Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Police: Car bomb kills 5 in Baghdad (AP)
• Flag lowered on British town's tradition of honoring Iraq and Afghanistan war dead (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Car bomb kills three, wounds 20 in Iraq (Reuters)
• 14 arrested in scheme to funnel stolen cars to Iraq (Reuters)
• U.S. and Iraq talking but no F-16 deal yet (Reuters)
• Swiss ignored up to 10,000 Iraqi asylum requests (AP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,474 (AP)

Police: Car bomb kills 5 in Baghdad (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:56 PM PDT AP - Iraqi police say explosion of a car bomb parked outside a shopping area in southwestern Baghdad has killed 5 people and wounded 22.

Flag lowered on British town's tradition of honoring Iraq and Afghanistan war dead (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:08 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The scene became a familiar backdrop to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan here: funeral processions slowly creeping through the market town of Wootton Bassett, met by a silent, dignified line of residents, heads bowed.

Car bomb kills three, wounds 20 in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:41 AM PDT Reuters - A parked car bomb exploded near a police checkpoint on a commercial street in a largely Sunni Muslim area of southwestern Baghdad on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 20 others, an interior ministry source said.

14 arrested in scheme to funnel stolen cars to Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:19 AM PDT Reuters - A federal indictment was unsealed here on Wednesday against 14 people who are charged with running a phony carjacking scheme that funneled stolen luxury vehicles from the United States to Iraq through Canada.

U.S. and Iraq talking but no F-16 deal yet (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 09:56 AM PDT Reuters - Washington and Baghdad have made significant progress on a deal for Iraq to buy Lockheed Martin F-16 warplanes but do not have a signed contract, a U.S. military official said on Wednesday.

Swiss ignored up to 10,000 Iraqi asylum requests (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:54 AM PDT AP - Switzerland has ordered an independent investigation to uncover why Swiss officials ignored up to 10,000 asylum requests submitted by Iraqi refugees.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,474 (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:58 AM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, August 30, 2011, at least 4,474 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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