Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Shiite pilgrimage poses major challenge for Iraqi military (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Iraq-Kurd impasse seen to threaten unrest (AFP)
• Iraq trade union threatens to block foreign oil field work (AFP)
• Iraqi 'rap royalty' takes to the Baghdad stage (AFP)
• Police patrol Baghdad streets as Shiite pilgrims stream in (AFP)
• 18 hurt by Baghdad bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims (AP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,324 (AP)

Shiite pilgrimage poses major challenge for Iraqi military (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Jul 2009 01:50 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — A human tide of Shiite Muslim pilgrims visiting the Kadhimiyah shrine is expected to fill the streets of Baghdad on Saturday in the first major security challenge for Iraqi military forces since U.S. combat troops withdrew from Iraq's cities June 30.

Iraq-Kurd impasse seen to threaten unrest (AFP) Posted: 16 Jul 2009 10:06 AM PDT AFP - Kurdish demands to expand their autonomous region in northern Iraq to include the Kirkuk oil fields and other districts threaten to trigger armed conflict, diplomats and analysts warn.

Iraq trade union threatens to block foreign oil field work (AFP) Posted: 16 Jul 2009 10:01 AM PDT AFP - The trade union representing workers of Iraq's state-owned Southern Oil Company (SOC) threatened on Thursday to prevent exploitation of one of Iraq's biggest oil fields by energy giants BP and CNPC.

Iraqi 'rap royalty' takes to the Baghdad stage (AFP) Posted: 16 Jul 2009 09:59 AM PDT AFP - A young rapper wearing a baseball cap and a large chain around his neck shouts "Raise your hands in the air! Make some noise for Mr Passion!" in a scene that could easily have been in New York.

Police patrol Baghdad streets as Shiite pilgrims stream in (AFP) Posted: 16 Jul 2009 09:55 AM PDT AFP - Thousands of police officers patrolled Baghdad's streets on Thursday to curb attacks as Shiite Muslim pilgrims flocked to the Iraqi capital to commemorate the death of a venerated saint.

18 hurt by Baghdad bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2009 04:54 AM PDT AP - Eighteen people were injured Thursday in an explosion that targeted a minibus transporting Shiite pilgrims to a holy shrine to commemorate the death of a revered imam.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,324 (AP) Posted: 15 Jul 2009 05:46 PM PDT AP - As of Wednesday, July 15, 2009, at least 4,324 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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