Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Briton held for over 2 years in Iraq freed (AP)
• Bombs kill 23 in Iraq's western Anbar province (AP)
• Bombs kill more than 30 in Iraq (Reuters)
• Britain hails release of Iraq hostage (AFP)
• 30 killed, provincial governor wounded in Iraq attacks (AFP)
• Can a city awash in guns, grenades and explosives ever be safe? (McClatchy Newspapers)
• British hostage freed in Iraq (Reuters)
• Anbar bombings raise fears of renewed Iraqi violence (McClatchy Newspapers)
• UK hostage released alive after 2007 Iraq capture (Reuters)
• Iraq signs 2 oil deals with Angola's Sonangol (AP)
• Angolan firm initials two deals for Iraq oil fields (AFP)
• 18 killed, provincial governor hurt in Iraq blasts (AFP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,370 (AP)

Briton held for over 2 years in Iraq freed (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST AP - A British contractor was freed Wednesday and in good health more than two years after he was abducted, apparently the only survivor of a group of five Britons abducted in a daring raid outside Iraq's Finance Ministry in 2007.

Bombs kill 23 in Iraq's western Anbar province (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 01:24 PM PST AP - Twin bombings — one an assassination attempt against an Iraqi provincial governor — killed 23 people and wounded the governor Wednesday in the worst violence in months to hit the western province that was once al-Qaida's top stronghold in Iraq.

Bombs kill more than 30 in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 01:05 PM PST Reuters - Twin suicide bombs killed at least 27 and wounded more than 100 in Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland on Wednesday and a roadside bomb killed seven pilgrims returning from a major Shi'ite Muslim religious festival.

Britain hails release of Iraq hostage (AFP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:34 PM PST AFP - Britain on Wednesday hailed the release of a computer expert seized in Iraq in 2007 after an "unspeakable" kidnap ordeal during which three bodyguards taken with him were killed and a fourth is feared dead.

30 killed, provincial governor wounded in Iraq attacks (AFP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 11:40 AM PST AFP - Blasts in central and western Iraq killed 30 people and wounded the Anbar provincial governor on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks against government targets in recent months.

Can a city awash in guns, grenades and explosives ever be safe? (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 11:20 AM PST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq — A sedan crawled through the choked, noisy streets of Baghdad and approached one of the city's ubiquitous vehicle checkpoints, no different from thousands of other cars — except for the plastic explosives hidden in its body.

British hostage freed in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 10:23 AM PST Reuters - British computer programer Peter Moore was released on Wednesday, two and a half years after being taken hostage by militants in Baghdad, officials said.

Anbar bombings raise fears of renewed Iraqi violence (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:27 AM PST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq — Bombers struck Iraq's western Anbar province Wednesday in an apparent ambush of local leaders, killing at least 24 people and wounding 58 others, including the provincial governor whose goal is an economic renaissance in territory once controlled by insurgents.

UK hostage released alive after 2007 Iraq capture (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 06:22 AM PST Reuters - Briton Peter Moore has been released alive after being captured in Baghdad in 2007, Iraq's government spokesman said on Wednesday.

Iraq signs 2 oil deals with Angola's Sonangol (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:48 AM PST AP - An Iraqi official says the Angolan national oil company Sonangol has signed preliminary deals to develop two small oil fields in northern Iraq.

Angolan firm initials two deals for Iraq oil fields (AFP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 01:38 AM PST AFP - Angolan energy firm Sonangol initialled two deals with Iraq on Wednesday to develop oil fields in the north of the country, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said.

18 killed, provincial governor hurt in Iraq blasts (AFP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:34 AM PST AFP - Eighteen people were killed and 35 wounded, including the governor of Anbar province, in two attacks in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday, the city's mortuary said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,370 (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 05:44 PM PST AP - As of Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009, at least 4,370 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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