Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,322 (AP)
• Iraq insurgents proud to be on U.S. terror list (Reuters)
• Iraq panel rejects Kirkuk vote on same day as Kurd polls (AFP)
• UK to examine 2004 Iraqi civilian torture claims (AP)
• Army `closers' train for new mission: leaving Iraq (AP)
• Iraq bans organized visits to Saddam's grave (AP)
• Iraq bans organised visits to Saddam grave (AFP)
• Car bomb in Iraq wounds 10, policeman shot (Reuters)
• 6 killed in Iraq attacks (AP)

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,322 (AP) Posted: 06 Jul 2009 04:55 PM PDT AP - As of Monday, July 6, 2009, at least 4,322 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq insurgents proud to be on U.S. terror list (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jul 2009 01:11 PM PDT Reuters - An Iraq-based Shi'ite insurgent group rejoiced at the U.S. government's decision to designate it a foreign terror organization, calling it a point of pride, a U.S. militant monitor said Monday. Just days after Kata'ib Hizballah was designated a foreign terror group by U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, the group posted a triumphant message on a Shi'ite jihadist forum praising the move, according to SITE Intelligence.

Iraq panel rejects Kirkuk vote on same day as Kurd polls (AFP) Posted: 06 Jul 2009 12:24 PM PDT AFP - Iraq's electoral commission on Monday ruled out holding a referendum on a new Kurdish constitution on the same day as the July 25 parliamentary and presidential polls in Iraqi Kurdistan.

UK to examine 2004 Iraqi civilian torture claims (AP) Posted: 06 Jul 2009 09:27 AM PDT AP - Britain's defense ministry ordered an inquiry Monday into allegations that Iraqi civilians were tortured and killed by British troops following a fierce gunbattle in Iraq in 2004.

Army `closers' train for new mission: leaving Iraq (AP) Posted: 06 Jul 2009 08:51 AM PDT AP - It was just another day for the U.S. Army in war-weary northern Iraq: insurgents in Mosul, political turf battles in Kirkuk, an attack on the Bayji oil refinery in Salah ad Din.

Iraq bans organized visits to Saddam's grave (AP) Posted: 06 Jul 2009 08:16 AM PDT AP - Iraq's government has banned all organized visits to Saddam Hussein's grave in the village of Ouja, the dictator's birth place north of Baghdad.

Iraq bans organised visits to Saddam grave (AFP) Posted: 06 Jul 2009 06:21 AM PDT AFP - The Iraqi government imposed a ban on Monday on all organised visits to the grave of executed dictator Saddam Hussein after some schools near his stronghold of Tikrit arranged trips for their pupils.

Car bomb in Iraq wounds 10, policeman shot (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jul 2009 04:29 AM PDT Reuters - A car bomb wounded 10 people in Mosul Monday, and gunmen shot and wounded a traffic policeman in further violence in the northern Iraqi city after U.S. troops withdrew from urban centers.

6 killed in Iraq attacks (AP) Posted: 06 Jul 2009 03:13 AM PDT AP - Iraqi authorities say gunmen have killed five people in an attack on a security checkpoint in Baghdad, and a car bomb killed a man in the northern city of Mosul.

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