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The new Iraqi government is seen during a swearing in ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Iraqi lawmakers unanimously approved on Tuesday a new government to be headed by incumbent Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, ending nine months of political deadlock that threatened to stall economic development and suck the country back into sectarian violence.
Government   Iraq   Military   Photos   Wikipedia: Nouri al-Maliki   		 Khaleej Times 
Maliki blames politicians for Iraq assassinations
Tue 26 Apr 2011
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday accused Iraqi politicians of being behind a recent spate of assassinations of senior military and civilian officials. | Maliki did not name any specific indivi... (photo: AP / Karim Kadim)
Iraqi firefighters extinguish a fire in a destroyed building after a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011.
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Three killed in Iraq violence
Tue 26 Apr 2011
| Baghdad - Three people were killed Tuesday in separate attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and northern city of Kirkuk, police said. | Two Iraqis were killed and six wounded in explosions that ta... (photo: AP / Emad Matti)
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh  The Siasat Daily  Wed 20 Apr 2011
Top Iraq Kurd leader offers to resign amid demos
| Sulaimaniyah, April 20: A senior politician in Iraqi Kurdistan has criticised missing freedoms in the autonomous region and offered to step down from the party leadership, as new rallies Tuesday lef... (photo: AP / Mahmoud al-Badri)
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U.S. Army Soldiers from Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division drive by burning oil fields while convoying to Al Jawala, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2006, to conduct a cordon and search operation with the Iraqi ar  The Examiner  Wed 20 Apr 2011
Documents prove BP involved in secret plans to exploit Iraq oil pre-invasion
| Secret government documents show plans involving BP to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain joined the US ... (photo: USAF/SSgt. Samuel Bendet)
Iraq   Oil   Photos   UK   Wikipedia: Rationale for the Iraq War  
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The flame from the Baji Oil Refinery waist burn-off tower illuminates fuel storage tanks in Baji, Iraq, Dec. 4, 2007. The Independent Tue 19 Apr 2011
Patrick Cockburn: They denied it was about Iraq's resources. But it never rang true
| The supposed disinterest expressed by international oil companies in the outcome of the invasion of Iraq in the year before it was launched never quite made sense. Iraq... (photo: USMC / Chief Warrant Officer Brook R. Kelsey)
Iraq   Oil   Photos   War   Wikipedia: Rationale for the Iraq War  
A soldier from the United States 173rd Airborne stands guard at one of the refineries at the Baba Gurgur oil field in Kirkuk, Iraq Thursday, April 17, 2003. The Independent Tue 19 Apr 2011
Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
| Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invadin... (photo: AP / Kevin Frayer)
Iraq   Oil   Photos   War   Wikipedia: 2003 invasion of Iraq  
An Iraqi soldier secures the scene of a suicide car bomb in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 18, 2011. Suicide bombers detonated two explosives-packed cars Monday outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, killing and wounding several of people, police said The State Mon 18 Apr 2011
Car bombs in central Baghdad kill 9
| BAGHDAD - Suicide bombers detonated two explosives-packed cars Monday outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, killing at least nine people and wounding 23, offi... (photo: AP)
Insurgency   Iraq   Photos   Security   Wikipedia: Iraqi insurgency  
Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. BBC News Mon 18 Apr 2011
Iraq suicide car bombs kill nine
Two suicide car bombs have exploded in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 20. | A security official said the cars were queuing to enter the Gree... (photo: AP)
Iraq   Photos   Security   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Iraqi insurgency  
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, responds to questions during testimony with Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller Robert Hale, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, in Washington, D.C., Feb. 2, 2010. DOD photo by Cherie Cullen (released) Newsvine Sun 17 Apr 2011
Gates: If Iraq wants some U.S. troops to remain, it must ask soon
| U.S. defense officials have expressed growing confidence this week that Iraqi leaders want a modest American military presence to continue in Iraq beyond the year-end d... (photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen)
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U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 71st Cavalry Regiment of the New York-based and 10th Mountain Division control the villages of Korengal Valley by a binocular in the eastern Kunar province, as fighting continues between American troops and militants linked to al-Qaida, in Afghanistan on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006. U.S. soldiers killed two suspected militants Sunday in a mortar barrage in the eastern Kunar province's village of Darbart after they had fired on an American-Afghan army patrol, said Command Sgt. Maj. Jimmy Carabello. Al-Qaeda no successor to Arab dictators The Siasat Daily
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