March 31st, 2007 at 12:01pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
Reuters - The Iraqi government raised the death
toll on Saturday from a truck bomb in the town of Tal Afar to
152, making it the deadliest single bombing of the
four-year-old war.
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March 31st, 2007 at 05:57am Under Iraqi Dinar News
AFP - Iraqi former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz wants to live in Rome after his release from jail, believing he will be welcomed in the Italian capital.
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March 31st, 2007 at 05:55am Under Iraqi Dinar News
AFP - Three car bombs and a roadside bomb killed 14 people and wounded dozens as Iraq's relentless insurgency and sectarian violence continued on Saturday.
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March 31st, 2007 at 05:43am Under Iraqi Dinar News
AP - A parked car exploded near a hospital in Baghdad’s main Shiite district on Saturday — the deadliest in a series of bombings killed at least nine people and wounded dozens in Iraq, police said.
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March 31st, 2007 at 04:18am Under Iraqi Dinar News
AP - A parked car exploded near a hospital in Baghdad’s main Shiite district on Saturday as a series of bombings killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens in Iraq, police said.
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March 30th, 2007 at 08:08pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
Reuters - The U.S. Army has enough money on
hand to finance the Iraq war through most of July, according to
a congressional study that challenges President George W.
Bush's assertions that an infusion of funds is needed more
urgently.
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March 30th, 2007 at 07:28pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AP - Republicans miscalculated a decade ago and were blamed for forcing a government shutdown in a spending standoff with President Clinton. Now President Bush and congressional Democrats are on a collision course on Iraq spending — a high-stakes confrontation to see who blinks and who can successfully accuse the other of shortchanging U.S. troops.
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March 30th, 2007 at 06:30pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AFP - US President George W. Bush on Friday apologized to wounded US troops for grim conditions some of them faced at the Washington-area hospital that has treated many injured Iraq veterans.
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March 30th, 2007 at 06:15pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AP - For four long years, life has been brutally unkind to most Iraqis, but Friday night they had one of those rare moments to focus beyond the daily violence that is swallowing their lives. One of their own took first prize in the Arab version of American Idol.
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March 30th, 2007 at 06:10pm Under Iraqi Dinar News
AP - As of Friday, March 30, 2007, at least 3,245 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,621 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
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