IRAQ

Ahmad Chalabi survives assassination attempt
A suicide bomber kills six guards in Chalabi’s convoy. At least 17 people are injured. Ned Parker and Saif Hameed, Los Angeles Times Staff WritersA suicide bomber tried to assassinate Ahmad Chalabi on Friday night, killing six of his guards when he rammed his car into the Shiite Muslim politician’s speeding convoy, Chalabi's spokesman said. Chalabi, who has survived at least three previous attempts on his life, was returning to his home in the west Baghdad district…

ANNA JOHNSON, AP News: A friendly fire shootout early Wednesday between Iraqi security forces and American soldiers killed six Iraqis north of Baghdad, police and security officials said. Iraqi forces at a checkpoint started shooting at approaching American military boats on the Tigris River in Tarmiyah, 30 miles north of Baghdad, the Iraqi officials said. They didn’t realize the boats, which had their lights turned off, were American, they sa …

 

Iraq on Tuesday cleared a plan to develop an oil field by China Petroleum National Corp. at a service fee of six dollars a barrel, giving Beijing a foothold into the world's third largest oil reserves.

 

U.S. soldiers in Iraq killed six Iraqi security members and wounded ten others in a mistaken fire in a town in north of Baghdad on Wednesday: Iraqi police and U.S. military