Kansas City Star | Iraq's Top Shiite Leaders Urge Delay of Protests New York Times BAGHDAD — Iraq's top Shiite religious leaders, the populist cleric Moktada al-Sadr and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called Wednesday for Iraqis to defer their protests, leading many members of the country's ... As war ebbs, Baghdad blast walls start coming down Iraqi Shiite cleric returns to Iraq from Iran Radical Shiite cleric Sadr 'back in Iraq' |
Trend News Agency | Iraq attempts to defuse huge protest planned for Friday Christian Science Monitor Iraqi security forces stand guard while protesters chant antigovernment slogans during a protest in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 23. Protesters gathered in central Baghdad to demand a crackdown on corruption, better government services, ... Iraq's Shell Gas Deal Reaches Advanced Stage - Deputy PM Iraq to reach 2.75 mln bpd crude output this year |
Stuff.co.nz | Former Mabey & Johnson Execs Sentenced To Prison for Iraq Bribes Wall Street Journal (blog) A UK judge on Wednesday sent two former executives of engineering firm Mabey & Johnson Ltd. to prison for making illegal payments to the Iraq government in violation of United Nations sanctions, the Serious Fraud Office said. ... Britons jailed over Iraq bribes UK company directors jailed for Iraq sanctions breach; pair offered kickbacks ... Two jailed over Iraq bribes |
CBC.ca | On Libya we can't let ourselves be scarred by Iraq The Guardian Or does it refuse to be scarred by the foolishness of the Iraq invasion and show that it can act when there is unacceptable barbarism. For it is possible the only solution is a rapid intervention led by perhaps Egypt or Tunisia, whose armies have won ... America's Next War Looms in Libya The Middle East Channel: Qaddafi and the false dawn of a 'new Libya' |
Washington Post (blog) | Romney's health care bill = Hillary's Iraq vote? Washington Post (blog) Hillary Clinton's vote for the Iraq war in 2002. That vote turned the front-running Clinton into a vulnerable candidate in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, as it put her at odds with the general sentiment within the party about the war. ... |
Kansas City Star | Policeman killed in Iraq protests Sky News Australia Anti-government protests in the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja have left a policeman dead as a result of gunshot wounds and another injured, the town's mayor and a doctor said. Several hundred demonstrators had been marching on Wednesday to the offices ... Thousands rally for change in Iraq's Kurdish region Thousands stage Iraq Kurd anti-govt demo Thousands rally in Iraq's Kurdish north in anti-government demonstration |
The Guardian | Libya biggest oil risk since Iraq War: markets Daily Star - Lebanon DOHA: Libya's escalating violence represents the biggest threat to global oil supply since the invasion of Iraq eight years ago as political unrest sweeping the Middle East centers on an OPEC exporter. Brent crude rose 3.2 percent in the past two days ... Muammar's Oil - Libya's Contribution to the World's Oil Picture |
GovExec.com (blog) | Tom Ricks responds to Donald Rumsfeld Washington Post (blog) In an interview on Tuesday, Donald Rumsfeld said he never read Bob Woodward or Tom Ricks's books on the Iraq War because “they were all on the outside listening to people two or three levels down.” Rumsfeld is indeed correct about who ... Rumsfeld vs. Rice, Re: Meetings Rummy Schools Andrea Mitchell Rumsfeld's Web site is eye-opening |
OpEdNews | Iraq intelligence misinformation harmed war efforts BG News In the year or so following the attacks, ties between the United States and Iraq was a relationship on dangerously thin ice. Think of Iraq as the girlfriend whom a guy suspects is cheating on him, among other problems. In questioning her former friends ... Tellam: Bush administration had zero concrete proof for war with Iraq Rumsfeld vs. Me on the Freedom Agenda George W. Bush, Iran, And Democracy |
Pennsylvania Soldier's Double-Murder Trial Set for August Fox News The trial of an Iraq war veteran who is raising post-traumatic stress disorder as his defense in a double-murder case is set for jury selection Aug. 15. Thirty-year-old Army veteran Nicholas Horner, of Altoona, contends his mental condition drove him ... |