7) The kidnappers of a United Arab Emirates diplomat in Iraq demanded the closure of the country's Baghdad embassy in a video shown Thursday on Arab television. ( Yahoo! News )


8) Daunting challenges beyond the volatile security situation in Iraq are preventing a rapid withdrawal of American troops. ( New York Times )


9) Military officials said Thursday that a criminal investigation into a firefight in western Iraq that left at least 15 civilians dead is not complete, but they did not dispute a congressman's charges that the attack by Marines was far worse than originally reported. ( USA Today )



May 19, 2006:


1) Nuclear scientist Hussain al-Shahristani, a Shi'ite Islamist, looked set to become Iraq's next oil minister in a unity government expected to be unveiled within the next 24 hours, negotiators said on Friday. ( Yahoo! News )


2) The brother of a UAE diplomat kidnapped in Iraq told Al-Arabiya television the envoy has not been released, seconds after the Dubai-based news channel said he had been freed. ( Yahoo! News )


3) The key to reducing American casualties in Iraq is getting a government in Baghdad that can revive the economy and "take the angry young men off the street, to give them an alternative" to planting roadside bombs and inflicting other violence, the No. 2-ranking U.S. general in Iraq said Friday.
( Yahoo! News )





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