Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraqi-Americans receive threats after drug arrests (AP)
• Analysis: West looks to avoid Iraq errors in post-Gaddafi Libya (Reuters)
• Syrian forces raid eastern towns, EU may embargo oil (Reuters)
• Witness: In Libya, echoes of Baghdad's Firdos Square (Reuters)

Iraqi-Americans receive threats after drug arrests (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2011 04:44 PM PDT AP - Members of an Iraqi immigrant community have been targeted with threatening phone calls and questions about their U.S. patriotism after a federal takedown of a drug trafficking ring operating from an Iraqi social club in a working-class city east of San Diego, officials said Wednesday.

Analysis: West looks to avoid Iraq errors in post-Gaddafi Libya (Reuters) Posted: 24 Aug 2011 09:36 AM PDT Reuters - If there is one pitfall Western officials appear determined to avoid in Libya, it is making the same mistakes that were made in Iraq eight years ago.

Syrian forces raid eastern towns, EU may embargo oil (Reuters) Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:46 AM PDT Reuters - Syrian forces killed one person and arrested dozens in raids on an eastern tribal region on Wednesday as part of a crackdown on dissent which could lead to European Union oil sanctions on Damascus as early as next week.

Witness: In Libya, echoes of Baghdad's Firdos Square (Reuters) Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:23 AM PDT Reuters - In the following witness piece, Reuters Enterprise Editor Simon Robinson recalls how as a correspondent for a U.S. magazine he witnessed the U.S. capture of Baghdad in April 2003, and reflects on events in Tripoli.

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