Iraqi Army Blames Baghdad Bombings On Saddam Loyalists

BAGHDAD (AFP)--The Iraqi army Thursday blamed a wave of near-simultaneous bombings that killed more than 50 people in mostly Shiite districts of Baghdad on loyalists of Saddam Hussein's toppled regime.

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• Iraqi Police: Car Bombs Kill 41 in Baghdad's Sadr City

  Fox News - Wed Apr 29, 12:50 pm ET

  Iraqi police have raised the death toll in a twin car bombing in Baghdad's main Shiite district to at least 41.

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  Iraqi anti-US cleric Sadr resurfaces in Turkey

  AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri May 1, 11:50 am ET

  Iraq's Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr -- not seen in public for nearly two years -- held face-to-face talks Friday with Turkey's top two leaders, Anatolia news agency reported.

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  Iraqi Shiites battered but not battling back

  AP via Yahoo! News - Fri May 1, 2:38 pm ET

  The anger in Baghdad's main Shiite district was raw and restless after twin car bombings took more than 50 lives earlier this week. But the true measure of the rage — in Iraqi terms — came the following morning: Morgues and streets were not full of Sunnis killed in payback violence.

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  US-allied Iraqi militia strikes over late pay

  AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hrs 52 mins ago

  Some 120 members of a US-backed Sunni Arab militia abandoned their posts at dozens of checkpoints south of Baghdad on Saturday, saying they had not been paid their monthly salaries.

• Iraqi Anti-US Cleric Sadr Holds Face-to-face Talks In Turkey

  Nasdaq - Fri May 1, 11:52 am ET

  ANKARA (AFP)--Iraq's Shiite radical leader Muqtada al-Sadr - not seen in public for nearly two years - held face-to-face talks Friday with Turkey's top two leaders, Anatolia news agency reported.

• NATIONAL VIEW: Iraqi prime minister should take blame for recent violence

  The Standard-Times - Fri May 1, 11:53 am ET

  If any one person holds primary responsibility for the fresh rush of carnage in Iraq, it is none other than Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a politician who has shown he cares little about the fate of his nation.

• Ex-GI: Attack on Iraqi family was planned - Army News, news from Iraq, - Army Times

  Army Times - Fri May 1, 4:26 pm ET

  PADUCAH, Ky. — An attack on an Iraqi family that resulted in the rape and shooting death of a 14-year-old girl and the shotgun deaths of her family could have been stopped but wasn’t, a soldier involved in planning the attack said Friday.

• Most Iraqi refugees won't return home

  Seattle Times - Fri May 1, 5:28 am ET

  Iraq may never, or at least not for years, recover much of the urban, educated, predominantly Sunni Muslim and Christian middle class whose skills would be vital to its rebuilding. The ranks of doctors and other medical professions have been particularly hard-hit by the refugee flight.

• Iraqi Shiites battered but holding fire

  MSNBC - Fri May 1, 6:21 pm ET