Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Top US general: US has Plan B for slower Iraq exit (AP)
• Iraqi campaign worker killed along with wife, children (McClatchy Newspapers)
• U.S. won't alter Iraq drawdown without deterioration (Reuters)
• Plans for US withdrawal from Iraq unlikely to change: Gates (AFP)
• Shiite family of 8 killed in Iraq, some beheaded (AP)
• Iraqi families slaughtered in pre-poll violence (AFP)
• British PM Brown to testify at Iraq inquiry (Reuters)
• Correction: Iraq story (AP)
• Gunmen kill eight family members in Iraq, behead some (Reuters)
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• Iraqi family killed by 'terrorist group' (AFP)
• Dogs sniff out explosives amid Iraq bomb threats (AFP)

Top US general: US has Plan B for slower Iraq exit (AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 05:07 PM PST AP - The top U.S. general in Iraq said Monday he could slow the exit of U.S. combat forces this year if Iraq's politics are chaotic following elections this spring. Gen. Ray Odierno said there are no signs that will be necessary, but he says he has a Plan B and told his superiors about it during Washington meetings over the past week.

Iraqi campaign worker killed along with wife, children (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 02:33 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Assailants burst into the home of an Iraqi campaign volunteer before dawn Monday, fatally shooting the man before they stabbed his pregnant wife and their five daughters to death, relatives and authorities said. A sixth child, the only son, was found hanging from a ceiling fan with key arteries severed, a cousin said.

U.S. won't alter Iraq drawdown without deterioration (Reuters) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 02:09 PM PST Reuters - The United States would only slow down its troop withdrawal from Iraq if there were a serious deterioration in security conditions, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday.

Plans for US withdrawal from Iraq unlikely to change: Gates (AFP) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 12:42 PM PST AFP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday the drawdown of US troops in Iraq was moving ahead as planned, barring a dramatic "deterioration" in conditions in Iraq.

Shiite family of 8 killed in Iraq, some beheaded (AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 11:03 AM PST AP - Eight members of one Shiite family were killed south of Baghdad on Monday in the worst incident of a bloody day across Iraq that left at least 23 dead. The spate of attacks — and the fact that some of the family were beheaded — raised fears that insurgents are trying to re-ignite sectarian warfare at a time when the country is preparing for critical March elections.

Iraqi families slaughtered in pre-poll violence (AFP) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 08:26 AM PST AFP - Gunmen brutally murdered two Iraqi families, killing 11 people in total including six children on Monday as a spate of attacks hit the country less than two weeks before elections.

British PM Brown to testify at Iraq inquiry (Reuters) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 07:57 AM PST Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will give evidence to a public inquiry into the Iraq War on March 5, officials for the probe said Monday.

Correction: Iraq story (AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 07:04 AM PST AP - In a Feb. 19 story about the period after Iraq's national elections, The Associated Press erroneously paraphrased a comment by Brig.

Gunmen kill eight family members in Iraq, behead some (Reuters) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 04:33 AM PST Reuters - Gunmen shot dead eight members of a family and cut the heads off some of the bodies on Monday in a mainly Sunni area outside Iraq's capital, security officials said, weeks before a national election.

(AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 03:46 AM PST AP - Iraqi police say terror group kills family of 8 south of Baghdad, some beheaded.

Iraqi family killed by 'terrorist group' (AFP) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 03:34 AM PST AFP - Eight family members were killed, some of them beheaded, by a "terrorist group" on Monday morning in their home on Baghdad's outskirts, Iraqi security forces said in a statement.

Dogs sniff out explosives amid Iraq bomb threats (AFP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 10:27 PM PST AFP - Neil is a somewhat excitable, dark-haired 18-month-old German Shepherd dog but it has a healthy wet nose which crucially for the people of Iraq has been trained to sniff out explosives.

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