Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• White House says would veto debt prioritization bill
• Russia, U.S. seek to convene Syria peace conference
• U.S. Army survivor of Iraq killings recalls gunman's 'chuckle'
• CAIR Condemns Brutal Attack on Elderly California Sikh
• Aid convoys roll slowly in Syria despite urgent need: U.N
• Libya ambassador nominee vows sufficient security
• Insiders: Syrian Chemical Weapons Use Does Not Yet Justify U.S. Military Intervention
• Anonymous threatens to take the U.S. ‘off the cyber map’
• Al-Qaida offshoot threatens French interests
• Mitt Romney Was Right: Russia Is Our Biggest Geopolitical Foe
• Egypt says Libyan and Iraqi oil to arrive next month
• Kurdish rebels say Turkish army is endangering peaceful pullout
• Iraq-Kurd oil talks break ice, long-term fix unlikely
• The End of Syria
• Prosecutors say soldier had cigarette, then killed
• Who Are the War Criminals in Syria?
• Syria’s Lurking Terror: A History of Sarin Gas
• U.S. soldier who killed fellow servicemen had wanted Army exit: prosecutor

White House says would veto debt prioritization bill Posted: 07 May 2013 04:52 PM PDT By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday the president would veto legislation that would prioritize U.S. debt payments if the nation hits its borrowing limit, sending an early salvo in the next round of federal budget skirmishes. The nation's debt ceiling has been a centerpiece of budget fights between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans for several years and brought the nation to the brink of defaulting on its debt in the summer of 2011. ...

Russia, U.S. seek to convene Syria peace conference Posted: 07 May 2013 04:30 PM PDT By Arshad Mohammed and Thomas Grove MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States agreed on Tuesday to try to bring together Syria's warring parties at an international conference, possibly by the end of this month, in an attempt to negotiate an end to their civil war. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary of State John Kerry announced the agreement in Moscow, despite their nations' differences over Syria, saying they would work to ensure both the Damascus government and the rebels fighting it would attend. ...

U.S. Army survivor of Iraq killings recalls gunman's 'chuckle' Posted: 07 May 2013 03:38 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A survivor of a shooting spree that killed five U.S. servicemen at a combat stress clinic in Iraq testified on Tuesday that he remembered the gunman, a fellow soldier, chuckling after he shot an unarmed man who had been trying to hide. U.S. Army Sergeant John Russell pleaded guilty last month to killing two medical staff officers and three soldiers at Camp Liberty, adjacent to the Baghdad airport, in a 2009 shooting the military has said could have been triggered by combat stress. ...

CAIR Condemns Brutal Attack on Elderly California Sikh Posted: 07 May 2013 02:00 PM PDT SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned a brutal attack on an elderly Sikh man in that state.CAIR-SV said 82-year old Plara Singh was beaten with an iron bar after he left a Sikh temple in Fresno, Calif., Sunday morning. He remains hospitalized in serious condition.SEE: Elderly Sikh Man Brutally Attackedhttp://tinyurl.com/ckrkxxgSikh Coalition: 82-Year-Old Man Severely Beaten with Iron Bar http://salsa. ...

Aid convoys roll slowly in Syria despite urgent need: U.N Posted: 07 May 2013 12:14 PM PDT By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Bureaucratic hurdles still hamper delivery of aid in Syria where nearly one in three people need help, half of them children, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Aid requirements have risen dramatically in the past year as the civil war has escalated, with some 6.8 million deemed in need now compared with 1 million in March 2012, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. Despite the lack of security, U.N. ...

Libya ambassador nominee vows sufficient security Posted: 07 May 2013 11:12 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's nominee for ambassador to Libya said Tuesday that she will work to ensure sufficient security at U.S. facilities nearly eight months after poor protection in Benghazi was blamed for the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Insiders: Syrian Chemical Weapons Use Does Not Yet Justify U.S. Military Intervention Posted: 07 May 2013 10:37 AM PDT Even though President Obama acknowledged chemical weapons use in Syria, nearly two-thirds of National Journal's National Security Insiders believe the American military should not yet intervene in the bloody fight against Bashar al-Assad.

Anonymous threatens to take the U.S. ‘off the cyber map’ Posted: 07 May 2013 09:55 AM PDT Anonymous was praised for its recent cyberattacks on North Korea, however the hacking collective has shown that it is a friend to no one. The group late last month declared its latest target and this time it isn't a communist regime or oppressive government, but rather the United States. The group stated that on May 7th, Anonymous will start phase 1 of Operation USA, which is a response to acts of "multiple war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan" and "in your own country." The group is protesting the Obama Administration's uses of targeted drone attacks that have resulted in the deaths of "hundreds of innocent children and families." "Anonymous is speaking it's mind, don't try to blind the worlds eyes,"

Al-Qaida offshoot threatens French interests Posted: 07 May 2013 09:26 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — An Algeria-based al-Qaida offshoot said in an online video on Tuesday that Muslims have an obligation to attack French interests around the world because of France's military intervention in Mali.

Mitt Romney Was Right: Russia Is Our Biggest Geopolitical Foe Posted: 07 May 2013 08:22 AM PDT As President Obama welcomed South Korea's "Iron Lady," recently elected President Park Geun-hye, to the White House on Tuesday, his attention may have been focused elsewhere. The daughter of former military strongman Park Chung-hee, tough-talking Park is a living embodiment of Seoul's remarkable progress from Cold War dictatorship to ultra-modern democracy—just as South Korea itself, along with the surrounding Asian "tiger" nations, is the best evidence of why backward North Korea remains largely irrelevant, if still noisy, in East Asian affairs.

Egypt says Libyan and Iraqi oil to arrive next month Posted: 07 May 2013 05:50 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt said it expected crude oil imports to start arriving next month after Libya and Iraq agreed to make shipments to help Cairo weather an economic crisis. More than two years of political turmoil since an uprising toppled President Hosni Mubarak have hammered Egypt's economy. Foreign currency reserves, used to pay for food and fuel under subsidy programmes that make up about a quarter of the budget, have fallen to critically low levels. ...

Kurdish rebels say Turkish army is endangering peaceful pullout Posted: 07 May 2013 05:38 AM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's Kurdish rebels have accused the army of endangering an agreed pullout of rebel fighters from the mostly Kurdish southeast, due to start on Wednesday, with surveillance drones and large-scale movements of men and equipment. Top Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) commander Murat Karayilan ordered his fighters last month to begin withdrawing to bases in northern Iraq as part of a plan to end three decades of conflict with the Turkish state. However, huge distrust remains. ...

Iraq-Kurd oil talks break ice, long-term fix unlikely Posted: 07 May 2013 04:35 AM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed and Isabel Coles BAGHDAD/ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - A lasting solution to Iraq's dispute with its Kurdish north is unlikely even if recent talks between the two sides lead to a resumption of oil exports from the autonomous region. Kurdish crude used to be shipped to world markets through a Baghdad-controlled pipeline, but exports via that channel dried up last December due to a row over payment for oil companies operating in the northern enclave. ...

The End of Syria Posted: 07 May 2013 01:45 AM PDT How long until Syria as we know it falls off the map?

Prosecutors say soldier had cigarette, then killed Posted: 07 May 2013 12:58 AM PDT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Shortly before beginning a shooting rampage through a mental health clinic in Iraq, an Army sergeant sat in a vehicle outside the building and smoked a cigarette, prosecutors said.

Who Are the War Criminals in Syria? Posted: 07 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT Last week, several polls came out assessing U.S. public opinion on intervention in Syria.

Syria’s Lurking Terror: A History of Sarin Gas Posted: 06 May 2013 09:03 PM PDT Reports of chemical-weapons attacks have hovered like a cloud over the bloody conflict in Syria for at least half a year, with both the Syrian opposition and the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad accusing the other of using poison gas in battle. After this weekend, international concern — and confusion — over the threat posed by chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war only deepened following a U.N. investigator's claim that she had "strong, concrete suspicions" the Syrian rebels deployed sarin gas in a recent attack. The U.N. ...

U.S. soldier who killed fellow servicemen had wanted Army exit: prosecutor Posted: 06 May 2013 08:06 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier who pleaded guilty to shooting dead five fellow servicemen at a military counseling center in Iraq sought help from healthcare workers in securing an early exit from the Army but was rebuffed before the killings, a military prosecutor said on Monday. Army Sergeant John Russell pleaded guilty last month to killing two medical staff officers and three soldiers at Camp Liberty, adjacent to the Baghdad airport, in a 2009 shooting the military has said could have been triggered by combat stress. ...

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