Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Have Iran and its allies been passing phony $100 bills in Iraq? (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Three killed in shoot-out near Baghdad airport (AFP)
• Iraq's Allawi courts Iranian support (AP)
• Iran says it wants inclusive Iraqi government (AP)

Have Iran and its allies been passing phony $100 bills in Iraq? (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:45 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - NASIRIYAH, Iraq — At least $4 million in counterfeit U.S. currency has flooded into Iraq since December, and U.S. and Iraqi officials are trying to determine how much of the counterfeiting is purely criminal and how much might be an Iranian attempt to influence Iraqi politics.

Three killed in shoot-out near Baghdad airport (AFP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 11:56 AM PDT AFP - Iraqi troops on Thursday killed three men in a shoot-out near the main highway to Baghdad airport, while north of the capital police found the corpses of 14 Al-Qaeda kidnap victims, officials said.

Iraq's Allawi courts Iranian support (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 10:47 AM PDT AP - The Sunni-backed secular coalition that came in first in Iraqi elections tried Thursday to improve relations with powerful Shiite neighbor Iran, assuring Tehran that if it heads the new government, it would not let Iraq be used as a launching pad for an invasion.

Iran says it wants inclusive Iraqi government (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 05:32 AM PDT AP - Iran said Thursday that all Iraqi parties that fared well in the inconclusive March election should be included in the government after the secular front-runner sent a delegation to Tehran.

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