Feb 06 Pres. Bush Forms Bipartisan Iraq Intelligence Review Panel By Admin, PBS News Hour Bowing to pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers, President Bush on Friday named seven people to sit on a bipartisan independent commission to investigate U.S. intelligence failures in prewar Iraq. Continue reading
Feb 04 U.N. Team to Evaluate Prospect of Early Elections in Iraq U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday he would send a team to Iraq to determine if elections could be held before the June 30 transfer of authority to a provisional government. Continue reading
Feb 03 Death Toll From Weekend Suicide Bombings in Iraq Reaches 101 The death toll from two suicide bombings that targeted the largest Kurdish political parties in Iraq over the weekend rose from 67 to 101, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Continue reading
Feb 02 President to Create Commission on Prewar U.S. Intelligence President Bush announced Monday that he would establish an independent bipartisan commission to examine American intelligence operations, including possible errors in prewar assessments of Iraqi weapons programs. Continue reading
Feb 02 Suicide Bombings Kill 67 in Northern Iraq Two suicide bombers Sunday set off explosives inside buildings housing Iraq's two leading Kurdish political parties, killing at least 67 people and wounded 247, in a once relatively quiet part of northern Iraq. Continue reading
Jan 29 Critical Hutton Report Prompts Two BBC Resignations The head of the British Broadcasting Corp. and its director-general resigned Thursday after an official inquiry censured the media corporation's "defective" editorial management. Continue reading
Jan 27 Six U.S. Soldiers, Two CNN Staffers Killed in Iraq A bloody series of attacks in central Iraq Tuesday left six American soldiers, two CNN employees and at least two Iraqi civilians dead even as U.S. military operations continued against anti-coalition insurgents. Continue reading
Jan 27 Watch Iraq Elections The United Nations announced today that it will send a team to Iraq to consider the possibility of holding elections before the return of Iraqi sovereignty on June 30. Ray Suarez gets perspective from Nancy Soderberg of the International Crisis… Continue watching
Jan 26 U.S. Conducts Raids After Weekend Violence Kills Six Soldiers U.S. troops conducted raids in Baqouba, a volatile area 35 miles northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, detaining 46 people in the wake of attacks that left six American soldiers dead. Continue reading
Jan 23 U.N. Weapons Inspector to Lead Iraq WMD Team Charles Duelfer, the highest-ranking American among U.N. weapons inspectors during Saddam Hussein's regime, will take over as head of the U.S. team searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the CIA announced Friday. Continue reading