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Baghdad hit by attacks as VP death squad trial opens
Gun and bomb attacks struck the Baghdad area where Iraq’s fugitiveVice President Tareq al-Hashemi was to go on trial in absentia Thursday on charges he says are politically motivated. Hashemi, the country’s top Sunni official, stands accused along with several of his bodyguards of running a death squad but the vice president…
Bomb attacks against Iraqi police kill 29, wound 90
KIRKUK, Iraq – A spate of bomb attacks against police in Iraq’s disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Thursday killed at least 29 people, the worst violence to hit the country in nearly two months. A further 90 people were wounded in the three attacks, which drew condemnation from the…
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