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At Least 7 Wounded in Easter Bombing Outside Baghdad Church
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- At least seven people were injured when a bomb outside the entrance of a Baghdad church exploded on Easter Sunday, an Iraqi police official said. The blast took place just yards from the Sacred Heart Church in Baghdad's Karradah neighborhood. Shrapnel from the bomb struck the outside of the building, and at least four of the church's windows were shattered. Shards of broken glass lay on the street in front of the building. Like many Baghdad houses of worship, the church is surrounded by blast walls to protect it from such attacks. The officer said no parishioners were inside and ...
Two US Soldiers Killed in Southern Iraq
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- The U.S. military says two American soldiers have been killed while conducting operations in southern Iraq. In a statement, released on Saturday, the military says the deaths occurred Friday. No further details about how they died were released. The names of the deceased are being withheld pending notification of next of kin and release by the Department of Defense. The death raises to at least 4,450 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. That's according to an Associated Press count. Nine U.S. servicemembers taking part ...
Gunmen Kill Iraqi Family of 4 in Baghdad Home
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- Gunmen stormed the home of a Shiite family living in a mostly Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad and killed all four family members, police said Sunday. Two policemen said a 16-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl were shot to death with their parents in the raid, which took place around 11 p.m. Saturday. A Baghdad morgue official confirmed the deaths. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. Further details about the family or the motive behind the shooting were not immediately available. But the killings were reminiscent of the ...
Gates Visits Iraq, Says Some US Troops May Stay
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD - The Obama administration would keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the agreed final withdrawal date of Dec. 31, 2011, if the Iraqi government wanted them, but the Iraqis need to decide "pretty quickly" in order for the Pentagon to accommodate the extension, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday during what he said probably is his final visit to this war-torn country. Whether to negotiate an extended U.S. military presence is up to the Iraqis, he said, adding that he thought an extension might make sense. "We are willing to have a presence beyond (2011), but we've got a lot of ...
Death Toll Hits 57 in Iraqi Hostage Siege
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- The death toll for a grisly hostage situation at a government building in northern Iraq continued to rise Wednesday as grieving families buried the victims and Iraqi officials questioned how it could have happened. Gunmen wearing explosives belts under military uniforms charged into the provincial council building in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, Tuesday afternoon, shooting hostages execution-style, and spraying bullets and grenades throughout the building during the five-hour standoff. Dr. Raied Ibrahim, the health director for Salahuddin province where the attack took place, said 57 ...
Iraq Weighs Whether US Troops Should Stay After 8 Years
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- The American invasion of Iraq was supposed to take only a few months: a quick blitz to depose dictator Saddam Hussein, find and dismantle weapons of mass destruction and go home. Eight years later, thousands of U.S. troops remain in Iraq -- and their mission may not be accomplished until far into the future. Despite a security agreement requiring a full U.S. military withdrawal by the year's end, hundreds if not thousands of American soldiers will continue to be in Iraq beyond 2012. Maya Alleruzzo, AP U.S. Army soldiers stand near ammunition to be used at a shooting ...
6 Protesters Killed in Iraq as Soldiers Move to Contain 'Day of Rage'
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsSoldiers squared off against protesters in Baghdad today, and at least six people were killed and dozens injured in clashes with police in two northern cities as demonstrations in Iraq turned increasingly violent. Thousands of protesters turned out for a long-planned "Day of Rage" across Iraq in conjunction with similar protests sweeping the Middle East, especially in Libya and Yemen. In Baghdad, riot police used rubber bullets and water cannons to protect the so-called Green Zone that houses government and embassy offices, Al-Jazeera reported. Helicopters roared overhead as the police ...
Lara Logan Hospitalized Following 'Brutal' Sexual Assault in Egypt
By David Knowles - AOL NewsCBS News released a statement today regarding the condition of Lara Logan, its chief foreign affairs correspondent. According to CBS, Logan was separated from her crew, beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob in Cairo's Tahrir Square on the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president of Egypt. In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the ...
Rumsfeld Files Reveal Pre-9/11 Focus on Iraq
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsThousands of documents made available by Donald Rumsfeld to coincide with the publication of his memoir today reveal an early focus on Iraq, even before 9/11, and his willingness to consider a variety of options that critics might consider hypocritical but that the former defense secretary regarded as thoroughly rational. "At the right moment, we may want to give Saddam Hussein a way out for his family to live in comfort," Rumsfeld wrote on Sept. 21, 2001, in a one-sentence memo. Rumsfeld's so-called "snowflake" memos -- he issued hundreds of them from 2001 to 2006 -- are now available as ...
Iraqi Boy Killed by Gunmen Aiming for His Father
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD - A police chief in northern Iraq says the 8-year-old son of a local anti-terrorism chief was killed in a food market by gunmen aiming for his father. Tuz Khormato police chief Col. Hussein Rasheed said Friday that the target of the shooting was the chief of the city's anti-terrorism security squads. The father and two of his other children were wounded in the Thursday night shooting. The gunmen fled. The 8-year-old died of his wounds at a hospital. Tuz Khormato is 130 miles north of Baghdad. ...
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