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Deadly Blast Rocks Holy City

Shiite Holy City Rocked by Blast

Apr 28, 07 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - A car bomb ripped through one of Iraq's holiest cities today, killing at least 58 Iraqis and wounding over 150 as they made their way to evening prayers. Karbala—the site of two major Shiite shrines—is a hotspot for suicide bombers, who killed 47 in an attack just two... More »

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Iraq • Shiite • insurgents • Sunni militants • Karbala • suicide bombing • roadside bomb • car bomb • holy site

You Go to War With the Army You Need

Not the Army you have, says an active-duty Army officer

Apr 27, 07 8:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - "America's generals have failed to prepare our armed forces for war and advise civilian authorities on the application of force to achieve the aims of policy," says Lt. Col. Paul Yingling. In an extraordinary article in Armed Forces Journal Yingling blames the military for not properly advising the... More »

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Iraq • Congress • insurgents • Paul Yingling • US Army • training • Iraq war

Iraqi Slams U.S. Senate Vote

"We see it as a loss of four years of sacrifices"

Apr 27, 07 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraqi government is blasting the U.S. Senate for approving the troop-withdrawal bill, saying it sends the wrong message to insurgents. "We see it as a loss of four years of sacrifices," government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said yesterday of the legislation, which mandates an October 1 deadline... More »

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Iraq • insurgents • Democratic Congress • Senate • Iraq pullout • legislation • troop withdrawal • Ali al Dabbagh • George W. Bush

Prince Harry Heads for Iraq

Apr 27, 07 6:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - England's Prince Harry is scheduled to deploy to south-east Iraq with his regiment next month, in spite of misgivings about the high-profile royal becoming a target for insurgents. The British Ministry of Defense continues to support his deployment, saying that holding him back would be a "tremendous propaganda coup"... More »

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Iraq • insurgents • Prince Harry • deployment • Ministry of Defence • British royals

Eight Dead
In Bombing
of Iraqi Parliament

Suspected suicide bomber was
bodyguard of Sunni MP

Apr 12, 07 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Eight people, including three lawmakers, were killed and at least 30 wounded when a suicide bomber eluded the normally heavy security around the Green Zone and  denonated an explosion in the cafeteria of the Iraqi parliament. Officials believe the culprit was the bodyguard of a Sunni legislator not among the... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • Middle East • terrorism • Sunni • Shiite • insurgents • Iraqi Parliament • Green Zone • bombing • US Army • al-Qaeda

Al-Sadr Preaches Peace — But Not
Toward U.S.

Urges Iraqis to unite against "occupiers"

Apr 8, 07 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on Iraqis Sunday to stop killing each other—and join together to rid their country of Americans. On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, he urged both Iraqi forces and insurgents to direct their fight against "the occupiers,"... More »

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Iraq • terrorism • Shiite • insurgents • Mahdi Army • America • war • Najaf • Muqtada al-Sadr

Bill Would Put Ba'athists
Back in Power

Aim is to woo Sunnis into Shiite-dominated government 

Mar 28, 07 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ba'athists will be allowed back in government posts if a bill proposed yesterday, aimed at  reconciling dissident Sunnis with the Shiite-dominated government, passes the Iraqi parliament.  The U.S has been pushing for the law to law to woo the former Saddam loyalists —mostly Sunnis— into the political... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • War on Terror • sectarian violence • Sunni • Shiite • insurgents • Ba'thists • Baath Party

Sunni Baghdad
Lies in Ruins as Shiites Rebuild

Insurgents target efforts to provide food, fuel, services

Mar 26, 07 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Baghdad's Sunni neighborhoods are in collapse, lacking food, fuel,  electricity and health care even as their Shiite neighbors have regained basic services, Alissa Rubin reports. In Shiite areas, the Mahdi Army fills in for the government by keeping order and organizing resources, but Sunnis now find themselves under attack... More »

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Iraq • Islam • Middle East • sectarian violence • Sunni • Shiite • insurgents • Baghdad • Mahdi Army

Fake Raids Test Iraqi Reconstruction

U.S. aid to small businesses works only if it's invisible. Otherwise, companies get 'immediately shot or blown up.'

Mar 22, 07 11:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - The American military is staging fake raids on Iraqi small businesses to confirm that US aid is being well spent—without tipping off insurgents that they have any US connection. "The only way things will work is if the US contribution is totally invisible," says a civil-affairs officer,... More »

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Iraq • military • insurgents • economics • United States • aid • raids • small businesses • civil affairs • Iraq economy • US economy

(Newser) - Insurgents in Baghdad used two children in the backseat of a car to lower suspicion at an American security checkpoint, then blew up the car, with the children in it.  Once they cleared the checkpoint, the bombers parked near a school, ran from the car, and detonated the bomb,... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • military • Middle East • Shiite • insurgents • Baghdad • car bomb

Chalabi Rides Surge Back
Into Office

The divisive Iraqi politician will build public backing for security push

Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Ahmed Chalabi, the former U.S. darling and deputy prime minister spurned by Iraqi voters in the 2005 elections, is back in office. He won a post created as a buffer between residents and the troops pouring into Baghdad for the new security push. Chalabi's new role involves organizing reimbursement... More »

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Iraq • Middle East • insurgents • politics • Baghdad • Ahmed Chalabi

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