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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,297 (AP) Posted: 19 May 2009 05:17 PM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at least 4,297 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Corruption probe appalls _ and encourages _ Iraqis (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 19 May 2009 02:15 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — For the first time since modern Iraq was founded in the 1920s, a sitting government minister has been questioned publicly about corruption allegations, in this case about skimming millions of dollars from a national food-distribution program while ordinary Iraqis went hungry.

Three dead in Iraq unrest (AFP) Posted: 19 May 2009 12:33 PM PDT AFP - Three Iraqi civilians were killed and 10 wounded in violence on Tuesday while police also found the body of man who had been stabbed to death at an unknown date.

Government seeks to reassure Sunni fighters (AP) Posted: 19 May 2009 12:14 PM PDT AP - Iraq's Shiite-led government sought Tuesday to reassure Sunni paramilitaries who turned against al-Qaida and helped reduce violence in the country that it would honor promises of jobs and money despite arrests of key leaders and delays in pay.

Judge drops suit over Iraq war's constitutionality (AP) Posted: 19 May 2009 11:35 AM PDT AP - Two mothers of soldiers who served in Iraq have failed in their attempt to sue the federal government over the constitutionality of the war.

US denies Iran accusation on Iraqi Kurds (AFP) Posted: 19 May 2009 10:45 AM PDT AFP - The US Defense Department on Tuesday rejected accusations from Iran that Washington was training "terrorists" in Iraq's Kurdish region and countered that Tehran was meddling in Iraq.

Pentagon says Iranian weapons still coming to Iraq (AP) Posted: 19 May 2009 09:55 AM PDT AP - The Pentagon says U.S. soldiers are still finding large numbers of Iranian-made weapons in Iraq, despite's Iran's denials.

Iraqis don't jog or spin, but fitness clubs are in (AP) Posted: 19 May 2009 09:33 AM PDT AP - Across a mirrored room from stationary bikes and an occasional treadmill, men in tank tops knock back protein shakes and pump iron to loud hip hop.

Iraq to prosecute Sunni militiamen only for murder (AFP) Posted: 19 May 2009 08:17 AM PDT AFP - A senior Iraqi official said on Tuesday that Sunni Arab militiamen allied with US and Iraqi forces will face prosecution only for murder.

Suspect in Iraq clinic shooting now in Kuwait (AP) Posted: 18 May 2009 09:15 PM PDT AP - The U.S. military says an Army sergeant charged in this month's fatal shooting of five soldiers at a mental health clinic on a Baghdad base has left Iraq.

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