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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Iraq News.Net http://www.iraqnews.net/ en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 21:07:03 -0400 Fri, 16 May 2008 21:07:03 -0400 30 The US House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday calling for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the end of 2009, while rejecting a spending measure of $163 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. http://www.iraqnews.net/story/359858 Thu, 15 May 2008 23:00:11 -0400 Iraq News.Net http://www.iraqnews.net/story/359858 Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying three Iranian embassy staff in Baghdad overnight, wounding them and their Iraqi driver. http://www.iraqnews.net/story/359854 Thu, 15 May 2008 22:59:24 -0400 Iraq News.Net http://www.iraqnews.net/story/359854 News ) - For all the money and competitive zeal of this year's presidential contest, Democrats and Republicans are having difficulty financing and organizing the independent groups that supplied so mu... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14882649&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 20:30:11 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14882649&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday demanding to know what the uniformed personnel were doing in a public gallery Thursday as the House debated and voted on an http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14882648&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 20:30:07 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14882648&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Pinnacle High School in Phoenix where he played football for four years."He worked hard to put himself in the position of starter and a linebacker on our defense," said his former coach, http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881853&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 20:29:55 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881853&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Ali Delfi's song "Taste the IED" praises the fighters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr and has been banned by the Iraqi government for inciting violence. He is shown at his recording studio in the... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14883396&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 19:48:03 -0400 NPR http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14883396&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 MOSUL: Iraq on Friday offered cash in exchange for weapons in the main northern city of Mosul, described by US commanders as Al-Qaeda's last urban bastion in the country, on the third day of a crac... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881611&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 20:15:48 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881611&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 The United States has warned Beijing over reported use of Chinese weapons by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the Asian giant's continued sale of arms to Iran, Deputy Secretary of State J... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881466&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 19:10:30 -0400 Daily Star http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881466&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iran angrily blamed the United States on Friday after at least three of its diplomats were wounded in a Baghdad shooting, saying the Americans are encouraging attacks on Iranians in Ir... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881610&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 19:03:44 -0400 The News Journal http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881610&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 May 16, 2008 · There's a formidable group of warriors out there — and they're fighting America's military. Spouses of troops who have come back from the war with serious mental health pro... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14883395&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 19:48:03 -0400 NPR http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14883395&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Reuters photographer in stable condition after Iraqi police beat him with rifles Police said photographer ignored request to stay away from dangerous scene Reuters said the photographer had permission... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881807&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 19:02:02 -0400 CNN http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881807&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has made a direct appeal for the freedom of five British hostages who were abducted in Iraq last year. In a video, released through the Times newspaper, h... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881604&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 18:37:51 -0400 BBC http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14881604&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 MOSUL: Iraq on Friday offered cash in exchange for weapons in the main northern city of Mosul, described by US commanders as Al-Qaeda's last urban bastion in the country, on the third day of a crackdo... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14878256&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:13:51 -0400 The Daily Star http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14878256&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 WASHINGTON, May 16 (IPS) - A U.S. Army soldier who served as a military journalist in Afghanistan, Japan, Europe and the Philippines announced Thursday his intent to refuse orders to deploy to Iraq."A... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14878268&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:54 -0400 IPS http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14878268&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki today offered amnesty to Sunni Arab militants in the northern city of Mosul who turn in their weapons in exchange for unspecified financial compensation. ... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14878257&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:29:13 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14878257&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) takes places as planned, it would be the largest deployment of a single Vermont National Guard unit since World War II, Dubie said.While the bulk of the brigade... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14879415&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:39:37 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14879415&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Bob Filner , D-Calif., called Peake before his committee to answer questions about a different set of e-mails that had surfaced during a trial that seemed to suggest VA officials were hiding the numbe... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14879416&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:39:38 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14879416&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran angrily blamed the United States on Friday after at least three of its diplomats were wounded in a Baghdad shooting, saying the Americans are encouraging attacks on Iranians i... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14878265&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 15:55:11 -0400 USA Today http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14878265&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 was about to label Saddam Hussein "the world's most dangerous man," the official simply said, "Oh, Saddam's not going to like that." http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874748&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 15:08:36 -0400 U.S. News & World Report http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874748&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 News ) - The political fortunes of Democrats down South once were so bad that people openly joked even Jesus Christ would lose by a double-digit margin if he ran for office on the party's ticket.It mi... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14875820&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 14:46:29 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14875820&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Iraqi soldiers exchanged fire with guards in an argument that broke out when members of the convoy failed to produce identification cards.Iranian Embassy spokesma... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874746&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 14:37:11 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874746&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 BAGHDAD - Turkey`s special envoy to Iraq met Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi in Baghdad on Thursday. The bilateral relations topped the agenda of the meeting between Murat Ozcelik and al-Hashimi... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874436&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 13:49:06 -0400 Turkish Press http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874436&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 ANKARA - Turkey`s Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Wednesday that Turkey`s direct dialogue with the regional administration in the north of Iraq was based on confidence building. Answering questions ... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874425&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 13:49:02 -0400 Turkish Press http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874425&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - Officials at Fort Bragg say a brigade of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division will return to Fort Bragg from duty in Iraq three months earlier than scheduled. Division spokesman ... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874749&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 13:32:27 -0400 ABC 7 http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874749&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 ' }, { url: 'http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2008/05/15/image4098601g.jpg', alt: '', text: 'Barack Obama interpreted remarks by President Bush at the Israeli Knesset as a slam against him but ... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14877747&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 13:16:11 -0400 CBS News http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14877747&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Maliki made the amnesty offer in the northern city of Mosul, where he has been supervising a U.S.-backed campaign aimed at delivering a fatal blow to Sunni Islamist al Qaeda in the city and surroundin... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874431&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 12:45:59 -0400 Khaleej Times http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14874431&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Review: There will be blood on their hands Currently Viewed 7 days ago - 7 days ago - 7 days ago - 7 days ago - 14 days ago - 14 days ago - 14 days ago - 14 days ago - http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14872281&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:52:23 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14872281&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 WASHINGTON -- After launching their candidacies with opposite positions on the Iraq war, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama seem to be edging toward a middle ground between them. McC... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14871089&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:41:17 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14871089&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 (IFJ/IFEX) - The following is a 15 May 2008 IFJ media release: IFJ Condemns "Intolerable Injustice" as Report Exposes United States Targeting and Killing of Journalists in Iraq The International... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14871085&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:39:40 -0400 IFEX http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14871085&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Detainees at Camp Cropper detention facility outside Baghdad attend class in this photo released by the U.S. military Aug. 4, 2007. Many Camp Cropper detainees are being freed because they are not con... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14871160&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:10:21 -0400 NPR http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14871160&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 -- Neither his parents nor his siblings know he works for the U.S. Army. It's bad enough that he wakes up each night around 2 a.m., the hour his armored convoy was hit by a roadside bomb several mont... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14871357&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 10:48:09 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14871357&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Members of 110th U.S. Congress, January 2007. (Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images ) CAPITOL HILL (AP) - A $163 billion measure covering President Bush's funding request for the Iraq war has suffered a s... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14870865&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:30:07 -0400 Fox 23 http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14870865&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Jordan is ready to establish a joint free zone at the Karama border with Iraq to facilitate increasing flows of goods on border, said an official of Jordan's free zones authorities after a meeting wit... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14868185&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 07:51:08 -0400 People's Daily http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14868185&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Iraq will look like 25 years from now, look at Lebanon today. The similarities and differences—but mainly the similarities—raise a lot of painful memories and questions for Americans. This fact ... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14868180&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 07:44:02 -0400 MSNBC http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14868180&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - John McCain says if he's elected, the Iraq war will be won by the end of his first term. In a speech in Columbus, Ohio, today, the Republican presidential candidate laid out a v... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14868186&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 07:38:06 -0400 K8 http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14868186&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain looked into the future Thursday and predicted that U.S. troops would return home in victory by the end of his first term as president in 2013. "By January 2013, Am... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14868187&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 07:15:39 -0400 The Seattle Times http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14868187&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Barack Obama , who says the results point to clear limits in the effectiveness of attack ads he expects this fall.The Democratic presidential candidate played a prominent role in all three special ele... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14865983&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 05:58:31 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14865983&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Tucson soldier killed in action is being remembered as a man with a zest for life who took pride in his military service but was increasingly worried about the spiraling violence he saw in http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14865984&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 05:58:30 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14865984&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen ambushed an Iranian Embassy convoy in Baghdad, wounding three Iranians, including two diplomats, and an Iraqi, a spokesman said Friday. http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14864928&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 05:29:26 -0400 USA Today http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14864928&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 The team included two federal prosecutors and an FBI agent from Seattle, as well as a prosecutor from the department’s domestic security section in Washington, D.C. They were scheduled to leave ... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14865189&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 05:05:37 -0400 The News Tribune http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14865189&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 BAGHDAD: At least 18 people were killed and 35 wounded in a suicide bombing on Wednesday at a funeral vigil just west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, security officials said. "One man detonated h... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14865186&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 04:25:46 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14865186&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 The civilians of Sadr City are increasingly trapped between two battles for the soul of Iraq - one pitting US forces against the fighters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr's Mahdi Army, the second betw... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14865187&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 04:03:14 -0400 Gulf News http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14865187&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for survival through the first four months of life in the United States.For the Joodis, who arrived in early March with one duffle bag per person, that mea... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14863246&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 03:09:57 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14863246&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 BAGHDAD - US and Iraqi troops moved against Al Qaeda on two separate fronts Thursday, with house-to-house searches in Mosul and an operation in the desert to stanch the flow of insurgents and weapons ... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14862556&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 01:20:39 -0400 Khaleej Times http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14862556&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Iraq to investigate the fatal shooting of an Iraqi guard by a security contractor, hastening the resolution of questions about whether U.S. attorneys can prosecute him, an official said Thursday.The c... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860818&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 00:32:24 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860818&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 White House ."He said, `Sir, I've served over there many times, and I would serve for you any time,' and he grabbed the president and gave him a big hug," Kellee Twiggs said.She said she believes her ... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860817&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 00:32:23 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860817&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 A look at Indiana deaths during Iraqi war The case, like the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater guards last September, highlights the murky issue of whether security contractors can b... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860819&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 16 May 2008 00:32:21 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860819&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 BAGHDAD - A Turkish firm was chosen in Iraq as the foreign firm that made the best business. The public works and development administration of Iraq assessed foreign companies working in Iraq accordin... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860117&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 15 May 2008 23:37:28 -0400 Turkish Press http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860117&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 -- Two of California's most immigrant-dependent industries - agriculture and Silicon Valley - are pushing narrow measures through Congress in an effort to employ foreign workers at opposite ends of t... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860103&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 15 May 2008 23:32:03 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860103&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 ANKARA - Turkish General Staff said on Sunday that Turkish security forces took terrorists, stationed in north of Iraq, out of action. The General Staff said Turkish tanks and planes had pounded terro... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860118&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 15 May 2008 23:37:26 -0400 Turkish Press http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860118&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 The US House of Representatives has approved a measure that would begin a pullout of troops from Iraq within 30 days of enactment and complete the withdrawal by December 2009. http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860122&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 15 May 2008 22:59:31 -0400 Al Jazeera http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14860122&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 International section. It was last updated at 00:29 on May 16 2008. President George Bush used a visit to Israel yesterday to denounce Democratic party offers to negotiate with America's enemies in ... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14861192&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 15 May 2008 23:14:31 -0400 The Guardian http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14861192&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Commando leaders shift away from Rumsfeld strategy The court did not specify how many of the accused members' relatives would be investigated, or on what grounds.The court heard 14 of the suspects Thu... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14857731&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 15 May 2008 21:46:14 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14857731&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 John McCain declared for the first time on Thursday that he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrat... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14856641&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 15 May 2008 21:16:31 -0400 Newsday http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14856641&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 May 15, 2008 · Congressional Democrats are pushing forward with plans for a new G.I. Bill to give veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan money to go to college for four years. House Democ... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14858472&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 15 May 2008 21:05:11 -0400 NPR http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14858472&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Overnight clashes between U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces and Shiite militia in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City killed at least seven people and wounded some 20 others, medical officials... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14856903&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 15 May 2008 20:43:50 -0400 People's Daily http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14856903&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.In remarks prepared for delivery to the Business Executives for National Security, Gates cited three areas in which he has pushed for speedier solutions to... http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14857728&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 15 May 2008 21:46:16 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.iraqnews.net/?rid=14857728&cat=c31d0aaa23b24a75