Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraqis take charge of last prison in US control (AP)
• Ten killed, 24 wounded in Iraq attacks: officials (AFP)
• US army hands over last prison in Iraq (AFP)
• U.S. hands over last Iraq jail but keeps 200 inmates (Reuters)
• As US hands over last prison in Iraq, a glimpse at how detainees lived (The Christian Science Monitor)
• British aid worker's killer 'may have fled Iraq' (AFP)
• Saudi plane makes first flight to Iraq in 20 years (AFP)
• In Iraq, US hands over Tariq Aziz, other Saddam Hussein-era officials (The Christian Science Monitor)

Iraqis take charge of last prison in US control (AP) Posted: 15 Jul 2010 11:53 AM PDT AP - Iraq assumed control of the last U.S.-run prison camp in the country on Thursday, a milestone that casts a spotlight on the Iraqi government's troubled record of caring for inmates amid allegations of torture and overcrowding at Iraqi-run facilities.

Ten killed, 24 wounded in Iraq attacks: officials (AFP) Posted: 15 Jul 2010 11:36 AM PDT AFP - A car bomb in executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's home city and three other attacks killed 10 people, including four policemen, and wounded 24 on Thursday, security officials said.

US army hands over last prison in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 15 Jul 2010 09:01 AM PDT AFP - The US army handed control of Camp Cropper prison to Iraqi authorities on Thursday, effectively ending one of the most controversial chapters of the seven-year-long American military occupation.

U.S. hands over last Iraq jail but keeps 200 inmates (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jul 2010 08:24 AM PDT Reuters - The U.S. military handed over its last prison in Iraq on Thursday, ending an ignominious chapter of the 2003 U.S. invasion that saw thousands detained without charge and triggered outrage after disclosures of abuse.

As US hands over last prison in Iraq, a glimpse at how detainees lived (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Jul 2010 06:58 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The US closed one of the most controversial chapters of the Iraq war today when it transferred control of its last remaining prison to the Iraqi government.

British aid worker's killer 'may have fled Iraq' (AFP) Posted: 15 Jul 2010 06:50 AM PDT AFP - An Iraqi engineer convicted of kidnapping and killing British aid worker Margaret Hassan in 2004 failed to show up in court on Thursday and is thought to have escaped, a lawyer for her family said.

Saudi plane makes first flight to Iraq in 20 years (AFP) Posted: 15 Jul 2010 06:05 AM PDT AFP - A Saudi civil airliner touched down in the main southern Iraqi city of Basra on Thursday on the first such flight between the neighbouring countries since Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

In Iraq, US hands over Tariq Aziz, other Saddam Hussein-era officials (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 14 Jul 2010 01:28 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, soldiers were handed decks of playing cards depicting the 55 most-wanted citizens of a country they knew little about.

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