Steve Shickles http://www.steve-shickles.biz Just Another Steve Shickles Blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en Bush effigy burned in anti-US protest in Baghdad (AP) http://www.steve-shickles.biz/bush-effigy-burned-in-anti-us-protest-in-baghdad-ap/ http://www.steve-shickles.biz/bush-effigy-burned-in-anti-us-protest-in-baghdad-ap/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:01 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.biz/bush-effigy-burned-in-anti-us-protest-in-baghdad-ap/ A protester uses his shoe to strike an effigy of U.S. President George. W. Bush, in an expression of contempt, as thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converged on Firdous Square in central Baghdad, Iraq for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein with their sandals five years earlier.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.biz/bush-effigy-burned-in-anti-us-protest-in-baghdad-ap/feed/ Thousands of Sadrists protest Iraq-US military pact (AFP) http://www.steve-shickles.biz/thousands-of-sadrists-protest-iraq-us-military-pact-afp/ http://www.steve-shickles.biz/thousands-of-sadrists-protest-iraq-us-military-pact-afp/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:01 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.biz/thousands-of-sadrists-protest-iraq-us-military-pact-afp/ Iraqi Shiites protest in central Baghdad. Thousands of Shiite followers of the firebrand anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad to protest a security accord that would allow US troops to remain in Iraq until 2011.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Thousands of Shiite followers of the firebrand anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad on Friday to protest a security accord that would allow US troops to remain in Iraq until 2011.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.biz/thousands-of-sadrists-protest-iraq-us-military-pact-afp/feed/ Thousands protest in Iraq against U.S. troops pact (Reuters) http://www.steve-shickles.biz/thousands-protest-in-iraq-against-us-troops-pact-reuters/ http://www.steve-shickles.biz/thousands-protest-in-iraq-against-us-troops-pact-reuters/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:01 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.biz/thousands-protest-in-iraq-against-us-troops-pact-reuters/ Demonstrators chant slogans during a rally at Firdos square in Baghdad November 21, 2008. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)Reuters - Followers of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched Friday against a pact letting U.S. forces stay in Iraq until 2011, toppling an effigy of President George W. Bush where U.S. troops once tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.biz/thousands-protest-in-iraq-against-us-troops-pact-reuters/feed/ Mosul's Christians make timid return after killings (AFP) http://www.steve-shickles.biz/mosuls-christians-make-timid-return-after-killings-afp/ http://www.steve-shickles.biz/mosuls-christians-make-timid-return-after-killings-afp/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:01 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.biz/mosuls-christians-make-timid-return-after-killings-afp/ A US army patrol stops to talk to members of an Iraqi Christian family outside their home in the northern restive city of Mosul. More than 2,000 Christian families fled Mosul in October after a wave of killings in the city, which the US military considers one of the last bastions of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Imad Hanna was among thousands of Iraqi Christians who fled Mosul last month after a wave of killings in the northern city. Now he is back because he cannot afford to live anywhere else.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.biz/mosuls-christians-make-timid-return-after-killings-afp/feed/ US kills senior Al Qaeda in Iraq leader (The Christian Science Monitor) http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-kills-senior-al-qaeda-in-iraq-leader-the-christian-science-monitor/ http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-kills-senior-al-qaeda-in-iraq-leader-the-christian-science-monitor/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:00 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-kills-senior-al-qaeda-in-iraq-leader-the-christian-science-monitor/ The Christian Science Monitor - An Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader believed by US officials to be responsible for one of the most notorious attacks on US soldiers was killed during American military operations earlier this month, military officials said Thursday.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-kills-senior-al-qaeda-in-iraq-leader-the-christian-science-monitor/feed/ US mil: American soldier dies in Iraq (AP) http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-mil-american-soldier-dies-in-iraq-ap/ http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-mil-american-soldier-dies-in-iraq-ap/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:00 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-mil-american-soldier-dies-in-iraq-ap/ AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of non-combat-related causes in Iraq.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-mil-american-soldier-dies-in-iraq-ap/feed/ Security firms told they lose immunity in Iraq: official (AFP) http://www.steve-shickles.biz/security-firms-told-they-lose-immunity-in-iraq-official-afp/ http://www.steve-shickles.biz/security-firms-told-they-lose-immunity-in-iraq-official-afp/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:00 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.biz/security-firms-told-they-lose-immunity-in-iraq-official-afp/ File photo shows an armored vehicle of a foreign private security company drives in central Baghdad. US officials on Thursday told scores of firms offering security in Iraq that their personnel will lose immunity from prosecution under a new US-Iraq security pact due to take effect in January.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - US officials on Thursday told scores of firms offering security in Iraq that their personnel will lose immunity from prosecution under a new US-Iraq security pact due to take effect in January.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.biz/security-firms-told-they-lose-immunity-in-iraq-official-afp/feed/ US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,201 (AP) http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-military-deaths-in-iraq-war-at-4201-ap/ http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-military-deaths-in-iraq-war-at-4201-ap/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:00 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-military-deaths-in-iraq-war-at-4201-ap/ Iraqi soldiers take position in central Baghdad. Thousands of Shiite followers of the firebrand anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad to protest a security accord that would allow US troops to remain in Iraq until 2011.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AP - As of Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008, at least 4,201 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-military-deaths-in-iraq-war-at-4201-ap/feed/ Contractors in Iraq could face charges in earlier incidents (McClatchy Newspapers) http://www.steve-shickles.biz/contractors-in-iraq-could-face-charges-in-earlier-incidents-mcclatchy-newspapers/ http://www.steve-shickles.biz/contractors-in-iraq-could-face-charges-in-earlier-incidents-mcclatchy-newspapers/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:00 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.biz/contractors-in-iraq-could-face-charges-in-earlier-incidents-mcclatchy-newspapers/ McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Private security contractors operating in Iraq could face Iraqi prosecution for acts committed when they supposedly had immunity from Iraqi law, U.S. officials said Thursday.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.biz/contractors-in-iraq-could-face-charges-in-earlier-incidents-mcclatchy-newspapers/feed/ U.S. contractors to lose immunity from Iraqi law (Reuters) http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-contractors-to-lose-immunity-from-iraqi-law-reuters/ http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-contractors-to-lose-immunity-from-iraqi-law-reuters/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:30:59 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.biz/us-contractors-to-lose-immunity-from-iraqi-law-reuters/ Reuters - Private contractors working for the U.S. government in Iraq will lose their immunity from Iraqi law under a new pact with Baghdad, senior American officials said on Thursday.

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