July 14, 2006:


1) Worshipers attending prayer services were the targets of bomb and mortar attacks Friday in the latest examples of the sectarian violence that has destabilized Iraq and left dozens of people dead in recent days. (Washington Post)


July 15, 2006:


1) Gunmen kidnapped the head of Iraq's Olympic committee and at least 30 employees after storming their offices in Baghdad on Saturday, police said. (USA Today)


2) Parliament has voted to extend Iraq's state of emergency for 30 days and President Jalal Talabani warned of the perils of civil war, as the head of Iraq's Olympic committee was kidnapped. (AFP via Yahoo! News)



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July 16, 2006:


1) A suicide bomber detonated explosives Sunday inside a cafe packed with Shiite Muslims in northern Iraq, killing 26 people and injuring 22, an Iraqi general said. (Washington Post)


2) U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker told Congress last week that "massive corruption" and "a lot of theft going on" in Iraq's government-controlled oil industry is hampering the country's ability to govern itself. (Washington Post)


July 17, 2006:


1) Police and hospital officials Monday said 41 people were killed and 42 wounded in an attack on a market 20 miles south of Baghdad. (AP via Yahoo! News)


2) Iraq and the United States signed a commercial cooperation agreement Monday that officials hope will help this country move into a free market after decades of wars, sanctions and state control. (AP via Yahoo! News)


3) Gunmen raid market, kill 15 in Iraq after suicide bomber strikes a Shiite cafe in North. (ABC News)



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July 18, 2006:


1) A suicide car bomber drove up to a crowd of Shiite day laborers, lured some into his minivan with a promise of jobs, then blew the vehicle up, officials said. At least 43 people were killed and 64 wounded in Tuesday's attack in southern Iraq. (AP via Yahoo! News)


2) The last batch of Japanese troops touched down in Kuwait from southern Iraq on Monday, ending the country's largest and most dangerous overseas mission since World War II. (AP via Yahoo! News)


3) The United States urged Iraq to adopt a new hydrocarbon law that would enable US and other foreign companies to invest in the war-torn country's oil sector. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


4) Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will address a joint session of the US Congress on July 26, one day after meeting US President George W. Bush, Representative John Boehner announced. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


July 19, 2006:


1) Bombings in Iraq killed 7 and wounded 36, while a senior staff member of the Interior Ministry was gunned down in a drive-by shooting Wednesday, Iraqi emergency police said. (CNN.com)


2) Iraq's National Security adviser had two announcements today: the death of a Jordanian allegedly responsible for killing two U.S. soldiers last month, and, the apprehension of the accused leaders of an al Qaeda in Iraq death squad. (CBS.News)


3) Gunmen in Iraq kidnap 20 employees of Sunni Gov't Agency. (ABC News)


4) At least 16 people were killed in violence around Iraq, including five civilians killed by a blast outside the main courthouse in the northern oil city of Kiruk. (AFP via Yahoo! News)




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5) The Turkish military is moving forward with plans to send forces into northern Iraq to clear out Turkish Kurdish guerrilla bases, the prime minister said Wednesday. (AP via Yahoo! News)


July 20, 2006:


1) Prime Minister Nouri Maliki on Wednesday accused a militant Iranian opposition group of meddling in his country's affairs and suggested that it could face expulsion from Iraq, where it has been based for 20 years. (Los Angeles Times)


2) Four more people seized at a sports conference have been found blindfolded and dumped unharmed in an east Baghdad neighborhood, officials said. Iraq's top Shiite cleric, meanwhile, called on Iraqis to work together to halt sectarian violence. (CBS News)


3) Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most revered Shiite cleric in Iraq, has warned that sectarian conflict could destroy the country as deadly tit-for-tat attacks continued to plague the capital. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


4) Japanese troops start to return home from Iraq, ending Japan's most significant deployment since WW II. (BBC News)




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July 21, 2006:


1) Bombs killed two worshippers at mosques in Iraq during Friday prayers and authorities extended a daytime curfew on the capital Baghdad after one of the bloodiest weeks this year. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)


2) US troops in Iraq killed two suspected insurgents, two women and a child when they called in air support during a raid on an alleged hideout north of Baghdad, a military statement said. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


July 22, 2006:


1) The Pentagon is moving ahead with scheduled troop deployments to Iraq next month as the U.S. military struggles to gain control of the escalating violence in Baghdad, according to a senior defense official. (AP via Yahoo! News)


2) Seven Shiite workers have been gunned down in a religiously mixed area of the Iraqi capital near Baghdad International Airport. Earlier, two large explosions hit eastern Baghdad about 20 minutes apart. One blast targeted an Iraqi police patrol, but killed a civilian. (Local6.comCentralFlorida)


3) Iraq's parliament speaker Mahmud Mashhadani bitterly criticized US forces in Iraq, accusing them of "butchery" and demanded that they pull out of the country. (AFP via Yahoo! News)




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4) Prisoners in US custody in Iraq face routine torture even after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, with military leaders taking little or no action to curb abuses, according to a human rights group. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


July 23, 2006:


1) Car bombs killed nearly 60 Iraqis on Sunday as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki prepared for a White House visit expected to focus on halting what many see as Iraq's accelerating slide toward all-out sectarian civil war. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)


July 24, 2006:


1) Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Monday Iraq will not slide into civil war even as mounting sectarian violence is killing 100 civilians a day and the Sunni Arab party boycotted the first meeting of the Reconciliation Commission. (MSNBC)


2) Britain's prime minister and his Iraqi counterpart are expected to discuss the progress made by Iraq's national government when they meet Monday, officials said. (CNN.com)


3) Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on his first official visit to London, has said his fledgling government was making strides toward ending violence in Iraq and enabling foreign troops to leave. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


4) Fresh American troops are to be brought into Baghdad, US officers said, even as Iraq's embattled government insisted it remains on course to gradually take full control of the country's security. (AFP via Yahoo! News)





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5) The last contingent of Japanese ground troops based in Iraq came home on Tuesday, completing the military's riskiest overseas mission since World War Two without firing a shot or suffering any casualties. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)


July 25, 2006:


1) The U.S. and Iraq are moving thousands of troops into Baghdad to bolster Iraq's war-weary capital in what the White House suggests is an acknowledgment that the six-week U.S.-Iraqi security offensive is not working. (AP via Yahoo! News)


2) President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki worked to find common ground on Tuesday, with the White House saying the president retains confidence in the Shiite politician despite his failure to improve security in Iraq's bloody capital. (AP via Yahoo! News)


3) The United States and Iraq have agreed to "more aggressively" tackle the issue of Kurdish rebels striking at Turkey from bases inside Iraq, US national security adviser Stephen Hadley said. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


4) U.S. and Iraqi soldiers captured six members of an alleged "death squad" in Baghdad on Tuesday, hoping to quell the rampant sectarian violence dividing the capital. Attacks elsewhere in Iraq left at least 34 people dead including an American soldier. (AP via Yahoo! News)


July 26, 2006:


1) The Kurdistan regional government is rolling out a national media blitz this week: "Kurdistan: The Other Iraq," complete with cable television ads, print ads and a national tour by the head of its development office to attract investment and tourism to its northern Iraq region. (Washington Post)


2) A prized statue of an ancient king that was stolen during widespread looting in Iraq following the U.S. invasion three years ago has been returned to the country's government, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. (AP via Yahoo! News)




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3) Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sidestepped controversy over Israel and Lebanon and depicted Iraq as central to the war on terrorism when he addressed the U.S. Congress on Wednesday. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)


4) Iraq's oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani said that boosting foreign investment is vital to increasing the country's oil output as he met in Washington with executives from major energy groups. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


5) The U.S. military, faced with unrelenting violence in Baghdad, is expected to delay the departure of about 4,000 troops due to leave Iraq in the coming days in order to boost the size of the U.S. force, officials said on Wednesday. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)


6) Military commanders in Iraq are considering extending the deployment of an Alaska-based Army brigade as part of the plan to increase forces in Baghdad to quell the violence. (AP via Yahoo! News)


July 27, 2006:


1) A pair of mortar rounds followed minutes later by a car bomb blasted Baghdad's Karradah district Thursday, killing 24 people and wounding 46, police said. (CNN.com)


2) Pipelines carrying crude oil through Iraq's unguarded desert suddenly collapse after weeks without disruption, a single bullet puncturing a line, halting Iraq's main source of revenue. (AP via Yahoo! News)





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July 28, 2006:


1) The Pentagon's decision to increase U.S. forces in Iraq will push troop levels there to roughly 135,000, dashing Bush administration hopes of dropping the figure by tens of thousands by the fall congressional campaigns. (AP via Yahoo! News)


2) The U.S. Agency for International Development failed to adequately monitor a critical hospital project in southern Iraq that ran badly behind schedule and significantly over budget, government auditors concluded in a report released yesterday. (Washington Post)


July 29, 2006:


1) Four U.S. Marines were killed in combat Thursday in Iraq's Anbar province, west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. (CNN.com)


2) The first Japanese troops deployed to a combat zone since World War II marked the end of their mission Saturday by celebrating the return of the army flag that flew over them for more than two years in Iraq. (AP via Yahoo! News)


3) A parked car bomb exploded in a residential district of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing four people and injuring another 13, police said. (AP via Yahoo! News)


4) In a bold attempt to confuse Iraqi insurgents, the U.S. will move 10,000 troops from southern Iraq to the north, and will then move 10,000 other troops from northern Iraq to the south, the Army chief of staff confirmed today. (Andy Borowitz via Yahoo! News)





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5) Military officials and analysts said the extension suggests that there will be no significant troop reductions in Iraq before the year's end. (New York Times)


July 30, 2006:


1) Car bomb kills 2, wounds 7 in Kirkuk, Prime Minister warns media on incendiary broadcasts. (ABC News)


2) The U.S. State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects in Iraq. (International Herald Tribune)


3) International oil companies have shown "serious willingness" to help develop Iraq's oil industry, the country's oil minister has said after a trip to the United States. (AFP via Yahoo! News)


July 31, 2006:


1) Iraq's vice president on Monday accused Israel of carrying out "massacres" in Lebanon, the strongest criticism yet of the Jewish state by a top official of the U.S-backed Iraqi government. (AP via Yahoo! News)


August 1, 2006:


1) After months of division over Iraq, Democratic lawmakers released a unified statement signaling they believe the war could hurt Republicans in the midterm elections. (New York Times)


2) At least 44 people were killed Tuesday in Iraq's spiraling violence, including 20 soldiers whose bus was blasted by a roadside bomb and 14 who were killed by a car bomb. (International Herald Tribune)


3) A flailing Iraq reconstruction effort that has been dominated for more than three years by U.S. dollars and companies is being transferred to Iraqis, leaving them the challenge of completing a long list of projects left unfinished by the Americans. (Washington Post)


August 2, 2006:


1) A bomb hidden in a trash bag exploded in Baghdad Wednesday, killing three laborers, a day after bombings and shootings left more than 70 people dead in a dramatic surge of bloodshed in Iraq, police said. (CNN.com)


2) President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that Iraqi forces will take over security in all provinces in the country by the end of the year. U.S. forces currently are responsible for security in 17 of Iraq's 18 provinces. (USA Today)


3) Almost a quarter of Iraq's national police are led by men suspected of crimes or sectarian violence and should be replaced, a senior coalition official said on Wednesday. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)




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