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Iraq stories: 1264 news summaries

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ANALYSIS

 Iraq Militias 
 Kill Gays 
  With Impunity 

Government's unwillingness to protect gays points to a bleak future for all Iraqis

Sep 10, 09 7:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraq's militias have switched from slaughtering rivals to killing men they suspect of being homosexuals, and the Iraqi government is turning a blind eye, Rasha Moumneh writes in Foreign Policy. Gay men have been kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in rising numbers since the start of this year, but not a... More »

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Iraq • gay rights • murder • homosexuality • Iraqi government • Sadrists • Iraqi militias • Muqtada al-Sadr

OPINION

 Universal Health Care: 
 We Already Gave it to Iraq 

Constitution America fought to give Iraq guarantees its citizens health care

Sep 10, 09 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many US lawmakers opposing health care reform need to be asked why it's OK for Iraqis but not Americans, Mark Dorlester writes for the Huffington Post. Article 31 of the Iraqi Constitution—made possible by the war, and hailed as a victory by the Bush administration—guarantees every Iraqi state-funded... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • health care • health insurance • health care reform • Iraq war

 Arab World 
 Head-Over-Heels 
 About Return of 
 'Hero' Shoe-Tosser 

Zaidi hailed as Goliath-battling David

Sep 9, 09 3:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraqi journalist who hurled both his shoes at George Bush during a speech in Baghdad last year will be released early from prison next week to a hero's welcome, a free house and offers of money, a wife, and a gold-saddled horse, reports the Guardian. Muntadar al-Zaidi "is... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • shoes • protests • Arabs • Arab • George W. Bush • Muntadar al-Zaidi

(Newser) - It was an unusually bloody day for US troops abroad today, as eight soldiers were killed—four in Iraq and four in Afghanistan. It was the deadliest day for the US in Iraq since troops left the cities earlier this year, reports the BBC. Three soldiers were killed by a... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • roadside bomb • bombing • casualties • Iraq war • Afghanistan war

US Still Lacks Translators in Vital Languages

Intelligence, military officials often unable to read texts, emails

Aug 31, 09 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly eight years have passed since 9/11, but national security agencies remain disturbingly low on translators for crucial dialects, the Washington Times reports. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives email and text-message each other freely in languages the CIA largely ignored before 2001. "I can't explain... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • national security • War on Terror • CIA • Pakistan • Pashtun • translation • Arabic • Urdu • intelligence agencies • Dari • translator

Missing Picasso Found in Iraq?! Probably Not.

The Naked Woman likely not missing, nor
a Picasso, say experts

Aug 27, 09 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi security forces have secured a purported Pablo Picasso painting believed stolen from a Kuwaiti museum during the 1990 invasion, the Times of London reports. Only it’s probably not a Picasso. “It bears absolutely no relation to any Picasso that I can think of,” says one... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • art museum • war • Kuwait • The Louvre • Pablo Picasso • art heist • forgery • invasion

Iraqi Shiites Ditch Maliki in New Coalition

Group favors a government more closely allied with Iran

Aug 24, 09 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraq’s major Shiite parties have formed a new coalition without Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki or his Dawa Party, they announced today. That means that unless Maliki finds new allies, he will likely lose his job following the January elections. If the new coalition wins a majority, he’ll be... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Shiite • Iraqi Parliament • Nouri al-Maliki • Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council • Sadrists • Muqtada al-Sadr • Iraqi elections

(AP) - Attackers paid $10,000 to get a bomb-laden truck past checkpoints and next to the Iraqi Finance Ministry in last week's attacks, one of the suspected masterminds said in a confession broadcast today. Seeking to fend off widespread criticism over security lapses, the Iraqi military released what it said was... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • suicide bombing • truck bomb • terrorist attack • confession

(Newser) - Scores of people are dead after seven coordinated bombings rocked Baghdad this morning, targeting both government ministries and poor Shia neighborhoods, the New York Times  reports. Two huge bombs and three smaller blasts, probably from mortars, went off at the entrance to the fortified Green Zone, while other explosions hit... More »

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Iraq • terrorism • Sadr City • Baghdad • Green Zone • bomb • Sunni extremism • explosion

(Newser) - Europeans may have longer lives and longer vacations, but red-blooded Americans don't want their socialist ways on this side of the ocean, right wing media mouths are eager to remind everyone, MIchael Freedman writes in Newsweek. Underlying much of the opposition to health care reform is the fear that it's... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • Angela Merkel • Spain • Germany • Europe • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Rush Limbaugh • Italy • England • health care reform

(Newser) - Iraq was rocked by two deadly, possibly destabilizing bombings this weekend, but the proof is in the reprisals, Larry Kaplow writes in Newsweek—and there were none. “Iraq today is a different place than it was when ethnic conflict threatened to engulf the country in 2006,” Kaplow... More »

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Iraq • sectarian violence • Sunni • Shiite • Nouri al-Maliki • bombing • Muqtada al-Sadr • reprisal

ANALYSIS

 August Is a Snooze— 
 Unless These Crises Hit 

Iran, Afghanistan won't spend summer snoozing

Aug 11, 09 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - August is a snooze—except when it isn't, writes Anne Applebaum for the Washington Post, who points out that World War I and Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in the eighth month. For the benefit of "the interns who are manning the shop while everyone is out of... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Iran • Russia • Georgia • foreign policy • summer • Iranian protests • Afghanistan election

(Newser) - A series of bomb attacks in Baghdad and Mosul killed at least 41 people today and raised fears of a new upsurge in sectarian violence, the BBC reports. In Mosul, where an attack on a Shia mosque killed 40 people Friday, a double truck bomb killed 25 people in a... More »

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Iraq • sectarian violence • Baghdad • bombing • car bomb • Mosul • Iraq war

(Newser) - Smoking is rampant across the Middle East, and in Iraq nicotine fuels everything from high-level government meetings to weddings and funerals. That's why a new anti-tobacco law making its way through parliament is causing huge public outcry, reports the Washington Post. "We all have to deal with anger issues... More »

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Iraq • Middle East • Baghdad • smoking • tobacco • smoking ban

(Newser) - When Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003, his draconian censorship laws fell with him, and Iraq was flooded with American news, Egyptian soap operas, and Turkish music videos—not to mention pornography and jihadist videos. But now, reports the New York Times, censorship is quietly making a comeback in Iraq,... More »

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Iraq • media • censorship • freedom of expression • Internet censorship

(Newser) - The three American hikers nabbed by Iranian authorities after allegedly crossing the border from Iraq were actually spies, an Iranian TV report claims. The Tehran-based station quotes an Iraqi policeman as saying the three were “working with the CIA.” Hillary Clinton meanwhile asked the Iranian government today for... More »

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Iraq • Iran • CIA • Kurdistan • tourists • spies • hikers

Family Doesn't Believe Speicher Died in Crash

Grateful for return of body, but official line doesn't jibe with beliefs

Aug 3, 09 12:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scott Speicher’s family is thankful for the return of the missing pilot's remains, but isn't buying the military's conclusion that he died in a plane crash in Iraq on the opening night of the Gulf War, the Florida Times-Union reports. “We’re discrediting the rumor that he... More »

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Iraq • Persian Gulf • remains • Gulf War • casualties • Desert Storm

(Newser) - The Iraqi robbers who killed eight security guards and stole $4.8 million from a Baghdad bank this week were army officers, not insurgents, the Los Angeles Times reports. Iraqi police revealed today the arrest of four elite officers assigned to guard Shiite Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi. "It was... More »

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Iraq • insurgents • Nouri al-Maliki • bank robbery • Iraq Army

 Pilot's Remains 
 Found in Iraq 
 After 18 Years 

Speicher was first casualty of 1991 Persian Gulf War

Aug 2, 09 7:14 AM CDT
(AP) - The remains of the first American lost in the 1991 Persian Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said today. The disappearance of Navy Capt. Michael "Scott" Speicher has bedeviled investigators since his fighter jet was shot down on the first night of the war. He was... More »

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Iraq • Persian Gulf • Navy • remains • US Navy • casualties

(Newser) - The mother of one of the three Americans detained while hiking near the Iran-Iraq border confirmed that her son has been arrested by Iranian security forces, reports CNN. Joshua Fattal of Pennsylvania and two friends, who were warned by Iraqi police not to hike in the border region, were seized... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Kurdistan • arrest • tourists

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