Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Gunmen kill Iraqi policeman with four family members
• Bush to GOP: Give Immigration a Chance
• AP IMPACT: MIA work 'acutely dysfunctional'
• George W. Bush on Gay Marriage, Immigration, and Why Obama Kept His Terrorism Policies
• Iraqi Kurd president makes symbolic Baghdad visit
• Syria's Islamists disenchanted with democracy after Mursi's fall

Gunmen kill Iraqi policeman with four family members Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:09 PM PDT HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed a police officer along with four members of his family inside their home in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla late on Sunday, police and medics said. The attackers, who were driving a private vehicle, broke into the officer's house in the evening, holding him and his mother, wife and two children in one room before shooting them dead, a military source said. ...

Bush to GOP: Give Immigration a Chance Posted: 07 Jul 2013 12:04 PM PDT Former President George W. Bush wants Republicans to consider immigration on its own merits, not just as a party saving piece of legislation, he said during an interview on ABC's This Week. "Sometimes, it takes time for some of these complex issues to evolve. And it looks like immigration, you know, has a chance to pass," Bush said. "The reason to pass immigration reform is not to bolster a Republican Party -- it's to fix a system that's broken. Good policy yields good politics as far as I'm concerned. ...

AP IMPACT: MIA work 'acutely dysfunctional' Posted: 07 Jul 2013 11:31 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.

George W. Bush on Gay Marriage, Immigration, and Why Obama Kept His Terrorism Policies Posted: 07 Jul 2013 09:43 AM PDT President George W. Bush cautioned against criticizing gay couples, saying in an exclusive ABC interview that you shouldn't criticize others "until you've examined your own heart." Bush had waded into the revitalized gay-marriage debate last week — if only barely — in a comment to...

Iraqi Kurd president makes symbolic Baghdad visit Posted: 07 Jul 2013 08:29 AM PDT By Suadad al-Salhy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, visited Baghdad on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, in a symbolic step to resolve disputes between the central government and the autonomous region over land and oil. The visit follows an equally rare trip by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki who met Barzani in Kurdistan last month, breaking ice between leaders who have repeatedly accused each other of violating the constitution. ...

Syria's Islamists disenchanted with democracy after Mursi's fall Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:18 AM PDT By Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's Islamist rebels say the downfall of Egypt's popularly elected Muslim Brotherhood president has proven that Western nations pushing for democracy will never accept them, and reinforced the view of radicals that a violent power grab is their only resort. Radical Islamist groups, some of them linked to al Qaeda, have lately been in the ascendancy in Syria's two-year conflict as the death toll rises above 100,000. ...

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