Iraq

Following are security developments in Iraq at 0930 GMT on Wednesday.

Australia's wheat exporter went on trial Wednesday in a lawsuit brought by nearly 1,000 shareholders demanding compensation for millions of dollars they say they lost through the company's kickbacks to Saddam Hussein 's former government in Iraq. The Australian Wheat Board , the exclusive marketer of bulk wheat exports from Australia, admitted for the first time in court Wednesday that it knew payments it made to a trucking company were going to the Iraqi government.

A Hammonton resident was one of about 30 airmen from the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard who deployed Feb. 9 for a six-month tour of duty in Iraq. John Amendolia III, 22, will provide security at an unspecified military installation, helping to protect the runways and perimeter of the base.

India's state-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC) will import 11 million tonnes, or 220,000 barrel per day, of crude oil from Iraq in 2010, its chairman, S Behuria, told reporters on Wednesday.

Major Michael Burghardt was on a mission Tuesday: Slip into Clatskanie and surprise his daughter, Holly, just before her varsity basketball game at the high school.

The cabinet has admitted MPs could have been better informed about security service 'doubts and conjectures' about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the 2003 invasion.

About 280 soldiers from the 4 th Engineering Battalion were welcomed home Tuesday night.

Royal Jet has completed over 100 successful flights to this region providing both VIP air charter services as well as emergency medical evacuation with Royal Jet Medical Evacuation Services.

When I am asked about my year with the 34th Infantry Division in Iraq, it will be an honor to say that I had the privilege of serving in somewhat austere conditions with a group of proud, hard-working, can-do, never-say-quit Citizen-Soldiers who brought their best skills to Iraq and made mission no matter what was asked of them.

The parade grounds at Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, Miss., were filled with 3,300 Tennessee Army National Guardsmen at noon Friday when twice that many friends, relatives and American leaders saw them probably for the last time before deployment to Iraq. "They released everyone for a four-day leave on the 31st of January," said Marshall County Commissioner Larry McKnight, executive director of the Tennessee National Guard Association, and father of two guardsmen assigned to Iraq. "They could go up to 150 miles from the camp, so everybody was spread out."

(MENAFN - Arab Times) Kuwait should be cautious in taking any action concerning the proposal on investing in Iraq, instead of collecting compensation for damages caused by the invasion, MP Dr Daifallah Buramiya said Tuesday.

Several years ago, Lisa Hopkins arose in the middle of the night.

Sgt. Doug Edmisten has seen about as much action this week while home on leave as in seven months on duty in Iraq. He held his newborn son Monday and snipped the umbilical cord, then headed home to see the truck that smashed into his house.

The final wave of soldiers with the National Guard 34th Infantry Division Red Bulls returned home to Minnesota.

Despite the public outcry, the Navy SEALs are still facing special courts-martial after their January 2010 arraignments; SO1 Huertas and SO2 Keefe in April and SO2 McCabe in May 2010.

Budget cuts and relentless fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan have left more than half of the ships, aircraft and ground units of the Armed Forces with "serious or critical weaknesses", MPs say today.

LIMBLESS war heroes are paying for their treatment abroad because the UK's rehab centre is overcrowded, The Sun can reveal.

A Minnesota National Guard soldier who lost his legs in Iraq announced he is running for a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives.

Islamabad—The President intends to keep our commitment under the Status of Forces Agreement to remove all of our tr4oops from Iraq by the end of 2011", categorically announces this the official foreign policy website of the US government.

WHEN Debbie Morgan looks at pictures of her precious son in his Royal Navy uniform, she feels proud knowing his death helped save four lives.