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  1. Attacks in Iraq: 16 killed, 8 kidnappedRead the original story w/Photo

    Saturday | WPTV Local News

    Shootings and bombings have killed at least 16 people in Iraq today. And gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria.

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  2. Thirteen killed, 10 police kidnapped in Iraq violenceRead the original story w/Photo

    Saturday | Reuters

    Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the Shi'ite-led government of a nation plagued by sectarian hatred.

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  3. Denton cites senior center, parking in early bid for City CouncilRead the original story

    Saturday | SeacoastOnline

    ... Denton said he fell in love with Portsmouth as a student at the University of New Hampshire. "The day I returned from Iraq in 2007, I moved to Portsmouth." While in the Army, Denton said, he served effectively in a number of leadership roles, ...

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  4. Attacks kill 16 in Iraq 8 police kidnappedRead the original story

    Saturday | Las Vegas Herald

    Iraqis gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 17, 2013.

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  5. At least 32 killed in Iraq explosionsRead the original story

    Saturday | Sunday Herald

    BAGHDAD: At least 32 people were killed in two explosions outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baquba, about 30 miles north-east of Baghdad, after Friday prayers, police and medics said.

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  6. Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnappedRead the original story w/Photo

    Saturday | Newsday

    A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria , the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.

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  7. St. Joseph group still collecting names of those in armed forcesRead the original story

    Saturday | The News-Gazette

    ... a sign honoring Army Maj. David L. Audo, a University of Illinois graduate from St. Joseph who died in 2009 in Baghdad, Iraq. The signs are made with a flag background and a yellow ribbon. The signs will state the soldiers name and the branch of the ...

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  8. Iraq erupts in another grim day of bloodRead the original story

    Saturday | The Age

    At least 66 people were killed in bomb blasts in Iraq on Friday, officials said, making it one of the bloodiest days this year as the country struggles to contain spiralling sectarian violence.

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  9. Iraq violence kills 11, police kidnappedRead the original story

    Saturday | The Nation

    Violence in Iraq killed 11 people on Saturday including a police officer, his wife and two children, while gunmen kidnapped up to 10 people, among them police, officials said.

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  10. US chides Russia over missilesRead the original story

    Saturday | The Nation

    ... by Washington and Moscow were hit by diplomatic rifts over its scope and purpose. Sectarian bloodshed in neighboring Iraq during Friday prayers, a hacking attack on a Western newspaper by sympathizers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and defiant ...

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  11. Sectarian violence erupts anew in IraqRead the original story w/Photo

    Saturday | WTAE-TV Pittsburgh

    ... the heels of a spate of sectarian violence in the Middle Eastern nation. Tensions have grown in recent months between Iraq's Sunnis and Shiites, especially after an incident last month in Hawija, in Kirkuk province, where Iraqi security forces ...

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  12. Bombs in Iraq kill at least 76Read the original story w/Photo

    Saturday | Stuff.co.nz

    ... ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward ...

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  13. Veteran's family aims to help others with PTSDRead the original story w/Photo

    Saturday | KFOXTV

    ... never saw him behave that way before, she told the Daily Journal (http://bit.ly/15FoB2I ). After serving 16 months in Iraq , killing insurgents and seeing fellow soldiers die, the high school athlete who wasn't afraid to hug his parents and tell ...

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  14. Al-Qaeda's child recruitment planRead the original story

    Saturday | Indy Media

    Iraqi security forces have strong evidence that al-Qaeda is attempting to recruit children and adolescents into a new cell known as "Ashbal al-Qaeda", Iraqi officials said.

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  15. Iraq blasts hit Sunni areasRead the original story

    Saturday | Reuters

    Sectarian violence intensifies in Iraq with a series of car bombings targeting Sunni Muslim areas of the country.

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  16. Photography: putting Saddam Hussein back in the frame - in picturesRead the original story

    Saturday | The Guardian

    ... breaking a taboo that was created after the fall of the regime.' Penjweny, a former shepherd, will show his work in the Iraq pavilion at the Venice Biennale (Welcome to Iraq, 1 June to 24 November). 'The idea for Saddam Is Here began in 2007 in ...

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  17. Wrong Like It's Their JobRead the original story

    Friday May 17 | The Big Picture

    ... these same folks were stunningly wrong about a decade ago about when they banged the drum for war against Iraq. Overthrowing Saddam, of course, was a high priority for the neocons, and they needed to drum up broad support to get folks on board. What ...

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  18. Iraq bombings kill 47, raise fears of renewed sectarian violenceRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday May 17 | The Campbell Reporter

    Twin explosions ripped through a crowd of Sunni worshippers in Baghdad on Friday, an attack which, combined with a second deadly bombing at a Sunni funeral just outside the city, deepened fears Iraq may be headed toward a new round of sectarian conflict.

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  19. Two blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43Read the original story

    Friday May 17 | Buenos Aires Herald

    ... in neighbouring Syria is emboldening Iraqi Sunni insurgents and straining relations between the two Muslim groups in Iraq, where tensions are at their worst since U.S. troops pulled out at the end of 2011. On Friday, one bomb exploded outside the ...

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  20. Fallujah Awakens: Marines, Sheikhs and the Battle Against al QaedaRead the original story

    Thursday May 16 | The Long War Journal

    ... this time, permanently. The author is wise to remind readers that al-Qaeda was never terribly popular in Iraq; it espoused a form of Islam considered violent and unfamiliar, "even by conservative Fallujan standards," and its success required vicious ...

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