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Newsweek: Beware - Combat Will Continue in Iraq

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

The 50,000 American troops remaining in Iraq have as their mission now the training and support of Iraq’s own forces. But training for combat is a hands-on affair. U.S. troops will be going out on missions with the Iraqi units they are mentoring. American Special Operations Forces will continue their hunt for enemies wreaking havoc with car bombs. Firefights are inevitable. more >>

Agencies: 426 killed in Iraq

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

A total of 426 Iraqis were killed in August, according to government figures released on Wednesday as the American military officially ended its combat mission in the war-torn country. more >>

dpa: Iraqi ministry official killed by gunmen

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

A senior finance official at the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education was killed by unknown gunmen in Baghdad on Thursday, and a soldier died in the south of the country defusing a bomb more >>

dpa: One Iraqi soldier killed, one injured while trying to defuse bomb

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

One Iraqi soldier was killed and another was injured while trying to defuse a roadside bomb in the city of al-Hilla Thursday, security sources said. The bomb exploded while the soldiers were attempting to defuse it. more >>

KUNA: Six Iranians killed, 30 others hurt in road accident south of Baghdad

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

Six Iranians were killed and 30 others were hurt in a road accident on Thursday, a police source said. The source said that the accident happened when a bus with Iranians pilgrims heading the city of Karbala on board turned over near the town of Alexandria, 50 kilometers south of Baghdad. more >>

Reuters: Gunmen kill 2 militia members, wound five others in Baiji

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

Gunmen attacked a government-backed Sunni militia checkpoint late on Wednesday, killing two members and wounding five others in Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. more >>

Reuters: Sticky bomb kills policeman in Kadhimiya

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

A sticky bomb attached to the car of an off-duty policeman killed him and wounded two civilians in Kadhimiya, northwest Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. more >>

dpa: Iraqi police arrest 18 suspected militants in Kirkuk

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

Iraqi police on Wedndesday arrested 18 people suspected of being insurgents and uncovered large ammunition caches in the north of the country, officials said. more >>

CNN: Hundreds of civilians killed in Iraqi violence in August

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

Violence killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians in August, authorities said Wednesday, a day after President Barack Obama marked the end of the U.S. combat mission in the country. The month's toll included 295 civilians killed and 508 wounded, the Ministry of Interior said. more >>

Obama’s Iraq speech: An exercise in cowardice and deceit

Source: Indymedia UK Newswire

President Barack Obama’s nationally televised speech from the White House Oval Office Tuesday night was an exercise in cowardice and deceit. It was deceitful to the people of the United States and the entire world in its characterization of the criminal war against Iraq. And it was cowardly in its groveling before the American military. The address could inspire only disgust and contempt among those who viewed it. Obama, who owed his presidency in large measure to the mass antiwar sentiment of the American people, used the speech to glorify the war that he had mistakenly been seen to oppose. more >>

Is U.S. Pulling Plug on Iraqi Workers?

Source: Infoshop News

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“Mission Accomplished” “Turn the Page”

Source: Cryptogon

Satire: Obama Declares Victory, Sort Of, Depending On How You Look At It, In Iraq Via: New York Times: President Obama declared an end on Tuesday to the seven-year American combat mission in Iraq, saying that the United States has met its responsibility to that country and that it is now time to turn to [...] more >>

NYTimes: Obama Says Iraq Combat Mission Is Over

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

President Obama declared an end on Tuesday to the seven-year American combat mission in Iraq, saying that the United States has met its responsibility to that country and that it is now time to turn to pressing problems at home. more >>

Iraq: Is U.S. Pulling Plug on Iraqi Workers?

Source: Labour Start - Trade Union News

LabourStart headline - Source: Labor Notes more >>

msnbc: 'Iraq today is sovereign and independent'

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties

Iraq's prime minister said the country had won sovereignty and stood as an equal to the United States after the U.S. military formally ended combat operations on Tuesday, despite political deadlock and violence. more >>

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