Iraq

Iraqi PM: Al-Qaida active in area south of Baghdad (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012

In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, stickers that were plastered on a utility pole discovered by Thai police and presumed that it may have marked routes for intended victims by suspected bombers in Bangkok, Thailand. It began when three men blew up their house accidentally on Valentine's Day. It ended with a gory scene that looked more like Baghdad, a bloodied, would-be bomber with severed legs oaning on a glass-strewn sidewalk after another botched blast. (AP Photo)AP - Iraq's prime minister says al-Qaida fighters are continuing to plan and launch attacks in the area south of Baghdad once known as the "triangle of death."


Marine convicted in Iraq killings leaves service (AP) - Tue, 21 Feb 2012

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 file photo, Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich arrives for a court session at Camp Pendleton, Calif. The Marine Corps discharged Wuterich, the lone Marine convicted in the killings of unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha in 2005, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 after reducing his rank. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)AP - The Marine Corps has discharged the lone Marine convicted in the 2005 killings of unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha, a spokesman said Tuesday.


Big questions still unanswered in Thai terror plot (AP) - Tue, 21 Feb 2012

In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, an Iranian bomb suspect Mohammad Kharzei, right, listens to a Thai police officer as he is taken to verify the house where he and other Iranian compatriots rented in Bangkok, Thailand. One week after three Iranians were arrested in an apparently botched terror plot allegedly aimed against Israeli diplomats, profound questions remain unanswered about who was behind it. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - It began when three men blew up their house accidentally on Valentine's Day in Bangkok. It ended with a gory scene that looked more like Baghdad: a bloodied, would-be bomber with severed legs moaning on a glass-strewn sidewalk after another botched blast.


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Iraqi VP, facing terror trial, sees']);" href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120220/wl_nm/us_iraq">In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, stickers that were plastered on a utility pole discovered by Thai police and presumed that it may have marked routes for intended victims by suspected bombers in Bangkok, Thailand. It began when three men blew up their house accidentally on Valentine's Day. It ended with a gory scene that looked more like Baghdad, a bloodied, would-be bomber with severed legs oaning on a glass-strewn sidewalk after another botched blast. (AP Photo)Reuters - Judges ordered one of Iraq's two vice-presidents tried for terrorism Monday in a move the accused, Tareq al-Hashemi, dismissed as part of a "black comedy" devised by sectarian adversaries in government.


Suicide attack on Baghdad police academy kills 19 (Reuters) - Sun, 19 Feb 2012

A police officer stands guard near his wounded comrade after a bomb attack, at a hospital in Baghdad February 19, 2012. REUTERS/Saad ShalashReuters - A suicide car bomber killed 19 police officers and cadets Sunday in an attack on a crowd outside a Baghdad police academy, police and hospital sources said.


(AP) - Sun, 19 Feb 2012
AP - Egypt foreign ministry says it is withdrawing ambassador to Syria.

Soldier lawsuit: Iraq War ended before deployment (AP) - Sat, 18 Feb 2012
AP - An insurance company that denied benefits to a military veteran faces a federal lawsuit that argues its reasoning was groundless because the U.S. wasn't at war with Iraq in 2008.

400 Iran exiles reluctantly move to new Iraq home (AP) - Sat, 18 Feb 2012

In this photograph made on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, rows of housing containers formerly occupied by the US military are seen at Baghdad, airport. Iraqi government plans to move here some 3,300 members of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, who spent past three decades at Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Lugging clothes, tables and whatever else they were allowed to bring, roughly 400 members of an Iranian exile group reluctantly moved Saturday from their camp in northwestern Iraq to a deserted military base outside the capital in what they called a show of good faith that they eventually will be allowed to leave the country peacefully.


Iraq moves batch of Iranian dissidents from camp (Reuters) - Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Reuters - Iraq evacuated an initial batch of 400 Iranian dissidents on Saturday from a base founded under Saddam Hussein, a first step towards expelling their entire group from Iraqi territory.




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