Iraq – Iraqi PM: U.S. withdrawal on track despite recent violence (USA Today)
Iraqi PM: U.S. withdrawal on track despite recent violence (USA Today)
Massive bombings and scattered daily violence won’t impede American troops from leaving Iraq by the end of 2011, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday.
British knew Iraqis badly treated soon after invasion (Yorkshire Post)
British officials knew about “difficulties” in the treatment of detainees within months of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the chief of MI6 said yesterday.
Iraq Inquiry: post-war violence far worse than expected, says MI6 head Sir John Sawers (Daily Telegraph)
Britain “might well” have had second thoughts about invading Iraq if it had known how violent the post-war insurgency would be, Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, has told the Iraq Inquiry.
Predicting insurgent attacks with a mathematical model (EurekAlert!)
( University of Miami ) Scientists at the University of Miami and their collaborators have found a unified model of human insurgency that can estimate the timing and strength of insurgent attacks in present and future wars
U.S.-Allied Sunni Groups Struggle Under Iraqi Control (NPR)
The Sunni militias known as the Sons of Iraq, or Sahwa movement, were credited with helping to defeat al-Qaida in Iraq during the U.S. surge that began in 2007. They have fallen on hard times since coming under Iraqi government control a year ago, facing arrest and other troubles.
Iraq: Dozens of suspects held in Baghdad blasts (AP via Yahoo! News)
Authorities are holding dozens of people as suspects in last week’s suicide bombings in Baghdad, an Iraqi official said Thursday, clarifying earlier remarks by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that had appeared to link security forces to the attacks.
US fixed drones hacked by Iraqi insurgents: Pentagon (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The US military has fixed a problem that allowed Iraqi militants to use cheap software to intercept the video feeds of US-operated drones, a defense official said on Thursday.
Iraq: Dozens of suspects held in Baghdad blasts (FOX 11 Tucson)
BAGHDAD (AP) An Iraqi official says security forces have rounded up dozens of suspects in last week suicide bombings in Baghdad.
High hopes following Iraqi oil deals (Investors Chronicle)
More than six years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, American oil companies were notable by their absence from the list of winners in the first really successful auction of Iraqi oilfield development contracts last weekend.
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