Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,273 (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT AP - As of Thursday, April 16, 2009, at least 4,273 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraqi-born insurgent jailed for 25 years in US (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:33 PM PDT AFP - A US federal judge Thursday sentenced an Iraqi-born Dutch citizen to 25 years in prison for conspiring to kill Americans in Iraq in the first case of its kind, the US Justice Department said.

$40M fuel theft from Army prompts global manhunt (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 01:56 PM PDT AP - A former Army contractor convicted of stealing $40 million worth of fuel from a military base in Iraq is helping authorities in a global search for other suspects in the case, according to court records.

US sergeant gets life for detainee murders in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 01:04 PM PDT AFP - A US soldier was jailed for life Thursday for the "execution-style" murder of four prisoners in Iraq, a court martial here said.

Barriers to be off Baghdad streets by 2009: army (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 11:44 AM PDT AFP - The concrete walls and barbed wire that filled Baghdad's streets at the height of Iraq's sectarian fighting are to be removed by the end of this year, a security official said on Thursday.

Suicide bomber strikes Iraqi military base (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 11:22 AM PDT AP - A suicide bomber struck an Iraqi military base Thursday in an attack that Iraqi officials first said killed 16 soldiers but later maintained no one died but the attacker.

Iraq to build 2.8-bln-euro port: minister (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 11:02 AM PDT AFP - Transport Minister Amer Abduljabbar Ismail said on Thursday that Iraq has signed an agreement with an Italian consortium to construct a 2.8-billion-euro (3.7-billion-dollar) port on the Gulf.

Suicide bomber wounds 38 at Iraqi army base (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 11:01 AM PDT AFP - A suicide bomber wounded 38 Iraqi army recruits in a base west of Baghdad on Thursday, according to a defence ministry spokesman who denied earlier reports that 16 soldiers were killed.

No deaths in Iraq suicide attack: defence ministry (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 10:05 AM PDT AFP - Iraq's defence ministry spokesman denied there were any deaths in a suicide bomb attack west of Baghdad on Thursday, after security officials had said the blast killed 16 Iraqi soldiers.

Security agencies dispute death toll in Iraq bombing (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 09:44 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD_A suicide bomber attacked troops at an Iraqi Army training camp in western Iraq Thursday, but Iraqi authorities were in disagreement about the casualty count.

US Army soldier sentenced to life in prison (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 09:33 AM PDT AP - A U.S. Army soldier convicted of murder in the 2007 killings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqis was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison.

U.S. soldier sentenced to life for Iraqi murders (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 08:31 AM PDT Reuters - A court martial sentenced U.S. Army Master Sergeant John Hatley to life imprisonment on Thursday for his part in the murder of four Iraqi detainees in Baghdad two years ago.

US soldier gets life for murder of Iraqi prisoners (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 07:47 AM PDT AFP - A senior US soldier was jailed for life Thursday for the murder of four bound and blindfolded prisoners in Iraq, a court martial here said.

Suicide bomber in uniform kills 16 in Iraq base (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 06:57 AM PDT Reuters - A suicide bomber in army uniform detonated a vest packed with explosives at a military base in Iraq's western Anbar province Thursday, killing 16 people and wounding 50, the army and police said.

Bombed Iraqi Shiite shrine reopens (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 06:53 AM PDT AFP - Iraq has rebuilt the dome and minarets of a Shiite shrine that was bombed in 2006 in an attack which unleashed a wave of sectarian bloodletting that claimed tens of thousands of lives.

Iraq sentences two senior militants to death (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 06:48 AM PDT AFP - An Iraqi court on Thursday handed down death sentences to two senior militants from so-called Special Groups, Shiite militants the US military says are backed by neighbouring Iran.

Execution top killer of Iraqi civilians: study (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 12:25 AM PDT Reuters - Executions by insurgents and death squads made up the biggest number of Iraqi civilian deaths in five years of war, while suicide bombers acting as "smart bombs" rivaled aerial bombs for deadliness, a study said.

Iraq study: Executions are leading cause of death (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 09:27 PM PDT AP - Execution-style killings, not headline-grabbing bombings, have been the leading cause of death among civilians in the Iraq war, a study released Wednesday shows. The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, point to the brutal sectarian nature of the conflict, where death squads once roamed the streets hunting down members of the rival Muslim sect.

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