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Iraqi parliament to vote on US pact Wednesday
BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament speaker has ended the debate on the proposed Iraq-U.S. security agreement and set Wednesday for a vote on the deal that will allow U.S. troops to stay in Iraq for three more years.
Nations:Iraq Saudi Arabia People:Jalal Talabani Barack Obama Activities:Second Gulf War Source:(AP)
2008-11-22
Bush effigy burned in anti-US protest in Baghdad
BAGHDAD - Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein with their sandals five years earlier.
Nations:Iraq People:George W. Bush Activities:Second Gulf War Source:(AP)
2008-11-21
Thousands of Sadrists protest Iraq-US military pact
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Thousands of Shiite followers of the firebrand anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad on Friday to protest a security accord that would allow US troops to remain in Iraq until 2011.
Nations:Iraq People:George W. Bush Activities:Second Gulf War Source:(AFP)
2008-11-21
Baghdad embassy contractor gives U.S. trouble again
WASHINGTON -- A year after problems emerged in the construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad , another State Department post being built largely by the same Kuwaiti-based company is engulfed by delays, recriminations, and an Inspector General's probe, according to U.S. officials.
Nations:Iraq Kuwait Saudi Arabia Activities:Second Gulf War Source:(McClatchy)
2008-11-18
Obama vows to exit Iraq and rebuild US 'moral stature'
WASHINGTON, (AFP) - President-elect Barack Obama vowed to pull troops out of Iraq, crush Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp as part of a dramatic foreign policy break with George W. Bush.
Nations:Afghanistan People:Barack Obama George W. Bush Hillary Clinton Activities:Obama Admin. Second Gulf War
2008-11-16
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