Wall Street Journal | Iraq frees Hezbollah man wanted by US USA TODAY U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, near a poster of a senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative Ali Mussa Daqduq. (Photo: Wathiq Khuzaie, AP) ... Iraq releases prisoner, drawing US ire Against US Wishes, Iraq Releases Man Accused of Killing American Soldiers Iraq Frees Militant Wanted in Deaths of US Soldiers |
Duluth News Tribune | Veterans killed in Texas train crash survived gunshots, IEDs, grenades in Iraq ... Washington Post The four veterans killed when a freight train barreled into the parade float they were riding on weren't ordinary men. Three were Purple Heart recipients who served on the front lines multiple times in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fourth was awaiting ... Veterans killed in train crash were war heroes |
Iraq releases prisoner accused of killing US soldiers CNN (blog) Ali Moussa Daqdouq, a Lebanese militant accused of involvement in the murder of several U.S. soldiers in Iraq, was released by Iraqi authorities Friday morning, Daqdouq's lawyer, Abdulalmehdi al-Mutairi, told CNN. Daqdouq has arrived in Lebanon, his ... Suspect in death of U.S. soldiers released |
Press TV | Iraq envoy says won't propose Arab action vs. Israel over Gaza Reuters (Reuters) - Iraq's envoy to the Arab League said it would invite Arab states to use oil as a weapon to press for a halt to Israeli attacks on Gaza, but later appeared to withdraw the remark, saying Baghdad would make no particular proposal to a League ... Liberated Iraq calls on Arab states to use oil as 'weapon' against US Iraq envoy says Arabs should use oil to press Israel over Gaza Iraq Tells Arab Nations: 'Use Oil As Weapon Against USA' |
San Francisco Chronicle (blog) | Dianne Feinstein defends Susan Rice, says Iraq intel bad too San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who chairs the Intelligence Committee, defended U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice Friday, saying “We have seen wrong intelligence before, and it all surrounded our going into Iraq, and a lot of people were killed ... |
FRANCE 24 | Iraqi forces clash with Kurdish troops, one dead Reuters The fighting in Tuz Khurmato, 170 km (105 miles) north of Iraq's capital, highlights strains between the federal government and the Kurdish leadership over autonomy, oil and land that risk upsetting Iraq's uneasy union. The departure of U.S. forces ... New Iraq army HQ fuels Arab-Kurd row Two dead, 10 wounded after Iraqi, Kurdish forces clash in northern Iraq Iraq arms itself, 'Kurdistan' develops economy |
MarketWatch | U.S. drops case against KBR over Iraq private security costs Chicago Tribune (Reuters) - The United States has dropped its case against the engineering and military contractor KBR Inc over the costs of KBR's private armed security in Iraq. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, in an order posted on Thursday, granted the Justice ... US drops KBR case over private security in Iraq |
Baghdad Broker Dodges Bombs to Rack Up Stock Trades Businessweek That's what Taha has had to do for years as chairman and sole owner of the biggest stock brokerage tailored to foreign investors in postwar Iraq. Born in Baghdad to Kurdish parents and raised in the city, he bought Rabee for a small, undisclosed sum in ... |
Iraq releases suspected Hezbollah operative Daqduq Chicago Tribune His detention was political, not legal." Earlier this year, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Reuters he had received assurances from Iraq it would not release Daqduq, even though an Iraqi court had cleared him of the charges. "We continue to ... |
Post-Bulletin | Thomas Friedman: Studying Iraq could be the key to the problem in Syria Post-Bulletin What to do? I continue to believe that the best way to understand the real options — and they are grim — is by studying Iraq, which, like Syria, is made up largely of Sunnis, Shiites, Christians and Kurds. Why didn't Iraq explode outward like Syria ... |