Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Numerous sources are reporting today that we've finally made the necessary concessions on the timeline for the SOFA...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
All kinds of horrors flop on to my Beirut doormat. There's The Independent's mobile phone bill, a slew of blood-soaked local Lebanese newspapers – "Saleh Aridi's blood consolidates [Druze] reconciliation", was among the goriest of the past few days – and then there are files from the dark memory lane through which all Middle East history has to pass.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
BAGHDAD, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. government has agreed to withdraw U.S. troops by December 2011, among other security concessions, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says. The Iraqi official said Friday that during ongoing negotiations with the United States, U.S. officials have agreed to major security concessions, the Kuwait News Agency KUNA reported. Among those concessions is an agreement...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. government has agreed to withdraw U.S. troops by December 2011, among other security concessions, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says.The Iraqi official said Friday that during ongoing negotiations with the United States, U.S. officials have agreed to major security concessions, the Kuwait News Agency KUNA reported.Among those concessions is an agreement that U.S. military forces will...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric indicated Friday he would not stand in the way of a long-term U.S. security deal if it's approved by the country's democratic institutions, the prime minister said.
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iraqi PM discusses US pact with Shiite cleric (AP, 10/10/2008) Following a 2 1/2 hour meeting in Najaf, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said al-Sistani believed the security agreement was the responsibility of "the Iraqis and the political groups" and that he would raise no objections to a deal "as long as it comes through official and state institutions." "He does not want anything forced or imposed...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
From a Friday, October 10, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog
USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iraq's prime minister met with the country's most influential Shiite cleric on Friday and later indicated the religious leader ...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thousands of supporters of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr marched through eastern Baghdad today to mourn the killing of a Sadrist lawmaker and hear a statement from the anti-U.S. cleric blaming occupation and terrorism for the loss.
American Spectator (Free subscription) | yesterday
He still wants out in 16 months.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saleh al-Auqaeili was considered a moderate within Muqtada al-Sadr's political movement
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
A deadly outbreak of cholera in Iraq is being blamed on a scandal involving corrupt officials who failed to sterilise the local drinking water because they were bribed to buy chlorine from Iran that was long past its expiration date.
One Utah (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two months ago, it looked like the Iraqis had succeeded in forcing the Bush administration to go along with a troop withdrawal timetable similar to that proposed by Senator Barack Obama. That was then, apparently. The latest reports of secret talks to replace the U.N. mandate authorizing the occupation of Iraq with a treaty indicate [...]
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. and Iraqi officials are seeing a shift in violence in Iraq from mass car bombings to assassinations using magnetic bombs, weapons with silencers and bicycle bombs.
CNN (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
A roadside bomb explosion in the Iraqi capital kills a senior member of the Sadr Movement's influential parliamentary bloc.
