Iraqi

Audit: US cannot account for $8.7B in Iraqi funds (AP)

July 27th, 2010

FILE - In this Jan 24, 2004 file photo, fires flare off the gas from crude oil at Iraq's oldest oil processing plant in the northern Iraqi town of Baba Gurgur, outside Kirkuk, Iraq. A U.S. audit has found that the Defense Department can't properly account for how it spent about 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil money earmarked for rebuilding the war-ravaged country.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - A U.S. audit has found that the Pentagon cannot account for over 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraq reconstruction money, spotlighting Iraqi complaints that there is little…

Audit: US can’t account for $8.7B in Iraqi funds (AP)

July 27th, 2010

The mother of four-year-old Nasser Hasson holds his injured leg at a hospital in Najaf, Iraq. The child was injured when two car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims during a religious festival in the holy city of Karbala killed and injured scores on Monday, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - The U.S. Defense Department is unable to properly account for over 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil money tapped by the U.S. for rebuilding the war…

Twin car bombs kill 25 in Iraqi city of Karbala (AP)

July 26th, 2010

Iraqi army soldiers stand in the ruins of the office of the Al-Arabiya television station after a suicide bomber driving a minibus struck in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 26, 2010. The bomber was apparently waved through the first checkpoint at the Al-Arabiya television station after security guards checked his identification, said Iraqi military spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi. The blast killed and injured several people at the popular Arabic-language satellite news channel early Monday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Two car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims during a religious festival in the holy city of Karbala killed 25 people on Monday, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. Sunni…

Iraqi forces still frail as US troops head home (AP)

July 25th, 2010

AP - When the U.S. ends its combat mission in Iraq five weeks from now, the nation’s safety will be in the hands of its homegrown, American-trained security forces. The…

Iraqi minister says 4 al-Qaida inmates escape jail (AP)

July 22nd, 2010

FILE - In this Thursday, July 15, 2010 file photo, Iraq's Minister of Justice Dara Noureddin, left, and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jerry Cannon, right, hold a symbolic key to the US Theater Internment Facility at Camp Cropper during a ceremony transferring the facility to Iraqi control in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's justice minister says four al-Qaida-linked detainees have escaped from the Baghdad area prison that was handed over by the U.S. to Iraqi authorities a week ago. (AP Photo / Maya Alleruzzo, File)AP - Four al-Qaida-linked detainees have escaped from a Baghdad area prison that was handed over by the U.S. to Iraqi authorities a week ago, Iraq’s justice minister said Thursday…