Sadr City clashes kill 11: medics
(AFP)
 AFP - At least 11 people were killed overnight in clashes between American troops and Shiite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City, despite a truce agreed at the weekend, local medics told AFP on Tuesday.
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Officials: Clashes in Iraq's Sadr City kill 11
(AP)
 AP - A fragile cease-fire failed to stop fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City where the latest clashes between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces killed 11 men and wounded 19, Iraqi hospital officials said Tuesday.
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Violence flares in Baghdad's Sadr City despite truce
(Reuters)
Reuters - Gunmen launched numerous attacks on
U.S. troops in the Baghdad bastion of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric
Moqtada al-Sadr overnight, the U.S. military said on Tuesday,
in a sign that many militia are ignoring a pact to halt
fighting.
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Ex-officials: Bush admin. ignored Iraq corruption
(AP)
 AP - The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.
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Food Crisis Hits Fallujah
(OneWorld.net)
OneWorld.net - FALLUJAH, May 12 (IPS) - Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah.
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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,076
(AP)
AP - As of Monday, May 12, 2008, at least 4,076 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Former US official claims Iraq corruption sham
(AFP)
AFP - A former senior US official in Iraq on Monday accused the State Department of recklessly misleading Americans over the country's plight and contributing to the deaths and maiming of US soldiers.
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Iraqi PM says crackdown shows he's not sectarian
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Iraq's prime minister said on Monday a
crackdown on Shi'ite militias proved his government was not
sectarian, in the face of persistent accusations by Sunni Arabs
that he has favored Shi'ites since taking office.
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Iran hard-liners come out against Iraqi-US deal
(AP)
AP - Two hard-line newspapers seen as speaking for Iran's clerical establishment called Monday for Iraqis to oppose a strategic framework deal with the United States, Tehran's first public condemnation of the arrangement.
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Hasty truce with Moqtada al-Sadr tests his sway in Baghdad stronghold
(The Christian Science Monitor)
 The Christian Science Monitor - A cease-fire deal to end seven weeks of fighting in Sadr City could provide the clearest test yet of just how much sway the anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has over armed militants operating inside his sprawling bastion of support in Baghdad.
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Iraqi officials: Turkey hits Kurdish bases in Iraq
(AP)
AP - Turkish jets struck suspected Kurdish rebel targets close to the border in northern Iraq, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Monday.
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Cherie Blair miscarriage used to supress Iraq invasion speculation
(AFP)
 AFP - News of a miscarriage suffered by the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair was used to stave off speculation of an early invasion of Iraq, she said in comments printed in newspapers Monday.
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