Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,353 (AP)
• Police: Ariz. dad ran over 'Westernized' daughter (AP)
• 2 US soldiers in Iraq die of noncombat injuries (AP)
• Swiss visit American hikers held in Iran (AFP)
• Turkish FM stresses importance of Iraq ties on Kurdish visit (AFP)
• Correction: Iraq election law story (AP)
• Afghanistan: U.S. Forces Ship Blood Platelets from Iraq (Time.com)
• US general in Iraq warns of rise in pre-poll violence (AFP)
• Religious leaders slam Iraq authorities over attacks (AFP)
• Iraq clerics urge MPs to end election law deadlock (AFP)
• Iraq: US military contractor burns recyclables, violating contract (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Aecom Charged Army $19 for 12-Cent Washers in Iraq, Audit Says (Bloomberg)

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,353 (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 04:30 PM PDT AP - As of Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, at least 4,353 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Police: Ariz. dad ran over 'Westernized' daughter (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 02:24 PM PDT AP - An Iraqi immigrant accused of running down his daughter in Arizona with his car because she was becoming "too Westernized" has been arrested in Georgia, authorities said Friday.

2 US soldiers in Iraq die of noncombat injuries (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 01:55 PM PDT AP - Two American soldiers in Iraq died Friday of noncombat related injuries in separate incidents, the U.S. military said.

Swiss visit American hikers held in Iran (AFP) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 01:34 PM PDT AFP - Swiss diplomats visited three Americans jailed in Iran and found them in good physical condition and happy to see them, their families said Friday almost three months after the trio were arrested for hiking across the Iraqi border.

Turkish FM stresses importance of Iraq ties on Kurdish visit (AFP) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 12:31 PM PDT AFP - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu stressed the importance of ties with Iraq, which he termed Ankara's gateway to the Gulf, on a historic visit to Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday.

Correction: Iraq election law story (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 08:58 AM PDT AP - In an Oct. 28 story about Iraq's election law, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said the Kurds demand the annexation of the northern Kirkuk region and would not accept any other solution.

Afghanistan: U.S. Forces Ship Blood Platelets from Iraq (Time.com) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 07:25 AM PDT Time.com - One of the key combat-medicine innovations of the Iraq war was the use of platelet transfusions to stop bleeding. And as Afghanistan supplants Iraq in U.S. casualties, the military has begun diverting platelets there

US general in Iraq warns of rise in pre-poll violence (AFP) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 06:34 AM PDT AFP - US forces expect insurgents to plan more spectacular attacks like massive bombings in Baghdad last week in the run-up to January polls and are braced for an upswing in violence, a senior general warned in an interview with AFP.

Religious leaders slam Iraq authorities over attacks (AFP) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 06:27 AM PDT AFP - Muslim clerics slammed Iraqi authorities in their Friday prayer sermons over massive bombings last week, as a top US general warned that he expected insurgents to plan more spectacular attacks.

Iraq clerics urge MPs to end election law deadlock (AFP) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 06:21 AM PDT AFP - Iraqi clerics, both Shiite and Sunni, called on members of parliament on Friday to end a protracted deadlock over a key election law that threatens to delay polls scheduled for January.

Iraq: US military contractor burns recyclables, violating contract (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - In this desert fortress of housing trailers and concrete barriers, military contractor KBR has launched a recycling campaign – a kind of oasis in the military, an institution not exactly renowned for environmental activism.

Aecom Charged Army $19 for 12-Cent Washers in Iraq, Audit Says (Bloomberg) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 09:01 PM PDT Bloomberg - Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Aecom Technology Corp. billed the U.S. Army $19 dollars apiece for 12-cent washers on one of the largest contracts in Iraq for training Iraqi security forces on depot maintenance, a new Defense Department audit said.

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