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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Kuwait: Envoy to US during Iraq invasion dies (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 06:46 AM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 17, 1992 file photo, Sheikh Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, left, meets with Pres. George H. W. Bush to discuss the Mideast Peace talks in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C. Sheik Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, who served as Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S. during Iraq's 1990 invasion of the oil-rich country and the American-led war to oust Saddam Hussein's forces, has died, a government-backed newspaper reported Sunday. He was 68. Al-Qabas said the former diplomat died Saturday and gave no cause of death. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, FIle)AP - Sheik Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, who served as Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S. during Iraq's 1990 invasion of the oil-rich country and the American-led war to oust Saddam Hussein's forces, has died, a government-backed newspaper reported Sunday. He was 68.

Iraq risks slipping into authoritarianism: rights group (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:27 AM PST

Reuters - Iraq risks sliding back towards authoritarian rule with Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's security forces cracking down on protests, harassing opponents and torturing detainees, a U.S.-based human rights monitor said on Sunday.

Rights group says Iraq becoming 'police state' (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:23 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2011 file photo, Iraqi riot police officers prevent anti-government protesters from entering the heavily guarded Green Zone during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's Shiite-led government cracked down harshly on dissent during the past year of Arab Spring uprisings, turning the country into a 'budding police state' as autocratic regimes crumbled elsewhere in the region, an international rights groups said Sunday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - Iraq's Shiite-led government cracked down harshly on dissent during the past year of Arab Spring uprisings, turning the country into a "budding police state" as autocratic regimes crumbled elsewhere in the region, an international rights groups said Sunday.

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