesday.

Was the Iraqi War Worth the Cost? (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 19 Dec 2011 05:55 PM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | President Barack Obama has declared the Iraqi War over. He has gone to Fort Bragg to salute and thank the troops for their service. American troops have "turned out the lights" and closed the door. This country's over eight-year involvement is finished. Now the questions begin; was the war worth it and what have we accomplished? Such a question involves examining the rationale for the war, the cost in lives and money and the ultimate result.

Why the Bush and Blair Convictions Will Not Be Recognized (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 19 Dec 2011 05:55 PM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | In what's considered by most to be little more than symbolism, former U.S. President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair have been convicted of war crimes by a Malaysian court for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The "Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War" [sic] charged that both men knowingly ordered the invasion of Iraq, under a false pretext of former dictator Saddam Hussein having stockpiled weapons of mass destruction.

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