Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1473 topstories Iraq en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:13:45 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1473 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_saddam_fbi_interviews ap/20090703/us_saddam_fbi_interviews AP world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:13:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_saddam_fbi_interviews"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.6ab375e3e53e45c89bea9caa967c656c.saddam_fbi_interviews_ny113.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=rQOgO1YwM4Bh5ACPEVxG4g--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="FILE - In this image released by the U.S. Army on Dec. 14, 2003, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is shown in custody after he was arrested near his Tikrit home. Unclassified FBI interviews conducted during his incarceration at a U.S. detention center show new details about the late Iraqi dictator's life on the run - both before and after he was ousted.(AP Photo/U.S. Army)" border="0" /></a>AP - After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw "the city was about to fall." Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime minister.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_saddam_fbi_interviews"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.6ab375e3e53e45c89bea9caa967c656c.saddam_fbi_interviews_ny113.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=rQOgO1YwM4Bh5ACPEVxG4g--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this image released by the U.S. Army on Dec. 14, 2003, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is shown in custody after he was arrested near his Tikrit home. Unclassified FBI interviews conducted during his incarceration at a U.S. detention center show new details about the late Iraqi dictator's life on the run - both before and after he was ousted.(AP Photo/U.S. Army)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_us_deaths ap/20090703/us_iraq_us_deaths AP world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:29:14 GMT AP - As of Thursday, July 2, 2009, at least 4,322 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq ap/20090702/ml_iraq AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:21:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.d8a6280362bf4f44a071517d4d92e9c1.iraq_violence_bag102.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=yVkmpMKG058orTwxEjKWzw--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Iraqi security forces secure the site of a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood, Iraq, Thursday, July 2, 2009. The attack was the first in Baghdad since US troops withdrew from Iraqi cities in the first step toward winding down the American war effort by the end of 2011. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)" border="0" /></a>AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Thursday to visit U.S. soldiers, just two days after all American combat troops withdrew from Baghdad and all of Iraq's cities and towns.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.d8a6280362bf4f44a071517d4d92e9c1.iraq_violence_bag102.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=yVkmpMKG058orTwxEjKWzw--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="Iraqi security forces secure the site of a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood, Iraq, Thursday, July 2, 2009. The attack was the first in Baghdad since US troops withdrew from Iraqi cities in the first step toward winding down the American war effort by the end of 2011. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_iraq_soldier_new_lawyer ap/20090702/us_iraq_soldier_new_lawyer AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:56:43 GMT AP - Army Reserve Maj. Miles Gengler didn't hesitate as he repeated the oath during his swearing-in as an attorney. His words just had to travel more than 6,000 miles from Baghdad's Green Zone to Michigan to be heard. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/wl_nm/us_usa_treasury_iraq nm/20090702/us_usa_treasury_iraq Reuters world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:25:37 GMT Reuters - The U.S. government on Thursday said it has declared Kata'ib Hizballah a foreign terrorist organization, saying the group is linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah and has posed a threat to stability in Iraq. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusmilitarypulloutmission afp/20090702/iraqusmilitarypulloutmission AFP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:24:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusmilitarypulloutmission"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246566141324-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=26u9K7QD7OK.gu_.SPNMng--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="US soldiers play basketball at Camp Warhorse in Baquba, 60 kms (35 miles) north of Baghdad, in 2007. It is business as usual for Camp Warhorse after the US military pullout from Iraqi towns and cities -- troops must follow orders and adapt to non-combat tasks in one of Iraq's most dangerous regions.(AFP/File/Olivier Laban-Mattei)" border="0" /></a>AFP - It is business as usual for Camp Warhorse after the US military pullout from Iraqi towns and cities -- troops must follow orders and adapt to non-combat tasks in one of Iraq's most dangerous regions.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusmilitarypulloutmission"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246566141324-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=26u9K7QD7OK.gu_.SPNMng--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="US soldiers play basketball at Camp Warhorse in Baquba, 60 kms (35 miles) north of Baghdad, in 2007. It is business as usual for Camp Warhorse after the US military pullout from Iraqi towns and cities -- troops must follow orders and adapt to non-combat tasks in one of Iraq's most dangerous regions.(AFP/File/Olivier Laban-Mattei)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_afp/iraqusdiplomacy afp/20090702/iraqusdiplomacy AFP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:01:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_afp/iraqusdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246553608485-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=75&q=85&sig=PDkL6pdIHk03Nkgxn_zsLg--" align="left" height="75" width="130" alt="US Vice President Joe Biden, pictured in May 2009, flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from conflict-hit Iraq's towns and cities.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from conflict-hit Iraq's towns and cities.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_afp/iraqusdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246553608485-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=75&q=85&sig=PDkL6pdIHk03Nkgxn_zsLg--" align="left" height="75" width="130" alt="photo" title="US Vice President Joe Biden, pictured in May 2009, flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from conflict-hit Iraq's towns and cities.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/ts_nm/us_iraq_biden nm/20090702/us_iraq_biden Reuters topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:51:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/ts_nm/us_iraq_biden"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246400763740-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.KUpl5TF4CcJdaCEmuvKWg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="President Barack Obama has asked Vice President Joe Biden, pictured in January 2009, to take on a new role overseeing the US departure from Iraq and Washington's effort to promote internal political reconciliation there.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden made a previously unannounced visit to Baghdad on Thursday to meet Iraqi leaders and U.S. military commanders just days after American troops withdrew from Iraqi towns and city centers.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/ts_nm/us_iraq_biden"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246400763740-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.KUpl5TF4CcJdaCEmuvKWg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama has asked Vice President Joe Biden, pictured in January 2009, to take on a new role overseeing the US departure from Iraq and Washington's effort to promote internal political reconciliation there.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_iran_what_najaf_thinks ap/20090702/ml_iraq_iran_what_najaf_thinks AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:05:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_iran_what_najaf_thinks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.a521fe42af8f4c9f906970ed18b729c4.iraq_iran_what_najaf_thinks_bag508.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=Tq0WegFhcpDJIxen_OfzBg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="This July 1, 2009 photo shows an Iranian woman outside the Imam Ail shrine in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq. There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf where the silence during Iran's postelection crisis says much about the deep complexities of their cross-border bonds. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)" border="0" /></a>AP - There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf, where the silence during Iran's post-election crisis says much about the deep complexities of their cross-border bonds.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_iran_what_najaf_thinks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.a521fe42af8f4c9f906970ed18b729c4.iraq_iran_what_najaf_thinks_bag508.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=Tq0WegFhcpDJIxen_OfzBg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="This July 1, 2009 photo shows an Iranian woman outside the Imam Ail shrine in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq. There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf where the silence during Iran's postelection crisis says much about the deep complexities of their cross-border bonds. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/pl_afp/usattacksiraqsanctions afp/20090702/usattacksiraqsanctions AFP politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:20:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/pl_afp/usattacksiraqsanctions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246473165928-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=UWOpWOydAYlA2J9.M5_Bbg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A view of the US Treasury. The US Treasury Department said it froze the assets of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an adviser to the commander of Iran's Qods Force, an arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Shiite "extremist" group Kata'ib Hezbollah for being a security threat in Iraq(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United States imposed financial sanctions Thursday on an adviser to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a Iraq-based Shiite group Kata'ib Hezbollah, branded a foreign terrorist outfit.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/pl_afp/usattacksiraqsanctions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246473165928-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=UWOpWOydAYlA2J9.M5_Bbg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="A view of the US Treasury. The US Treasury Department said it froze the assets of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an adviser to the commander of Iran's Qods Force, an arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Shiite "extremist" group Kata'ib Hezbollah for being a security threat in Iraq(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_mideast_afp/iraqfrancediplomacyeconomy afp/20090702/iraqfrancediplomacyeconomy AFP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:27:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_mideast_afp/iraqfrancediplomacyeconomy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246555604066-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=gTNH1J.BAosZjwaP5rA1PA--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="In this handout made available by the Iraqi Prime Minister's office Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) shakes hands with French Prime Minister Francois Fillon in Baghdad. Fillon made a lightning visit to Baghdad on Thursday with a delegation of officials and business leaders seeking to raise France's profile in Iraq.(AFP/IRAQI PM OFFICE)" border="0" /></a>AFP - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon made a lightning visit to Baghdad on Thursday with a delegation of officials and business leaders seeking to raise France's profile in Iraq.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_mideast_afp/iraqfrancediplomacyeconomy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246555604066-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=gTNH1J.BAosZjwaP5rA1PA--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this handout made available by the Iraqi Prime Minister's office Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) shakes hands with French Prime Minister Francois Fillon in Baghdad. Fillon made a lightning visit to Baghdad on Thursday with a delegation of officials and business leaders seeking to raise France's profile in Iraq.(AFP/IRAQI PM OFFICE)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/ts_afp/iraqusmilitarypulloutbiden afp/20090702/iraqusmilitarypulloutbiden AFP topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:05:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/ts_afp/iraqusmilitarypulloutbiden"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246553608485-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=75&q=85&sig=PDkL6pdIHk03Nkgxn_zsLg--" align="left" height="75" width="130" alt="US Vice President Joe Biden, pictured in May 2009, flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from conflict-hit Iraq's towns and cities.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden was visiting Iraq Thursday in a surprise trip just days after US forces completed their pullout from Iraqi cities, the White House said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/ts_afp/iraqusmilitarypulloutbiden"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246553608485-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=75&q=85&sig=PDkL6pdIHk03Nkgxn_zsLg--" align="left" height="75" width="130" alt="photo" title="US Vice President Joe Biden, pictured in May 2009, flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from conflict-hit Iraq's towns and cities.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/biden_iraq ap/20090702/biden_iraq AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:55:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/biden_iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.60b83c25ff2040b081d98d7205538c8b.iraq_biden_ny126.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=e2HQKjLPKdFlGFwGdho1yg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="In this frame grab made from television, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, greets General Ray Odierno in Baghdad, Iraq early Thursday July 2, 2009. Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Labid Abbawi is seen at center. (AP Photo/APTN)" border="0" /></a>AP - The White House says Vice President Joe Biden is in Iraq.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/biden_iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.60b83c25ff2040b081d98d7205538c8b.iraq_biden_ny126.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=e2HQKjLPKdFlGFwGdho1yg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this frame grab made from television, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, greets General Ray Odierno in Baghdad, Iraq early Thursday July 2, 2009. Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Labid Abbawi is seen at center. (AP Photo/APTN)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_iraq ap/20090702/us_obama_iraq AP politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:30:02 GMT AP - President Barack Obama is telling the Associated Press that he always has reserved the right to adjust the U.S. troop withdrawal timetable in Iraq based on changing circumstances. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_apnewsalert ap/20090702/us_apnewsalert AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:51:15 GMT AP - VP Biden has arrived in Iraq to meet with leaders and discuss withdrawal of US troops. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090702/wl_time/08599190826500 time/20090702/08599190826500 Time.com world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:35:00 GMT Time.com - Baghdad's first auction for the rights to develop its massive energy reserves is a flop, as economic and political factors restrain foreign investors http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/wl_nm/us_iraq_violence nm/20090702/us_iraq_violence Reuters world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:22:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/wl_nm/us_iraq_violence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/r3411386310.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.Jx3EZ2N1ecWpDJ5IwLCuQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A policeman directs traffic at a checkpoint in Baghdad July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ CONFLICT)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol in Baghdad on Thursday, police said, killing one soldier and wounding 10 people.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/wl_nm/us_iraq_violence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/r3411386310.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.Jx3EZ2N1ecWpDJ5IwLCuQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A policeman directs traffic at a checkpoint in Baghdad July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ CONFLICT)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrest afp/20090702/iraqunrest AFP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:37:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246525132885-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=stBLhLQrNVH4FX6pFMEZyw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The shadow of an Iraqi soldier guarding a checkpoint in Baghdad. An Iraqi soldier was killed in the first attack on the country's security forces since the US military pullback from towns and cities.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)" border="0" /></a>AFP - An Iraqi soldier was killed in Baghdad on Thursday in the first attack on the country's security forces since the landmark US military withdrawal from towns and cities nationwide.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246525132885-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=stBLhLQrNVH4FX6pFMEZyw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="The shadow of an Iraqi soldier guarding a checkpoint in Baghdad. An Iraqi soldier was killed in the first attack on the country's security forces since the US military pullback from towns and cities.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/ts_nm/us_iran_saddam nm/20090702/us_iran_saddam Reuters topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:01:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/ts_nm/us_iran_saddam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r3109993886.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=0KG6GKx6PW.Ewzqjk2n8JQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A member of the Palestinian security forces walks past a mural depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the West Bank city of Jenin January 22, 2008. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Saddam Hussein believed Iran was a significant threat to Iraq and left open the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction rather than appear vulnerable, according to declassified FBI documents on interrogations of the former Iraqi leader.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/ts_nm/us_iran_saddam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r3109993886.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=0KG6GKx6PW.Ewzqjk2n8JQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="A member of the Palestinian security forces walks past a mural depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the West Bank city of Jenin January 22, 2008. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090702/wl_csm/obiden csm/20090702/obiden The Christian Science Monitor world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - As the US military presence in Iraq moves into the background, some Iraqi officials concerned that US preoccupation with the war in Afghanistan would prematurely leave Iraq to fend for itself are welcoming Washington's efforts to increase its political engagement here.