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Old Sunday, June 11, 2006
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June 10, 2006:


1) The US military is awaiting the results of DNA tests by the FBI on the body of Al-Qaeda's slain Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as operations continued to track down his followers. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

2) At least 10 people were killed in separate rebel attacks across Iraq, including three in a bomb attack in a restaurant in central Baghdad, security officials said. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

3) A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier and wounded another in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said Saturday. (AP via Yahoo! News)

4) Congressional Republicans killed a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have put the United States on record against the permanent basing of U.S. military facilities in that country, a lawmaker and congressional aides said on Friday. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

5) At least 14 people were killed in separate attacks across Iraq, including four Sunni Arabs who were killed when their minibus was raked with gunfire near Baghdad. (AFP via Yahoo!News)

6) A roadside bomb killed three people in Baghdad and gunmen shot dead five butchers in Mosul on Saturday, underscoring warnings that the death of al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al Zarqawi would not end violence. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

7) The new government of Iraq is postponing any demand to establish a more formal legal basis for the presence of foreign troops. (New York Times)


June 11,2006:


1) President George W. Bush's two-day strategy session starting Monday at Camp David is intended to revive highly tangible efforts to shore up Iraq's new government, from getting the electricity back on in Baghdad to purging the security forces of revenge- seeking militias, White House officials said. (International Herald Tribune)

2) Gen. George Casey does not indicate whether he will tell President Bush it's time to reduce number of U.S. troops in Iraq when war council meets Monday. (Fox News)

3) US military doctors completed an autopsy on the body of slain Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as Iraq pledged to launch new attacks on the militant leader's hideouts. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

4) Al Qaeda in Iraq vowed Sunday to carry out "major attacks," insisting in a Web statement that it was still powerful after the death of its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.(CNN.com)





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