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Sunni Group Asks U.S. for Timetable

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq’s most influential Sunni (search) group will abandon its call for a boycott of Jan. 30 elections if the United States gives a timetable for withdrawing multinational forces, a spokesman for the group said Sunday. Members of the powerful Association of Muslim Scholars (search) relayed their request …

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Was Former U.N. Official Wrongly Accused in Oil-for-Food Probe?

UNITED NATIONS – The secretive Volcker inquiry into the more than $110 billion United Nations Oil-for-Food (search) scandal plans to issue a third interim report later this month — to tie up “loose ends” from the previous two reports, as a committee spokesman recently put it. Having spent more than …

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Iraqi Pol: Marines Killed My Cousin

UNITED NATIONS – Iraq’s U.N. ambassador accused U.S. Marines of killing his unarmed young cousin in what appeared to be “cold blood” and demanded an investigation and punishment for the perpetrators. In an e-mail to friends obtained Friday by The Associated Press, Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie (search) said the killing took …

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