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    Friday: Iraq to Release Election Results; House Approves Senate Fixes

    Mar 26, 2010 01:06 PM EDT

    Supporters of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad demand a vote recount ahead of the final results for the country's general election. Photo by Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images. Iraq on Friday will announce results from nationwide parliamentary elections held on March 7. The unexpectedly close ...

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    Bombings Shake Iraq as March Elections Set

    Dec 08, 2009 09:30 PM EDT

    ... more than 100, according to the Associated Press. No one claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attacks, though Iraq's former national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie blamed al-Qaida. He told the BBC he thought their aim was to destabilize the country ahead of elections, which the presidential council set ...

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    Tuesday's Headlines: Car Bombs Kill More Than 100 in Baghdad

    Dec 08, 2009 06:22 PM EDT

    --Iraqi and U.S. soldiers secure the site of Tuesday's bomb blast on Cairo Street in northern Baghdad. (Photo by Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images) More than 100 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in a series of coordinated car bombings across Baghdad Tuesday morning. At ...

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    U.S., Iraq to Set 'Time Horizon' on Troop Withdrawal

    Jul 18, 2008 08:05 PM EDT

    ... S. troops in Iraq beyond a U.N. mandate that expires Dec. 31. Earlier this month, al-Maliki and Iraqi national security adviser Mouwaffak al-Rubaie said that deal must include dates for troop withdrawals. The debate over troop levels has become a key election issue for Sen. Barack Obama ...

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    New Law Could Pardon Thousands in Iraq

    Dec 26, 2007 09:05 PM EDT

    "The draft law offering amnesty to detainees who are innocent was approved by the cabinet and forwarded to parliament [on Wednesday]," said Sadiq al-Rikabi, an adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Agence France-Presse reported.Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser, said earlier this month ...

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    Senators Draft Bipartisan Bill on Iraq War Funding

    May 09, 2007 10:25 PM EDT

    ... member of the Intelligence Committee. She has just returned from Baghdad. And they join us now.Senator Snowe, we just heard national security adviser al-Rubaie say that, give them a chance, give Iraqis a chance to walk the last mile, but they're in the last mile. You've ...

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    Al-Sadr Loyalists Resign from Iraqi Cabinet

    Apr 16, 2007 10:40 PM EDT

    ... al-Sadr's political movement dealt Iraq's fledgling government another blow today, when six cabinet ministers resigned, including the minister of health. NASSAR AL-RUBAIE, Leader, Al-Sadr Parliamentary Bloc (through translator): We deem it necessary to issue an order to the Sadr bloc ministers to withdraw immediately from ...

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    Sadr's Ties to Maliki Government Complicate Political Picture

    Apr 09, 2007 07:00 PM EDT

    "The enemy that is occupying our country is now targeting the dignity of the Iraqi people," lawmaker Nassar al-Rubaie, head of Sadr's bloc in parliament, told the Associated Press during the march. "After four years of occupation, we have hundreds of thousands of people dead and wounded ...

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    Saddam's Wife, Daughter, New Al-Qaida Leader on Wanted List

    Jul 03, 2006 07:30 PM EDT

    National security adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie said the government compiled the list "so that our people can know their enemies."Saddam's wife, Sajida Khairallah Tulfah, who is believed to be in Qatar, and his eldest daughter, Raghad, who lives in Jordan, are number 16 and 17 on the list ...

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    Violence in Iraq Leaves Dozens Dead and Wounded

    Feb 28, 2006 06:30 PM EDT

    ... told CNN on Monday -- the surge in violence has rattled Iraqi leaders struggling to form a new government. On Tuesday, national security adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie traveled to the Shiite holy city of Najaf to meet with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the Shiite community's most influential leader. "The ...