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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Suicide bomber kills 22 near Baghdad shrine (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 03:36 AM CST

An Iraqi policeman secures the site of a bomb attack in the Kadhimiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad in December 2008. A suicide bomber has killed 22 civilians and wounded 40 taking part in a religious march near the entrance to the Kadhimiyah shrine in northern Baghdad.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - A suicide bomber killed 22 civilians and wounded 40 taking part in a religious march near the entrance to the Kadhimiyah shrine in northern Baghdad on Sunday, security forces said.

Iraqi police say suicide bomber kills at least 20 (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 03:35 AM CST

An Iraqi policeman secures the site of a bomb attack in the Kadhimiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad in December 2008. A suicide bomber has killed 22 civilians and wounded 40 taking part in a religious march near the entrance to the Kadhimiyah shrine in northern Baghdad.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AP - Iraqi police say a suicide bomber has detonated an explosive vest among a group of pilgrims worshipping at a Shiite shrine in Baghdad, killing at least 20 people.

Iraq bomb death toll rises to 38: army source (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 03:34 AM CST

Reuters - The death toll in a suicide attack outside a revered Shi'ite shrine in northwestern Baghdad on Sunday rose to 38 dead and 55 wounded, a source in the Iraqi army said.

Marines in combat still seek a better flak vest (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 01:11 AM CST

U.S. Marine Capt. Mike Hoffman, right, wearing body armor, converses with an Afghan national, who for security reasons could not be identified, posing as a village elder during a training exercise Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Acting on widespread complaints from its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Corps has ordered major changes to its body armor to improve comfort, mobility and safety, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - Acting on widespread complaints from its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Corps has ordered major modifications to its body armor to improve comfort, mobility and safety, The Associated Press has learned.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,221 (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 06:46 PM CST

An Iraqi policeman secures the site of a bomb attack in the Kadhimiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad in December 2008. A suicide bomber has killed 22 civilians and wounded 40 taking part in a religious march near the entrance to the Kadhimiyah shrine in northern Baghdad.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AP - As of Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009, at least 4,221 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Baghdad bomb blast kills two, wounds eight (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 01:39 PM CST

Iraqi Shiites wield self-flagellation chains during a procession of held on the occasion of the Ashura mourning period in the Shiite neighbourhood Kadhimiyah of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Two civilians were killed and eight others were injured in a bomb explosion on Saturday in a neighbourhood in southern Baghdad, a security forces official told AFP.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - Two civilians were killed and eight others were injured in a bomb explosion on Saturday in a neighbourhood in southern Baghdad, a security forces official told AFP.

US troops shoot Iraqi TV producer (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 01:32 PM CST

US soldiers patrol the Hurriya neighbourhood of Baghdad in December 2008. US troops have shot and critically wounded a newly-wed Iraqi female television producer after she failed to heed warnings from soldiers in Baghdad, the military and her station said on Saturday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - US troops have shot and critically wounded a newly-wed Iraqi female television producer after she failed to heed warnings from soldiers in Baghdad, the military and her station said on Saturday.

U.S. military takes first step to quit Iraqi cities (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 09:23 AM CST

Iraqi soldiers unfurl their national flag to take part in a rehearsal for the Iraqi Army Day 88th anniversary celebration, in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone January 3, 2009. On Thursday, U.S. forces handed over responsibility to Iraqi troops for the Green Zone, a fortified swathe of central Baghdad off limits to most Iraqis, who widely view it as a symbol of foreign military occupation. (Erik de Castro/Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. military took a step toward pulling combat troops from Iraqi cities on Saturday, moving out of a Baghdad base that Iraqi officials said would be dismantled and converted back into a shopping mall.

U.S.-installed Iraqi ex-PM says Bush "utter failure" (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 08:49 AM CST

Reuters - Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an "utter failure" that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country.

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