Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Envoy says US sticking to withdrawal plan in Iraq (AP)
• US ambassador tries to allay fears about Iranian dissidents in Iraq (AFP)
• U.S. will stick to plan for Iraq pullout: Hill (Reuters)
• Iraqis turn to private schools amid charges of corruption (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Kurds demand security after bomb kills 19 in Iraq (AP)
• 22 killed in Iraq suicide truck bomb attack (AFP)
• Al-Qaeda behind most attacks in Iraq since June: US (AFP)
• Iraqi shoe thrower might drop TV, turn to activism (AP)
• Truck bomb in north Iraq Kurd village kills 20 (Reuters)
• Truck bomb kills 20, inflames ethnic tensions in northern Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Iraq market bombs kill four, wound 29 (Reuters)
• 17 dead in Iraq truck bomb attack: police (AFP)
• 2 dead, 9 wounded in bomb attack south of Baghdad (AFP)
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• U.S. eyes military equipment in Iraq for Pakistan (Reuters)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,343 (AP)
• Truck bomb in north Iraq Kurdish village kills 19 (Reuters)

Envoy says US sticking to withdrawal plan in Iraq (AP) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 05:31 PM PDT AP - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq told Congress on Thursday that despite a recent rash of insurgent attacks, the U.S. is on track to removing all its combat forces by next August. "We are holding to this timetable," Christopher Hill told the House Foreign Affairs Committee in his first congressional testimony since taking over the top U.S. diplomatic post in Baghdad in April.

US ambassador tries to allay fears about Iranian dissidents in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:23 PM PDT AFP - Christopher Hill, the US ambassador to Iraq, sought Thursday to reassure lawmakers who fear for the safety of more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents in a camp in Iraq.

U.S. will stick to plan for Iraq pullout: Hill (Reuters) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:14 PM PDT Reuters - The United States expects to keep to its plan to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within a year despite a spate of bomb attacks, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said on Thursday.

Iraqis turn to private schools amid charges of corruption (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 01:59 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Iraqi parents who're fed up with corrupt teachers and neglected public schools are sending their kids to a place that Saddam Hussein banned: private school.

Kurds demand security after bomb kills 19 in Iraq (AP) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 01:32 PM PDT AP - Kurdish lawmakers demanded the government step up security in northern Iraq after a suicide truck bomb flattened a neighborhood in a small village Thursday, killing 19 people and injuring 30 others in the most recent in a spate of attacks.

22 killed in Iraq suicide truck bomb attack (AFP) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 11:31 AM PDT AFP - A suicide truck bomber triggered a massive blast in a Kurdish village in northern Iraq as residents slept early on Thursday, flattening homes and killing at least 22 people, officials said.

Al-Qaeda behind most attacks in Iraq since June: US (AFP) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 11:21 AM PDT AFP - Al-Qaeda has staged the majority of violent attacks in Iraq since the end of June, when US troops withdrew from the country's cities, a top US officer said on Thursday.

Iraqi shoe thrower might drop TV, turn to activism (AP) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 10:22 AM PDT AP - The Iraqi television reporter who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush in one of the more bizarre episodes of the Iraq war might use his new iconic status in Iraq to promote humanitarian causes, his family said.

Truck bomb in north Iraq Kurd village kills 20 (Reuters) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 10:13 AM PDT Reuters - A suicide bomber drove a truck full of explosives into a Kurdish village in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 20 villagers and fanning ethnic tension in a restive region, Iraqi police said.

Truck bomb kills 20, inflames ethnic tensions in northern Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 08:01 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - HAMDANIYA, Iraq — The village grocer and his son were the first to spot the two big trucks struggling early Thursday to cross a narrow bridge into Wardek, their tiny farming community outside Mosul in northern Iraq.

Iraq market bombs kill four, wound 29 (Reuters) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 02:14 AM PDT Reuters - Two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in a popular market south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing four people and wounding 29, Iraqi police said.

17 dead in Iraq truck bomb attack: police (AFP) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 01:58 AM PDT AFP - At least 17 people were killed and 25 wounded when a truck bomb exploded overnight in a Kurdish village southeast of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a police officer said on Thursday.

2 dead, 9 wounded in bomb attack south of Baghdad (AFP) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 12:37 AM PDT AFP - At least two people were killed and nine wounded on Thursday when a bomb exploded in a market south of Baghdad, an Iraqi defence ministry official said.

(AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2009 11:01 PM PDT AP - Officials say a truck bomb killed at least 18 people, injured 19 in northern Iraqi village

U.S. eyes military equipment in Iraq for Pakistan (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2009 07:23 PM PDT Reuters - The Pentagon has proposed transferring U.S. military equipment from Iraq to Pakistani security forces to help Islamabad step up its offensive against the Taliban, according to officials and government documents.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,343 (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2009 05:40 PM PDT AP - As of Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, at least 4,343 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Truck bomb in north Iraq Kurdish village kills 19 (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2009 05:16 PM PDT Reuters - A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into a Kurdish village in northern Iraq before dawn on Thursday, killing at least 19 villagers and wounding 13, police said.

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