Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US general fights alcoholism after public collapse (AP)
• Bomb kills at least 53 pilgrims in south Iraq (AP)
• Attack on Iraqi pilgrims kills 50, scores hurt (Reuters)
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• Suicide bomber kills 15 in attack on Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims (Reuters)

US general fights alcoholism after public collapse (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 01:21 PM PST AP - Retired Brigadier General Stanley Cherrie flew into machine gun fire, lost a leg to a landmine and directed tanks against Iraqi forces in his long Army career. When he walked into a reunion of top brass looking shaky and then collapsed, another side of his military life was revealed: years of hard drinking had grown into alcoholism that nearly killed him.

Bomb kills at least 53 pilgrims in south Iraq (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 11:13 AM PST AP - A bomb tore through a procession of Shiite pilgrims heading toward a largely Sunni town in southern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 53 people in the latest sign of a power struggle between rival Muslim sects that has escalated since the American military withdrawal.

Attack on Iraqi pilgrims kills 50, scores hurt (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:49 AM PST Reuters - A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman killed at least 53 people and wounded scores in an attack on Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims at a checkpoint on Saturday.

(AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:45 AM PST AP - Iraq health official says death toll from bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims in south now 53.

Suicide bomber kills 15 in attack on Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 11:08 PM PST Reuters - A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman killed at least 15 people in an attack that targeted Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims passing through a checkpoint in Iraq's southern city of Basra on Saturday, police said.

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