AFP – A helicopter which crashed southeast of Baghdad on Tuesday — killing two soldiers and wounding 12 — was British, the defence ministry said Wednesday.
Crashed helicopter in Iraq was British: ministry (AFP)
Iraq boosts oil exports after re-opening Kirkuk pipeline (AFP)
AFP – Iraq has boosted its oil exports to almost two million barrels a day (bpd) after reopening a pipeline to Turkey and hopes to sharply raise output in 2008, a senior oil official said on Wednesday.
Former press aide blames Bush in CIA leak case (Reuters)
Reuters – Former White Press Secretary Scott
McClellan says in an upcoming book that he was misled by
President George W. Bush and other high officials into
misinforming the press about a CIA leak case that fueled debate
about the Iraq war.
Turkey lauds Iraqi Kurds for action against rebels: Anatolia (AFP)
AFP – Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul praised Iraqi Kurds on Wednesday for taking steps against Kurdish rebels based in their autonomous region but warned it retained the option of a military strike, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Bomb kills US soldier, Iraqi interpreter in Baghdad (AFP)
AFP – Insurgents killed a US soldier and an Iraqi interpreter in a bomb attack in Baghdad, the US military said on Wednesday.
Two British troops killed in Iraq helicopter crash (Reuters)
Reuters – Two British military personnel were
killed in Iraq on Tuesday when their Puma helicopter crashed
near Baghdad, the Ministry of Defence said.
Car bomb in Iraq’s Ramadi kills six: police (Reuters)
Reuters – A car bomb killed at least six people,
including women and children, in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on
Wednesday in a rare attack on a region that has become one of
the safest in the country.
US, Iran to meet on Iraq despite tensions (AFP)
AFP – Tough talk on Iran’s nuclear program has raised the specter of a possible US attack, but tensions between the two diplomatic foes nevertheless appear to have eased on the issue of securing Iraq.
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