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Some Headlines Of Today
Sunday October 8, 2006
Hundreds of Iraq police fall ill at meal 10/8/2006, 4:30 p.m. PT BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Hundreds of Iraqi policemen fell sick from poisoning Sunday at a base in southern Iraq after the evening meal breaking their daily Ramadan fast, and officials said they were investigating whether the poisoning was intentional. |
Northern Iraq grows increasingly violent 10/8/2006, 2:59 p.m. PT KIRKUK, Iraq (AP) — Bombings and shootings are increasing in Iraq's north as part of a power struggle between Arabs and Kurds. Car bombings in oil-rich Kirkuk grew fivefold last month and hundreds of Kurdish families have left the north's biggest city, Mosul, to escape the violence. |
U.S. coalition kills 30 Shiite fighters 10/8/2006, 2:41 p.m. PT BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — The U.S.-led coalition said it killed 30 fighters in a battle Sunday with the country's most powerful Shiite militia amid growing American impatience with the Iraqi government's inability to stop militias responsible for escalating sectarian violence. |
U.S. troops fight Shiite militia in Iraq 10/8/2006, 11:51 a.m. PT BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — American and Iraqi troops battled the country's most powerful Shiite militia in a southern city, killing 30 fighters, amid increasing friction between the Mahdi Army and U.S. forces trying to put an end to Iraq's bloody sectarian killings. |
Immunity lifted from Iraqi politician 10/8/2006, 10:09 a.m. PT BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's parliament on Sunday removed immunity from a lawmaker, opening the door for prosecutors to charge him with allegedly embezzling funds intended for an armed force protecting oil pipelines in northern Iraq. |
U.S., Iraqi forces clash with insurgents 10/8/2006, 3:04 a.m. PT BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — U.S. and Iraqi forces fought militiamen early Sunday in Diwaniyah, a southern city under the increasing influence of the Madhi Army loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Twenty militia fighters were killed, the U.S. military said. |
The Above Headlines were gathered from various news sites. |
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