Baghdad: Bicycle Bomb Kills 2 As Wednesday's Death Toll Rises To 101 (www.huffingtonpost.com)
It was the deadliest day of coordinated bombings since Feb. 1, 2008, when two suicide bombers killed 109 people at pet markets in Baghdad. More than 400 were wounded in Wednesday's blasts.
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Huge Series Of Blasts Kill At Least 95 In Baghdad (www.talkingpointsmemo.com)
Huge bombings near Iraq's foreign and finance ministries killed 95 and wounded over 500 today.
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Iraq May Hold Vote On U.S. Withdrawal (www.washingtonpost.com)
U.S. troops could be forced by Iraqi voters to withdraw a year ahead of schedule under a referendum the Iraqi government backed Monday.
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Bombs Targeting Shiites in Iraq Kill at Least 48 (www.huffingtonpost.com)
A double truck bombing tore through the village of a small Shiite ethnic minority near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, while nine blasts wracked Baghdad in a wave of violence Monday that killed at... More
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U.S. 'Concerned' By Iraqi Raid Of Iranian Camp (www.washingtonpost.com)
At least eight Iranians have been killed and 400 wounded since Tuesday, when hundreds of Iraqi police and soldiers in riot gear plowed into Camp Ashraf. Camp residents described the day's events as a... More
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Blair To Testify in Public in Iraq War Probe (rawstory.com)
A British investigatory committee examining pre-war failures plans to call the country's former head of state, former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Top Military Adviser On Iraq: 'Declare Victory And Go Home' (www.nytimes.com)
Col. Timothy R. Reese, a senior American military adviser in Baghdad, has concluded in an unusually blunt memo that it is time “for the U.S. to declare victory and go home.”
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Gates Says Iraq Troop Withdrawal Could Be Accelerated (www.nytimes.com)
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said on Wednesday that as many as 5,000 United States troops could come home from Iraq earlier than the Pentagon had planned.
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Gates in Iraq: Security Has Improved 'Amazingly' (news.bbc.co.uk)
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said on a visit to Iraq that its security situation has improved "amazingly" in the past three years.
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Iraqi Forces Raid Camp of Iranian Exile Group MEK (www.cbsnews.com)
Four people were killed by the Iraqi police and scores more injured in a raid on Camp Ashraf, headquarters of the Iranian exile group MEK.
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