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2008-11-20 20:16

Iraqis doubt security agreement will end U.S. presence (McClatchy Newspapers)

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD

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2008-11-20 20:16

Lawmaker accuses Bush of secrecy over Iraq deal (Reuters)

Reuters - The U.S. government is refusing to make public the security pact it has signed with Iraq, even though it has already been published in full in an Iraqi newspaper, a congressional hearing was told on Wednesday.

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2008-11-20 20:16

Gates, Rice defend US-Iraq security agreement (AP)

A man weeps for his father, one of 150 victims of Saddam's crackdown on Kurds, whose remains were returned to Irbil, a city in the Kurdish controlled north 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. A ceremony was held on Thursday after the bodies were found near the town of Haidarya, north of the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds were killed or expelled from northern Iraq during the so-called Anfal campaign in the late 1980s. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)AP - The security agreement between U.S. and Iraq provides both the time and authority needed for American troops to train Iraqi forces and pursue terrorists, senior Bush administration officials said Wednesday.


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2008-11-20 14:12

Iraqi forces can control restive north: US general (AFP)

US General Tony Thomas, commander of the Multi-National Forces North, speaks during an interview with AFP at his headquarters in the northern city of Mosul, 370 kms from Baghdad, on November 18, 2008. Iraqi forces are ready to take security control of the north of the war-torn country, one of the last bastions of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Thomas told AFP.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraqi forces are ready to take security control of the north of the war-torn country, one of the last bastions of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military General Tony Thomas told AFP.


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2008-11-20 14:12

Hardline Iraqi MPs shout down US pact in parliament (AFP)

Members of the Shiite Muslim al-Fadel Block announce their abstention from a vote on the US-Iraqi accord prior to a parliamentary debate in Baghdad.(AFP/Salam Faraj)AFP - Lawmakers loyal to firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr shouted down the Iraqi parliament's second reading on Wednesday of a military pact allowing US troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011.


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2008-11-20 14:12

White House confident Iraq accord will pass (AFP)

In this handout from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry (IFM) on November 17, 2008, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, (3rd L), and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, (4th R), sign a security pact in Baghdad. The United States on Wednesday expressed confidence that Iraqi lawmakers will approve a controversial military pact that allows US troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011.(AFP/HO IFM/File/Ho)AFP - The United States on Wednesday expressed confidence that Iraqi lawmakers will approve a controversial military pact that allows US troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011.


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2008-11-20 08:10

Pact would force U.S. troops to leave Iraq by '12 (McClatchy Newspapers)

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD

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2008-11-20 08:10

US arrests suspected Iranian agent in Iraq (AP)

A US soldier on patrol stands in front of the Syriac Orthodox archbishopric in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, some 370 kms north of the capital Baghdad, on November 16, 2008. Senior US and Iraqi officials differed on Tehran's role in stalling a military accord that will allow US troops to remain in Iraq until 2011, as Iran on Tuesday sent mixed signals on the deal.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AP - The U.S. military says it has arrested an alleged senior member of the Iranian security forces suspected of funneling weapons into Iraq.


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2008-11-20 08:10

Iraq discovers remains of 150 Kurds in south Iraq (Reuters)

Iraqi policemen pray near the coffin with remains found in a mass grave in Najaf, south of Baghdad, November 19, 2008. (Ali Abu Shish/Reuters)Reuters - Iraqi officials flew the remains of 150 Kurds found in a mass grave home to Kurdistan on Wednesday, after a moving ceremony that paid tribute to victims of repression under ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.


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2008-11-20 02:12

US, Iraq differ on Iranian meddling in military pact (AFP)

A US army patrol stops to talk to members of an Iraqi Christian family on November 16, 2008 outside their home in the northern restive city of Mosul. Senior US and Iraqi officials differed on Tehran's role in stalling a military accord that will allow US troops to remain in Iraq until 2011, as Iran on Tuesday sent mixed signals on the deal.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Senior US and Iraqi officials differed on Tehran's role in stalling a military accord that will allow US troops to remain in Iraq until 2011, as Iran on Tuesday sent mixed signals on the deal.


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2008-11-20 02:12

Maliki defends troop pact; Sadr demands its rejection (McClatchy Newspapers)

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD

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2008-11-20 02:12

Iranian commando arrested at Baghdad airport: US (AFP)

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards march during a military parade in Tehran in September 2008. Iraqi security forces have arrested an alleged AFP - Iraqi security forces have arrested an alleged "senior" Iranian commando from the elite Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force at Baghdad International Airport, the US military said Wednesday.


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