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5 U.S., 2 Georgian Troops Die in Iraq, Officials Say - BAGHDAD, May 4 -- The American-led coalition announced Saturday the deaths of seven troops, as the fight for control of the capital's Sadr City district continued with missiles aimed at Shiite militiamen striking near a hospital. |
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Double Bombings in an Iraqi Town Kill 35 - BAGHDAD — Two thunderous blasts set off by suicide bombers ripped through a crowded shopping street in the town of Balad Ruz in Diyala Province on Thursday, killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 62 others, many of them seriously. |
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3 US Troops Killed, 31 Wounded in Iraq - Suspected Shiite militants lobbed rockets and mortar shells into the U.S.-protected Green Zone and a military base elsewhere in Baghdad on Sunday, killing three American troops and wounding 31, officials said. |
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Immoral: Ignoring the Routine Killings of Civilians in Terror Wars - The recent killing of six Iraqis by a U.S. helicopter calls into question, yet again, of our policy of killing suspected insurgents from the air. Our military has admitted that those killed were members of a U.S.-funded group, and that it was "a mistake." Air strikes such as these are often the safest way for a military force to strike a possible enemy, but the routine nature of these actions has another insidious and ultimately self-defeating consequence: the unintended, but frequent killing and maiming of an innocent populace. |
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Attacks on U.S. Forces Soared at End of March - BAGHDAD, April 1 -- Attacks against U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces soared across Baghdad in the last week of March to the highest levels since the deployment of additional U.S. troops here reached full strength last June, according to U.S. military data and analysis. |
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2 Iraq hostages' bodies found; other families fear worst - BAGHDAD — U.S. authorities have recovered the remains of two American contractors who were kidnapped separately in predominantly Shiite Muslim southern Iraq more than a year ago, the FBI announced Monday. |
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Six of the Fallen, in Words They Sent Home - Unlike the soldiers of some previous wars, who were only occasionally able to send letters back home to loved ones, many of those who died left behind an extraordinary electronic testimony describing in detail the labor, the fears and the banality of serving in Iraq. |
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U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 4,000 - BAGHDAD: A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000. The grim milestone came on a day when at least 61 people were killed across the country. |
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At least 60 killed in Iraq - BAGHDAD -- More than 60 Iraqis were killed and dozens injured today in bomb blasts, shootings, rocket and mortar fire, a reminder of the fragility of recent security gains. The bloodshed stretched across central and northern Iraq, rattling both Shiite Muslim and Sunni Arab communities, many of which had seen a reduction in violence late last year. |
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4 Americans Killed in Iraq; U.S. Attack Kills 6 - BAGHDAD — Four American soldiers were killed near the capital in the past two days, the military said Saturday, and north of Baghdad an American attack helicopter killed six people who the Iraqi police said were pro-American Sunni militia fighters. |
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G.I.’s Death Prompts 2 Inquiries of Iraq Electrocutions - WASHINGTON — On Jan. 2, Staff Sgt. Ryan D. Maseth, a 24-year-old Green Beret from Pennsylvania, stepped into a shower at his base in the Radwaniyah Palace Complex in Baghdad and was electrocuted. Now, two months later, his death has resulted in both a Congressional investigation and a Pentagon inspector general’s inquiry into similar cases. |
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Cheney cites 'phenomenal' Iraqi security progress as bombing kills 40 - BAGHDAD — Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday made a surprise visit to Baghdad, where he pledged that U.S. forces would "not quit before the job is done" and said that a massive troop buildup had achieved "phenomenal" improvements in security. At sunset Monday, however, a female suicide bomber killed at least 40 people and injured more than 50 when she blew herself up in a crowded pedestrian area near a Shiite Muslim shrine in the southern holy city of Karbala, according to government and hospital officials. Among the victims were several Iranian pilgrims who'd come to worship at the Imam Hussein shrine, one of Islam's most sacred sites. |
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Death toll now 9 in Baghdad bombing - BAGHDAD — A car bomb in central Baghdad killed at least nine people Thursday and wounded at least 20, Iraqi police said. The explosion occurred on al Khayam Street in the Bab al Sharji neighborhood, not far from a bridge leading to the Green Zone. It was less than three miles away from where a double bombing killed 70 a week ago. |
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Rocket Attack Kills 3 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq - BAGHDAD, March 12 -- A barrage of rockets targeting an American military base in southern Iraq on Wednesday morning killed three U.S. soldiers, bringing to 12 the number of Americans killed in Iraq in the past three days. |
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Eight U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq Attacks - BAGHDAD, March 11 -- Eight U.S. soldiers died in separate attacks here and in the eastern province of Diyala on Monday, the deadliest day for U.S. troops in more than two months. |
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Roadside bomb kills three U.S. soldiers in Iraq - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers and an interpreter in Iraq's Diyala province on Monday, the same day a suicide bomber killed five U.S. soldiers in the capital Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. |
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Suicide bombers kill six in volatile central Iraq - Baghdad - At least six people, including a tribal chief, were killed and 22 injured Monday in two suicide bombings in the volatile Diyala province in Iraq, police and eyewitnesses said. In the first attack, a female suicide bomber blew herself up outside the home of a tribal chief, who led a local police squad, known as the Awakening Council. |
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Mass Grave Containing 100 Bodies Found North of Baghdad - BAGHDAD, March 8 -- Iraqi security forces have discovered a mass grave containing the skeletal remains of about 100 people in an area north of Baghdad once dominated by the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Saturday. |
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Bombs Kill 54 and Wound 123 in Baghdad - BAGHDAD — Two bombs struck a bustling shopping district in the heart of Baghdad on Thursday evening, turning display windows and cabinets and glass shelves into deadly shrapnel, and killing 54 people and wounding 123, the Iraqi authorities said. |
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Study: Lack of MRAPs Cost Marine Lives - Hundreds of U.S. Marines have been killed or injured by roadside bombs in Iraq because Marine Corps bureaucrats refused an urgent request in 2005 from battlefield commanders for blast-resistant vehicles, an internal military study concludes. |
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14 killed in 2 Baghdad bombings - BAGHDAD -- Two bombs exploded minutes apart today in central Baghdad, killing at least 14 people in attacks aimed at U.S.-allied Iraqi tribal leaders, said police and hospital officials. It was the second straight day in which major bomb blasts had struck Iraq and came as U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates indicated support for a pause later this summer in the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. |
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At least 45 die in car bombings, fighting in Iraq as Gates arrives - BAGHDAD — On a day when the U.S. Secretary of Defense arrived in Iraq to discuss U.S. troop withdrawals and Iraq's halting but real political progress, carnage from car bombs and internal battles around the country claimed at least 45 lives. |
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At least six killed in Iraq violence - Baghdad - At least six people were killed, including US soldiers, four were wounded and 15 detained in Iraqi violence, US officials and media reports said Saturday. In the city of al-Howeija, some 350 kilometres west of Baghdad, militants killed on Saturday a civilian, the Iraqi news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) said. |
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Soldier Suicides at Record Level - The number of attempted suicides or self-inflicted injuries in the Army has jumped sixfold since the Iraq war began. Last year, about 2,100 soldiers injured themselves or attempted suicide, compared with about 350 in 2002, according to the U.S. Army Medical Command Suicide Prevention Action Plan. |
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Mass grave discovered in northern Iraq - Baghdad - Iraqi forces found the bodies of 55 people allegedly killed and buried by al-Qaeda loyalists in a mass grave near the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, a police officer said Tuesday. A police force backed by tribal units made the discovery while conducting a search operation in al-Jazira west of Samarra, 120 kilometres north of Baghdad, Colonel Mamduh al-Bazi from the city police told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. |
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Family killed by US Army in Iraq - Baghdad - US troops killed three members of the same family Tuesday and wounded another during a raid on their home in a town near the central Iraqi city of Tikrit, police said. The troops raided a house in the town of Durra in the early hours of Tuesday and shot dead three members of a family - the father, mother and a son - and wounded the daughter, police sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. |
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Errant U.S. airstrike kills 9 in Iraq - BAGHDAD -- Nine people were killed and four were injured in an errant U.S. airstrike southeast of Baghdad, the military said Sunday. One child was among the dead, and two children were among the injured, said U.S. Army Maj. Brad Leighton. |
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Toll Increases to 98 in Iraq Attack - BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials on Saturday raised the death toll from Friday’s pet market bombings as more bodies were found and as badly injured people died from their wounds, bringing the total to 98 dead and 123 injured, according to the Interior Ministry. |
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Two bombs at Baghdad pet markets kill 72 -police - BAGHDAD, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Bomb blasts ripped through two popular pet markets in Baghdad on Friday, killing 72 people in the deadliest attacks in the city in six months and dealing a bitter blow to Iraqi hopes that security is getting better. Police said a female suicide bomber killed 45 people and wounded 82 at the Ghazil pet market in central Baghdad. Another blast shortly after, caused either by a roadside bomb or a second female suicide bomber, killed 27 people and wounded 67 at a bird market in southern Baghdad, they said. |
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U.S. casualties rise in Iraq after falling for 4 months - WASHINGTON — The U.S. death toll in Iraq increased in January, ending a four-month drop in casualties, and most of the deaths occurred outside Baghdad or the once-restive Anbar province, according to military statistics. In all, 38 American service members had been reported killed in January by Thursday evening, compared with 23 in December. Of those, 33 died from hostile action, but only nine of them in Baghdad or Anbar. |
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Headless bodies found in Iraq - BAGHDAD — Civilians stumbled upon nine headless bodies in a field about 60 miles north of Baghdad on Tuesday. The nine, including three women, had been targeted because they were suspected of being part of a local awakening council, or concerned local citizens group, that was working with U.S. troops to fight al Qaida in Iraq, said a police officer involved in the investigation. |
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5 U.S. soldiers die in Iraq in 2nd-deadliest attack this year - BAGHDAD — Five U.S. soldiers were killed Monday afternoon in northern Iraq when explosives detonated near their vehicle, the second-deadliest attack on American soldiers this year. The attack occurred in Mosul, a city that the Iraqi government has dubbed al Qaida in Iraq's last major stronghold, and the site of some of the biggest attacks in the country so far this year. |
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Bomb Kills Provincial Police Chief In N. Iraq - BAGHDAD, Jan. 24 -- A provincial police chief was killed by a suicide bomber in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday while inspecting the scene of a massive attack that killed 38 people a day earlier, signs that the city has become a crucial hub for the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. |
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At Least 15 Iraqis Die As Building Explodes - BAGHDAD, Jan. 23 -- A building rigged with explosives detonated Wednesday in Mosul, creating a thunderous blast that killed at least 15 people in the northern Iraqi city, which has become a gathering point and growing target for Sunni insurgents. |
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At least 14 killed, 20 wounded in Iraq bomb blasts - Baghdad - At least 14 people were killed, including a US marine, and 20 wounded Wednesday in bomb blasts in Iraq, while 65 terrorist suspects were arrested. The first attack occurred in central Baghdad, security sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. |
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WHO Estimates Iraqi Death Toll at 151,000 - All Things Considered, January 9, 2008 · A study conducted by the World Health Organization and the Iraq Health Ministry estimates that more than 150,000 Iraqis suffered violent deaths in the first three years after the U.S. invasion. That's about a fourth of the number of deaths found in an earlier controversial study. |
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At least 20 killed, 56 wounded in Iraqi violence - Baghdad - At least 20 Iraqis were killed, including students and the leader of an armed anti-terrorist group, and 56 were injured in a wave of violence in Iraq on Monday. In one incident, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt in the early hours of Monday in northern Baghdad's Azamiya district, targeting the leader of the Awakening Council, Riyad al-Samaraey, and his supporters, security sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. |
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Bombers strike on Iraqi holiday - BAGHDAD -- Moments after jubilant Iraqi troops were captured on videotape Sunday shouting "Where is terrorism now?" a suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest here, killing at least three soldiers celebrating Army Day. It was the first of three deadly attacks in Baghdad, all within about an hour. The bombings killed at least eight people and injured dozens, though some estimates put the death toll as high as 15. |
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Two US soldiers were shot by Iraqi soldier-generals - BAGHDAD, Jan 5 (Reuters) - An Iraqi soldier deliberately shot and killed two U.S. soldiers during a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol in the northern city of Mosul on Dec. 26, two Iraqi Army generals said on Saturday. |
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Suicide Blast at Baghdad Funeral of Bomb Victim Kills Dozens - The suicide bombing in Baghdad's Zayouna neighborhood Tuesday was one of the deadliest blasts in the capital in months. It occurred as many Baghdad residents are saying they feel more secure and express hope that the worst is behind them, even as they acknowledge that random attacks will continue. The explosion killed at least 25 people and wounded 20 others, according to the U.S. military. Iraqi police and ambulance officials told news services that the death toll was at least 32. |
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Car bomb in central Baghdad kills at least 14 people and wounds 64, police and hospital officials say - BAGHDAD: A car bomb detonated in the middle of a busy market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 64, police and hospital officials said. At least one woman and a child were killed in the blast, a police officer said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to the press. Both the officer and a hospital official who also would not give his name, said 14 people were killed. |
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FACTBOX-Military and civilian deaths in Iraq - Dec 24 (Reuters) - One U.S. soldier was killed and 11 were wounded by two explosions near their vehicles while they were conducting operations in Kirkuk province on Dec. 21, the U.S. military said on Saturday. |
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Iraq War Claims Hundreds of U.S. Troops - Morning Edition, December 21, 2007 · More than 800 U.S. troops have lost their lives in Iraq from Feb. 1, when additional troops started arriving for the surge, through Dec. 21. The Department of Defense reports the death of another U.S. soldier in a suicide bombing. He died alongside five Iraqi civilians. |
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Bomber kills 13 Iraq volunteers, 1 US soldier - BAQUBA, Iraq, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated a vest packed with explosives in Iraq's Diyala province on Thursday, killing 13 neighbourhood patrol volunteers and a U.S. soldier. U.S. forces said the explosion struck a foot patrol near a building where a city council meeting was to be held in Kanaan, near Baquba, capital of Diyala province north of Baghdad. One U.S. soldier was killed and 10 were wounded. |
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Suicide bomber kills 16 in Iraqi village - BAGHDAD, Dec 18 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 16 people when he detonated a vest rigged with explosives in a Shi'ite Muslim village north of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. Suicide bombers, gunmen and car bombs killed 14 other people across the country. The violence coincided with an unannounced visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who lauded recent security gains in Iraq. |
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Killings of Journalists Hit a High In 2007 - Iraq was the deadliest place to work, accounting for 31 deaths, with Somalia (seven deaths) the second-most-dangerous country. Twelve media support workers, such as bodyguards and drivers, also died in Iraq, the committee said, noting that since the war began in March 2003, 124 journalists and 49 media workers have been killed. In all, 24 journalists in Iraq were murdered and seven deaths occurred in combat-related crossfire. |
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Triple car bombings strike southern Iraqi city, killing at least 41 and injuring 150 - BAGHDAD: Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in the market district of a southern Iraqi city on Wednesday, killing at least 41 people and injuring 150 in a Shiite region that has largely been spared the country's sectarian bloodshed, authorities said. |
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Attacks in Baghdad Kill 9 and Damage a Refinery - BAGHDAD, Dec. 10 — A spate of bomb, rocket and mortar attacks rocked areas of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least nine people and exploding part of a major oil refinery, sending up a thick column of smoke that dominated the city’s skyline for much of the day. |
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Suicide Bombing Kills 8 In Northern Iraq Oil Town - BAGHDAD, Dec. 8 -- A suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck attacked a police station north of Baghdad on Saturday, the latest in a week of bombings that have left 80 people dead. |
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Thirty-five killed, scores wounded in Iraq violence - Baghdad - At least 35 Iraqis were killed and scores wounded in separate bombings, raids and shootings in Iraq Saturday, local authorities said. Bayji, 200 kilometres north of Baghdad, experienced the worst violence with two intense bombings. In one incident, 11 were killed, including seven policemen, and 44 wounded when the house of Ali al-Jaboury, the anti-terrorism police department chief, was attacked. |
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22 people killed in suicide attacks outside Baghdad - BAGHDAD: A female suicide bomber attacked the offices of an anti-al-Qaida group that has joined forces with the U.S., killing at least 12 people on Friday in one of Iraq's most violent provinces, police and the U.S. military said. A second attack at a checkpoint manned by Iraqi soldiers and another of the U.S-backed groups killed 10 people, an Iraqi army officer said. |
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Car Bombs Kill 22 as Gates Visits Iraq - BAGHDAD, Dec. 5 — Car bombs in Baghdad and three northern Iraqi cities killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 60 others on Wednesday, as Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived for an unannounced visit with senior Iraqi officials. |
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20 Die as Gunmen Descend on Village - BAGHDAD, Dec. 1 -- Dozens of gunmen overran a Shiite village north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 20 people, police said, the latest in a recent spike in attacks in Diyala province, where the U.S. military is rotating some troops out and moving others in. |
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Female Bomber Wounds 7 GIs in Iraq - BAGHDAD, Nov. 28 -- A woman wearing an explosives belt blew herself up near a U.S. patrol about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, wounding seven U.S. troops and five Iraqis, the U.S. military said Wednesday. The attack Tuesday near Baqubah, in Diyala province, was a rare example of a female suicide bombing. |
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11 dead in Baghdad mass slaying, showing fragility of gains there - BAGHDAD — Gunmen in Baghdad's Shaab neighborhood stormed into a house not far from an Iraqi police checkpoint and killed 11 members of an Iraqi journalist's family, witnesses and journalism organizations reported Monday. |
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Car Bomb Kills 9 in Baghdad - BAGHDAD, Nov. 25 — A car bomb killed nine people near Baghdad’s medical district on Sunday. It was the second major bomb in the Iraqi capital in three days, after a recent lull in violence. |
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15 Killed in Baghdad, Shattering Growing Calm - BAGHDAD, Nov. 23 -- The man walked into the crowded al-Ghazl animal market Friday, past police checkpoints and barricades, Humvees and Iraqi soldiers. An hour or so earlier, a U.S. patrol had passed through the market. He carried a bomb, hidden in a box containing birds for sale, witnesses said. Shortly after 9 a.m., the bomb detonated, killing 15 people and injuring 55, according to Iraqi police, although the U.S. military said the death toll was eight. The attack was the deadliest in the capital in more than 2 1/2 months, delivering a blow to a rising sense of confidence among Iraqis that their nation is becoming more secure. |
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10 U.S.-Backed Fighters Killed in Iraq - BAGHDAD, Nov. 22 -- Al-Qaeda in Iraq gunmen disguised as official security forces killed at least 10 U.S.-backed Sunni fighters on Thursday, the latest attack on the American effort to form neighborhood-based armed patrols, Iraqi officials said. |
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Two killed in attacks, two injured US soldiers die in Iraq - Baghdad - At least two people were killed and five wounded, including policemen, in separate attacks in Maysan province and Baghdad, while two US soldiers were reportedly killed in Iraq, sources said Friday. At least one was killed and four wounded when two explosive charges went off consecutively at a public market near a parking lot in central Baghdad, media reports said. |
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Study: Mental Health Issues After War - Morning Edition, November 14, 2007 · A study in The Journal of the American Medical Association says the invisible injuries plaguing soldiers returning from war in Iraq — such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression or just a sense of "not feeling normal" — are common mental health problems, and are most likely to show up several months after a soldier gets home. |
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The Real Story Behind the Falling Casualty Rate in Iraq - As U.S. casualties have continued to drop, many people on the anti-Bush side of the aisle have begun to quietly panic in recent days over this question: "Could George W. Bush and Frederick Kagan have possibly been right about the surge?" |
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Suicide attack on Kurdish party, two US soldiers killed - Baghdad - A suicide attacker driving a car bomb targeted the Kurdistan Democratic Party building in Kirkuk, while two US soldiers were reported to have been killed in two separate attacks, sources said Wednesday. |
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2007 Is Deadliest Year for U.S. Troops in Iraq - BAGHDAD, Nov. 6 — Six American soldiers were killed in three separate attacks in Iraq on Monday, the military said Tuesday, taking the number of deaths this year to 852. The toll makes 2007 the deadliest year of the war for United States troops. |
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Suicide bomber kills 27 recruits outside police camp northeast of Baghdad - BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up Monday among recruits gathered outside a police camp in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 27 people and wounding 20, police and hospital officials said. |
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Suicide car bomber kills 7 in Iraq's Kirkuk - KIRKUK, Iraq, Oct 28 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least seven people on Sunday in a huge explosion that ripped through shops and set cars ablaze in the northern Iraqi oil centre of Kirkuk, police said. Some 25 people were also wounded in the blast, said Major- General Torhan Abdul-Rahman, deputy police chief of Kirkuk, a volatile city claimed by both Kurds and Arabs that has witnessed regular bomb attacks and shootings. Another police official put the death toll at eight. |
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Bomb kills Iraqi civilians southeast of Baghdad - BAGHADAD: A bomb exploded Saturday in a predominantly Shiite area southeast of Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 13 others, police and hospital officials said. |
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Iraq violence kills 13 civilians and wounds 26 - Baghdad - At least 13 civilians, four of them children, were killed and 26 injured in a spate of attacks across Iraq on Thursday while the US military announced two soldiers were killed and eight injured by insurgents in Salahaddin. Eight mortar shells fell on a residential building in a village in the province of Diyala, killing four children from the same family, the Voices of Iraq news agency VOI cited a security source as saying. |
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U.S. airstrike kills at least 11 in Iraq - BAGHDAD -- A U.S. airstrike left at least 11 dead in a village in northern Iraq on Tuesday, heightening an ongoing Iraqi backlash over the civilian toll of American military actions. |
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Truck Bomb Kills Up to 16 Iraqis in Mosul - BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 — A suicide truck bomb killed as many as 16 people and wounded more than 50 others when it destroyed a police station in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, according to a Health Ministry official there. |
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Baghdad car bomb kills at least seven, wounds 30 - Baghdad - At least seven people were killed and 30 wounded in a car bomb in central Baghdad, while three family members were killed in another blast in Baquba city, sources said Tuesday. The Baghdad attack near a gas station in the city centre reportedly targeted a police patrol, a police source said. |
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Separate attacks kill 5 Iraqi journalists - BAGHDAD -- Five Iraqi journalists were killed in three separate attacks this weekend, marking the deadliest day for reporters covering the country in a year. Four reporters for Iraqi newspapers were reported shot to death Sunday in ambushes near Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Previously reported was the death of Salih Saif Aldin, a correspondent for the Washington Post who was apparently shot to death Sunday too while on assignment in the Sadiya neighborhood of southwest Baghdad. |
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U.S. says 15 civilians, including 9 children, killed in raid targeting al-Qaida in Iraq - BAGHDAD: A U.S. attack killed 19 insurgents and 15 civilians, including nine children, northwest of the capital — one of the heaviest civilian death tolls in an American operation in recent months. The military said it was targeting senior leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq. |
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Nine dead, 45 wounded in a Kirkuk suicide attack - Baghdad - At least nine people were killed and 45 wounded Thursday in a suicide attack in Kirkuk province, an Iraqi police source said. The attacker blew himself up while the Kirkuk traffic director colonel Bistoun Mahmoud was heading for home at 3.45 pm, killing seven civilians and two policemen and wounding 45, the source added. |
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Increased violence continues in Iraq - BAGHDAD — A recent jump in violence across Iraq continued Wednesday, with at least 16 people killed and 45 wounded in various attacks, including seven involving improvised bombs. More than 55 people were killed and more than 110 were wounded on Tuesday. |
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Security contractor, this time from Dubai, kills 2 Iraqi civilians - BAGHDAD — Security contractors escorting a convoy shot and killed two women Tuesday afternoon in central Baghdad, police said. Iraqi Interior ministry officials later identified the contractors as employees of the Dubai-based Unity Resources Group. |
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Blasts kill 22 in northern Iraq - BAGHDAD -- Two suicide car bombs targeting a police chief and a tribal leader who had worked with U.S. and counterinsurgency Iraqi forces killed 22 people in northern Iraq on Tuesday, police said. They were among 40 Iraqis killed in a wave of attacks that coincided with insurgent threats to step up violence during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. In addition, police said that they found the bodies of eight people believed to be victims of sectarian slayings in Baghdad. |
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Series of attacks in Iraq kill 35 and injure 68 - Baghdad - At least 35 were killed and 68 injured Tuesday in a series of attacks across Iraq including two suicide bombings targeting a police chief and an anti-al-Qaeda tribal figure in the town of Baiji. At least 18 people have been killed and 29 injured in twin suicide bombings in the town of Baiji, north of Baghdad, targeting the homes of the town's police chief and a tribal leader, police said. |
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Blackwater Shootings ‘Murder,’ Iraq Says - BAGHDAD, Oct. 7 — The Iraqi prime minister’s office said Sunday that the government’s investigation had determined that Blackwater USA private security guards who shot Iraqi civilians three weeks ago in a Baghdad square sprayed gunfire in nearly every direction, committed “deliberate murder” and should be punished accordingly. |
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3 U.S. troops killed in Iraq bombings - BAGHDAD -- Roadside bombs killed three American soldiers Friday, and U.S. and Iraqi forces differed in their accounts of an overnight raid on a suspected hide-out for Shiite Muslim militiamen. The U.S. military said American forces backed by attack aircraft killed 25 militiamen in the assault on the village of Jizan Imam, about 40 miles northwest of Baghdad. Some Iraqi officials, though, said most of the dead were civilians mistaken for hostile forces. |
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We Count, They Don't - In Iraq, it turns out that the military counted corpses from the beginning--counted, in fact, everything. |
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From Errand to Fatal Shot to Hail of Fire to 17 Deaths - The new details include these:
A deadly cascade of events began when a single bullet apparently fired by a Blackwater guard killed an Iraqi man whose weight probably remained on the accelerator and propelled the car forward as the passenger, the man’s mother, clutched him and screamed.
The car continued to roll toward the convoy, which responded with an intense barrage of gunfire in several directions, striking Iraqis who were desperately trying to flee.
Minutes after that shooting stopped, a Blackwater convoy — possibly the same one — moved north from the square and opened fire on another line of traffic a few hundred yards away, in a previously unreported separate shooting, investigators and several witnesses say. |
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Guards in Iraq Cite Frequent Shootings - Most of the more than 100 private security companies in Iraq open fire far more frequently than has been publicly acknowledged and rarely report such incidents to U.S. or Iraqi authorities, according to U.S. officials and current and former private security company employees. |
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Bill Moyers Essay: For the Fallen - Bill Moyers on the fate of the authors of "The War as We Saw It." |
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State Dept. Tallies 56 Shootings Involving Blackwater on Diplomatic Guard Duty - WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — The State Department said Thursday that Blackwater USA security personnel had been involved in 56 shootings while guarding American diplomats in Iraq so far this year. It was the first time the Bush administration had made such data public. |
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Iraq War: Love and Personal Loss [Photo Essay] - Andrew Lichtenstein's new book, Never Coming Home, shows the faces behind the Iraq War casualty statistics. |
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The Final Sendoff of a Fallen Hero - Day to Day, September 27, 2007 · When an American soldier dies, the others in his or her platoon stand in formation and salute as the plane carrying the body takes off to the U.S. for burial. A report from one such "hero flight" in Iraqi province of Diyala. |
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Dozens die in car bombings as Iraqi violence surges - BAGHDAD — Car bombs and other attacks killed at least 56 people in Iraq on Wednesday and wounded another 103 in a day of mayhem that heralds an annual surge in violence during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The bloodiest attack was a double car bombing on a crowded Baghdad shopping street that killed at least 32 and left more than 50 people wounded. It was the worst Baghdad attack since July. |
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At least 33 killed in separate incidents across Iraq - Baghdad - At least 33 people have been killed in separated incidents across Iraq, reports said Wednesday. Ten civilians were killed in a US military raid on Hillah city, while at least 23 other Iraqis, including policemen, were killed in a series of attacks across the conflict-torn Iraqi cities. |
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Suicide Attack Kills 21 at Gathering Intended to Reconcile Iraqi Factions - BAGHDAD, Sept. 24 - A suicide bomber attacked a reconciliation gathering of Shiite and Sunni tribal leaders, provincial officials and security commanders in Baqubah on Monday, killing at least 21 people, including the city's police chief. |
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Blackwater fight tests US view of Iraq - WASHINGTON - A red-faced US government pleaded for patience from Baghdad as a private US security firm's role in a deadly gun battle tested US claims that war-torn Iraq is a sovereign nation. The White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department on Tuesday grappled with how to curb the damage from Sunday's clash in which Blackwater contractors apparently killed civilians, fueling anti-US sentiments in Iraq. A top Iraqi judge has said Blackwater could face trial over the incident, in which some of its guards, who were escorting US embassy officials, opened fire in a Baghdad neighborhood, killing 10 people and wounding 13. |
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Military: 3 U.S. soldiers killed in blast near their patrol in Diyala province - BAGHDAD: Three U.S. soldiers were killed Tuesday following an explosion near their patrol northeast of Baghdad, the military said. The Task Force Lightning soldiers were killed and three others were wounded in Diyala province, the center of a series of U.S. operations against al-Qaida in Iraq and other militants. |
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Iraq threatens action against U.S. security firm - BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities on Monday threatened to revoke the license of a private U.S. company that guards top American officials here, including U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, saying the company's employees killed at least nine people Sunday in a shooting spree in central Baghdad. |
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Baghdad Car Bomb Strikes Bakery; 11 Dead - A car bomb struck a bakery crowded with customers lining up for bread, killing at least 11 people on Saturday as they ended their daytime Ramadan fast, officials said. |
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Poll: Civilian toll in Iraq may top 1M - BAGHDAD - A car bomb blew up in the capital's Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sadr City on Thursday, killing at least four people, as a new survey suggested that the civilian death toll from the war could be more than 1 million. The figure from ORB, a British polling agency that has conducted several surveys in Iraq, followed statements this week from the U.S. military defending itself against accusations it was trying to play down Iraqi deaths to make its strategy appear successful. |
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U.S. defends sectarian death figures - BAGHDAD - U.S. military officials sought Wednesday to counter accusations that they were manipulating death tolls to make Iraq look more secure. |
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At least 11 Iraqis killed, eight wounded in Bayji attack - Baghdad- At least 11 Iraqis, including nine Iraqi policemen, were killed in an explosion Friday in Bayji city, a security source said. A suicide bomber driving a fuel tank rigged with explosives blew himself up near a police check point in Bayji, 200 kilometres north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the source added. |
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Two Of Seven Soldiers Who Wrote New York Times Op-Ed Die In Iraq - On Aug. 19, seven active duty soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division wrote an op-ed in The New York Times called “The War As We Saw It.” The piece expressed skepticism about “recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable”... On Monday, two of these soldiers — Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance Gray — died in a vehicle accident in Western Baghdad. |
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9 American Soldiers Killed in Iraq - BAGHDAD Sep 10, 2007 - Nine American soldiers died in Iraq on Monday, all but one killed in vehicle accidents in and around Baghdad, the military said. The deadliest of the vehicle accidents, in western Baghdad, killed seven Multi-National Division Baghdad soldiers and wounded 11, and left two detainees dead and a third injured. The cause of the accident was under investigation, the military said. |
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Bomber in Baghdad's Sadr City Kills 15 - BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives-packed Mercedes near a row of stores in the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City on Saturday, killing at least 15 people, police and hospital officials said. The attack in the eastern Baghdad enclave came as at least 36 other people were killed or found dead in Iraq, including four who died in a bombing of an outdoor market in the Shiite holy city of Kufa. |
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Seven U.S. troops killed in Iraq - BAGHDAD, Sept 7 - Seven U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq, including four in the western province of Anbar, where gains in security were hailed this week by U.S. President George W. Bush during an unannounced visit to the desert region. The U.S. military said on Friday that four Marines were killed in the vast province on Thursday while conducting combat operations. It gave no further details on one of the deadliest days for troops in Anbar in months. The military also said three soldiers were killed in the northern province of Nineveh on Thursday when an explosion hit their vehicle. |
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Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq - Recent estimates by the media, outside groups and some government agencies have called the military's findings into question. The Associated Press last week counted 1,809 civilian deaths in August, making it the highest monthly total this year, with 27,564 civilians killed overall since the AP began collecting data in April 2005. |
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Bomb kills 13 civilians in Baghdad; 8 U.S. soldiers killed in attacks - BAGHDAD: A car bomb killed at least 13 people Wednesday in a Shiite part of Baghdad, and the U.S. command announced the death of eight more American soldiers — some victims of a weapon the American command believes comes from Iran. At least 44 Iraqis were killed or found dead nationwide Wednesday, according to police reports. The toll marked an uptick in the daily carnage as President George W. Bush prepares for a showdown in Congress over the future of the U.S. mission. |
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Troop buildup fails to reconcile Iraq - According to U.S. military figures, an average of 1,000 Iraqis have died each month since March in sectarian violence. That compares with about 1,200 a month at the start of the security plan, the military said in an e-mailed response to queries. This does not include deaths from car bombings, which the military said have numbered more than 2,600 this year. |
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Roadside bomb kills 3 U.S. soldiers in Baghdad - BAGHDAD, Sept 5 - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in Baghdad by a roadside bomb of a type which the U.S. military says neighbouring Iran is supplying to Shi'ite militias in Iraq to attack American troops. The U.S. military said in a statement that two soldiers were wounded in the attack on a U.S. patrol in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday. It blamed the casualties on an explosively formed penetrator (EFP), a particularly deadly armour-piercing bomb. EFPs have killed scores of American soldiers in and around Baghdad as thousands of troops have been deployed in operations to crack down on Sunni Arab insurgents and Shi'ite militias. Iran denies training or supplying weapons to the militias. Separately, the military also announced the death of a fourth soldier who was killed on Tuesday in western Baghdad. Two soldiers were wounded in that attack. |
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Iraqi civilian deaths climb again - BAGHDAD -- Bombings, sectarian slayings and other violence related to the war killed at least 1,773 Iraqi civilians in August, the second month in a row that civilian deaths have risen, according to government figures obtained Friday. In July, the civilian death toll was 1,753, and in June it was 1,227. The numbers are based on morgue, hospital and police records and come from officials in the ministries of Health, Defense and the Interior. The statistics appear to indicate that the increase in troops ordered by President Bush this year has done little to curb civilian bloodshed, despite U.S. military statements to the contrary. |
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200 media employees killed in Iraq since 2003 - BAGHDAD - At least 200 journalists and media workers have been killed in Iraq since the March 2003 US-led invasion of the country, Paris-based watchdog Reporters Without Borders said in a statement on Friday. The murder this week of Anwar Abbas Lafta, an interpreter working for the US network CBS, brought the toll of media employees killed in Iraq to 200, the statement said. |
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10 die in mosque bombing in Iraq - BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber detonated a vest packed with explosives in a Sunni Arab mosque in Fallouja on Monday, killing 10 worshipers, including the imam, and shattering what had been a period of relative calm for a region that was once the most volatile hotbed of Iraq's insurgency. |
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In memory of Anwar - Anwar Abbas Lafta, a CBS translator and a friend, was killed by gunmen who stole him from his home. His body was found in the morgue last night among so many others. |
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Bomb Near Baghdad Shrine Kills at Least 5 - BAGHDAD, Aug. 25 -- A bomb placed beneath a parked car exploded outside a prominent Shiite shrine in Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least five people at the start of a major religious ceremony, U.S. military officials said. |
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PTSD Takes Toll on Iraq Veteran and Family - All Things Considered, August 25, 2007 · The war in Iraq has taken a toll on those who have served, and on their families. Sixteen months after his return home, Scott Fink is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome and has been discharged from the Maryland National Guard. |
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Truck bomber kills 20 in attack on Iraq police station - TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) - A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people and wounded 80 on Wednesday when he slammed his explosives-laden truck into a police station in the northern town of Baiji, medics and police said. |
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14 U.S. soldiers dead in helicopter crash in Iraq - BAGHDAD: A helicopter crashed in northern Iraq Wednesday, killing all 14 American soldiers aboard, the United States military said. Initial indications were that the helicopter went down after mechanical failure, and there were no immediate signs that the aircraft had been shot down, the military said in a statement. But it said the cause of the crash was being investigated. |
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Toll Rises Above 500 in Iraq Bombings - BAGHDAD, Aug. 21 — One week after a series of truck bombs hit a poor rural area near the Syrian border, the known casualty toll has soared to more than 500 dead and 1,500 wounded, according to the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, making it the bloodiest coordinated attack since the American-led invasion in 2003. |
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Iraq violence kills 17 including women, children - Summary - Baghdad - A total of 17 people, mostly civilians, were killed in and around Baghdad on Tuesday in a new wave of violence. The victims included women and children. In one incident, nine civilians belonging to one family were killed north of Hilla, 100 kilometres south of Baghdad. |
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Second Iraqi governor killed as Shiite rifts deepen - SAMAWA, Iraq - Bombers killed an Iraqi provincial governor on Monday -- the second assassinated in two weeks -- amid mounting tension between rival Shiite armed factions in Iraq's southern cities. |
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The Surge's Short Shelf Life - Tuesday's bombings were also a reminder that even successful U.S. military operations can have a short shelf life — a sobering thought for Bush Administration officials and independent analysts who have recently been talking up the successes of the "surge." After all, the area around Qahataniya was the scene of a major anti-insurgent operation barely two years ago. |
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Iraqi officials: Truck bombings killed at least 500 - BAGHDAD, Iraq) -- The death toll in this week's suicide bombings in northern Iraq has risen to at least 500, local officials in Nineveh province said Wednesday. Iraqi Army and Mosul police sources earlier put the number at 260, but said it was likely to rise; 320 were reported wounded. |
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At Least 250 Dead After Iraq Blasts - BAGHDAD Aug 15, 2007 Emergency workers and grieving relatives uncovered dozens of bodies in the wreckage of clay houses in northwest Iraq on Wednesday, sending the death toll from suicide truck bombings of a small Kurdish sect to at least 250 the war's deadliest attack on a single area. |
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Five U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq helicopter crash - BAGHDAD, Aug 14 - Five U.S. service personnel were killed when a military transport helicopter crashed during a routine flight west of Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said. The CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed near the U.S. military's al-Taqaddum air base close to Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad. |
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Five US soldiers killed in Iraq - BAGHDAD - Five American soldiers have been killed in fighting around Baghdad, including four in a single attack, the US military said Sunday, as hundreds of Iraqis mourned an assassinated provincial governor. The Americans were killed on Saturday and all belonged to Task Force Marne, which was deployed in the southern belt of the Iraqi capital four months ago as part of the new US counter-insurgency troop "surge". |
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Seven dead in Kirkuk suicide blast - BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least seven people were killed -- including women and children -- and dozens more injured in a suicide car bomb explosion Friday afternoon at a busy outdoor market in Kirkuk, police said. The blast wounded at least 47 people and damaged nearby shops, houses and cars. South of Baghdad, two U.S. soldiers were injured as a military helicopter was forced to make a "precautionary landing" during a raid early Friday in Yusufiya, 16 km (10 miles) from the capital, Iraqi and U.S. authorities told CNN. |
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Four British troops killed in Iraq in 48 hours - BASRA, Iraq, Aug 9 - Two British soldiers were killed in Iraq early on Thursday, taking the death toll to four in about 48 hours. The Irish Guards soldiers killed shortly after midnight were in a convoy hit by a roadside bomb near the Rumaila oil fields, west of Basra. Two other soldiers were seriously injured. British-patrolled southern Iraq has become more dangerous for British troops since the government announced in February that London would cut back its force during the course of 2007. In the April-July period, 30 British soldiers died in Iraq, making it the deadliest period since the 2003 invasion when Britain had nine times as many troops as the 5,500-strong contingent it has deployed now. |
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Labor Dept: 1,001 Civilian Workers Have Died in Iraq - More than 1,000 civilian contractors have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion more than four years ago, according to Labor Department records made available tonight. In response to a request from Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., the Labor Department revealed that 1,001 civilian contractors had died in Iraq as of June 30, including 84 during the second quarter of the year. So far in 2007, at least 231 contractors working for U.S. firms have died in Iraq. |
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Roadside bombs kill 4 U.S. soldiers in Iraq - BAGHDAD - Four more U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq, the military said on Tuesday, raising the U.S. death toll for the first six days of the month to 21 as thousands of troops battle militants in intense summer heat... Eighty soldiers were killed in July, a drop from the tolls in the previous three months, which were the deadliest quarter for U.S. troops since the invasion in 2003. August, however, is now on track to be one of the bloodiest months of the year, suggesting a resurgence in militant attacks. |
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Suicide Bomb Kills at Least 28 in Northern Iraq - August 6, 2007 · A suicide truck bomb exploded in a densely populated Shiite residential area in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 28 people, including 19 children, authorities said. |
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Four US soldiers killed in Iraq; brothers buried - BAGHDAD, Aug 3 - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Friday, underlining U.S. President George W. Bush's grim prediction of "a very difficult August" for U.S. troops in Iraq. The military said a roadside bomb killed three soldiers on patrol in eastern Baghdad on Thursday during operations targeting Shi'ite and Sunni militants. Eleven others were wounded. A fourth soldier died in combat in a western district. |
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The Uncounted Casualties of War - U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Lucey is not counted among the Iraq War dead. But he did die, when he came home. He committed suicide. His parents are suing the Department of Veterans Affairs and R. James Nicholson, the secretary of Veterans Affairs, for wrongful death, medical malpractice and other damages. |
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Attacks Across Iraq Claim 142 Lives - BAGHDAD Aug 2, 2007 Baghdad shook with bombings and political upheaval Wednesday as the largest Sunni Arab bloc quit the government and a suicide attacker blew up his fuel tanker in one of several attacks that claimed 142 lives nationwide. |
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Violence masking humanitarian crisis in Iraq: Oxfam - AMMAN (AFP) - Oxfam warned in a report Monday that unabated violence in Iraq is masking a humanitarian crisis that has worsened since the US-led invasion in 2003, putting at risk almost eight million Iraqis. "While horrific violence dominates the lives of millions of ordinary people inside Iraq, another kind of crisis, also due to the impact of war, has been slowly unfolding," said the report by international relief agency Oxfam and a coalition of Iraqi non-governmental organisations. |
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Minibus explodes in Baghdad, killing at least 6 - BAGHDAD: A minibus exploded Monday in a central Baghdad market district, killing at least six people — a brutal reminder of the dangers facing Iraqis who celebrated by the tens of thousands after their national team won the prestigious Asian Cup soccer tournament. |
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Three US soldiers killed in Iraq's Anbar -military - BAGHDAD, July 30 (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed during combat operations on Thursday in western Anbar province, an al Qaeda stronghold in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Monday. No other details were available about the deaths, which took to 3,651 the number of U.S. soldiers killed since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003. |
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About Iraq Casualties - The Pentagon does not tally civilian casualties. A 2006 survey by Iraqi physicians and overseen by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore estimated that 655,000 more Iraqi civilians had died since the start of the war than would have died without the invasion. Between 4,350 and 6,050 Iraqi military personnel died during the U.S.-led invasion in the spring of 2003. Since then, more than 6,300 members of the new Iraqi military and police forces have been killed. |
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Suicide bomber strikes police station in northern Iraq - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of a police station in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding 13, authorities said. The explosion occurred about 11 a.m. in the Tal Abta area, some 80 kilometers (49.71 miles) west of Mosul, police Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Waqaa said. Those killed included five policemen and one civilian, while the 13 wounded included 10 policemen, according to al-Waqaa. |
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Bombs mar Baghdad soccer celebrations, kill 50 - BAGHDAD, July 25 - Gunfire erupted across Baghdad and Iraqis danced in the streets on Wednesday after their soccer team's historic Asian Cup win, but two suicide car bombs marred the war-ravaged nation's rare moment of unity. Police said a suicide car bomb exploded near a crowd of jubilant Iraqis, killing 30 and wounding 75 in Baghdad's Mansour area. Soon after, another suicide attack at an army checkpoint in east Baghdad killed another 20 people and wounded 60, many of them soccer fans celebrating nearby, police said. The bombings were a sharp reminder of the sectarian violence between deeply divided Shi'ite Muslims and minority Sunni Arabs that has killed tens of thousands. |
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On Base, a Plea to Give Each Death Its Due - Twenty soldiers deployed to Iraq from this Army base were killed in May, a monthly high. That same month, the base announced a change in how it would honor its dead: instead of units holding services after each death, they would be held collectively once a month. The anger and hurt were immediate. Soldiers’ families and veterans protested the change as cold and logistics-driven. Critics online said the military was trying to repress bad news about deaths. By mid-June, the base had delayed the plan. |
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Suicide car bomb kills 26 at Iraq children's hospital - HILLA, Iraq (AFP) - A suicide car bomb exploded across the street from a children's hospital in the Iraqi city of Hilla on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding 69, police and medical officials said. |
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After carnage, U.S. and Iraqi authorities compete for control - BAGHDAD - It was just another car bomb, this time an old, blue Volkswagen Passat that blew up in a busy shopping district of Baghdad, one of four that killed and maimed Iraqi civilians Monday. But the array of first responders who descended on the smoke-filled scene exemplified how militants aren't the only force that's undermining the plan to restore order to the violent Iraqi capital. |
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17 Killed In Blasts Across Baghdad - BAGHDAD, July 23 -- A string of car bomb attacks left at least 17 people dead in Baghdad on Monday, many of them civilians killed by three blasts in one of the city's busiest neighborhoods. Police said 21 people died in other violent incidents across the country. |
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Iraqis say civilians killed in airstrike - BAGHDAD — A U.S. missile attack Saturday on insurgents in a town north of the capital left six insurgents dead and five wounded, officials said. But witnesses in Husseiniya, about 20 miles north of Baghdad, said U.S. helicopters attacked three houses in a four-hour period, killing at least 18 people, including women and children. They said about 21 people were wounded in the attacks, which leveled the buildings. |
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Daily attacks in Iraq hit new high in June - Attacks in Iraq last month reached their highest daily average since May 2003, showing a surge in violence as President George W. Bush completed a buildup of U.S. troops, Pentagon statistics show. The data, obtained by Reuters from the Defense Department, showed an upward trend in daily attacks over the past four months, when U.S. and Iraqi forces were ramping up operations against insurgents and militants, including al Qaeda, in Iraq. |
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Three British servicemen dead in Iraq mortar attack - Three British servicemen were killed on Thursday in a mortar attack on their base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the Ministry of Defence said. The deaths brought to 162 the total number of British servicemen and women killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 to oust President Saddam Hussein. |
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5 US soldiers, Iraqi interpreter killed in Iraq - BAGHDAD: Five U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter have been killed in separate combat incidents, the U.S. military said Thursday. A Task Force Marne soldier was killed by small arms fire Thursday near the village of Rushdi Mullah, just southwest of the capital, the military said. |
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More than 80 are killed by vehicle bombs in northern Iraq - KIRKUK, Iraq: A suicide truck bombing followed by two smaller car bombs killed more than 80 people and wounded at least 180 on Monday, the police said, in what was believed to be the deadliest attack in this northern city since the start of the war. |
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One of youngest U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq buried - Family at the funeral of one of the youngest U.S. soldiers to die in the Iraq war remembered him on Tuesday as an enthusiastic boy from Trinidad whose love of guns and his adoptive country drew him into the army at 17. Le Ron Wilson was killed in Iraq on July 6 when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. He was 18. |
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New Village Massacre Reported in Iraq - U.S. troops stormed Tuesday into an insurgent-controlled area of a turbulent province where police reported that gunmen some wearing military clothing had massacred 29 Shiite villagers the night before. |
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Death toll from Baghdad car bomb rises to 20- police - A suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad's Zayouna district on Tuesday killed 20 people and wounded 20 others, Iraqi police said. They said this was the final death toll. Police earlier said 10 people had been killed. |
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Car Bombs Kill at Least 80 in Iraq - Two car bombs killed at least 80 people in a busy commercial area in the northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, police said, while U.S. military officials announced a major push south of Baghdad to try to disrupt the supply of arms and fighters into the capital city. |
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Pentagon: U.S. troops shot 429 Iraqi civilians at checkpoints - U.S. soldiers have killed or wounded 429 Iraqi civilians at checkpoints or near patrols and convoys during the past year, according to military statistics compiled in Iraq and obtained by McClatchy Newspapers. The statistics are the first official accounting of civilian shootings since the war began, and while they seem small compared with the thousands who've died in Iraq's violence, they show the difficulty that the U.S. has in fulfilling its vow to protect civilians. |
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The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness - Over the past several months The Nation has interviewed fifty combat veterans of the Iraq War from around the United States in an effort to investigate the effects of the four-year-old occupation on average Iraqi civilians. These combat veterans, some of whom bear deep emotional and physical scars, and many of whom have come to oppose the occupation, gave vivid, on-the-record accounts. They described a brutal side of the war rarely seen on television screens or chronicled in newspaper accounts. |
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At Least 3 Killed in Green Zone Barrage - Extremists unleashed a barrage of more than a dozen mortars or rockets into the Green Zone on Tuesday, killing at least three people including an American and wounding 18 in an area once considered the safest in the Iraqi capital. |
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Violent Weekend in Iraq Kills Over 220 - Prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives, including 60 who died Sunday in a surge of bombings and shootings around Baghdad. |
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Bomb Attacks in Iraq Kill at Least 170 - Suicide attacks across Iraq killed at least 144 people and injured scores in an 18-hour period, including a massive truck bombing in a northern Shiite village that ripped through a crowded market, burying dozens in the rubble of shops and mud houses, Iraqi officials said Saturday. At least another 26 people were killed Sunday when two car bombs exploded within five minutes of each other in the city's mostly Shiite Karrada district and a bomb hit a truck of newly recruited Iraqi soldiers traveling to Baghdad to aid in the crackdown on the violence, according to the Associated Press. |
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Bombings in Baghdad, Shiite Town Take Heavy Toll - A flurry of bombings in Baghdad killed 26 people Sunday, and officials said the death toll from a giant suicide truck blast that devastated the market of a Shiite farming town north of the capital a day earlier could reach 150. |
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Dead reporters and the information gap - When journalists die, we count the bodies. But how do we reckon the consequences in information forfeited? How do we know what we do not know? These are questions worth contemplating in the case of Iraq, where the statistics about journalists' deaths, like the rest of the daily carnage report, are so mind-numbing that we cease to process them. |
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Suicide Attacks Kill 144; 8 U.S. Troops Die in Iraq - Suicide attacks across Iraq killed at least 144 people and injured scores in an 18-hour period, including a massive truck bombing in a northern Shiite village that ripped through a crowded market, burying dozens in the rubble of shops and mud houses, Iraqi officials said Saturday. |
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Six U.S. troops killed in Iraq, says military - Six U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq in the past two days, mostly in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Saturday. It said four soldiers were killed by roadside bombs in Baghdad, three on Friday and one on Thursday, and that two Marines were killed in combat in the western Anbar province. U.S. casualties have been rising in Iraq in the past few months with reinforcements being deployed and U.S. forces going on the offensive in and around Baghdad. The April-June period was the deadliest three months for U.S. troops since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. |
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Some of the Deadliest Attacks in Iraq - Some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the war began in March 2003: |
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Body Count In Baghdad Up in June - Nearly five months into a security strategy that involves thousands of additional U.S. and Iraqi troops patrolling Baghdad, the number of unidentified bodies found on the streets of the capital was 41 percent higher in June than in January, according to unofficial Health Ministry statistics. During the month of June, 453 unidentified corpses, some bound, blindfolded, and bearing signs of torture, were found in Baghdad, according to morgue data provided by a Health Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. |
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Bombs, Gunmen and a U.S. Copter Crash Claim Lives in Iraq - As the American Embassy held a subdued Independence Day celebration under heavy security in the Green Zone, assassinations, roadside bombs and a suicide car bomb took the lives of at least 46 Iraqis.
Two American soldiers died Wednesday. One was killed in a combat operation in southern Baghdad, and the other when his helicopter went down in Nineveh Province in northern Iraq, according to statements from the military. A second soldier was injured when the helicopter crashed. |
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5 U.S. Troops Killed in Attacks in Iraq - Four U.S. soldiers and a Marine were killed in attacks in Baghdad and Iraq's western Anbar province, the military said Monday. The five deaths took place in separate attacks Sunday, the military said in a statement. |
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Iraq Surge Brings Heavy U.S. Casualties - Saturday was the last day of what has been another bloody month for U.S. forces in Iraq. For the third month, more than 100 U.S. soldiers have been killed in the intense fighting. |
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Iraqi Civilian Death Toll Falls in June - Around 1,200 Iraqi civilians were killed in violence in June, a 36 percent drop from the previous month and the lowest monthly toll this year, according to Iraqi government figures obtained Sunday. |
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Dozens of bodies found in Iraq mass grave - US forces found around 40 bodies, bound and bearing gunshot wounds, in a mass grave south of Fallujah, the military said Saturday as US-led forces reported 26 militants killed in fighting in Baghdad. |
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At least six Iraqis killed by suicide bomber -police - A suicide bomber dressed as a policeman killed at least six people on Saturday when he blew himself up outside a police recruitment centre north east of Baghdad, an Iraqi army source said. The source said 30 people were wounded when the bomber detonated his explosives beside a queue of people waiting to enter the recruitment office. A separate witness said the death toll was much higher from the attack in al-Muqdadiya, 90 km (50 miles) north east of Baghdad. |
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5 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq - Five U.S. soldiers were killed and seven wounded in an attack on their combat patrol in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday. The deaths brought to 99 the number of U.S. troops who have died in Iraq this month. Last month, at least 126 U.S. military personnel died, making May the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Iraq since November 2004. |
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Bombs kill 34 in Baghdad, 3 UK troops in Basra - A car bomb killed 25 people on Thursday at a busy intersection in Baghdad where minibuses pick up and drop off passengers, while 20 beheaded bodies were found on a river bank south of the capital, Iraqi police said. Another car bomb in Baghdad targeting motorists queuing for petrol killed five people, police said. Mortar bombs also killed four people in two separate neighbourhoods in the city. In the southern city of Basra, a roadside bomb killed three British soldiers and seriously wounded another in the early hours of Thursday, the British military said. |
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Iraq Vet Seeks Out the War's Hidden Wounded - Many troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq will struggle with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Some will drink too much and use drugs. They'll lose jobs. They'll drive away friends, family, spouses and children. Most of them won't ask for help. |
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Natural Death Considered a Blessing in Iraq - In Iraq people die every day from acts of violence: a roadside bomb, a suicide attack, a sectarian assassination. Though it's hard to lose a loved one no matter what, in this kind of world it's considered a divine gift when someone dies a natural death. |
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10 people killed in Iraq blasts - Ten people were killed in two roadside explosions in Baghdad and the northern shrine city of Samarra on Wednesday, according to security officials. |
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Iraqi Youth Face Lasting Scars of War - Marwa Hussein watched as gunmen stormed into her home and executed her parents. Afterward, her uncle brought her to the Alwiya Orphanage, a high-walled compound nestled in central Baghdad with a concrete yard for a playground. That was more than two years ago, and for 13-year-old Marwa, shy and thin with walnut-colored eyes and long brown hair, the memory of her parents' last moments is always with her. |
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Six tribal leaders among 41 killed in Iraq - A suicide bomber killed six Iraqi tribal leaders opposed to al Qaeda when he blew himself up at a busy Baghdad hotel on Monday, the U.S. military said, one of four attacks that killed a total of 41 people. |
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Another Iraqi Journalist Killed - A 35-year-old Iraqi journalist was shot to death Sunday on her way home from work in Mosul, the second female journalist to be killed in the northern city this month, officials said. |
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Ten U.S. Deaths in Iraq Bring June Toll to 80 - Ten U.S. soldiers died Saturday in Iraq, including seven killed in roadside bombings, the U.S. military said, bringing to 32 the number of U.S. servicemen whose deaths were announced in the past six days. |
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Eight U.S. Soldiers Are Killed in Iraq Violence - Eight American servicemen were reported to have died in Iraq on Saturday, bringing the four-day death toll to at least 23 as insurgents continued to use huge roadside bombs to rip through combat vehicles. |
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