Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Pentagon narrowing options for Iraq troops (AP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,474 (AP)
• Kurdish leader says Iraq needs U.S. beyond 2011 (Reuters)
• Kurd president calls for US forces to stay in Iraq (AP)
• Fear still reigns in Iraq, even after Saddam (AP)

Pentagon narrowing options for Iraq troops (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:47 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration is reviewing a number of options that could leave several thousand U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of the year, but only if Iraqi officials make a decision about what they want American forces to do.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,474 (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:25 AM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, Sept. 6, 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.

Kurdish leader says Iraq needs U.S. beyond 2011 (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:28 AM PDT Reuters - Iraq needs a U.S. military presence beyond this year and the withdrawal of American forces will increase the possibility of civil war, the president of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region said on Tuesday.

Kurd president calls for US forces to stay in Iraq (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 08:39 AM PDT AP - The powerful leader of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region made his first public appeal for American forces to stay in Iraq, saying on Tuesday that if they leave sectarian violence may erupt.

Fear still reigns in Iraq, even after Saddam (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 12:46 AM PDT AP - As a Shiite Muslim who was interrogated by Iraq's secret police and lost her job because she would not join the regime's Baath Party, Fawzia al-Attia should feel safer now that Saddam Hussein is no longer in power. She does not.

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