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Prescriptions for rebuilding Iraq

Saturday September 19 2009

Nemir Kirdar was brought up in Iraq and comes from a family that served in the Ottoman Parliament before World War I. He fled Iraq in 1958 when the Hashemite Royal Family, which had held the Iraqi throne from 1921, was overthrown on the first of a series of military coups that eventually brought Saddam Hussein to power. Kirdar was a childhood friend of the last king -- Faisal II -- murdered in the coup.

Kurd policeman's family shot dead in bed

Monday September 14 2009

Gunmen stormed the house of a Kurdish policeman yesterday and shot dead his wife and three children while they slept, Iraqi police said, an attack possibly aimed at inciting violence between Arabs and Kurds.

Iraq handover celebrations marred as car bomb kills 32

Wednesday July 01 2009

WITHIN hours of US troops handing over control of Iraq's cities to its domestic security forces, a car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk killed at least 32 people.

Iraq police cancel all leave as US pulls out troops

Monday June 29 2009

Iraq cancelled leave for all its police and put them on high alert yesterday ahead of this week's withdrawal of US combat forces from Iraqi towns and cities.

Family recalls forgotten Irish hero who died in Iraq, 90 years ago

Sunday June 28 2009

For bar-owner Dan McGrattan, people like his grandfather, Robert, were part of a forgotten generation.

Remains 'likely' to be those of Iraq hostages

Monday June 22 2009

The remains of two British men kidnapped in Iraq two years ago are "highly likely" to be those of the security guards Jason Creswell and Jason Swindlehurst .

Bomb blast leaves 70 dead as date for US troop withdrawal approaches

Sunday June 21 2009

A truck bomb exploded as worshippers left a Shia mosque in northern Iraq yesterday, killing at least 70 people and wounding nearly 200 in the deadliest bombing in nearly two months.

Iraqi children seized at suspected training camp for suicide bombers

Tuesday April 21 2009

Iraqi security forces have arrested four children who were allegedly part of a group of youngsters being groomed by al-Qa'ida to become suicide bombers, an Iraqi army general said.