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NPR - Tue Nov 24, 6:46 am ET
Lt. Col. Mike Brennan retired from the Army more than two decades ago. He settled his family into a quiet North Carolina community where he built a successful ophthalmology practice. But one phone call from a friend encouraged him to go to Iraq. Brennan will go to Afghanistan later this month.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 12:50 pm ET
Iraq's parliament amended the country's vetoed election law on Monday with a version that failed to appease Sunni Arabs, who fear they are being marginalized.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Nov 24, 4:11 am ET
Google is documenting the treasures of Iraq's national museum. Google chief Eric Schmidt says the company took 14,000 photographs of the museum and its artifacts and will put them online early next year.
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KJCT 8 Grand Junction - Wed Nov 25, 7:20 am ET
BAGHDAD (AP) - A double bombing on Wednesday injured 25 civilians in the Iraqi city of Karbala ahead of an Islamic holiday, officials said.
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INO News - Wed Nov 25, 2:26 am ET
(AP:BAGHDAD) An Iraqi official says a bomb has damaged a pipeline exporting crude to Turkey, temporarily cutting deliveries. Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said late Tuesday that an explosion targeting the pipeline forced a halt in deliveries to the Turkish port of Ceyhan late Saturday.
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Art Daily - Tue Nov 24, 1:57 pm ET
Google chief Eric Schmidt, left, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill attend a ceremony at Iraq's national museum, in Baghdad, on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Internet search engine Google is documenting the treasures of Iraq's national museum, home to priceless artifacts from the Stone Age through Islamic periods, and will make the photographs available online early next year, the company's ...
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Washington Post - Tue Nov 24, 12:00 am ET
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi lawmakers on Monday approved an amended law to organize parliamentary elections next year, a ballot seen as crucial to U.S. plans to withdraw combat troops.
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Fast Company Magazine - Tue Nov 24, 8:39 am ET
Google's extending its grip on the digital world in a wholly new and surprising way: It's just brokered a deal with Iraq's authorities to digitize historic artifacts and documents in the country's museums. It's a philanthropic move, don't you know. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has been touring the country, and just made the announcement of Google's archiving plans. The whole idea is to both ...
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 12:20 pm ET
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is holding out the possibility that Iraq's national election could be delayed beyond January because of a dispute over the allocation of seats in parliament.
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UPI - Mon Nov 23, 9:58 pm ET
BAGHDAD, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A dispute between lawmakers and a vice president of Iraq threatens to derail plans to hold a parliamentary election on schedule in January, officials said.
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The Gainesville Sun - Tue Nov 24, 6:15 am ET
The Associated Press Iraq's parliament failed Monday to produce an election law acceptable to minority Sunni Arabs, prompting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to say that nationwide balloting scheduled for January "might slip" to a later date.
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Denver Post - Mon Nov 23, 3:16 am ET
A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions ahead of national elections.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 9:46 am ET
Iraq's parliament has amended an election law that was vetoed by a Sunni Arab vice president, but Sunnis say the changes do not address their concerns.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 24, 12:41 pm ET
Kirkuk, Iraq - Iraqi Arab politicians in the disputed northern city of Kirkuk on Tuesday said they would boycott the country's upcoming parliamentary elections if parliament did not make changes to the electoral law. The Arab Political Council in Kir...
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WALB Albany - Tue Nov 24, 12:11 pm ET
Staff Sergeant Briand T. Williams, 25, of Sparks, GA, died Nov. 22, in Numaniyah, Iraq.