Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• First woman House speaker may be toppled (Reuters)
• Suicide bomber kills 22 in attack on Iraqi cafe (Reuters)
• Suicide bomber kills 21 north of Baghdad (AP)
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• Iraq suicide bombing kills at least 25, wounds 70: police (AFP)
• Trial for Haditha Marine squad leader is delayed (AP)
• Saddam's former chief of staff dies of cancer (AFP)
• Iraq's Tareq Aziz on hunger strike: son (AFP)
• First Baghdad flight for European airline in 20 yrs (AFP)
• Iraq frees five linked to Qaeda in Kirkuk kidnap swap (AFP)
• The Story of Saddam's Gun Collection (The Daily Beast)

First woman House speaker may be toppled (Reuters) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:01 PM PDT Reuters - Nancy Pelosi became the first woman to lead the U.S. House of Representatives by taking on the most powerful man on Earth -- then-President George W. Bush and his unpopular Iraq war.

Suicide bomber kills 22 in attack on Iraqi cafe (Reuters) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:44 PM PDT Reuters - A suicide bomber blew himself up in an Iraqi cafe usually packed with Shi'ite Kurds in a town northeast of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 60, officials said.

Suicide bomber kills 21 north of Baghdad (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 12:55 PM PDT AP - A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt killed at least 21 people, mostly Shiites, on Friday in a town north of Baghdad, shattering what had been weeks of relative calm, the town's mayor said.

(AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:41 PM PDT AP - Yemen expresses astonishment at reports linking it to suspicious packages found on planes.

Iraq suicide bombing kills at least 25, wounds 70: police (AFP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 12:15 PM PDT AFP - At least 25 people were killed and 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a coffee house in the town of Balad Ruz in central Iraq's restive Diyala province on Friday, a police official said.

Trial for Haditha Marine squad leader is delayed (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:55 AM PDT AP - An attorney for a Marine whose squad killed 24 Iraqis nearly five years ago says his client's court-martial is being delayed to Jan. 24.

Saddam's former chief of staff dies of cancer (AFP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:52 AM PDT AFP - Iraq's armed forces chief of staff under Saddam Hussein at the time of the 2003 invasion has died of cancer in a Baghdad hospital after seven years behind bars, the justice ministry said on Friday.

Iraq's Tareq Aziz on hunger strike: son (AFP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:47 AM PDT AFP - Ailing former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz, sentenced to death for murder and crimes against humanity, has gone on hunger strike, his son said on Friday.

First Baghdad flight for European airline in 20 yrs (AFP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:34 AM PDT AFP - An Airbus operated by France's Aigle Azur is on Saturday to make the first scheduled flight by a European airline to Baghdad in 20 years amid hopes of boosting historically close Franco-Iraqi business links.

Iraq frees five linked to Qaeda in Kirkuk kidnap swap (AFP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:23 AM PDT AFP - Iraqi police released five jailed women linked to Al-Qaeda in exchange for two kidnapped Kurdish sisters to curb violence in the ethnically divided city of Kirkuk, an anti-terrorism official told AFP on Friday.

The Story of Saddam's Gun Collection (The Daily Beast) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:26 PM PDT The Daily Beast - Among the Iraqi dictator’s most prized gifts were chrome plated AK-47s. Reporter C.J. Chivers tells the story of how this humble rifle became fashionable among revolutionaries—and dispels many of the myths about them. His new book, The Gun, tells their strange history and why they’re a threat to world stability.

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