Iraq War
MCT: 5 years after Iraq's 'liberation,' there are worms in the water
Iraq's most prominent clerics have ruled that using a water pump on one's own pipes is akin to stealing resources from a neighbor, so what does a person do when it takes half an hour to fill a cooking pot with water from the tap?
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Reuters: Body of Iraqi contractor found in Numaniya
The body of an Iraqi contractor working with Georgian troops was found with gunshot wounds in Numaniya, 120 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
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NPR: Mosul and the Fight for Iraq
ive years after the United States attacked Iraq, perhaps no place is more emblematic of the war than the northern city of Mosul. The fighting in Iraq's third-largest city seems to just go on and on. The U.S. military takes part of the city...
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ABC: The Fallen - The True Cost Of War
The true cost of war is tallied in lives. Since the United States-led invasion of Iraq five years ago, more than 100,000 Iraqis and 3,987 Americans have died, according to the Department of Defense.
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AP: Brief Power Outage Idles Oil Refinery
A brief power outage idled Iraq's largest oil refinery Sunday, an official with the nation's oil ministry said. The disruption lasted five hours and was the third major production stoppage since January at the facility in Beiji...
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MCT: Car bomb kills 1 civilian, wounds 2 in west Baghdad
A civilian was killed and two others were wounded in a parked car bomb explosion in Mansour neighborhood west Baghdad that targeted a four wheel drive convoy.
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LATImes: Iraqi feel-good stories prove elusive
Afew days after arriving in Iraq early this year, I followed Army Gen. David H. Petraeus on a walk through a marketplace on the capital's east side. The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq didn't wear a helmet, and he gently scolded his security...
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BBC: Toxic world fallout from Iraq invasion
The war in Iraq was supposed to be over long before now. It was not supposed to provoke a conflict between Sunni and Shia or stir up an al-Qaeda hornet's nest. Nor was it supposed to alienate much of the rest of the world from US foreign policy
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AP: Iraq violence has moved, not ended, report claims
The influx of thousands of U.S. forces has driven down insurgent attacks in Baghdad, but violence elsewhere in Iraq raises questions about whether killings will continue to drop as American forces begin to leave, the United Nations said yesterday.
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NYTimes: Five Years
FIVE years on, it seems positively surreal. On the evening of March 19, 2003, a small group of Western journalists had grandstand seats for the big event in Baghdad, the start of the full-scale American bombing of strategic targets in the Iraqi capital.
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AP: Suicide bomber is al-Qaida's deadliest weapon
The suicide bombers who have killed 10,000 people in Iraq, including hundreds of American troops, usually are alienated young men from large families who are desperate to stand out from the crowd and make their mark...
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AP: 5 Years On - Is Iraq War Only Half-Over?
A father in the American heartland agonizes as his son prepares for a second tour in Iraq. Baghdad morgue workers wash bodies for burial after a suicide attack. Army cadets study the shifting tactics of Iraqi insurgents for a battle they will inherit.
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AP: Friend's death shows cost of Iraq war
In my nightmares, the helicopters still come out of a dark sky, two black spots barely visible against the backdrop of night. Their swirling blades grow louder until they finally touch down on earth and fall silent.
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AP: UN - Drop in Iraq violence may not last
The influx of thousands of U.S. forces has driven down insurgent attacks in Baghdad, but violence elsewhere in Iraq raises questions about whether killings will continue to drop as American forces begin to leave, the United Nations said Saturday.
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AP: Iraq oil refinery expands by 10K barrels
A Najaf oil refinery expanded its production capacity Saturday by about 10,000 barrels per day, or roughly half of what it had producing.
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MNF:MND-B Soldier killed by small-arms fire (Baghdad)
A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier was killed at approximately 3:30 p.m. March 15 after being attacked by small-arms fire in southwestern Baghdad in combat operations. The Soldier was shot by a terrorist at approximately 2:30 p.m....
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DoD Identifies Army Casualties (5 of 5)
Sgt. 1st. Class Shawn M. Suzch, 32, of Hilltown, PN...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division... died March 10 in Baghdad...of wounds suffered when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device.
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Reuters: Police arrest dozens after clashes in Iraqi city
Iraqi police arrested dozens of members of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia on Saturday, hours after two policemen were killed in gunbattles in the southern city of Kut, police said.
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AFP: Two killed as new clashes erupt in Iraqi Shiite city
Fierce fighting flared again overnight between Mahdi Army militiamen and Iraqi forces in the Shiite city of Kut in which two people were killed and eight wounded, police said on Saturday. The clashes continued sporadically Saturday morning...
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Reuters: Car bomb wounds 3 civilians near Mosul
Three civilians were wounded when a car exploded near Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, Nineveh province police spokesman Brigadier-General Khaled Abdul Sattar said.
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