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[in Iraqi Comments]

Marine to stand trial over detainee killing in Iraq (AFP)

AFP - A US Marine is to face a military trial for murder over charges stemming from the shooting death of an unarmed Iraqi prisoner during fighting in Fallujah in 2004, the military said Friday.

[in Yahoo! News: Iraq]

POLITICS-US: How Tenet Betrayed the CIA on WMD in Iraq

WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (IPS) - Journalist Ron Suskind’s revelation that Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief was a prewar intelligence source reporting to the British that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) adds yet another dimension to the systematic effort by then Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet to quash any evidence -- no matter how credible -- that conflicted with the George W. Bush administration’s propaganda line that Saddam was actively pursuing a nuclear weapons programme.
[in IPS Inter Press Service - Iraq and Beyond]

IRAQ: Students Fail, Like So Much Else

BAGHDAD, Aug 8 (IPS) - Living from one crisis to another, without electricity or freedom to move under a collapse of security, massive numbers of Iraqi students are failing their exams.
[in IPS Inter Press Service - Iraq and Beyond]

Georgia calls back troops from Iraq amid fighting (AP)

AP - Georgia's president says the country is calling home its troops from Iraq amid heavy fighting in the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
[in Yahoo! News: Iraq]

Car bomb in N. Iraq kills 18, wounds 25: police (Reuters)

Reuters - A car bomb in a vegetable market in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar killed 18 people and wounded 25 on Friday, police said.

[in Yahoo! News: Iraq]

Marine ordered to stand trial in Fallujah killings (AP)

AP - A Camp Pendleton Marine sergeant has been ordered to stand trial on charges of unpremeditated murder and dereliction of duty in the killing of an unarmed detainee in Fallujah, Iraq.
[in Yahoo! News: Iraq]

Sadr Plans to Focus Mahdi Army on Religious, Social Mission

BAGHDAD, July 8 -- Anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday announced new details of plans to transform his Mahdi Army militia into a religious and social organization, a step that U.S. officials hope will further tamp down violence in Iraq.

[in Washington Post: Iraq]

Iraqi Officials: Deal is Close on US Pullout Timeline

US combat troops would leave Iraq by October 2010
[in VOA News: Iraq]

In Iraq, fault lines run deep over Kirkuk's future (Reuters)

Reuters - The failure of Iraqi politicians to resolve competing ethnic claims for the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk is storing up explosive problems for the country's future.

[in Yahoo! News: Iraq]