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| FBI notes: Saddam Hussein sought familiar refuge
(AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:44:04 GMT  AP - After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw "the city was about to fall." Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime minister. | ||
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_saddam_fbi_interviews | ||
| US vice president in Iraq
(AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:21:48 GMT  AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Thursday to visit U.S. soldiers, just two days after all American combat troops withdrew from Baghdad and all of Iraq's cities and towns. | ||
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq | ||
| Mich. soldier in Iraq sworn in as lawyer by video
(AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:56:43 GMT AP - Army Reserve Maj. Miles Gengler didn't hesitate as he repeated the oath during his swearing-in as an attorney. His words just had to travel more than 6,000 miles from Baghdad's Green Zone to Michigan to be heard. | ||
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_iraq_soldier_new_lawyer | ||
| U.S. declares Iraq-based group foreign terrorist organization
(Reuters)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:25:37 GMT Reuters - The U.S. government on Thursday said it has declared Kata'ib Hizballah a foreign terrorist organization, saying the group is linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah and has posed a threat to stability in Iraq. | ||
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/wl_nm/us_usa_treasury_iraq | ||
| US infantry learns to adapt after Iraq pullback
(AFP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:24:45 GMT  AFP - It is business as usual for Camp Warhorse after the US military pullout from Iraqi towns and cities -- troops must follow orders and adapt to non-combat tasks in one of Iraq's most dangerous regions. | ||
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusmilitarypulloutmission | ||
| VP Biden visits Iraq as takes new role in US exit
(AFP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:01:18 GMT  AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from conflict-hit Iraq's towns and cities. | ||
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/wl_afp/iraqusdiplomacy | ||
| Vice President Biden visits Baghdad
(Reuters)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:51:22 GMT  Reuters - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden made a previously unannounced visit to Baghdad on Thursday to meet Iraqi leaders and U.S. military commanders just days after American troops withdrew from Iraqi towns and city centers. | ||
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/ts_nm/us_iraq_biden | ||
| Iraqi top Shiite clerics are silent on Iran
(AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:05:55 GMT  AP - There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf, where the silence during Iran's post-election crisis says much about the deep complexities of their cross-border bonds. | ||
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_iran_what_najaf_thinks | ||
| US puts sanctions on Iraq Shiite group, Iran adviser
(AFP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:20:20 GMT  AFP - The United States imposed financial sanctions Thursday on an adviser to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a Iraq-based Shiite group Kata'ib Hezbollah, branded a foreign terrorist outfit. | ||
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/pl_afp/usattacksiraqsanctions | ||
