Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• 4 killed by parked car bomb in Baghdad (AP)
• Gates urges Iraqis to ask for US troop extension (AP)
• US hopes Iraq will ask troops to stay: Gates (AFP)
• Turkish water flow to Iraq 'unacceptable': Baghdad (AFP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,452 (AP)
• IRAQ NOTEBOOK: Witches, Bollywood at grad party (AP)
• Closings scheduled in Ga. soldier's murder trial (AP)
• Iraq oil police frustrated and under-equipped (Reuters)
• End the Iraq Occupation (The Daily Beast)

4 killed by parked car bomb in Baghdad (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 03:03 PM PDT AP - Four people were killed Tuesdayin the explosion of a bomb in a parked car in southwestern Baghdad, officals said.

Gates urges Iraqis to ask for US troop extension (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 02:58 PM PDT AP - Recalling the enormous American investment in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he hopes Baghdad asks U.S. troops to stay beyond their scheduled Dec. 31 departure in order to preserve the relative peace.

US hopes Iraq will ask troops to stay: Gates (AFP) Posted: 24 May 2011 01:36 PM PDT AFP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he hopes Iraqi leaders will ask US troops to stay in their country beyond a year-end deadline but acknowledged the United States was unpopular there.

Turkish water flow to Iraq 'unacceptable': Baghdad (AFP) Posted: 24 May 2011 10:30 AM PDT AFP - Turkey's restriction of water flows along rivers through to Iraq is "unacceptable" and the two countries must sign an agreement to regulate it, Baghdad's government spokesman said on Tuesday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,452 (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 08:32 AM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, May 24, 2011, at least 4,452 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

IRAQ NOTEBOOK: Witches, Bollywood at grad party (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 05:05 AM PDT AP - Harry Potter-inspired witches in flowing black satin gowns and pointed hats shimmied onstage as young warlocks in black-and-red capes looked on. Nearby, Indian-themed music blared from a boom box at a Baghdad version of a Bollywood movie set.

Closings scheduled in Ga. soldier's murder trial (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 02:20 AM PDT AP - Attorneys at Fort Stewart in Georgia are wrapping up their case in the court-martial of an Army sergeant charged with killing his squad leader and a fellow U.S. soldier at a patrol base in Iraq.

Iraq oil police frustrated and under-equipped (Reuters) Posted: 24 May 2011 01:23 AM PDT Reuters - Iraqi Police Major Fawzi Rasheed knows he is charged with a vital task in protecting his country's vast oil industry, pipelines and tanker lanes.

End the Iraq Occupation (The Daily Beast) Posted: 23 May 2011 08:39 PM PDT The Daily Beast - The Pentagon is pushing for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq past the end of the year, when all are scheduled to leave. But former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley says we’d undermine our damaged credibility in the region by staying.

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