Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US-MUSIC Summary
• CA-NEWS Summary
• APNewsBreak: Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap
• Analysis: No good military options for U.S. in Syria
• Militants kill five Iraqi soldiers, Sunni protesters form "army"
• Gunmen kill 10 Iraqi security forces in 2 attacks
• US tries new aerial tools in Caribbean drug fight
• Investigators push ahead in Boston bombing probe
• Rebels attack sprawling air base in northern Syria
• Erdogan hails Kurd rebel pullout as end of "dark era" for Turkey
• Iranian scientist freed by U.S. returns home: local media
• Attacks kill 8 from Iraq security forces
• Group tied to old guard could gain in Iraq unrest
• A GATHERING OF PRESIDENTS
• Boston bomb suspect moved; FBI probe shifts focus
• Wikileaks suspect named SF Pride parade marshal
• Obama talks tough, shows no rush to act on Syria chemical arms evidence
• Factbox: What is the chemical weapon sarin?

US-MUSIC Summary Posted: 27 Apr 2013 04:25 PM PDT Woody Guthrie legacy on display at new Oklahoma museum TULSA, Oklahoma (Reuters) - There was no doubt in Nora Guthrie's mind where the final repository of her famous musician father's legacy would be. The Woody Guthrie Center opened on Saturday in Tulsa, allowing visitors to see the folk singer's handwritten lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" and thousands of other lyric sheets, letters, postcards, artwork, photos, manuscripts and journals. ...

CA-NEWS Summary Posted: 27 Apr 2013 03:30 PM PDT Four arrested as Bangladesh building toll rises to 352 DHAKA (Reuters) - Two factory bosses and two engineers were detained in Bangladesh on Saturday, three days after the collapse of a building where low-cost garments were made for Western brands killed at least 352 people. More were being pulled alive from the rubble at the building, where police said as many as 900 people were still missing in Bangladesh's worst ever industrial accident. ...

APNewsBreak: Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap Posted: 27 Apr 2013 02:18 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.

Analysis: No good military options for U.S. in Syria Posted: 27 Apr 2013 12:49 PM PDT By Phil Stewart and Peter Apps WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite President Barack Obama's pledge that Syria's use of chemical weapons is a "game changer" for the United States, he is unlikely to turn to military options quickly and would want allies joining him in any intervention. Possible military choices range from limited one-off missile strikes from ships - one of the less complicated scenarios - to bolder operations like carving out no-fly safe zones. One of the most politically unpalatable possibilities envisions sending tens of thousands of U.S. ...

Militants kill five Iraqi soldiers, Sunni protesters form "army" Posted: 27 Apr 2013 09:21 AM PDT By Kamal Naama RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Militants shot dead five Iraqi soldiers in the Sunni Muslim stronghold province of Anbar on Saturday and protesters said they were forming an "army" after four days of unrest that raised fears of a return to widespread sectarian civil conflict. More than 170 people have been killed since Tuesday when security forces stormed a Sunni protest camp in the town of Hawija, triggering clashes that spread to other Sunni areas in western and northern areas. ...

Gunmen kill 10 Iraqi security forces in 2 attacks Posted: 27 Apr 2013 09:17 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen killed 10 people in Iraq, including five soldiers near the main Sunni protest camp west of Baghdad, the latest in a wave of violence that has raised fears the country faces a new round of sectarian bloodshed.

US tries new aerial tools in Caribbean drug fight Posted: 27 Apr 2013 08:57 AM PDT ABOARD THE HIGH SPEED VESSEL SWIFT (AP) — Drug smugglers who race across the Caribbean in speedboats will typically jettison their cargo when spotted by surveillance aircraft, hoping any chance of prosecuting them will vanish with the drugs sinking to the bottom of the sea.

Investigators push ahead in Boston bombing probe Posted: 27 Apr 2013 08:04 AM PDT BOSTON (AP) — With the Boston marathon bombing suspect in a prison hospital, investigators are pushing forward in the U.S. and abroad to piece together the myriad details of a plot that killed three people and injured more than 260.

Rebels attack sprawling air base in northern Syria Posted: 27 Apr 2013 07:34 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels attacked a sprawling military air base in the country's northwest on Saturday, while opposition forces assaulted a string of army checkpoints and positions in the south, activists said.

Erdogan hails Kurd rebel pullout as end of "dark era" for Turkey Posted: 27 Apr 2013 06:20 AM PDT By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday hailed the planned withdrawal of Kurdish rebel fighters from Turkey as the end of a "dark era" but warned against potential sabotage of a historic peace process. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which seeks autonomy for Turkey's Kurdish southeast, on Thursday ordered its fighters in Turkey to begin withdrawing to its main base in the mountains of northern Iraq under a carefully choreographed peace plan. ...

Iranian scientist freed by U.S. returns home: local media Posted: 27 Apr 2013 04:54 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian scientist held for more than a year in California on charges of violating U.S. sanctions arrived in Iran on Saturday, Iranian media reported, after being freed in what the Omani foreign ministry said was a humanitarian gesture. Mojtaba Atarodi, 55, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Iran's Sharif University of Technology, had been detained on suspicion of buying high-tech U.S. laboratory equipment, previous Iranian media reports said. ...

Attacks kill 8 from Iraq security forces Posted: 27 Apr 2013 02:58 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say attackers have killed eight members of the security forces, including five anti-al-Qaida militiamen, amid rising sectarian violence in the country.

Group tied to old guard could gain in Iraq unrest Posted: 27 Apr 2013 12:35 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — As clashes this week raise fears of a destabilizing new eruption of sectarian fighting in Iraq, a shadowy militant group linked to the top fugitive from Saddam Hussein's regime could stand to gain by attracting new Sunni Muslim support.

A GATHERING OF PRESIDENTS Posted: 26 Apr 2013 10:01 PM PDT We needed this past week, with its moments of introspection, its reflections on national purpose, its symbols of national concord. Many of them, of course, occurred in Boston, site of terrorism in 2013. One of them occurred in Dallas, site of tragedy in 1963.The images of what happened in Boston already have been seared into the national psyche. The image of what happened in Dallas Thursday is fresher, and while ceremonial rather than spontaneous, it was a powerful statement about the noblest American values: Duty. Service. Reconciliation. Unity. ...

Boston bomb suspect moved; FBI probe shifts focus Posted: 26 Apr 2013 07:18 PM PDT BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was moved from a hospital to a federal prison medical center while FBI agents shifted the focus of their investigation to how the deadly plot was pulled off and searched for evidence Friday in a landfill near the college he attended.

Wikileaks suspect named SF Pride parade marshal Posted: 26 Apr 2013 06:39 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Army private charged in a massive leak of U.S. secrets to the WikiLeaks website has been named as a grand marshal of San Francisco's annual gay rights parade, a choice that was immediately condemned by several groups representing gay and lesbian service members.

Obama talks tough, shows no rush to act on Syria chemical arms evidence Posted: 26 Apr 2013 06:08 PM PDT By Matt Spetalnick and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned Syria on Friday that its use of chemical weapons would be a "game changer" for the United States but made clear he was in no rush to intervene in the civil war there on the basis of evidence he said was still preliminary. Speaking a day after the disclosure of U.S. intelligence that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against its own people, Obama talked tough while calling for patience as he sought to fend off pressure for a swift response against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. ...

Factbox: What is the chemical weapon sarin? Posted: 26 Apr 2013 04:55 PM PDT (Reuters) - Charges that Syria has used the chemical weapon sarin have raised questions about the nerve agent, how it kills and what level of evidence it will take to prove it was used on the Syrian people. WHAT IS SARIN? Sarin is a man-made nerve gas that was originally developed as a pesticide in Germany in 1938. It is chemically similar to a class of pesticides known as organophosphates. Sarin, also known as GB, is part of a class of chemical weapons called G-series nerve agents that were developed during World War Two and were named for the German scientists who synthesized them. ...

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