Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Injured vet spent day at work, nights at protest (AP)
• Wounded veteran improving as protesters urge strike (Reuters)
• Officials: Twin bombs kill 18 in Baghdad (AP)
• Bomb blasts kill 18 in Iraqi capital: sources (Reuters)
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• Injured vet's uncle appalled by police action (AP)
• Tunisia frees former Libyan prime minister: lawyer (Reuters)
• UN pays out another $1 billion from Iraqi oil fund (AP)
• Will the Iraq Withdrawal Impact the Election? (Time.com)
• Oakland protesters hold late-night march (AP)
• Wounding of war veteran rallies Oakland protesters (Reuters)

Injured vet spent day at work, nights at protest (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:05 PM PDT AP - The Iraq War veteran injured during a clash between police and anti-Wall Street protesters wasn't taking part in the demonstrations out of economic want.

Wounded veteran improving as protesters urge strike (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 12:04 PM PDT Reuters - An Iraq war veteran badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police was upgraded to fair condition on Thursday morning as activists called for a general strike against the Bay Area city.

Officials: Twin bombs kill 18 in Baghdad (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:59 AM PDT AP - A twin bombing killed 18 people Thursday in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad — the deadliest attack to rock Iraq since President Barack Obama declared the full withdrawal of U.S. forces at the end of the year.

Bomb blasts kill 18 in Iraqi capital: sources (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:44 AM PDT Reuters - Two bombs exploded on a busy commercial street in a Shi'ite neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 18 people and wounding more than three dozen others, police and hospital sources said.

(AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:23 AM PDT AP - Iraqi police, heath officials: 18 people killed in twin bombings in Baghdad.

Injured vet's uncle appalled by police action (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:48 AM PDT AP - An uncle of an Iraq War veteran injured when anti-Wall Street protesters clashed with police in Oakland, Calif., said he was appalled by officers' action.

Tunisia frees former Libyan prime minister: lawyer (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 03:56 AM PDT Reuters - A Tunisian court has freed former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi despite an extradition request from Libyan authorities, his lawyer said on Thursday.

UN pays out another $1 billion from Iraqi oil fund (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 02:19 AM PDT AP - A U.N. panel has approved another $1 billion in compensation payments for victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

Will the Iraq Withdrawal Impact the Election? (Time.com) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:25 AM PDT Time.com - The Republican strategist and Democratic pollster in their bi-weekly faceoff about Election 2012

Oakland protesters hold late-night march (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:23 AM PDT AP - Anti-Wall Street protesters filled a street with a late-night march Wednesday and Oakland's police chief pledged a vigorous investigation into an earlier clash between police and protesters that left an Iraq War veteran in critical condition with a fractured skull.

Wounding of war veteran rallies Oakland protesters (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 12:27 AM PDT Reuters - Doctors in Oakland, California, struggled on Wednesday to save the life of an Iraq war veteran who became a rallying cry for the Occupy Wall Street movement after he was badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police.

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