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Iraq takes over billions in oil revenue set aside by UN
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Most CIA interrogation cases won’t be pursued
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Insurgents killed three US soldiers in southern Iraq, a police lieutenant in Fallujah, and a soldier in Baghdad. A soldier and two railway employees were wounded in a bombing on a train near Tikrit.
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US military sees Iran behind rising troop deaths in Iraq
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Obama adviser outlines plans to defeat al Qaeda
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Security forces arrested 13 wanted men in Basrah. Insurgents killed a civilian in Baghdad. A court sentenced the wife of slain Islamic State of Iraq leader Abu Omar al Baghdadi to life in prison.
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The Mahdi Army’s Promised Day Brigade claimed it carried out multiple IED and rocket attacks on US forces. Insurgents killed an Awakening leader in Abu Ghraib. The president approved the execution of a Tunisian involved in the destruction of the Al Askaria mosque in 2006.
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Insurgents killed two US soldiers in the north and four civilians and a policeman in attacks in Mosul. Security forces captured al Qaeda in Iraq’s “electricity minister” in Anbar and two “terrorists” in Basrah.
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A wheelchair-bound suicide bomber killed two people in Tarmiyah. Insurgents killed two soldiers in Mosul, an intelligence official in Tikrit, and two civilians near Kirkuk. Security forces detained 39 wanted men in Basrah and seven more in Tikrit.
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Insurgents killed a policeman in Baghdad and a councilman and his nephew in Abu Ghraib. The government declared a curfew in Bayji after security forces killed a man wanted for terrorist activities.
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Insurgents killed two civilians and two policemen in Baghdad, Mosul, and Tikrit. Security forces arrested 27 suspected terrorists in Diyala.
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Insurgents killed 34 people, including a civilian US contractor, in several bombings in Baghdad. Security forces detained four insurgents in Kirkuk.
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Al Qaeda in Iraq killed seven Iraqis in attacks on police in Baghdad and Mosul. Security forces captured a Tunisian leader of an AQI cell in Mosul along with 16 cell members.
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A suicide assault team killed 25 Iraqis at an attack at a checkpoint outside of a provincial center in Diwaniyah. Insurgents killed two Iraqis in Mussayab and two more in Baghdad. Security forces killed two insurgents in Baghdad.
Suicide assault team attacks Iraqi provincial headquarters
Al Qaeda in Iraq has executed five major suicide attacks in Iraq this month; two of them have targeted provincial headquarters.
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Insurgents killed five civilians in attacks in Baqubab, Mosul, and Baghdad. Seven people were wounded in an IED attack on a French embassy convoy. Security forces detained al Qaeda’s media emir in Salahaddin and four men involved in assassinations in Baghdad.
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With ‘big gun’, Iraqi soldiers see hope
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Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq claimed it carried out the May 26 assassination of the Justice and Accountability chief. Security forces detained 57 wanted terrorists in Mosul. Insurgents killed two policemen and three civilians in attacks in Baghdad, Baqubah, and Ramadi.
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Security forces arrested al Qaeda’s governor for Salahuddin province and an associate in Tikrit. Insurgents killed a soldier in Baghdad, a policeman in Fallujah, and a civilian in Mosul.
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Several Iranian troops are said to have been killed in a minefield on the Iraqi side of the border in the north. Gunmen killed a Kuwaiti, an Indian, and a Turk in an attack on a home in Hillah. An insurgent was killed in a premature detonation.
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US helicopters opened fire on insurgents in Basrah, killing one and wounding three. Insurgents killed two Iraqi soldiers in Mosul and two more in Baghdad.
AP: Key source on bin Laden’s courier freed by Pakistanis
Pakistan freed the al Qaeda operative who gave the CIA key intelligence on Osama bin Laden’s courier. That intelligence led to Osama bin Laden’s demise.
Al Qaeda
Linchpin in hunt for bin Laden back with al-Qaida
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An al Qaeda suicide assault team dressed as policemen killed nine people in an attack on the Diyala provincial council in Baqubah; Iraqi troops killed the five attackers. Insurgents killed a government employee in Baghdad and a policeman in Mosul.
Al Qaeda in Iraq suicide assault team targets Diyala provincial center
Al Qaeda in Iraq carried out a coordinated assault in Baqubah, but it was ultimately defeated by Iraqi and US troops.
Zarqawi aide returns to Afghanistan to wage jihad for al Qaeda
Salahuddin al Maqdisi, the brother of Abu Mohammed al Maqdisi and a former aide to slain al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, was released from Iranian custody and has recently returned to Afghanistan.
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Militants linked to al-Qaeda emboldened in Yemen
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A suicide bomber killed three policemen and a civilian in an attack outside a police headquarters in Basrah. Insurgents killed an Iraqi soldier in Mosul and an imam in Balad.
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Insurgents killed a policeman in Mosul, and a former Army officer and his son in Khanaqin. An Air Force major general from Anbar province and three of his brothers who were detained two months ago was released from prison.
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Iraqi officials requested that Congressman Rohrabacher leave the country after saying Iraq should pay the US for the cost of liberating the country. Insurgents killed 10 Iraqis in attacks in Mosul and Tikrit. A US soldier was killed on June 8 while conducting combat operations in southern Iraq.