Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Chlorine leak in Baghdad sickens hundreds (AP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,472 (AP)
• Iraqi Kurds accuse Iran of illegal border crossing (AP)
• Iraq's Sadr lashes out at US (AFP)
• Norway charges radical cleric for death threats (AP)
• Panetta meets with Kurdish president in Iraq (AP)
• In visit to Afghanistan and Iraq, Panetta fixes his gaze on the exit sign (The Christian Science Monitor)

Chlorine leak in Baghdad sickens hundreds (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 02:23 PM PDT AP - Health officials say hundreds of people have been sickened by a chlorine gas cloud that leaked over Baghdad after an explosion at a water treatment plant.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,472 (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 01:47 PM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at least 4,472 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraqi Kurds accuse Iran of illegal border crossing (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:00 PM PDT AP - Lawmakers from Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region on Tuesday accused Iran of building on Iraqi soil — the latest in an escalating border spat.

Iraq's Sadr lashes out at US (AFP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:38 AM PDT AFP - Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday lashed out at US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's disclosure that American forces are keeping up unilateral attacks on Iran-backed insurgents in Iraq.

Norway charges radical cleric for death threats (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:26 AM PDT AP - A Norwegian prosecutor has filed terror charges against an Iraqi-born cleric for threatening Norwegian politicians with death if he's deported from the Nordic country.

Panetta meets with Kurdish president in Iraq (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:08 AM PDT AP - Wrapping up his first visit to Iraq as U.S. defense secretary, Leon Panetta is meeting with the president of the Kurdish regional government, Massoud Barzani.

In visit to Afghanistan and Iraq, Panetta fixes his gaze on the exit sign (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:58 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - After being sworn in as the nation’s new secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta’s first order of business was to head for Iraq and Afghanistan to assess two military engagements in varying stages of winding down.

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