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Coalition Casualty Count News
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| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| AP: Civilian contractors should be sentenced differently than military |
| A federal judge rejected arguments Friday from a former civilian contractor in Iraq who said his sentence for possessing child pornography should be lighter to more closely align with what military personnel would face. |
| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| NPR: Iraq Situation Likely To Worsen |
| A report from top U.S. intelligence agencies says that the relative calm in Iraq could dissolve at any moment. Madeleine Brand talks to McClatchy Senior Correspondent Warren Strobel about what the report says and how it may change the presidential race. |
| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| AP: Top cleric won't block US pact |
| Iraq's prime minister said Friday that the country's most influential Shiite cleric will leave the decision on the future of U.S. troops to the government and parliament — a step that could remove a major obstacle to a deal. |
| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| VOA: Blast in Baghdad Shi'ite Area Kills 12 |
| Iraqi police say 12 people have been killed in a bombing in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad. Authorities say another 22 people were injured by the bomb, which went off Friday in a crowded market in the Shi'ite enclave Abu Dshir. |
| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Iraqi journalist killed in drive-by shooting |
| Diyar Abbas, a stringer for independent news agency Aien, was shot by armed men in a car as he left the office of a Kirkuk artists' association on Friday evening. Abbas, a Kurd, was 28. |
| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Two bodies found in Baghdad on Thursday |
| Two unidentified bodies were found in Baghdad late on Thursday, police said. |
| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Bombs kill 4 people, 15 wounded in central Mosul |
| Four people were killed and at least 15 were wounded when two bombs exploded in Bab al-Tob, a commercial area in central Mosul especially crowded by shoppers on Fridays, police said. Mosul is 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. |
| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| AFP: Anger against US as Iraq Shiites bury slain MP |
| Mourners shouted anti-American slogans as gunfire gripped the Baghdad Shiite district of Sadr City ahead of the burial on Friday of a radical member of parliament killed in a roadside bombing. |
| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| AFP: Iraq archbishop warns Christians face 'liquidation' |
| Iraq's Christians face "liquidation," the Chaldean archbishop of the northern city of Kirkuk told AFP in an interview, urging Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to guarantee the minority's safety. |
| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| AP: Thousands of al-Sadr supporters mourn lawmaker |
| Thousands of supporters of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr marched through eastern Baghdad on Friday to mourn the killing of a Sadrist lawmaker and hear a statement from the anti-U.S. cleric blaming occupation and terrorism for the loss. |
| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| KUNA: One Iraqi killed, 12 others wounded in two bomb blasts in Doura |
| One Iraqi man was killed and 12 others were injured Friday after two bombs were detonated consecutively in Al-Doura area south of the capital Baghdad |
| 10/09/2008 05:00 PM |
| AP: Turkish military attacks rebels in northern Iraq |
| Turkish warplanes and artillery units bombed and killed a large group of Kurdish rebels as they tried to infiltrate Turkey from northern Iraq, the country's military said Friday. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| AFP: Iraq may face spike in violence before elections |
| Recent major security improvements in Iraq risk being undermined by a surge in violence ahead of provincial elections early next year, a senior US general said on Thursday. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: U.S. Army says it has disrupted Iraq weapons network |
| U.S.-led forces in southeastern Iraq have disrupted an arms-smuggling network blamed for distributing deadly Iranian-made roadside bombs and rockets in Iraq, a U.S. military officer said on Thursday. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| AFP: Syrian policeman, two suspected 'terrorists' killed |
| Syrian security forces killed two suspected Iraqi "terrorists" and a policeman also died in clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp, private Dunia television said on Thursday. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| AFP: Iraqi PM vows to capture killers of anti-US Shiite MP |
| Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed on Thursday to capture the assassins of an anti-American Shiite MP, the first lawmaker to be killed in 18 months, and ordered a top-level investigation. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Bomb kills policeman, wounds 3 others in Tal Afar |
| One policeman and one civilian were killed and three people wounded by a bomb planted inside a restaurant in the town of Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Gunmen kill leader of neighbourhood patrol groups in al-Zab |
| Gunmen killed the leader of U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol groups in the al-Zab area, 35 km (20 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, on Wednesday, police said. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| AP: Roadside bomb kills senior Shiite lawmaker |
| Two Shiite lawmakers say a senior member of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's movement has died of wounds suffered in a roadside bombing in Baghdad. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: One civilian killed, 4 others wounded in northeastern Baghdad |
| A civilian was killed and four wounded, including two traffic policemen, when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in Sadr City district of northeastern Baghdad, police said. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Gunmen kill Christian man in eastern Mosul |
| Gunmen killed a Christian man on Wednesday near his home in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Gunmen kill off-duty policeman in eastern Mosul |
| Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman in a drive-by shooting in eastern Mosul, police said. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Three Iranian pilgrims wounded by IED near Iskandariya |
| Three Iranian pilgrims were wounded on Wednesday night when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle on the main road near Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. They were heading to the holy city of Najaf |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 3 Iraqi soldiers in Mosul |
| Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded on Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in Mosul, police said. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds civilian and policeman in Mosul |
| A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, wounding one civilian and one policeman in Mosul on Wednesday, police said. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Man found dead in Mosul |
| Police found a body of undentified man who was shot in the head and chest in eastern Mosul. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Mortar fire wounds 2 women in separate incidents in Kirkuk |
| Two women were wounded on Wednesday when a mortar round landed on their house in the northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. |
| 10/08/2008 05:00 PM |
| Reuters: Sticky bomb kills of Kerbala governing council employee |
| A sticky bomb attached to a car carrying employees of Kerbala governing council, killed one and wounded two in the village of al-Shamaliya, west of the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said on Thursday. |