At least 23 people were killed in bomb attacks and shootings around Iraq on Monday as United States troops announced the discovery of a mass grave with the bodies of 14 men bound and shot in the head. The deadliest attacks were in Baghdad, where at least 19 people were killed in two car bombings.
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/ 29 January 2008
United States soldiers are lampooned, police officers are shown as buffoons and Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is irreverently cheered by penguins … Iraqis are turning more and more to YouTube to express their dark-edged humour. The main butt of send-ups posted by Iraqis on the popular internet video site is, as one might expect, the US military.
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/ 23 October 2007
Turkey reassured Iraq on Tuesday that it wants a diplomatic solution to the problem of Kurdish rebel rear-bases but rejected a conditional ceasefire offer made by the guerrillas. ”Politics, dialogue, diplomacy, culture and economy are the measures to deal with this crisis,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan told a news conference in Baghdad.
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/ 10 October 2007
Iraqi authorities on Wednesday condemned the killing in Baghdad of two women by foreign security guards, as the firm which hired the contractors defended its action. Tuesday’s bloodbath comes just days after Iraq vowed to punish United States security firm Blackwater after a probe found that its guards opened "deliberate" fire in Baghdad three weeks ago.
The Iraqi government and its tribal allies were scouring dangerous territory on Wednesday for evidence to prove their claims that al-Qaeda’s Iraq chief had been killed in a clash between armed factions. A claim on Tuesday that Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been killed was scorned by al-Qaeda.
At least 118 Shi’ite pilgrims were slaughtered in attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, sparking fears of reprisals that could frustrate efforts by Iraqi and United States forces to quell sectarian violence. The deadliest single attack was in Hilla, south of the capital, where two suicide bombers triggered explosives amid a packed crowd of worshippers.
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/ 26 February 2007
Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani is suffering from extreme exhaustion and dehydration but is in high spirits and his life is not in danger, his office said Monday. Talabani, Iraq’s 74-year-old Kurdish leader, was flown from his home town in northern Iraq to the Jordanian capital Amman on Sunday after falling ill.
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/ 8 February 2007
United States-backed Iraqi troops arrested the Iraq Health Ministry’s second highest official on Thursday, charging that he murdered opponents and funnelled million of dollars to rogue Shi’ite militia groups.
At least 30 people were killed or wounded in running gun battles on Friday between Shi’ite militiamen and United States-Iraqi forces in Baghdad’s sprawling Shi’ite slum district of Sadr City, the US military and security sources said. The US military said the fighting resulted in the capture of a ”high-level insurgent leader” behind attacks on Iraqi and US-led forces.
At least 60 people were killed and scores wounded on Saturday when a car bomb struck the Baghdad Shi’ite district of Sadr City, ripping through a massive security crackdown in the Iraqi capital. A Sunni woman MP was also kidnapped in north Baghdad, a day after al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden vowed the war would go on despite a peace plan launched by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.