Contributor ReportsIraq offers incentive to intermarry
Source: USA Today
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Mon Nov 23 12:35:33 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi has an unusual proposal to mend some of Iraq 's sectarian wounds: He offers mixed couples a $2,000 "gift" if they get married...As sectarian fighting ripped apart the country, intermarriage became a rarity. Now that...
Iraq says October 25 Bombers Came from Syria: Spokesman
Source: Al Sharq Al Awsat
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Mon Nov 23 14:02:41 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Iraq on Sunday for the first time said that the bombers who killed more than 150 people in Baghdad on October 25 came from neighbouring Syria, but steered well clear of accusing Damascus of collusion. "The group came from Syria...
Britain to probe alleged Iraq troop abuse
Source: United Press International
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Mon Nov 23 13:04:27 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Britain's Ministry of Defense says it is launching an independent inquiry into allegations that soldiers tortured and killed Iraqi prisoners. The inquiry, it said, comes as a result of criticism by the High Court over an earlier investigation by the...
Five militant suspects arrested in Iraq
Source: United Press International
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Sat Nov 21 10:21:53 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Iraqi security forces arrested five suspected members of the al-Qaida in Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq terrorist groups Saturday, military officials said. The arrests came during three combined security operations in which U.S. military advisers assisted Iraqi forces...
Iraq Sentences Sunni Leader to Death
Source: The New York Times
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Thu Nov 19 19:38:51 -0800 2009 | travel-news
A leader of the Sunni Awakening Council was sentenced to death on Thursday for the murder of a young girl, setting off charges that the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government was targeting the Sunni movement, which is credited for much of the...
IRAQ: Stormy Times as U.S. Withdraws
Source: Inter Press Service
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Thu Nov 19 21:21:28 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Political violence in Iraq killed 456 Iraqis in August, the highest monthly death toll since July 2008. And with the U.S. showing no sign it plans to reverse the troop withdrawal that is now well underway, numerous struggles for power...
NZ Ex-Hostage Returns to Iraq
Source: Scoop
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Wed Nov 18 15:26:55 -0800 2009 | travel-news
This is his first time returning to Iraq since he was freed from captivity four years ago. While participating in a CPT delegation, he and three others were kidnapped in Baghdad on 26 November 2005 by the Swords of Righteousness...
Governor breakfasts with Fairfield brigade
Source: The Reporter
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Thu Nov 19 00:14:47 -0800 2009 | travel-news
During the deployment, the 49th will build on the training it provided the Iraqi police during a previous deployment in 2005 to 2006. "All of you are doing a tough job...America is a great nation because men and women like...
Iraq VP vetoes election law
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Wed Nov 18 22:27:05 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Iraq's parliament wrangled for weeks over crucial laws that must be in place for the election to proceed on time. But now the country's vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi, has vetoed part of the law that decides how many refugees who have...
Afghan Lessons From the Iraq War
Source: Truthout
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Wed Nov 18 07:55:33 -0800 2009 | travel-news
You don’t have to go back 40 years to the Vietnam War to feel the sting of déjà vu. Returning to the Iraq War just three years ago will suffice. Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates summed up the administration’s...
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