Iraq

Source: www.7days.ae --- 54 minutes ago
Iraq awaited initial results yesterday from polls touted as a test of its young democracy, with Bag-hdad holding the key as the PM’s list and its top secular rival fought for pole position. The election commission had promised to provide initial results by the evening, but it later said it had not yet counted the 30 per cent of the votes it needed to announce preliminary findings. Iraq’s complex range of political blocs would now have to wait until today at the earliest for the first official indication of how they fared in the second general election since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein. PM Nuri al-Maliki emerged as the front-runner on Monday. ...

Source: en.newsxs.com --- 55 minutes ago
Guardian Newspaper : World : Kurdish alliance set to play prominent role in coalition government despite Gorran group breaking awayA strong turnout from Iraq's Kurds in national elections on Sunday has enhanced their status of kingmakers in forming the central government, with ... ...

Source: en.newsxs.com --- 55 minutes ago
USA TODAY: International : The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in a vehicle accident in Iraq. ...

Source: www.wivb.com --- 1 hour ago
Western New York welcomed another of America's bravest back home. ...

Source: www.thedailytimes.com --- 2 hours ago
Tennessee National Guard Military Police units from Lenior City and Bristol will deploy at the end of March in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. ...

Source: news.antiwar.com --- 2 hours ago
British Foreign Secretary: Arabs 'Respected' Attack on Iraq | Warns against future reluctance to start unwise wars ...

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 3 hours ago
ELLENSBURG, Wash--You could feel the excitement when Lieutenant Colonel Don Meseck walked into his homecoming party. ...

Source: en.newsxs.com --- 3 hours ago
Times online: International : The two front-runners in Iraq’s national election both claimed victory yesterday after the authorities postponed announcing the result. ...

Source: tonywalther.wordpress.com --- 3 hours ago
Just read an opinion piece in the New York Times that suggested that George W. Bush’s reputation may already be on the mend — there’s even a billboard that has his smiling continence that says “do you miss me yet?” And a blog I read noted that the ever-confusing Sarah Palin told or implied to a Canadian audience that as a child she recalls going to Canada with here folks to get government health care — that’s the Canada that has socialized medicine, something Palin says will ruin America. Both George W. and Palin have about the same mentality, it seems. Both went to college but did not seem to take much away from it. The difference is that George W. was from a politically and socially and businessly (okay not a word, but it goes along with the other two) well-connected family, which allowed him to overcome his ignorance and somehow made people, enough anyway, overlook his tendency to gaffes and terrible misuse of the language and made it possible for him to run for president and actually win — two times. The first time was due to a quirk in our presidential election system which does not require that the candidate with the most votes wins (never made sense to me either) and a miscalculation by Al Gore not to have all of the Florida votes counted, rather than trying to cherry pick ones out of supposedly Democratic strongholds, and the second time due to the fact that the Democrats actually found someone with an emptier suit that Geor ...

Source: www.turkishpress.com --- 3 hours ago
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Source: www.pbs.org --- 3 hours ago
As Iraq counts the ballots from Sunday's parliamentary election, Jim Lehrer talks to Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, about how a new government may impact the security situation and the drawdown of U.S. troops. ...

Source: www.mashget.com --- 4 hours ago
The Christian Science Monitor The Iraq election committee is expected to have a third of the votes from Sunday's parliamentary elections counted by today, with the first results to be announced tomorrow. But it's already known that there was far greater participation in Sunni Arab-dominated provinces than in previous parliamentary votes. As reported by the Monitor this week, Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission put total turnout at 62 percent – slightly higher than the 55 to 60 percent observers expected, but a significant drop from the 79.6 percent turnout in the last parliamentary elections four years ago. Afghans postpone parliamentary elections Afghanistan postpones parliamentary election until fall Rivals claim Iraq ballot win Iraq Postpones Announcing Initial Election Results Iraq to Announce Initial Results for Parliamentary Election ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 4 hours ago
Top politicians tangle over whether to count votes for 55 candidates who were barred from election. ...

Source: twitter.com --- 4 hours ago
mercycorps: From 6:45 a.m. until 10:00 a.m., more than 100 bombs exploded throughout Baghdad. Luke King blogs from Iraq: http://bit.ly/af2FyB ...

Source: www.whas11.com --- 4 hours ago
Authorities are still searching for the person who attacked him and caused severe brain damage. Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) - Frustrated, disappointed and looking for answers; an Iraq war veteran wants people to remember his story as his search for justice continues.   Authorities are still searching for the person who attacked him and caused severe brain damage.   On Wednesday he'll have another risky brain surgery.   The last few months have been anything but a walk in the park for him and his mother.   “They expected me to die within the first two weeks of being in the hospital and luckily I didn't,” says Andrew Howell, an Iraq war veteran.   Andrew and his mother are sharing a journey they never thought they'd be on.   It all started when Andrew was punched in the head at the Granville Inn in Old Louisville in November.   It was a punch so intense it left Howell brain damaged and doctors had to remove a portion of his skull, forcing him to wear a helmet.   “That’s why I really want someone to come forward, I would really appreciate it if they did,” he says.   Howell and police don't know who attacked him.   Tomorrow he'll have a risky surgery to repair the area where doctors removed his skull.   And before he goes in for the procedure he is making another plea to the community because he says this could be someone else's story too.   “I want to continue with this because they're still out there.  If they hit me they will hit someon ...

Source: en.newsxs.com --- 4 hours ago
Reporters Without Borders : Political rivalry and tension prompted by the 7 March legislative elections in Iraqi Kurdistan resulted in a wave of violence against independent and opposition journalists in the days preceding the election and on election day itself. Journalists ... ...

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Jerusalem Post : Israel : Defense Ministry in talks with EU states about possible sale of system. ...

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The Daily Star : Middle East : BAGHDAD: Iraq awaited initial results Tuesday from polls touted as a test of its young democracy, with Baghdad holding the key as the prime minister’s list and its top secular rival jockeyed for pole position. The electoral commission had ... ...