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25 Die in Iraq as Nation Votes in Historic Election

Posted: 03/07/10 9:38AM
Filed Under: Top News, World, Election Showdown, Iraq, Politics

Iraqis voted Sunday in an election testing the mettle of the country's still-fragile democracy as insurgents killed 25 people across the Iraq, unleashing a barrage of mortars intent on disrupting the historic day.

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Fear of Another 9/11 Justified Iraq Invasion: Blair

Posted: 01/29/10 8:57AM
Filed Under: Top News, World, Iraq, Politics, Terrorism

LONDON - An unrepentant Tony Blair defended his decision to join the United States in attacking Iraq, arguing Friday before a panel investigating the war that the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks made the threat of weapons of mass destruction impossible to ignore.
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LONDON - An unrepentant Tony Blair defended his decision to join the United States in attacking Iraq, arguing Friday before a panel investigating the war that the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks made the threat of weapons of mass destruction impossible to ignore.

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'Chemical Ali' Executed in Iraq

Posted: 01/25/10 9:37AM
Filed Under: Crime Files, Top News, World, Iraq, Terrorism

In this Jan. 8, 2007 file photo, Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid for his alleged use of chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurds, listens to prosecution evidence during the Operation Anfal trial, in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP)
In this Jan. 8, 2007 file photo, Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid for his alleged use of chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurds, listens to prosecution evidence during the Operation Anfal trial, in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP)

BAGHDAD - Iraq's government spokesman says Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was executed Monday about a week after being sentenced to death for the poison gas attacks that killed more than 5,000 Kurds in 1988.

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Iraqi Man, Dog Reunite After Bomb Blast

Posted: 12/11/09 9:31AM
Filed Under: World, Animals in the News, Iraq

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Faroug Omar rescues his dog, Liza in Baghdad, Iraq. Liza was left perched atop a ledge stranded but remarkably unharmed in a major suicide car bombing. (AP)

Liza is one lucky dog. And so, it turns out, is her family. The ginger-colored mutt stranded alone atop the bombed-out ruins of her Baghdad home was reunited with her owners Wednesday after a night spent chained to a railing, bringing a few smiles after the Iraqi capital's latest day of sorrow.

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Obama Defends U.S. Wars as He Picks Up Peace Prize

Posted: 12/10/09 7:35AM
Filed Under: Top News, World, Afghanistan, Climate Change, Iraq, Nobel Prize, President Obama

Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland, left, presents President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize during a ceremony in the Main Hall of Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland, left, presents President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize during a ceremony in the Main Hall of Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

OSLO (AP) - President Barack Obama entered the pantheon of Nobel Peace Prize winners with humble words Thursday, acknowledging his own few accomplishments while delivering a robust defense of war and promising to use the prestigious prize to "reach for the world that ought to be."

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Army Shooter Was to Serve in Iraq

Posted: 11/06/09 8:23AM
Filed Under: World, Afghanistan, Gun Violence, Iraq, News That Stunned Us, Outbursts of Violence

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" — before opening fire, the base commander said Friday.

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