AFP – A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a joint Iraqi army and police checkpoint in western Baghdad on Saturday, killing four people, a security official said.
Four Iraqis killed by Baghdad suicide car bomb: official (AFP)
Iraq bombs kill one U.S. soldier and wound 11 (Reuters)
Reuters – A double roadside bomb attack killed
one U.S. soldier and wounded 11 in northern Iraq’s Kirkuk
province, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
Gates offers hope of Iraq withdrawals (AP)
AP – In a year marked by progress in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday acknowledged two bits of unfinished business in his first 12 months on the job: He has yet to close the Guantanamo Bay prison or find Osama bin Laden.
One US soldier killed, 11 hurt in Iraq road bombs (AFP)
AFP – One US soldier was killed and another 11 wounded when two road bombs exploded near their vehicles in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk, the military said Saturday.
Iraq says U.S.-backed patrols can’t be "third force" (Reuters)
Reuters – The Iraqi government will not tolerate
U.S.-backed neighborhood patrols turning into a “third force”
alongside the army and the police, Defense Minister General
Abdel Qader Jassim said on Saturday.
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