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/ 1 February 2007
There is good news in Iraq. For Reuters journalists, this week’s high points were the safe return of two colleagues seized by a death squad which shot two other hostages and the survival of the teenage nephew of another employee who was kidnapped and tortured in Baghdad.
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/ 21 January 2007
United States forces suffered one of their costliest days in Iraq on Saturday when 19 troops were killed, including 12 on a helicopter and five in a clash in a Shi’ite holy city that the US military blamed on militiamen.
United States forces had no role in Saddam Hussein’s hanging, but would have handled it differently, a US general said on Wednesday after a video of Iraqi officials taunting him on the gallows sparked outrage among Sunni Arabs. Major General William Caldwell also urged the Iraqi government to reach out to disillusioned Sunni Arabs.
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/ 30 December 2006
Saddam Hussein was hanged at dawn on Saturday, a dramatic end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before a United States invasion toppled him and was then convicted of crimes against humanity. As day broke on one of the holiest days of the Muslim year, officially-backed television channels flashed the news shortly after 6am.
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/ 4 December 2006
Police found about 50 bodies with gunshot wounds in Baghdad over the past day, an Interior Ministry source said on Monday, a day after United Nations chief Kofi Annan declared Iraq’s plight as worse than civil war. Sectarian death squads have made the Iraqi capital a killing field and many of the bodies had been bound and tortured.
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/ 2 December 2006
Car bombs tore through a fruit and vegetable market in a Shi’ite area of central Baghdad on Saturday, killing 43 people in another devastating attack that is fuelling an increasingly vicious cycle of sectarian violence. The bombing came two days after United States President George Bush met Iraq’s prime minister to discuss ways to avert all-out civil war and 10 days after the bloodiest attack since the US invasion killed more than 200 people in the capital.
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/ 28 November 2006
United States President George Bush said on Tuesday the hand of al-Qaeda lay behind the sectarian violence racking Iraq, and deflected talk of ”civil war”. Bush, who made his remarks in Estonia on his way to a Nato summit, has avoided using the term civil war, which could increase public pressure on him to pull troops out of Iraq.
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/ 24 November 2006
Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab neighbourhood of Baghdad and burned mosques on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years of war that killed 202 in a Shi’ite area. Two suicide bombs ripped through a Shi’ite market in northern Iraq killing 22 people earlier on Friday and mortars crashed on rival Baghdad neighbourhoods.
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/ 24 November 2006
Suicide bombers ripped through a Shi’ite market in northern Iraq on Friday and mortars crashed on rival Baghdad neighbourhoods, ramping up sectarian tension a day after the bloodiest bombing of the conflict killed 202 people. As political leaders pleaded for restraint, two bombers killed 22 people at Tal Afar near the Syrian border.
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/ 23 November 2006
Six car bombs killed at least 133 people in a Shi’ite stronghold in Baghdad on Thursday, one of the bloodiest attacks since the United States invasion and likely to inflame sectarian passions in a nation sliding towards civil war. A further 201 people were wounded, police said.