Iraq War Headlines, March 19, 2003 to December 31, 2009, Q Madp, IraqWarHeroes.org - Website by Q Madp

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Sister of Iraqi vice president killed 4/26/2006, 11:23 p.m. PT
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A sister of Iraq's new Sunni vice president was killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

Family distressed after wrong body returned 4/26/2006, 8:34 p.m. PT
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — The grieving relatives of an Australian soldier killed in Iraq were distressed to learn that the wrong body accidentally was sent home, the defense minister said Thursday.

Rice, Rumsfeld tout new Iraq government 4/26/2006, 4:53 p.m. PT
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Success in forming a new Iraqi government may let some U.S. troops leave the war zone within months, the top American military commander in Iraq said Wednesday. Paying a surprise visit, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld embraced the country's fledgling leaders as independent and focused on the future.

GIs kill 13 in raid on Iraq safehouse 4/26/2006, 2:32 p.m. PT
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — U.S. troops backed by a helicopter and jets struck a suspected safehouse of foreign insurgents, killing 12 militants and a woman in a raid near the site where an American helicopter crashed, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

Iraqis building makeshift roadblocks 4/26/2006, 11:37 a.m. PT
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — They're set up on roads all around the Iraqi capital, sometimes rusty car skeletons, washing machines or home appliances piled together, sometimes piles of garbage or dirt. Often a gunman or two keeps watch for any strangers.

Correction: April 25 Iraq story 4/26/2006, 10:15 a.m. PT
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — In an April 25 story about a new videotape by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, The Associated Press erroneously identified security consultant Charles Shoebridge as an ex-British Army intelligence officer. Shoebridge is a former counterterrorism intelligence officer for the Metropolitan police and a former British Army officer.

Iraq PM-designate to go by his real name 4/26/2006, 10:01 a.m. PT
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's prime minister-designate will use his birth name, Nouri al-Maliki, rather than the one he took in exile during Saddam Hussein's regime, his office announced Wednesday.

Rumsfeld, Rice to meet Iraqi leaders 4/26/2006, 5:04 a.m. PT
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — President Bush dispatched America's top two foreign policy officials to Iraq on Wednesday in separate, surprise missions calculated to demonstrate a strong show of support for the country's emerging new government.

Iraqi government condemns al-Zarqawi 4/26/2006, 4:24 a.m. PT
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraqis on Wednesday condemned terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as a foreigner determined to destroy their country, saying his new video promising more attacks may have surfaced in response to the breakthrough in the formation of a unity government.

Rumsfeld, Rice to meet Iraqi leaders 4/26/2006, 4:10 a.m. PT
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — President Bush dispatched America's top two foreign policy officials to Iraq on Wednesday in separate, surprise missions calculated to demonstrate a strong show of support for the country's emerging new government.

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