...Mosul. The demands of protection and bureaucratic strangulation by the Black Dragons, who have not embraced the concept of the ARSO-I program, has resulted in the OCI program being deployed very slowly. This...

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... attacked by a car bomb, Baghdad, Iraq. The HMMWV was designed primarily for personnel and light cargo transport behind front lines, not as a front line fighting vehicle. Like the previous Jeep, the basic HMMWV...

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AP, 26 January 2010, 05:15pm IST Topics: BAGHDAD: A suicide car bomber killed at least 18 and injured dozens more Tuesday in a strike against a police crime lab in central Baghdad, a day after several hotels...

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...car bomb, Baghdad, Iraq. Car bombs and detonators function in a diverse manner of ways, and there are numerous variables in the operation and placement of the bomb within the vehicle. Earlier and less advanced...

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...Qassim Atta said all three car bombs were suicide attacks. An interior ministry official told AFP that 36 people had been killed and 71 were wounded. The first explosion which shook ground miles away from the...

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...a general election in March. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police were deployed in the streets of the capital to protect the auction and army helicopters buzzed overhead. Oil executives traveled around...

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..."Nationalisation Room" took place under intense security, with thousands of Iraqi police and troops deployed on the streets of Baghdad and army helicopters buzzing overhead. Executives from around 30 top oil...

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Reuters - Residents and security personnel gather at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City, December … By Suadad al-Salhy Suadad Al-salhy - 29 mins ago BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least four car bombs...

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Baghdad, June 20 : At least 25 people were killed when a truck packed with explosives detonated outside a mosque near the disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk Saturday, the police said. At least 110 others...

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The blast is the latest in a series of high-profile explosions that have raised concerns about a resurgence of violence as the U.S. military faces a June 30 deadline to withdraw from urban areas in Iraq. The...

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...two others, an Iraqi security official said. The official added that gunmen had killed a woman and wounded her sister at a bus station in west Mosul. A 12-year-old girl was killed near Mosul when American...

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...checkpoint in the town of Baiji, north of Baghdad. It was the second suicide attack in Baiji in the past two days. Seven people died on Saturday when a bomber targeted a building used by the security forces.

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...deaths overall have dropped by 60 percent. What s more, only a few days later the paper reported that the withdrawal of U.S. troops has now actually begun. All excellent news! And also worrisome news for...

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