Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Obama names two officials to work with Iraqi refugees (AFP)
• Guard in Iraq murder case has stress disorder: family (AFP)
• Iraqi journalists protest government pressure (AP)
• 6 years after invasion, electricity still scarce in Baghdad (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Iraqi journalists protest 'intimidation and threats' (AFP)
• US Army reduces soldiers' murder sentences (AP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,332 (AP)

Obama names two officials to work with Iraqi refugees (AFP) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 03:51 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama on Friday named two senior officials to work closely with the Baghdad government on the plight of millions of refugees from war and violence in Iraq.

Guard in Iraq murder case has stress disorder: family (AFP) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 02:11 PM PDT AFP - A British security guard accused over the killings of two of his colleagues in Iraq was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and should not have been in Baghdad, his family said Friday.

Iraqi journalists protest government pressure (AP) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 12:26 PM PDT AP - Scores of Iraqi journalists and political figures rallied Friday to protest what they say is a political effort to censor media that follows steps to crack down on Internet sites.

6 years after invasion, electricity still scarce in Baghdad (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 08:22 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Dark humor flips on when the lights go out in a city that still suffers from crippling power outages despite the billions of dollars that have been invested in its grid.

Iraqi journalists protest 'intimidation and threats' (AFP) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 06:06 AM PDT AFP - Hundreds of Iraqi journalists and intellectuals marched through Baghdad on Friday to protest "intimidation and threats" against the war-torn country's press.

US Army reduces soldiers' murder sentences (AP) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 05:29 AM PDT AP - The U.S. Army said Friday it had reduced the sentences of three soldiers convicted of murder in the execution-style slayings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqi detainees.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,332 (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 06:14 PM PDT AP - As of Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009, at least 4,332 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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