Iraq NewsNews on Iraq continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.N. Ireland to Iraq - learn from us- July 6, 2008 LEARN FROM US: Attending a conference on national reconciliation in Baghdad Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has urged Iraqis to learn from N. Ireland's painful peace process.http://www.topix.net/world/iraq/2008/07/n-ireland-to-iraq-learn-from-us?fromrss=1 PJs for GIs OWASSO, Okla. (AP) -- Julie Derm ...- July 5, 2008 Julie Dermody doesn't want troops who suffer an injury in combat to have an added insult in the form of a flimsy hospital gown.http://www.topix.net/world/iraq/2008/07/pjs-for-gis-owasso-okla-ap-julie-derm?fromrss=1 Kathleen Parker: Bush just knows he's right- July 5, 2008 What's on the president's mind these days We do still have a president, though it's sometimes hard to remember in our impatience to replace him.http://www.topix.net/world/iraq/2008/07/kathleen-parker-bush-just-knows-hes-right?fromrss=... U.S. spy satellites watching Iraqi troops- July 5, 2008 Caught off guard by recent Iraqi military operations, the United States is using spy satellites that ordinarily are trained on adversaries to monitor the movements of the U.S.-backed Iraqi army, according to ...http://www.topix.net/world/iraq/2008/07/u-s-spy-satellites-watching-iraqi-troops?fromrss=1 Iraq bans pictures of non-candidates in vote- July 5, 2008 The Iraqi government has banned candidates in upcoming provincial elections from using pictures in their campaign materials of people not running for office, the government's spokesman said Thursday.http://www.topix.net/world/iraq/2008/07/iraq-bans-pictures-of-non-candidates-in-vote?fromr... Obama in Iraq controversy- July 5, 2008 Fri Jul 4, 2008 7:40 AM EDT -A U.S. officer walks in front of a column of armoured vehicles from Bravo Company , 1-502 Infantry Battalion during a patrol on the edge of the Shi'ite-dominated Baghdad ...http://www.topix.net/world/iraq/2008/07/obama-in-iraq-controversy?fromrss=1 Gunmen assassinate Shiite official in Iraq- July 5, 2008 Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party Friday in the southern city of Basra, police said.Sheik Salim al-Dirraji was gunned down in the Hayania district, which had been a stronghold of the Mahdi Army of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr until a security crackdown last spring.Al-Dirraji was a local official of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, the leading rival of al-Sadr's party within the Shiite community.http://www.topix.net/world/iraq/2008/07/gunmen-assassinate-shiite-official-in-iraq?fromrss... U.S. Soldiers in Iraq Mark Fourth of July- July 4, 2008 It's Staff Sgt. Edgar Covarrubias' second Fourth of July in Iraq. No family barbecue, no fireworks, but Covarrubias says he'll call his mom, wife and kids to share the day anyway.http://www.topix.net/world/iraq/2008/07/u-s-soldiers-in-iraq-mark-fourth-of-july?fromrss=1 Syria returns stolen marble artifact to Iraq- July 4, 2008 Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country's archaeological sites.The marble block roughly 4 feet tall and 1 12 feet wide contains an engraving of a bearded man kneeling in prayer and several lines of cuneiform writing.Iraq's minister of tourism and archaeology, Mohammed Abbas al-Auraibi, told a news conference Thursday that the piece was stolen from an archaeological site in Nimrud near the northern city of Mosul.Nimrud, some 15 miles south of Mosul,...http://www.topix.net/world/iraq/2008/07/syria-returns-stolen-marble-artifact-to-iraq?fromr... Britain bans Hezbollah's military wing- July 4, 2008 In this July 2007 photo, a poster showing radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, right, and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is held up during a protest march in the Amil neighbourhood in Baghdad.http://www.topix.net/world/iraq/2008/07/britain-bans-hezbollahs-military-wing?fromrss=1 |