The U.S. military and Iraq back al-Sadr's commitment to stop attacks by his followers.
It did not confine its review to Iraq or al Qaeda.
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In exchange, al-Sadr said he wants the majority of coalition forces to leave the holy city, followed by a "broad discussion" about the future of his Mehdi Army in Iraq, al-Rubaie said.
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This was several weeks after I took my staff to meet with Mr. Tenet and two-dozen or so CIA analysts to challenge the quality of the agency's work on Iraq and al Qaeda.
"There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda also occurred after bin Laden had returned to Afghanistan, but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship, " the report said.
It was a global -- it was a global exercise, even though this particular report that -- briefing, I should say, that was prepared and given to the CIA focused on Iraq and al Qaeda because, as I said, that kind of fell out incidentally from the work that they were doing on global terrorist networks.
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Mr Blix confirmed that Iraq's Al-Samoud missile programme exceeded UN-imposed limits on range and was "therefore proscribed for Iraq".
Geovani Padillaaleman was a Navy hospital man serving with the Marines in Iraq's Al Anbar Province.
"His death at this critical stage that we are passing through is a great loss for Iraq, " al-Maliki said.
In the past, the U.S. military in Iraq has detained Al Jazeera reporters and accused them of collusion with insurgents.
One of his first jobs was to manage an insulation project in Iraq at Khor al-Zobair, 50 miles southeast of Basra.
Sir John, now head of MI6, said "very few observers" foresaw that Iraq would attract al-Qaeda terrorists and Shia extremists backed by Iran.
"We are hoping that the Americans are realizing that the sectarian parties or Islamic parties cannot govern Iraq, and they should support the national liberal trend in Iraq, " al-Mutlaq said.
Jalal al-Deen al-Sagheer, a senior Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq member, said al-Maliki was at talks held Sunday and that the prime minister congratulated participants, promising to have another meeting in the coming weeks.
Awakening Councils, or Sons of Iraq, are Sunni groups that have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq.
U.S. officials said the attack was probably targeting Awakening Councils, or Sons of Iraq -- Sunni groups who have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq.
And a weeklong operation against Shiite militias loyal to Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in southern Iraq, a battle on which al-Maliki staked his prestige, ended only after negotiations in Iran among Iraqi lawmakers, Iranian leaders and al-Sadr's representatives.
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U.S. intelligence agencies believe al Qaeda in Iraq has provided a steady stream of fighters to work with al Nusra.
The councils, also known as Sons of Iraq, are mainly made up of former Sunni insurgents who turned against al Qaeda in Iraq.
The report also addresses security in Iraq, particularly in Anbar province where some Sunni leaders have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq, said a second official who has been briefed on the classified report but hasn't read it.
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Captured records from a raid near the city of Sinjar, Iraq, indicated that during the 2006-2007 time frame, 8% of al Qaeda in Iraq operatives were Syrians.
In October 2007, the Dallas Morning News reported on warnings from Kurds in northern Iraq of Iranian support for an al-Qaeda affiliate, Ansar al-Islam, in their region of Iraq.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A U.S. military commander said Thursday that an al Qaeda in Iraq militant believed to be involved in last year's kidnapping of journalist Jill Carroll has been killed.
Jim Bullock, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, said that al-Jaafari's commission was to provide a preliminary report in a week and a final report in two weeks.
In Iraq, where Nouri al-Maliki's Shia grouping actually got fewer seats in the 2010 parliamentary elections than its main rival, he clung to power for months until he was able to out manoeuvre them in coalition negotiations.
Mendes Junior projects in Iraq included the constructions of the Baghdad-Al Qaim-Akashat railway, the Iraq Expressway Number One (the largest controlled-access highway in the Middle East) and a pumping station on the Euphrates River.
Judge Abdul Sattar al-Beeraqdar, spokesman for Iraq's Higher Judicial Council, said the court reduced al-Zaidi's sentence because he is young and had no previous criminal record.
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During a visit to Washington this month, Faleh al-Fayyad, Iraq's national security adviser, said about 300 Islamist fighters enter Syria each month to fight Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Iran versus Iraq kick offs at the Al Rayyan Stadium on January 11 at 1615 GMT.
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