Affirm the law in Iraq, even as the law is curtailed
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The Iraqi interim government&#39;s declaration of a state of emergency for 60 days on Sunday is understandable at one level, in view of the upcoming January elections and the current wave of attacks that have killed 60 Iraqis in just the past two days.
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Iraq's U.S.-backed government said on  Thursday it was extending emergency powers equivalent to  martial law for a further 30 days to try to safeguard Jan. 30  elections under threat from deadly attacks by insurgents.
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The most wicked acts are spoken of openly and without reserve in Iraq. Rape is different.
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The U.S.-led occupation authority's disbanding of the Iraqi Army over a year ago casts a shadow over the occupation.
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LONDON -- Britain, Australia, and a former US official, stung by criticism from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, insisted yesterday that their countries' military action in Iraq was legal.
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The confusion yesterday over whether two &quot;high-value&quot; women prisoners being held in Iraq would be released has underlined the limits of the interim government&#39;s authority.
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Iraq's presidency council issued a law Sunday that will allow thousands of Saddam Hussein-era officials to return to government jobs, legislation viewed by the Bush administration as central to mending deep fissures between minority Sunni Arabs and Kurds and the majority Shiites who now wield power.
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Iraq's parliament passed a law on Saturday to let members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party return to public life, winning Washington's swift praise for meeting a benchmark aimed at reconciling warring sects.
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BAGHDAD - A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq's rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. The apparent breakdown occurs just as Congress and the White House are struggling to find evidence that there is progress toward reconciliation and a functioning government here.
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has declared martial law and says a US-led military offensive against the rebel-held city of Falluja could not be delayed much longer.
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Iraq's prime minister moves to put an end to disquiet about an alleged rape of a Sunni women by police.
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Iraqi MPs pass three important laws after weeks of delays and brinkmanship between rival factions.
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It is the Iraqi people who come best out of the end of the Najaf siege. This has been a triumph for the moderate majority who until yesterday felt themselves powerless to influence the wretched course of events in their own country.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government Saturday brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election. Talk of delaying the election gained momentum after influential Sunni Muslim politicians urged the
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Judging by the statements of those who have the power to decide, an election will be held in Iraq on January 31 - come what may. Despite calls for a six-month delay from Iraqi political parties involved
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Violence in Iraq is down, but Iraq needs to take advantage of that.
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President Bush has not been shy about asserting robust powers for the presidency in waging war, but lately he has seemed to concede that Congress has a role to play as well. Lawmakers, he has indicated, are within their rights to try to cap total deployments or limit where troops can go in Iraq.