The president said the US would stay in Iraq until it was 'free and democratic' and 'enemy forces bent on destroying the new government' are stopped.
A Shia leader who was the main target of the suicide bomber was not in office when the blast occurred.
If confirmed by the senate, John Negroponte would head what might become the largest US embassy in the world in terms of manpower.
The witness, Bhalol Khan, recorded his statement in the anti-terrorism court (Islamabad), which is holding the trial of seven Mumbai attack accused, including LeT operations commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi.
India is negotiating a term contract with the new administration in Baghdad to import Iraqi crude even as it hopes to keep the exploration acreage awarded to it by the Saddam Hussein regime.
While the girls are seen pleading with them to let them go, the boys are seen laughing and a few of them shooting the incident.
The team of weapons inspectors sent in by Washington and London at the end of the war to comb Iraq has admitted in its final report that there were no stockpiles.
Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal had trained him at the instance of Saddam Hussein, a media report said.
Local Iraqis blamed the crash on ground fire.
'I think the Iraqis are better off with Saddam gone, if they can have a stable government,' he said.
The US defence secretary would not say how large a force the Pentagon was assembling in the Gulf region or provide details on military units slated for deployment.
Indian efforts to secure a share in Iraqi crude oil have been hit with Indian Oil Corporation failing to get entry visas in time for sending its officials to Baghdad to seal an import deal.
India is seeking over 3 million tonnes of crude oil from Iraq this fiscal even as it hopes that the interim US-led regime in Baghdad honours award of an oil exploration block to state-run ONGC Videsh Ltd by the previous Saddam Hussein regime.\n\n\n\n
Several Indo-Iraq contracts that were being negotiated for the last one year, particularly in the oil and railway sector, may now be put on hold after the fall of the President Saddam Hussein regime, diplomats said.
In yet another controversial jibe, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said women in the Islamic world like wearing burqas because it is easier as they do not have to wear makeup.
The first additional metropolitan magistrate in Bengaluru has acquitted three persons in connection with the blast case at the Bharatiya Janata Party office in Malleswaram. The court, while ordering the acquittal observed that the police had failed to file a charge sheet against them in the stipulated 180-day period.
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