Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US envoy: Diplomatic presence in Iraq will shrink (AP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,412 (AP)
• Ex-MI5 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 (AP)
• Three killed by Iraq car bomb (AFP)
• Iraq war raised UK terror threat: ex-MI5 spy chief (AFP/Metropolitan Police)
• U.S. cleric warns Yemen could be next Iraq or Afghanistan (Reuters)
• Iraq's last Sabeans take sad New Year dip in Tigris (AFP)
• UK "swamped" with threats after wars: ex-spy chief (Reuters)
• Six Turkish soldiers killed by Kurdish rebels (AFP)
• Top Marine in Haditha case forced to retire (AFP)
• US Marine officer in Haditha case leaves service (AP)

US envoy: Diplomatic presence in Iraq will shrink (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:47 PM PDT AP - The State Department is telling Congress that it intends to phase out a network of embassy branch offices in Iraq as soon as three years after the U.S. military leaves in 2011.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,412 (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 12:27 PM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, July 20, 2010, at least 4,412 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Ex-MI5 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 11:21 AM PDT AP - The war in Iraq led to a loss of focus on the threat from al-Qaida, emboldened the group's leader Osama bin Laden, and helped to breed a generation of homegrown terrorists, Britain's former domestic spy chief told an inquiry Tuesday.

Three killed by Iraq car bomb (AFP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 09:24 AM PDT AFP - Three people, including a child, were killed and 18 wounded by a car bomb in Qara Teba in Iraq's Diyala province on Tuesday, security officials said.

Iraq war raised UK terror threat: ex-MI5 spy chief (AFP/Metropolitan Police) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 08:52 AM PDT AFP/Metropolitan Police - Iraq posed little threat to Britain just before the 2003 war -- but the danger of extremist attacks surged following the conflict, the ex-head of domestic security service MI5 told an inquiry Tuesday.

U.S. cleric warns Yemen could be next Iraq or Afghanistan (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 07:49 AM PDT Reuters - A U.S.-born Muslim cleric linked to al Qaeda and wanted dead or alive by Washington warned U.S. President Barack Obama that he risked getting the United States bogged down in Yemen as it was in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Iraq's last Sabeans take sad New Year dip in Tigris (AFP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 07:43 AM PDT AFP - Sheikh Alaa Aziz was saddened by the sight of only a handful of fellow Iraqi Sabeans in simple white cloths dipping in the muddy waters of the Tigris in an ancient purification rite for their New Year.

UK "swamped" with threats after wars: ex-spy chief (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:53 AM PDT Reuters - Britain's support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan radicalized many Muslims and triggered a big rise in terrorism plots that nearly overwhelmed the British security services, the former head of the domestic intelligence agency said on Tuesday.

Six Turkish soldiers killed by Kurdish rebels (AFP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:36 AM PDT AFP - Separatist Kurdish rebels attacked a Turkish military unit near the Iraqi border, killing six soldiers in one of their bloodiest assaults this year, officials said Tuesday.

Top Marine in Haditha case forced to retire (AFP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 10:58 PM PDT AFP - The highest ranking Marine officer charged and later cleared in the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqis after a bomb attack in Haditha has been forced into retirement, his lawyers said.

US Marine officer in Haditha case leaves service (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 07:40 PM PDT AP - A Camp Pendleton Marine officer who was accused of failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis by a squad in the town of Haditha has left the service.

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