Iraq – US general questions Iraq bomb detection kit (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

US general questions Iraq bomb detection kit (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
A top US army officer said on Sunday he did not have confidence in a hand-held device used by Iraq’s security forces to detect explosives and stop suicide bombers passing through checkpoints.

Women fight new battle in Iraq’s insurgent corner (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters * Women face new misery in one-time insurgent stronghold * Deaths and lack of jobs among men push women to forefront By Suadad al-Salhy LATIFIYA, Iraq, Nov 8 (Reuters) – In what was once one …

Women fight new battle in Iraq’s insurgent corner (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News)
By Suadad al-Salhy

Iraqi lawmakers pass election law, paving way for January vote (Washington Post)
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers on Sunday night passed an election law, overcoming a weeks-long impasse and averting a constitutional crisis that threatened to delay the U.S. troop drawdown.

EXTRA: Obama welcomes approval of Iraq election law as ‘milestone’ (EARTHtimes.org)
Washington- US President Barack Obama said Sunday the approval of Iraq’s election law was a signficant breakthrough for the Iraqi people on their road towards scheduled national elections in January. The passing of the law was an important milesto…

US general questions Iraq bomb detection kit (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A top US army officer on Sunday said he did not have confidence in a hand-held device used by Iraq’s security forces to detect explosives and stop suicide bombers passing through checkpoints.

Obama hails Iraq’s new 2010 election law (AFP via Yahoo! News)
US President Barack Obama congratulated Iraqi MPs Sunday on approving a new law to govern 2010 general elections, saying it was an important step towards ensuring a lasting peace.

Iraq passes election law paving way for January poll (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Iraqi lawmakers passed a long-delayed election law on Sunday to pave the way for a January poll, after parliament sidestepped a potentially explosive row over the oil-producing city of Kirkuk.

Women fight new battle in Iraq’s insurgent corner (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
In what was once one of Iraq’s deadliest areas, women who survived sectarian carnage and insurgency now fight a new battle to feed families whose menfolk have been killed, jailed or left jobless.

News Brief (Ekklesia)
The term “global war on terror” has long since been dropped from the United States’s official vocabulary.

Iraq explosives detection device untrustworthy (Middle East Online)
US General says he has no confidence in British-made ADE 651, used by Iraqi security forces, detecting explosives.

Iraqi parliament passes crucial election law (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
BAGHDAD After nearly a dozen delays and a final, rowdy session, Iraq’s parliament on Sunday passed a law setting national elections for January, averting for now a political crisis that threatened to unravel the country’s slow progress toward stability.

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