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Companies working on iraq reconstruction have been accused of padding their profits through an insurance scam, according to internal military documents obtained by The Associated Press.

AP - Senate leaders are rejecting a plan by House Democrats to add a surcharge on upper-income taxpayers to a bill providing $163 billion to pay for military operations in iraq and Afghanistan into next year.

AP - A judge will lead a public inquiry into the death of an Iraqi civilian who died while in the custody of British soldiers, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.

At least 20 people are killed and 35 wounded in a suicide bombing at a funeral in the Iraqi capital, officials say.

Controversial Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi had been making a comeback in iraq, but NBC News has learned that U.S. military and civilian officials  now have cut off all contact with him.

PARIS, May 14 -- A French judge on Wednesday convicted seven men on terrorism charges for recruiting young French Muslims to fight against U.S. forces in iraq.

Iraq's security forces urged the movement of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday to do more to ensure a truce took hold in Baghdad and offered cash rewards for militiamen who gave up their weapons.

A Paris court on Wednesday convicted seven men of terrorism for helping funnel fighters to iraq, a case that exposed how the war there has sucked in radical youths from Europe.

A court yesterday sentenced a retired imam to 2-1/2 years in prison, convicting him of spreading terrorist propaganda with a speech he gave at a demonstration. Islamic preacher Muhittin Eryilmaz was convicted by a court in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir for a speech he gave at a protest against a Turkish incursion into northern iraq in February aimed at Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants. Full Story

WASHINGTON, May 14 (IPS) - If politics makes strange bedfellows, then the relationship between Iran, the United States and the Islamic Supreme Council of iraq is the strangest ménage à trois in international relations today.