June 12, 2006:


1) Independent Norwegian oil firm DNO has said that tests in its Tawke oil field in Kurdish northern Iraq indicated reserves of about 100 million barrels. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


2) A roadside bomb targeting a bus taking workers to Iraq's industry ministry killed six people and wounded 12 others on Monday, official sources said.(Reuters via Yahoo! News)


3) U.S.-led forces in Iraq killed seven militants with links to senior al Qaeda leaders in a raid on Monday near the area where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed last week, the U.S. military said.(Reuters via Yahoo! News)


4) If Iraq's new Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki wants to deliver on his promises of "national reconciliation," he will have to talk to insurgents he has so far spurned, Sunni officials said on Monday.(Reuters via Yahoo! News)


5) Iraq is considering inviting members of insurgent groups to national reconciliation talks, a source in the prime minister's office said on Monday.(Reuters via Yahoo! News)


6) Encouraged by the death of a top terrorist leader and continued progress on the formation of a new government in Iraq, President Bush is gathering his top military and civilian war advisers to plan the U.S. role in the country's future.(AP via Yahoo! News)


7) Al Qaeda in Iraq named a successor (Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Muhajir ) following the killing of the group's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to an Internet statement, frequently used by Islamist militants, on Monday. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)


June 13, 2006:


1) President Bush arrived in Iraq on Tuesday and was expected to be on the ground for more than five hours and speak to U.S. troops, the White House said.(Reuters via Yahoo! News)


2) At least 32 people have been killed in Iraq, including 18 in five car bomb attacks in the oil city of Kirkuk, after warnings by Al-Qaeda of vengeance for the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.(AFP via Yahoo! News)


3) President Bush reviewed next steps in the troubled three-year old Iraq war on Tuesday in a suprise visit to Baghdad and a meeting with newly named Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The dramatic move came as Bush sought to bolster support for Iraq's fledgling government and U.S. war policy at home.(AP via Yahoo! News)


4) Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for "strategic cooperation" with Saudi Arabia including help in resolving Sunni-Shiite tensions in Iraq.(AFP via Yahoo! News)





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