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07/21/07 Reuters: Mortar fire kills 1, wounds 5 in Mahmudiya
Mortars killed one person and wounded five others on Friday in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, police said.

07/21/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 4 civilians in southern Baghdad
A roadside bomb wounded four civilians when it targeted an ambulance in southern Baghdad, police said.

07/21/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill 1 civilian, wound 3 others in southern Baghdad
Gunmen killed one civilian and wounded three when they opened fire in a southern Baghdad area, police said.

07/21/07 Reuters: Policemen killed in Baghdad and Kirkuk
A police captain was killed in southern Baghdad on Friday, police said...A booby-trapped body killed a policeman and civilian in al-Rashad, a town near Kirkuk, police said.

07/21/07 Reuters: Policemen's body found in Diwaniyah
The body of policeman was found after he was kidnapped in the Shi'ite city of Diwaniyah on Friday, police said.

07/21/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill civilian in a drive-by shooting in Hawija
Gunmen killed one civilian in a drive-by shooting in Hawija, southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk on Friday, police said.

07/21/07 Reuters: Four insurgents killed in Ramadi
Iraqi police killed four insurgents from al Qaeda in Iraq when they chased their car on the highway in Western Anbar province on Friday, police said.

07/21/07 Reuters: 16 bodies found in Baghdad on Friday
Police found 16 bodies in Baghdad on Friday, mostly victims of sectarian death squads.

07/21/07 Reuters: 13 Insurgents killed in Baquba
The Iraqi army said it had killed 13 insurgents in the city of Baquba, capital of Diyala

07/21/07 AFP: Minibus bombing kills five in Baghdad
A bomb exploded inside a minibus in eastern Baghdad and killed at least five people, a medic and a security official said Saturday. At least 11 more people were wounded when the bomb went off in the largely Shiite neighbourhood of Baladiyat

07/21/07 KUNA: Sistani's official for financial affairs assassinated in Najaf
Sheikh Abdullah Falak, the official responsible for the financial affairs of Iraq's supreme Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, was found dead in his house a few hours after his assassination, Iraqi police said on Saturday.

07/21/07 AP: Military examines new high-tech garments
The Humvee's air conditioner conked out right after four U.S. soldiers clambered aboard for a run through some of Baghdad's most dangerous streets. The temperature was 115 and without AC, it would quickly rise to 150 or higher inside the vehicle.

07/21/07 AP: Iraq Army Detains 46 Near Iran[br />Iraqi troops have detained 46 suspected militants and killed five others in a new operation in eastern Diyala, the army said Saturday, while a U.S. soldier was reported killed in an explosion in the volatile province.

07/21/07 AFP: Turkey warns of possible Iraq incursion after elections
Turkey warned Saturday that it could send troops into northern Iraq if talks with Iraqi and US officials after Sunday's general elections fail to produce effective measures against Kurdish rebels based there.

07/21/07 middle-east-online: Iraqi Kurds bemoan soaring cost of living
Kurdish residents say low salaries, runaway inflation means that they can barely make ends meet. While no official statistics are available, housing, fuel and consumer costs have jumped sharply in Sulaimaniyah, a largely safe and growing city...

07/21/07 MoD Identifies Casualties (part 3)
It is with profound sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the deaths of...Senior Aircraftsman Peter McFerran...SAC Peter McFerran was 24, from Connahs Quay in Flintshire and the Heavy Machine Gun (HMG) operator for his unit...

07/21/07 MoD Identifies Casualties (part 2)
It is with profound sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the deaths of...Senior Aircraftsman Christopher Dunsmore...SAC Christopher Dunsmore was 29, from Leicester, and had been a member of 504 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force...

07/21/07 MoD Identifies Casualties (part 1)
It is with profound sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the deaths of Senior Aircraftsman Matthew Caulwell...SAC Matthew Caulwell was 22 years old, from Birmingham and had served on 1 Squadron since 2002...

07/21/07 MNF: Task Force Lightning Soldier attacked
One Task Force Lightning Soldier died as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion near his vehicle while conducting operations in Diyala province, Friday.


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