Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq bombs kill 50, mostly Shi'ites targeted (Reuters)
• No criminal charges in electrocution death (AP)
• Dozens killed in bombings against Shiites in Iraq (AP)
• Iraq rivals fence over deadly bank job (AFP)
• Fourth Hiker Details How Friends Ended Up in Iran (OneWorld.net)
• 47 Iraqis killed in Shiite holy day attacks (AFP)
• Iraq Kurdish coalition has reduced majority: final results (AFP)
• Huge Iraqi Shiite march peaceful, but bombs hit later (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Major attacks in Iraq since Jan. 1 (AP)
• Car bomb kills 30 outside Shiite mosque in Iraq (AFP)
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• Four Shiite pilgrims killed in Baghdad attacks (AFP)
• UK MP testifies on 'genocide' against Marsh Arabs (AFP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,331 (AP)

Iraq bombs kill 50, mostly Shi'ites targeted (Reuters) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 03:04 PM PDT Reuters - A suicide car bomber killed 38 people as they left a Shi'ite Muslim mosque just outside the volatile northern Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said on Friday, while bombs in Baghdad killed another 12.

No criminal charges in electrocution death (AP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 01:12 PM PDT AP - No criminal charges will be filed against military contractor KBR Inc. in connection with the electrocution of a Green Beret soldier who died while showering in his barracks in Iraq, the Defense Department said Friday.

Dozens killed in bombings against Shiites in Iraq (AP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 12:42 PM PDT AP - A suicide truck bomber flattened a Shiite mosque Friday in northern Iraq, and roadside bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, as at least 51 people were killed and scores wounded nationwide.

Iraq rivals fence over deadly bank job (AFP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 12:42 PM PDT AFP - The arrest of a bodyguard of Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi has turned a deadly bank heist into a political football just six months before general elections, throwing the spotlight on his powerful Shiite religious party.

Fourth Hiker Details How Friends Ended Up in Iran (OneWorld.net) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 12:42 PM PDT OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 6 (New America Media) - Three Americans, Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal, have been missing since Jul. 31 after hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan and are reportedly being held by Iranian authorities. Bauer is a correspondent for New America Media. A fourth member of their party, Shon Meckfessel, did not join them that day and has now offered his statement on events.

47 Iraqis killed in Shiite holy day attacks (AFP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 12:33 PM PDT AFP - A powerful car bomb killed at least 37 Shiite Muslims in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul on Friday in a wave of attacks that also killed 10 people in the capital Baghdad.

Iraq Kurdish coalition has reduced majority: final results (AFP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 10:06 AM PDT AFP - The two main parties in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region have a reduced majority in the regional assembly after their joint vote fell in the July 25 poll, the electoral commission said on Friday.

Huge Iraqi Shiite march peaceful, but bombs hit later (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 08:06 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - KARBALA, Iraq — Iraqi security forces oversaw the peaceful march Friday of more than 3 million Shiite Muslim worshippers who were honoring the birthday of one of their most important imams, the second large-scale religious event in the past month that was conducted safely without significant assistance from the American military.

Major attacks in Iraq since Jan. 1 (AP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 07:41 AM PDT AP - Major bombings in Iraq since Jan. 1, when a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact took effect:

Car bomb kills 30 outside Shiite mosque in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 06:48 AM PDT AFP - A powerful car bomb exploded outside a mosque in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul as worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers, killing at least 30 people and wounding 72, police said.

(AP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:47 AM PDT AP - Iraqi police: Death toll in bombing near Shiite mosque in northern Iraq climbs to 20.

Four Shiite pilgrims killed in Baghdad attacks (AFP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 03:44 AM PDT AFP - Four people were killed in Baghdad on Friday in a series of bomb attacks aimed at Shiite pilgrims marking a key religious ceremony, an interior ministry official said.

UK MP testifies on 'genocide' against Marsh Arabs (AFP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 01:47 AM PDT AFP - A member of the British House of Lords has described witnessing "genocide" by executed dictator Saddam Hussein's regime against Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the early 1990s.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,331 (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:47 PM PDT AP - As of Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009, at least 4,331 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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