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SF Gate
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The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite group Wednesday for a deadly car bombing in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood and said it was seeking to re-ignite the sort of sectarian violence that swept the area 18 months ago. Iraqi officials said the death toll..
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CNN
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Bombings Tuesday killed at least 48 people in Baghdad and in two major provincial capitals in Iraq. The deadliest attack happened in the Diyala province capital of Baquba when a car bomb detonated outside a crowded restaurant, killing 40 people and woundi..
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MSNBC
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A mortar barrage hit Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq's government and the U.S. embassy, police said, a day after Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to stand down.
The Green Zone has come under intense mortar an..
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MSNBC
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A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the main pet market in central Baghdad, killing at least 46 people and wounding dozens, police said, the deadliest bombing to strike the capital since 30,000 more American forces flooded into central Iraq last sp..
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CNN
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Female suicide bombers blew themselves up Friday at two markets in Baghdad, killing at least 64 people and wounding more than 100, authorities said. One bomber struck at a popular pet market around 10:30 a.m. in central Baghdad, killing at least 46 people..
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BBC News
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US bombers and fighter jets have dropped 40,000lb (18,144kg) of bombs on suspected al-Qaeda targets on the edge of Baghdad in a 10-minute air strike.
The attack on the Arab Jabour district, said to be a safe haven for al-Qaeda in Iraq, was part of the..
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MSNBC
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A car bomb detonated in the middle of a busy market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 11 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 conditio..
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MSNBC
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U.S. soldiers found mass graves north of Baghdad next to a torture center where chains were attached to blood-spattered walls and a metal bed frame was still connected to an electrical shock system, the military said Thursday.
Separately, at least 13 I..
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CNN
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A bomb tore through a pet market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing 13 people and wounding 58 others, Iraq's Interior Ministry said. Four police officers and 10 children were among the wounded.
The bomb had been stashed in a box and went off in the..
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MSNBC
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The FBI is continuing its investigation into the shootings, although the Iraqi government has concluded that the security guards were unprovoked when the began shooting at an intersection at Nisoor Square in western Baghdad. The North Carolina-based compa..
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New York Times
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 11 — An Iraqi taxi driver was shot and killed on Saturday by a guard with DynCorp International, a private security company hired to protect American diplomats here, when a DynCorp convoy rolled past a knot of traffic on an exit ramp in Ba..
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MSNBC
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A bomb in a parked car went off near a police patrol in Baghdad’s downtown shopping district Friday, killing four people including two policemen, the police said.
The Friday blast hit at around noon, wounding 15 people, mostly civilians, a police off..
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SF Gate
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A joint U.S.-Iraqi commission reviewing American security operations after a deadly shooting of Iraqi civilians allegedly at the hands of Blackwater USA guards is preparing for its first meeting in Baghdad, American officials said Thursday.
The U.S. an..
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Yahoo News
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An Iraqi traffic policeman told Sunday how Blackwater security guards caused carnage when they opened fire on civilians in Baghdad, as a senior officer probing the shooting insisted it was unprovoked.
One week after the gunbattle that killed 10 civilia..
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Reuters
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Iraqi lawmakers said on Saturday that Washington should take responsibility for the turmoil in Iraq and stop blaming Baghdad, Iran and Syria.
Frustrated by criticism from the United States over their slow progress towards political goals meant to foste..
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BBC News
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has arrived in the Iraqi capital Baghdad for a visit at the invitation of the country's president.
The visit marks the first time a French minister has been to Iraq since it opposed the US-led invasion in 2003...
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USA Today
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A U.S.-led raid and airstrike targeting networks allegedly smuggling weapons and fighters from Iran killed 32 suspected militants Wednesday in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, the military said.
The raids came as Iraqi authorities clamped a th..
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CNN
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Attackers targeting Iraqi police and civilians in and around Baghdad on Sunday killed 27 people and wounded 45 others, Iraqi officials said. Sunday's deadliest attack happened about 20 miles (30 kilometers) west of Baghdad when a bomb hit a truck carrying..
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Washington Post
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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 u..
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USA Today
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Iraqi civilian deaths dropped to their lowest level since the start of the Baghdad security operation, government figures showed Sunday, suggesting signs of progress in tamping down violence in the capital.
But American casualties are running high as U..
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