Baghdad

Baghdad Bureau: The Airport Road

New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

War does funny things to the laws of entropy: things get quickly smashed and then only slowly fade away.

Coalition forces capture 16 suspected terrorists (Baghdad)

The Jawa Report (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

BAGHDAD – Coalition forces struck al-Qaeda in Iraq leadership elements and foreign terrorist facilitators cells Monday and Tuesday, capturing two wanted men and detaining 14 additional suspects. Coalition forces captured one wanted man and detained two suspects Monday during an...

• Coalition Forces Apprehend Kataib Hezbollah Suspects - Department of Defense

Egyptian Foreign Minister In Iraq: Egyptian Embassy Coming Soon To Baghdad

Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit visited Iraq on October 5, at the head of an Egyptian delegation that included Egyptian Petroleum Minister Sameh Fahmi. The delegation examined a number of sites for the establishment of an Egyptian ... October 7, 2008, 10:40 am

[Spiffy] Baghdad's first Chinese restaurant opens, will feature General Petraeus' Chicken

Fark.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

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Baghdad Security Plan Burdens Residents

Alive In Baghdad (Free subscription) | yesterday

VIDEO - Baghdad, Iraq - The ongoing fighting in Baghdad pushed the Iraqi and US forces to establish checkpoints all over the city to secure the roads and neighborhoods. Controlling the cars inside the city and preventing them from distributing weapons or bombs was the first aim of these checkpoints. There are four main types [...]

Weekly Body Count: Baghdad*: 31 Tijuana: 49

Soob (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008

The narco -civil war continues to rage in Mexico. Via CNN : Police have found nine more bodies dumped around the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where nearly 50 people have been killed in a week of violence related to the drug trade.Violence has soared in Mexico since officials began a crackdown on the drug trade nearly two years ago. Municipal police found five of the bodies Saturday between two small...

• Drug-related violence kills nine - Scotsman.com
• Drug-related violence kills nine - News Scotsman
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Two powerful blasts attack area outside Baghdad Green Zone

People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

Two powerful explosions rocked the area outside Baghdad heavily fortified Green Zone on Tuesday, wounding at least five people, an Interior Ministry source and witnesses said. The interior ministry source could not immediately tell what caused the explosions, but he said that at least five people were wounded by the blasts which took place in a quick succession. The ministry source said several nearby...

Blasts shake Baghdad's Green Zone

Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 : Two explosions go off as US deputy secretary of state visits Iraqi capital.

Mosul fight kills 3; Baghdad blast hurts 5

Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday

BAGHDAD, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier was among three people killed Tuesday during a skirmish with suspected al-Qaida in Iraq militants near Mosul in northern Iraq, officials said. Also killed were an Iraqi police officer and an al-Qaida in Iraq member, CNN reported. The battle began when U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police surrounded the home after a family reported a man wearing suicide vest had entered...

Mosul fight kills 3; Baghdad blast hurts 5

Moldova.org (Free subscription) | yesterday

A U.S. soldier was among three people killed Tuesday during a skirmish with suspected al-Qaida in Iraq militants near Mosul in northern Iraq, officials said.Also killed were an Iraqi police officer and an al-Qaida in Iraq member, CNN reported.The battle began when U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police surrounded the home after a family reported a man wearing suicide vest had entered their house, the military...

UAE crown prince makes surprise Baghdad visit

Alarabiya.net (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Abu Dhabi's crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan, paid an unannounced visit to Iraq on Tuesday and was received at the airport by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, state television said. The details of the visit were not immediately known, but it followed a similar visit by Egypt's

Two Blackhawk Copters Crash in Baghdad

Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008

Two U.S. Blackhawk helicopters crashed while attempting to land in northern Baghdad Saturday, the U.S. military said. One Iraqi soldier was killed and two American and two Iraqi soldiers were injured in the crashes.

Fewer black funeral banners blanket Baghdad

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008

"The Dalfiyah family mourns the deceased, Mohammed Nafil Akseer al Dalfi, father of Jassim, Qassim, Hashim and Bassim. The funeral will be held at his house in Habibiya in front of the power supply station."

• Fewer black funeral banners blanket Baghdad - kansascity.com

Bozeman man receives posthumous Army honor

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BOZEMAN, Mont. _ A soldier from Bozeman killed in Iraq will receive the Army's second-highest honor. Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins was killed June 1, 2007, by a suicide bomber southwest of Baghdad. ...

Iraq takes over Sunni group

USA Today (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

The U.S. has turned over control of a group of Sunni fighters to Iraq's Shiite-led government in a Baghdad neighborhood that ...