Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq targets tailors to curb militant attacks (AP)
• Iraqi lawmaker: Sunni boycott won't solve standoff (AP)
• Anti-Saddam purge both woos and worries Iraq voters (Reuters)
• Australia's jihad attack plotters jailed up to 28 years (AFP)

Iraq targets tailors to curb militant attacks (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 08:10 AM PST AP - Iraq is cracking down on shops and tailors who sell and make police and military uniforms after attackers disguised themselves as security forces to slip through checkpoints and carry out suicide bombings in heavily guarded Baghdad.

Iraqi lawmaker: Sunni boycott won't solve standoff (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 06:22 AM PST AP - A top Sunni Arab leader, banned from running in next month's elections, said Monday that a Sunni boycott won't solve a standoff over who can run in Iraq's next parliament — though he stopped short of urging his supporters to vote.

Anti-Saddam purge both woos and worries Iraq voters (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 12:01 AM PST Reuters - Government rhetoric against Saddam Hussein's Baath party will woo some Iraqi Shi'ite voters ahead of an election, but many people feel uneasy about a return to the sectarian politics that has spilled so much blood.

Australia's jihad attack plotters jailed up to 28 years (AFP) Posted: 14 Feb 2010 10:07 PM PST AFP - Five Muslims who plotted an attack using guns and explosives to protest against Australia's part in the "war on terror" were jailed for up to 28 years Monday, after the country's longest extremism trial.

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