Iraq PM criticizes Blackwater
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki suggested on Wednesday the U.S. embassy stop using American security firm Blackwater after a deadly shooting and said he would not allow Iraqis to be killed in "cold blood".
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BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has pressed US Embassy officials in recent meetings to pull the Blackwater USA security firm out of Iraq even before the six-month deadline he initially set, a top aide to the Iraqi leader said yesterday.
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LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair came under intense attack from rivals Wednesday in a parliamentary session on Iraq that demonstrated the potency of the issue and Blair&#39;s inability to turn the national agenda to domestic matters.
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Los Angeles Times - BRIGHTON, England &#8212; British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pummeled over the Iraq war, faced his critics at his Labor Party's annual conference Tuesday and said he had erred in accepting faulty intelligence that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed chemical and biological weapons.
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Lord Butler criticises Tony Blair's style of government and the way the Iraq war was "sold" to the public.
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The Iraqi governmentâs authority to bar Blackwater USA, a security company that was involved in the deaths of eight Iraqis, appeared to be in question.
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Iraq's former interim prime minister accused Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of fomenting the sectarian violence plaguing the war-ravaged nation and said today he will return to Baghdad soon to "reverse the course in Iraq."
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Prime Minister Tony Blair faces strong dissent from British lawmakers over a decision to redeploy some of his countryâs troops to Baghdad, as per a request from US government officials.
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Iraq's Kurdish leader criticises a report by the US Iraq Survey Group, branding it "unrealistic and inappropriate".
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain criticized Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday, calling his government a disappointment.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday criticized security contractors in Iraq as Baghdad piled more pressure on the State Department to pull the Blackwater firm out of Iraq after deadly shootings last month.
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Iraq's beleaguered prime minister lashed out Sunday at his U.S. critics, saying they don't appreciate the country's achievements and fail to understand how difficult it is to rebuild after decades of war and dictatorship.
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The French parliamentarian whose attempts to free two French hostages held in Iraq have provoked widespread official and media criticism hit back at attacks on his failed initiative.
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U.S. security contractor Blackwater, under investigation in the shooting deaths of 11 Iraqis this month, came under criticism again on Thursday over an ambush in 2004 in which four of its staff were killed.
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LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has come under fire over the way his government is handling a US request to redeploy 650 British troops in Iraq.
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Iraq&#39;s prime minister said today mistakes were made during a raid on a Baghdad mosque last week that sparked a surge in violence in the capital, and he had ordered an investigation.
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Brighton, England -- Prime Minister Tony Blair faced his critics at his Labor Party&#39;s annual conference Tuesday and said he had erred in accepting faulty intelligence that Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime possessed chemical and biological weapons.