Bomb Suspects’ TV Confessions Stir Trouble (OfficialWire)
Iraq’s beleaguered government appears to be seeking to whip up sectarian tensions ahead of planned parliamentary elections with televised confessions by alleged Saddam Hussein loyalists that they were behind Baghdad bombings that killed 153 people in October.

Inquiry hears Iraq no threat to UK before invasion (ABC Radio Australia)
An inquiry in London has heard that Britain’s Foreign Office told former Prime Minister, Tony Blair ten days before Britain invaded Iraq, that Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction had been dismantled.

Iraq Invasion: Responsibility and Accountability (Pravda)
As Russia had said, Iraq did not have Weapons of Mass Destruction. The only source which claimed that Iraq had such weapons and was linked to Al Qaeda was the Bush regime.

Soccer in Iraq: Another Field for Argument (New York Times)
The suspension of Iraq s soccer team from international competition illustrates the capacity of past divisions to bedevil an immature political present.

Dispute threatens January vote in Iraq (The Washington Times)
BAGHDAD | A senior election official said Tuesday that Iraq must delay a national vote scheduled for January because of a political dispute, and the vice president who triggered the crisis indicated he would veto a key election law for a second time. The prospect of delayed balloting in Iraq and a growing sense among Sunni Arabs that they are being shunted to the political margins have soured …

British inquiry hears of Iraq WMD doubts (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Britain was told days before invading Iraq that its weapons of mass destruction may have been unusable, a top official told a public inquiry Wednesday, adding the overall intelligence picture was patchy.

British officials quizzed on WMD at Iraq inquiry (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Top civil servants were grilled Wednesday over fears Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction — used to support the 2003 invasion but never borne out — at a British inquiry into the conflict.

6 family members killed in Iraq (USA Today)
Assailants broke into a house and killed six family members before dawn Wednesday in an area north of Baghdad that was once a stronghold of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Iraqi officials said.

Iraq chemical weapons were in doubt, UK inquiry told (TVNZ)
British intelligence in the days ahead of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq signalled that Saddam Hussein’s forces did not have the capability to deploy chemical weapons, senior officials said

Three women among six killed in Iraq attack (Khaleej Times)
BAGHDAD – Unknown attackers on Wednesday broke into a house and slit the throats of two women in a brutal Iraqi killing in which four other people including a teenage girl were gunned down, police said.

WMD claims in the spotlight at Iraq inquiry (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Top civil servants were grilled on Wednesday over fears Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction — used to support the 2003 invasion but never borne out — at an inquiry into the conflict.

Reward raised to $5M for ‘the Bomb Man’ (Arizona Daily Star)
NEW YORK The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it is now offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb maker suspected of once targeting commercial airliners and of aiding the Iraq insurgency.

Britons told there was little reason for Iraq war (MalaysiaNews.net)
British officials have told panel members reviewing Britain’s role in the Iraq war that there was little information that Iraq’s then president, Saddam Hussein, had been colluding with al-Qaeda.

Two sides of the Coin (The New Statesman)
“Strategy without tactics is the slow road to victory,” wrote Sun Tzu in The Art of War , “but tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Stanley McChrystal, the top US military commander in Afghanistan, would do well to heed the words of the ancient Chinese general.

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