At least 22 Iraqis were killed and 27 more were wounded in a bombing and several targeted assassinations. Also, a U.S. soldier was killed during operations yesterday, making April the deadliest month for American troops November 2009. Meanwhile, parliament approved $400 million to compensate Americans used as human shields during the 1990-91 Gulf War.
read moreAmid Turmoil, a Nuke-Free Middle East May Be in Jeopardy
A proposed international conference on a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, tentatively scheduled for 2012, may be in jeopardy amid the growing political turmoil sweeping across the Arab world - and Israel's fears of negative fallout on its own security. The proposal...
Friday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 29 Wounded
At least 13 Iraqis were killed and 29 more were wounded in new violence. Meanwhile, extra security forces are leaving Suleimaniya after being called in to help quell demonstrations.
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Hueys Over Yemen
‘Mr. Y’ and the Decline of the American Empire
WikiLeaks Files Reveal Failures of US Intelligence
Was Adel Hamlily an agent for MI6, the British secret services, and simultaneously a "facilitator, courier, kidnapper, and assassin for al-Qaeda"? Was there a secret al-Qaeda cell in Bremen that even the German government knew nothing about? And could it be...
Thursday: 1 US Soldier, 39 Iraqis Killed; 51 Iraqis Wounded
At least 39 Iraqis were killed and 51 more were wounded across the country. Seventeen of the dead, however, were from a recently discovered mass grave.
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