iraq

Iraq is a Middle East country bordered by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria that was the home of many ancient civilisations including the Sumerians, who invented writing. It achieved its modern  independence in 1930, having been a British colony since 1920, before which it was ruled by the Ottoman Turks.

Bloggers may well be using the tag to refer to the Iraq war, which started in 2003 when America and its allies invaded the country to otherthrow the dictator Saddam Hussein.

The war and its aftemath has proved highly controversial and has inspired playwrights, novelists, and many bloggers within the theater of war, both soldiers and civilians.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “iraq”

• in Politics
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  Ranger killed by survivalist Iraq veteran
  by Mozart99 / on Jan 2, 2012
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  by ozdachs / on Dec 19, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “iraq”

 

• Suicide Bomber Attacks Funeral Procession in Iraq

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 866
  Residents carried the coffin of a victim after an attack in Baghdads Zafraniyah neighborhood on Friday.
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• Iraq suicide bomber kills dozens

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Car bomb explodes near a funeral procession in Baghdad, injuring 65 people Officials in Iraq say 32 people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives near a funeral procession in south-east Baghdad. Police said the attack happened at 11am local time on Friday in the capitals ...
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• Iraq makes sanctions against Iran ineffective | Nima Khorrami Assl

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Iraq makes sanctions against Iran ineffective | Nima Khorrami Assl The long border with Iraq undermines US and EU efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear programme with trade sanctionsThe US and EU have announced new sanctions in the hope of persuading Iran to abandon its alleged ...
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• Suicide Bomber Attacks Funeral Procession in Iraq

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.nytimes.com/ Suicide Bomber Attacks Funeral Procession in Iraq A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives attacked a funeral procession in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 22. published date:Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:07:31 GMT
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• Iraq sectarian war flares as 29 killed in suicide attack on funeral procession

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk Iraq sectarian war flares as 29 killed in suicide attack on funeral procession A suicide bomber killed at least 29 people on Friday by driving an explosives-laden vehicle into a Shia Muslim funeral procession in Baghdad, heightening fears that Iraq is in the grips of sectarian ...
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• Iraq makes sanctions against Iran ineffective | Nima Khorrami Assl

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  The long border with Iraq undermines US and EU efforts to stop Irans nuclear programme with trade sanctions The US and EU have announced new sanctions in the hope of persuading Iran to abandon its alleged nuclear weapons programme, though how effective these will be is questionable. China, India, Russia, Turkey, ...
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• Bomb Attacl Kills 32 In Baghdad

  
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  Blast Near Funeral Procession Kills 32 In Baghdad -- L.A. Times The suicide bomber targets a Shiite neighborhood, the latest attack in a wave of violence just weeks after the U.S. military withdrawal. BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad ...
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• Iraq sectarian war flares as 29 killed in suicide attack on funeral procession

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 163
  A suicide bomber killed at least 29 people on Friday by driving an explosives-laden vehicle into a Shia Muslim funeral procession in Baghdad, heightening fears that Iraq is in the grips of sectarian conflict. Related Stories Car bomb in Iraq kills 28
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• 22 killed in Iraq car bombing

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Baghdad, Jan 27 (IANS) At least 22 people were killed and 35 others injured in a suicide car bombing that rocked Baghdad Friday, Xinhua reported.An interior ministry official said the attack took place near a funeral site outside a hospital in the Iraqi capital’s al-Zafraniya district.The toll could rise as many of ...
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• Iraq: car bomber kills 28 at funeral procession

  
  4unews — Authority: 147
  BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 28 people in the latest brazen attack since the U.S. troop withdrawal, officials said. “It was a huge explosion,” Hussein said. As he took his worker to the hospital, ...
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• More Journalists Killed in Pakistan than Anywhere Else in the World

  
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  Photo: X Index For the second year in a row, Pakistan proved to be the deadliest country for journalists, claiming 11 lives in 2011 alone. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that seven of the 11 deaths were targeted attacks directly related to the profession. Al Jazeera points out that “in each of ...
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• Iraq suicide bomber kills 26

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Iraq suicide bomber kills 26 Car laden with explosives detonates in Zafaraniya neighbourhood of BaghdadIraqi officials say 26 people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives packed into a car in south-east Baghdad. Police officials said the attack took place at ...
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• Bahrain, Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: A Blanket of Tear Gas, A Battle in Homs

  
  EA WorldView — Authority: 127
  Security forces wear gas masks to protect against effects of tear gas during clashes in Bahrain on Thursday night 1110 GMT: An anti-regime protest in the Khaddam section of Damascus this morning: 1105 GMT: Photojournalist Mazen Mahdi has reported from Bahrain, "Police locked down roads to Duraz ahead of ...
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• Car bomb in Iraq kills 28

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk Car bomb in Iraq kills 28 A car bomb near a funeral procession outside a hospital in east Baghdad killed at least 28 people and wounded 50 on Friday. published date:Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:59:02 GMT
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• "Stimulus vs. Austerity: An Unsettled Debate" by Steven Hill

  
  Social Europe Journal — Authority: 118
  Many nations try both: “Aust-imulus?” Few subjects have so bitterly divided our insecure times than the double-edged saber of stimulus vs. austerity. Consensus over which course will lift the current...
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• I’m Not Sure They Thought This Through…

  
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  From a HuffPo story about how the peculiar Mormon practice of retroactively “baptizing” dead people (often Jews) as Mormons might affect the Florida GOP primary: Any Mormon may baptize any person posthumously. Church members have performed the ritual on Buddha, Catholic popes, 9/11 hijackers, William Shakespeare, ...
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• Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 January 2012: “Pro-Gaddafi” fighters retake Bani Walid

  
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  25 January 2012 — Information Clearing House US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes By Ray McGovern America’s newspaper of record won’t even report accurately what Israel (or the CIA) thinks on this important issue, if that goes against the alarmist conventional wisdom that the neocons favor. ...
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• Humanitarianism “American Style”

  
  Voices from Russia — Authority: 430
  THIS was the true intent of the Bush aggression against Iraq … any questions? ______________________________ US Marine Sergeant Frank Wuterich , who stood trial in a court martial at MCB Camp Pendleton on charges of killing 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005, received a demotion to the rank of private and ...
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• 13 killed in Iraq bomb attacks (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Baghdad, Jan 26 (IANS) At least 13 people were killed and eight injured in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in Iraq Thursday, said police.In northern Iraq, three people were killed and six injured after an explosives-laden motorcycle was blown up near a primary school in Kirkuk city, some 250 km north of capital ...
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• Two bomb attacks in Iraq kill 13

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.bbc.co.uk Two bomb attacks in Iraq kill 13 Thirteen people are killed in two separate bomb attacks in Iraq on Thursday. published date:Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:58:33 GMT
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