Instead, he dismissed General Abizaid and reshuffled key figures in his Iraq team.
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The soccer team suspension brought dismay across Iraq, where the team is a rare source of unity.
He will be joined in Iraq by a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Lawyers for the Iraqis say the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT), created by the UK government, is investigating only individual cases.
In 2008, she made The Hurt Locker, a thriller about an EOD team in Iraq.
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The chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, could travel to Iraq with an advance team within two weeks to start the inspection process.
Scott Ritter led the team in Iraq for seven years before resigning in August, saying he could no longer do his job.
The FBI has dispatched a team to Iraq to investigate a September shootout involving Moyock, North Carolina-based Blackwater contractors whereby some 11 Iraqis were killed.
Overall, Iraq's economic team seems to be saying the right things.
TOKYO, Japan -- Tokyo is set to send off its first army team to Iraq in the largest and most dangerous overseas military assignment since World War II.
Administration sources said the goal is to win a strong statement from Annan backing the political transition plan and a commitment to send a U.N. team to Iraq to assist with the effort.
It would have kept Iraq's popular soccer team from playing internationally for one year.
Mike Kenfield, spokesman for the Army's training and doctrine command, said that the program was credited for "reductions in non-lethal operations" and that there had been talk about expanding the purview of the team to outside Iraq and Afghanistan.
Korea's best chance came when Hong Yong-jo's shot shaved the crossbar in time added on, leaving his team needing to beat Iraq in Wednesday's final round of matches.
My wife, yesterday, told me that it was a shock because once my brigade combat team had redeployed from Iraq, she thought we were kind of done with losses for a while and then losing Sattar was like losing a member of my brigade.
The second team has been sent to Iraq, where most of the cases occurred, Kukral said.
Earlier this year, Iraq said it was ready to receive a team from the US to investigate the pilot's fate, in what one Baghdad official called a "goodwill gesture".
Throughout the campaign, Mr Bush's team has insisted that any debate about Iraq was good for him because it plays to his strength as a war leader in a period of national security threats.
We also got a full briefing from our national security team as well as Vice President Biden on Iraq.
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Iraq's failure to furnish Mr Blix's team with the documents it has requested, and the absence of other forms of active co-operation, earned his strong censure.
After the Bush team's spotty record on awarding contracts in Iraq, criticism is hardly surprising (a Halliburton subsidiary got one of the early post-Katrina contracts).
For his part, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan gave a cautious welcome to Iraq's invitation for the head of the weapons inspection team to visit Baghdad.
To provide enough U.S. forces for these intensified sweeps, the U.S. military shifted the Stryker Brigade combat team from the north, extending its stay in Iraq for an extra three months.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Plans by Washington to send a 1, 000-strong team to look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq are being challenged by the United Nations' chief inspector Hans Blix.
Between 250 and 300 of those team members -- including some inspectors who were in Iraq prior to 1998 -- will visit suspected weapons sites.
"We will increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan by deploying a Marine battalion this November and in January 2009 an Army brigade combat team -- both units that had been slated for Iraq, " Gates said.
The 16-team tournament, played every four years, sees defending champions Iraq facing Iran in Group D on Tuesday.
The United Nations team appointed to monitor Baghdad's compliance with the agreement left Iraq in 1998 after the government ceased co-operation with the weapons inspectors.
Two hospitals in the northern Iraqi city are operating at about 25 percent of normal capacity, the WHO team said, adding that such problems are "repeated across" Iraq.
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