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A few days ago, I attended a wake for two of their Iraqi staff, a photographer and a driver who were killed in Baghdad in July.

They have to ask for permission to leave their bases and can do so only under an Iraqi escort.

The Iraqi military and police forces the U. S. is trying to cobble together will mostly prove unreliable, unwarlike and treacherous.

But Bush is unlikely ever to escape the image of him cowering behind a lectern watched by an unruffled Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki.

But no further information is available about how much Iraqi debt owed to China will be forgiven.

The nightly curfew in the Iraqi capital and a vehicle curfew are to be eased during Ramadan to help families break fast together.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said Iraqi forces will be able to take control of security around the country within a year-and-a-half.

"The United Nations will continue to make every effort to support the efforts of the Iraqi people and government to that end, " he said.

At least four Iraqi athletes are coming, and I hope for a little more at the Games time.

Only three incidents, minor by Iraqi standards, were reported from all around the country, probably less than on an average ordinary day.

In light of this new information, Gates said, 85 percent of the Iraqi troops was accounted for, which he said is an acceptable level.

The Iraqi government spokesman has accused Britain of trying to deport failed asylum seekers to Iraq without verifying their identities.

At the event, officials said the project would be a model for Chinese-Iraqi cooperation for the future.

The Iraqi government announced a holiday to mark "National Sovereignty Day" , and said its forces would be able to maintain security.

Officials say it was not necessary to provide weapons to the Iraqi groups, which became known as the Sons of Iraq.

In Iraq the face of the enemy is one that is intent on murdering Iraqi civilians and officials alike, the general said.

One of the main issues in dispute has been whether U. S. troops accused of crimes in Iraq would be tried by Iraqi courts, or by the U.

The Iraqi government told Blackwater to leave. They left. Chalk that up to the Iraqi government.

Mr. Blair said he viewed it as a sign of optimism that Saddam was trialedby an Iraqi court for crimes he committed against his own people.

And when that government is in place, there should be no doubt: the Iraqi people will have a strong partner in the United States.

It's time to stop spending billions of dollars a week on a blank check for an Iraqi government that won't spend its own oil revenues.

The money will come in the form of loans from the Iraqi Finance Ministry, he said.

He helped me with my Iraqi Arabic, and we talked about everything from the regime to soccer to life in the United States.

French Foreign Ministry said the regretful situation had resulted from Iraqi leader's refusal for cooperation with the U.

Talabani also said he produced 74-year-old Aziz Aziz's age and partly out of sympathy for the other, because he is an Iraqi Christian.

"Before, the Sunnis did not join the Iraqi security forces because of a fatwa against doing so, " he said.

In 2006 this reporter spent several scorching days with him and his 11-man team in Anbar Province, when he was an adviser to the Iraqi Army.

So, the U. N. effort seems to be on track in support of the Iraqi effort; they have the principal responsibility.

He said the United States does not seek permanent bases or long-term control of Iraqi airspace.

A television commentary called it "a victory" for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government.

As the last American troops prepare to leave, such attacks may cast doubt on the Iraqi forces' ability to maintain security.

She said that many of her peers, male and female, accused her of trying to impose Western values on Iraqi society.

He said President Barack Obama is satisfied that the Iraqi military will be able to take over security operations.

Contractors are no longer immune from Iraqi law, as they were in the first years of the war, but avenues of legal redress remain winding.

Jolie said the vast majority of Iraqi children have been traumatized by the horrors of war and now have special needs.

"My understanding was that this was a building that had people who were shooting back at Iraqi ground forces, " Holloway said.

However, so far neither Marines nor the paratroopers were able to widen their staging area or to break through Iraqi defenses.

American officials said they did not know if the Iraqi leader had survived the attack.

I commend you for your understanding and desire to help in the reconstruction of Iraqi's country.

All this might be dismissed as hot air; Iraqi politicians also responded crossly (see article).

US officials said the leak put US troops in danger and threatened to put some 300 Iraqi collaborators at risk by exposing their identities.

It would be up to Iraqi government forces to thwart any plans by insurgents to resume their violence once U. S. forces begin to depart.

One of the last remaining roadblocks had been whether U. S. military personnel would enjoy immunity from prosecution under Iraqi law. Mr.

There was also disagreement over the role of Iraqi exiles who have come back to try to help put together a new government.

He said the agreement must "suit" the Iraqi government.

A sergeant witnesses an Iraqi, who was alleged to have abused a woman in Kuwait, hauled up by a crane to be shot by fellow Iraqi soldiers.

In Basra too, after an astonishing turn-round, the Iraqi army seems to have bested the Sadrists.

Iraqis know that establishing a more cohesive and broader-based government is at least as important as beefing up the Iraqi security forces.

The files detailed horrible cases of prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces that the US military knew about but did not seem to investigate.

The last thing the Americans want to see, as they pull out of Iraq, is a war between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds.

The American Vice President Joe Biden has said he believes Iraqi politicians are close to agreeing on forming a new government.

I'm just one Iraqi and I have such loses, imagine 28 million ones like me, how much looses does the Iraqis have?

It is possible that within a year or 18 months a non-sectarian Iraqi army will be able to do much of the work the Americans do now.

After the trial, Iraqi intelligence agents tied him to a chair and brought in his wife.

Among issues needing further discussion was the question of when U. S. troops would be under Iraqi jurisdiction, Dabbagh said.

A year-and-a-half ago, under orders from Baghdad, the Iraqi army retook the city. Hundreds of militiamen were killed.

Our National Congress should introduce a bill, demanding American troops to stop killing Iraqi people and to get out of Iraq territory.

He looked like any other Iraqi when he returned and stood by his car, except for the pistol strapped to his shoulder.

They were a real danger; in the Gulf War twenty-eight of our soldiers had been killed by an Iraqi Scud missile.

In the end they asked me to send in the Iraqi police and give them an honourable way to get out of the place.

He says that the Iraqi Armed Forces will act decisively against anyone trying to disrupt order in Anbar province.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki responded by calling it a step in the right direction.

This day has often been a day in which Iraqi governments offer amnesties to prisoners, or allow them to visit their families.

French media have said the Iraqi people are throwing shoes to the U. S. Patriot missile.

At least four people have been killed since the protests in Iraqi Kurdistan began.

But there were "cheers for the children of wars" , as the Iraqi and Palestinian teams were given a warm reception.

He said that the US believes that the target hit was a command and control center for the Iraqi army.

In fact, Rasheed was one of the more careful Iraqi bureaucrats when it came to accounting for resources.

IRAQI MAN: "Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store. "

In Baghdad a senior Iraqi traffic officer was assassinated on his way to work.

But no one can argue that the Iraqi people would be better off with the thugs and murderers back in the palaces.

There has been a rapprochement with the Iraqi government and an effort to reach an accommodation with the Kurdish minority.

Mr Obama said discussions would go on with Iraqi leaders about how the US could continue to help train Iraqi forces.

But analysts think Sinopec wouldn't have proceeded with the Addax acquisition unless it had a green light from the Iraqi government.

Today, people come here to catch up with friends, and of course, like this Iraqi policeman, to drink tea.

Principal among them is an Iraqi chemical engineer who pitched up in Germany without a visa in 1999.

His arrest occurred as the result of information provided by former bodyguards and relatives of people close to the former Iraqi president.

After the shooters left, an Iraqi policeman found a target marked in the middle of the bullet-riddled Quran.

The Iraqi army says at least 22 people are dead after a bomb tore through a busy square in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad today.

The Iraqi Defense Ministry said there had been no joint patrols since US troops pulled out of urban areas at the end of June.

Opposition parties have alleged voting irregularities, but the Iraqi Electoral Commission said the poll has been transparent.

Iraqi authorities say at least 18 people were killed in an insurgent attack in a Baghdad car garage Tuesday.

Other Iraqi security officials said the suspect was in American custody for identification.

But the Iraqi capital has lost 16 points - far more than any other city - since the US-led invasion and overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

Sauerbrey emphasized that there is no cap on the number of Iraqi refugees the United States is willing to resettle.

CNN Anchor: Well after nearly a week of vicious fighting between Iraqi forces and Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army, a welcome cease-fire.

They spent their entire day outside the wire trying to save Iraqi lives -- the Iraqis who work on the post .

A woman in an Iraqi hospital cradles her son newly blinded, and a single tear rolls down her cheek.

Iraqi police in Diyala Province captured a teenage girl strapped with explosives who claimed that a woman had wrapped the belt on her body.

Toppling the Iraqi regime with only a vague plan as to what to put in its place has been the defining foul-up of the presidency.

Zaidi has been criticised by fellow Iraqi journalists, who said he had allowed his emotions to overcome his professionalism.

His mostly-sunni critics complain that Iraqi forces are not ready to assume the task.

But the remains were not recovered until the next morning, after an Iraqi civilian warned that bombs had been planted in the area.

In his final act of duty, less than a month ago, he worked with other members of his unit to build a soccer field for Iraqi children.

A statement by the Turkish armed forces says 15 of its soldiers were killed in an attack on a military outpost near the Iraqi border.

An Iraqi joint venture between Shell and a state-owned Chinese oil company could be advantageous to both sides.

Also in the Iraqi capital, at least four people were killed today when a bomb exploded on a minibus.

American and Iraqi officials had hoped that this represented an irreparable rift between homegrown insurgents and foreign jihadis.

But American combat troops would leave Iraqi cities within the next six months. Mr. Gates was speaking at a US air base north of Baghdad.

And for the past week more than 1, 000 American and Iraqi soldiers, backed by helicopters and jets, have been battling it out there.

Appearing with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the general said Iranian assistance to Iraqi insurgents is "decidedly unhelpful. "

At least four people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Many others were wounded in the blast.

The U. S. television network ABC says two Iraqi journalists from its Baghdad bureau have been ambushed and killed.

There have been no reports of any coalition breaks through the Iraqi defenses in this area.

"I'm pleased to inform you, your majesty, that the Iraqi Council of Representatives passed a de-Baathification law today, " he said.

It was not until March 2009 that the Iraqi government announced it would not extend Blackwater an operating licence.

At a White House meeting Thursday, President Bush assured Iraq's President that the US is fully committed to helping the Iraqi government.

In London, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, says Britain still plays a vital role in supporting the Iraqi troops.

Earlier , at least seven civilians were killed during a security operation by US and Iraqi army forces near Falluja, west of Baghdad .

A week later Genel agreed an all-share merger with Heritage Oil, another operator in Iraqi Kurdistan, in a deal worth more than $5bn.

U. S. and Iraqi officials said the Mosul and Baghdad bombings bore the hallmarks of Sunni Islamist al Qaeda.

By then, post Saddam Hussein modernization and investment started to pay off and Iraqi oil production began to climb.

"Saddam Hussein's execution comes at the end of a difficult year for the Iraqi people and for our troops, " Mr.

Baghdad's envoy said the Iraqi National Museum lost some 15000 items due to looting after Saddam's regime collapsed.

Shortly, in the last five years, Iraqi people get suffering more than the 24 years of those during Saddam's regime.

Certain individual with ties to Iraqi intelligence services have been ordered out of this country.

Second, after such a public request, the US and Iraqi governments would jointly consult on a date for ending the occupation.

Secretary of State Colin Powell says the situation is difficult in several Iraqi cities in an area known as the Sunni triangle.

He acknowledges that Iran is stirring the Iraqi pot but has no time for the shriller forms of Iran-bashing.

On top of that and the extra Saudi and Iraqi crude, ship-loads of Iranian oil have been floating at sea for weeks awaiting buyers.

The rocket skimmed the back of the vehicle and exploded into the wall of a nearby Iraqi army compound.

military source told a state-run TV station that during the British-US bombing operation, one Iraqi was killed and 22 others injured.

"The Iraqi police exists to protect all Iraqis, whatever their sexual persuasion, " he said.

And because we're in a war, you know, it takes time to reflect on the past and the present for the death that's going on in the Iraqi war.

Iraqi officials say at least 58 people have been killed in a series of bombings -- most them targeting Shi'ites in the capital Baghdad.

But Iraqi government lawyers are preparing twelve other cases that could be brought against him in the future.

The United Nations passed many resolutions to call for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait.

US and Iraqi troops arrest dozens of suspected insurgents in Baghdad while American forces all over the Iraq celebrate the Fourth of July.

The large-scale reconstruction-focussed assistance started winding down several years ago as Iraqi revenues and capabilities began to grow.

At least two other major explosions targeted mostly Shiite areas of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

But the Iraqis refused to agree to that, opening up the prospect of Americans being tried in Iraqi courts and subjected to Iraqi punishment.

Leftover weapons serve as the raw material for the improvised bombs used to target Iraqi civilians and coalition military forces.

If an Iraqi did the same to an American female soldier, he would be regarded as a terrorist and would be sentenced to death.

The Vice President of the United States Joe Biden has urged Iraqi leaders to do more to encourage political reconciliation in their country.

A senior Iraqi Christian is to call on believers to quit the country, after gunmen targeted a church in Baghdad.

On an Internet Web site, an Iraqi insurgent group linked to al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the killings. Thousands of U.

Since the handover of sovereignty to Iraqis, many of the facilities in the Green Zone have been turned over to the new Iraqi government.

A year later, coalition and Iraqi forces have killed or captured hundreds of militia fighters.

As coalition forces advance, civilian Iraqi leaders will emerge who can be part of such an Interim Authority.

He says some Iraqi s leaders even want brought broad security guarantees that the United States is not willing to provide.

My memoirs turned into a collection of recipes that were eventually published as The Iraqi Cookbook.

The media pretty much only shows us all the terrible things, the bombings and the death toll but not the everyday life of the Iraqi people.

He reminded the United States and Britain that they were responsible for the basic needs of the Iraqi people.

The latest intelligence report predicts the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki will become very unsteady over the next year.

Many, including Royal Dutch Shell, promised production in the fields that in some cases was more than double the Iraqi government's targets.

We relied in the Middle East on the Baghdad Pact, and yet when the Iraqi government was changed, the Baghdad Pact broke down.

His job was to provide "overwatch, " preventing enemy fighters from ambushing Marines as they moved through Iraqi towns.

Iraqi Kurdish leaders, including President Jalal Talabani, whose people across the border have won autonomy, have been giving advice.

She was invited to join the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra as an accompanist but now appears with them as a soloist.

Iraqi authorities say a bomb blast at a police station south of Baghdad has killed a commander of a special police unit and his aide.

One demonstrator complained that the Iraqi government was "not doing enough to protect its citizens. "

Then they realised they were the heads of Iraqi Tank commanders sticking out of the turrets of cold tanks.

He warned that the U. S. military to extend the residence time of the Iraqi people could lead to armed resistance.

US officials say Iraqi forces should be able to take full control of security in their country in the next 12 to 18 months.

There was no immediate comment from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry.

"WE risked our lives for them, " says an Iraqi man in Baghdad who until recently was employed by an American government agency.

America lost one of its most effective and colorful Iraqi allies in a roadside bomb blast Sunday.

Some Iraqi leaders are anxious for the US to leave, but officials say the agreement would allow for some soldiers to stay until 2013.

He said Iraqi troops have increased their capacity to handle the nation's security needs.

For his part, Maliki called for speeding up transfer of security responsibilities from the U. S. -led coalition to Iraqi forces.

He says some Iraqi leaders even want broad security guarantees that the United States is not willing to provide.

Never mind that Iraqi mobile services are lousy and businessmen have to use different phones for different parts of the country.

Hundreds of Iraqi items looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq.

He also plans to sue the British government over its failure to stop the abuse and torture of detainees by Iraqi forces.

The Iraqi justices said the Sunni lawmaker, Mithal al-Alusi, had committed no crime and told the Parliament to back off.

Explosions were also heard near the "Green Zone, " the heavy security area that houses the Iraqi government and the U. S. Embassy.

The cruel struggle between Iraqi insurgents and U. S. troops is just like a time consuming cat and mouse.

In Syria he recognises an amorphous Muslim sense of "grievance" , but not the millions of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees.

There were other shocks. Petraeus had spent most of 2005 in Baghdad trying to train Iraqi Army units.

The U. S. Marine Corps has charged seven Marines and one sailor with murder and kidnapping in the April death of an Iraqi civilian.

An Iraqi insurgent group linked to al-Qaeda says it has killed four Russian diplomats kidnapped three weeks ago in an ambush in Baghdad.

Much of the Iraqi insurgency is based in the center and west of the country known as the Sunni triangle.

Over the years, U. N. weapon inspectors have been threatened by Iraqi officials, electronically bugged, and systematically deceived.

Over the years, U. N. weapons inspectors have been threatened by Iraqi officials, electronically bugged and systematically deceived.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Friday initial efforts to reach agreement with the United States on the future of the U.

They formed a new slate, the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), that will oppose his Dawa party in national elections due to be held in January.

Police say a man working for Iraqi security forces, responsible for interrogating suspects of terrorist attacks, was the target.

S. forces provided air support to Iraqi forces, did not send ground troops in action.

The US military ended its major combat role in August, though 50, 000 soldiers remain in the country ready to support the Iraqi army.

China stands for a peaceful settlement of the Iraqi issue within the UN framework through political means.

An Iraqi doctor has appeared in a London courtroom on charges that he and another man crashed a car into a terminal at Glasgow Airport.

But officials say if the Iraqi armed forces are strengthened and security improves in Basra, British troops will be able to return home.

Our best hope for visiting these places may be to embed with Iraqi security forces. But are we brave enough for that?

S. troops in Iraq is now less than 5 million people, mainly the implementation of training and support Iraqi security forces mission.

The site was returned to Iraqi control more than a year ago.

The visit coincides with the ongoing trial of Saddam Hussein by an Iraqi tribunal for human-rights abuses.

Mr. Bush says the Iraqi offensive is a direct result of security gains made be a surge of U. S. troops.

He strikes up a friendship with an Iraqi boy, and he's conflicted about the estranged wife and young son he's left behind.

Iraqi authorities suspect the fatalities are the result of sectarian violence.

Residents of Basra say crime and terrorism have flourished since the Britain handed control back to Iraqi forces in December.

A former senior director in the Iraqi intelligence service says the Americans are right to be anxious .

It's a state in which Iraqi nationalism is very strong, and the neighbors ought to be reinforcing that.

The Iraqi judiciary had sentenced him to death four times, the last time earlier this month.

The Pentagon's ill-advised campaign to plant positive stories in the Iraqi media is disgusting no matter how you look at it.

Remarkably, the Iraqi dinar has held steady against the U. S. dollar, even gaining a little.

Secretary Gates spent his final hours in Iraqi Kurdistan, meeting with the President of the semi-autonomous region, Massoud Barzani.

During the Gulf War, there were quite a few communication satellites in the Iraqi sky.

Mr. Levin said disbanding the Iraqi army after the invasion was a mistake, and there was a lack of long-term planning.

Shortly after taking office, I announced our new strategy for Iraq and for a transition to full Iraqi responsibility.

He knew torture was a crime under US, Iraqi and international law, so he went to his military supervisor and explained what was going on.

In his weekly radio address, the president said U. S. forces are staying on the offensive, while transferring more control to Iraqi units.

On the day of that most Iraqi's celebrated Baghdad Treasure's cousin was collecting her dead son from the morgue.

Few have witnessed events so close up, and with so intimate a knowledge of the gap between (Iraqi) reality and (American) expectation.

Whatever Mr. Maliki's limitations, we may be seeing the emergence of a leader who puts Iraqi concerns above America's blessing.

In response to the unrest, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki cut his own pay and increased funding for food programs for the needy.

A US helicopter gunship involved in a notorious Baghdad incident had previously killed Iraqi insurgents after they tried to surrender.

's street residents, says the branding of Mr. Jermyn is 'like designing a line of clothing patterned after Iraqi refugees fleeing the war.

You had given them a mandate to assist the suffering Iraqi people, and to help Iraq recover its national sovereignty.

Bush also used images of the Iraqi team in his advertisements, stoking the anger of many players were against U. S occupation.

The tension escalated until the former Iraqi leader was ejected from the courtroom for a second straight day.

Ibn_Alrafidain keeps his record of 20 years of Iraqi wars as a collection of all the shrapnel that has landed on his house.

The Iraqi army seems to be better clothed than we are.

Once they have done so, Lynch said, they then may be eligible to join Iraqi security forces following "an appropriate vetting process. "

Many Iraqi Kurds do not believe Turkey's claim that it is motivated only by the raids of PKK fighters.

He said that at times Iraqi Christians are subject to violence and injustice.

The course for a gradual British withdrawal, as security in southern Iraq is handed over to Iraqi soldiers and police, is already set.

Iraqi soldiers search for what they thought was a downed American pilot along the banks of the Tigris River.

Unlike Deny Flight, the Iraqi operations were never specifically authorized by the U. N. Security Council.

He is sorry he did not think harder before agreeing to disband the Iraqi army.

Verifiable statistics about recidivism are impossible to come by, in part because the growing Iraqi prison system has no central database.

By refusing to comply with his own agreements, he bears full guilt for the hunger and misery of innocent Iraqi citizens.

Baby, I am tied to a tree in the jungle of mystery. I just got tortured by a damn spinal surgeon and a genuine Iraqi. Of course I'm serious.

As the U. S. and Iraqi national anthems played and Iraqi troops looked on, he and the Iraqi president walked along a red carpet.

We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education, that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.

The next step is for AAR is to submit a written business plan to the Iraqi National Investment Commission.

Then the text comes: " President Bush calls for a timetable for the withdrawal of the Iraqi people from Iraq. "

To their surprise, they found the badly mangled dead body of an Iraqi soldier in a ditch along the road.

Unemployed and angry Iraqi youths are reminded that there is an alternative to joining the ranks of the police.

Iraqi officials say at least 12 people have been killed and 18 wounded in the clashes, but the numbers could be higher.

American troops are shifting from leading operations, to partnering with Iraqi forces, and, eventually, to a protective overwatch mission.

Iraqi security officials say Iranian forces have occupied an oil well in southern Iraq in a disputed section of the two countries' border.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, 17, said he will not sign death of former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz command.

He is pressing ahead with plans for the Iraqi election in January and for a huge assault on anti-American insurgents in Iraq.

The United Nations Security Council will resume its conference for the subject of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Iraqi officials accuse Turkey of blocking water from crossing the border with a series of dams built over the last 30 years.

The Iraqi government is barely able to collect taxes and spending is financed almost entirely from oil money.

But most scholars believe that it was bound for the Middle East, possibly the Iraqi port city of Al Basrah (now Basra).

South of Baghdad, too two Iraqi businessmen built a gasoline station in the town of Tunis . It's the only station for many kilometers.

Throughout the night the US field commanders have reported at least 100 killed and 30 captured Iraqi soldiers and militia members.

He said Iraqi officials were firm in arguing to include such dates.

People stand outside a bakery in one of the popular neighborhoods of Damascus. Many Iraqi refugees have settled there.

Blair and Bush both insist that troops must stay in Iraq until Iraqi security forces are able to stand up on their own.

Do not obey any command to use weapons of mass destruction against anyone, including the Iraqi people.

At a press conference in Baghdad a disgruntled Iraqi journalist threw his shoes (size ten) at the American president, an Arab insult.

Iraqi officials in Basra say that over the past six months the Americans had already taken a lead in securing the city.

WITH the count almost complete, it is impossible to say who will head the next Iraqi government.

McCain said he agreed that Iraqi political leaders must do more to take responsibility for their own security.

After four years as an Army wife during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, I haven't found that it gets easier.

Ayatollah Hakim was the leader of the main Iraqi Shi'ite group opposed to Saddam Hussein.

Maybe I'll dive back into the Iraqi blogosphere to see what people are saying.