]> http://www.wombles.org.uk <p class="description">Updated daily: Filtered articles from external newswires, keywords include: Iraq, Baghdad, Basra, Baquba, Fallujah, Sadr, Badr, SIIC, SCIRI, Mehdi...</p> en-US http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.131167237 Eight people have been killed and 11 others were injured in a twin bomb attack in central Iraq less than two weeks after a national election was aimed to stablise the country's security. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62F1VD.htm A soldier was killed by a gunman at a checkpoint in western Mosul, police said. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13383 Pfc. Erin L. McLyman, 26, of Federal Way, Wash., died March 13 in Balad, Iraq, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked her base with mortar fire. She was assigned to the 296th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Joint Base Lews-McChord, Wash. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html?ref=world Partial election results released Monday suggested a sharp and divisive shift in power in Iraq, with a secular candidate challenging Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and old alliances fracturing against a surge of dissident movements. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/world/middleeast/17sadr.html?hp The followers of Moktada al-Sadr, a radical cleric who led the Shiite insurgency against the American occupation, have emerged as Iraq’s equivalent of Lazarus in elections last week, defying ritual predictions of their demise and now threatening to realign the nation’s balance of power. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2686614 Iraqi Prime-Minister Nouri al-Maliki tightened his grip on the key Baghdad province, updated election results showed yesterday, making it increasingly likely his State of Law bloc will form parliament's single largest grouping, said Agence France-Presse. Iraq's proportional representation system makes it unlikely that any single group will clinch the 163 seats needed to form a government on its own, and protracted coalition building is likely. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Gulf%2C+Middle+East+%26+Africa&month=March2010&file=World_News201003168830.xml Iraq’s Shia Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki may get first go at forming a government, early election results show, but Sunnis will fume if he cuts out his secular rival Iyad Allawi, the man most of them voted for. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447639.html More than fifty men from northern Iraq have been given deportation tickets telling them they will be removed to Erbil in the Kurdistan Regional Government controlled area in northern Iraq. The 50 are currently being held in immigration prisons in Heathrow, Gatwick and Doncaster. They told the detainees that they will be removed at 6pm tomorrow morning (17 March). The tickets state that they will be: ‘removed no sooner than 7 days and no later than 22 days from the date of this notice’. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:24:00 +0000 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447627.html When the Bush administration went to war with Iraq in March 2003, the centerpiece of its justification for war was weapons of mass destruction. But its precise timing was driven, in large part, by the March 16 anniversary of the poison gas attack on the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja. On the fifth and twentieth anniversaries of these two tragic events, a study of the connection between them reveals a deliberate pattern of twisting and fabricating intelligence to meet policy objectives. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:24:00 +0000 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447626.html When the Bush administration went to war with Iraq in March 2003, the centerpiece of its justification for war was weapons of mass destruction. But its precise timing was driven, in large part, by the March 16 anniversary of the poison gas attack on the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja. On the fifth and twentieth anniversaries of these two tragic events, a study of the connection between them reveals a deliberate pattern of twisting and fabricating intelligence to meet policy objectives. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:14:00 +0000 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/96069 One regeime changed for a possible coalition of Iranian and Iraqi Shia communities Both Shia communities In Iran and Iraq can see that ‘’ the enemy of my enemy is also my friend ‘’ and in this regard they will find common ground in their distrust of the West and Israel with possibly dreadful consequences . So while it suited the US to have Iran and Iraq locked in a decade of war , the tables are perversely reversed now . Mission Accomplished ? The world is in a more parlous state after G.W Bush's military folly Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:25:52 +0000 http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1541034.php/60-per-cent-of-total-Iraq-vote-expected-to-be-announced-Monday The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) aims to announce 60 per cent of total results from the March 7 parliamentary election on Monday, although investigations into accusations of voting malpractice are still ongoing, spokesperson Qassem al-Aboudi said. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124684699&ft=1&f=3 Nearly 20 percent of the votes are counted from last week's parliamentary elections in Iraq. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki holds a strong lead from declared results in Baghdad. But there are no results yet from the next two biggest cities: Mosul and Basra. Overall, the situation is too close to call. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Car-Bomb-Kills-7-People-in-Western-Iraqs-Fallujah-87640387.html Iraqi police say a car bomb has exploded on a busy street in the western city of Fallujah, killing at least seven people and wounding a dozen others. Police say the bomb went off early Monday as a group of day laborers was gathering for work nearby Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/14/AR2010031402122.html Buoyed by preliminary results from last week's parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is courting allies in hopes of forming a new governing coalition that will allow him to keep his job. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_soldier_killed.html An Air Force specialist from Federal Way has been killed in Iraq. The News-Tribune newspaper is reporting the body of Spc. Erin L. McLyman was returned to the United States aboard an American military aircraft early Monday morning. The identification of McLyman has been released by the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The Pentagon has yet to release more details about McLyman or how she died. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447559.html On the 19th March 2003 the first of thousands of people were killed as the U.S and U.K's 'coalition of the willing' launched its skock-and-awe campaign against the people of Iraq. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:01:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/world/middleeast/15iraq.html?hpw At a vote-counting center in eastern Baghdad, a dozen men representing various political parties sat on a stage in a school gymnasium on Sunday, monitoring the counting of ballots. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35858776/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times Investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases in six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions — involving banks, land deals, loan payments, casinos and even plastic surgery — made by some of the Americans involved in the nearly $150 billion program. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000