Official: U.S. to send more troops to Basra
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) A senior U.S. military official say 400 U.S. military personnel are being sent to Basra, Iraq, to bolster the operation there (article 7)
BAGHDAD Family members Friday mourned victims of a twin bombing in a packed Baghdad shopping district that killed at least 68 people and wounded 120, a grim reminder that Iraq's violence has slackened but not abated. (article 3)
BAGHDAD - Three American soldiers were killed in a rocket attack in southern Iraq on Wednesday, bringing to 12 the number of soldiers who have been killed in Iraq over the past three days. (article 5)
With the overall U.S. military death toll in Iraq nearing 4,000, the latest killings mark a significant rise in deadly attacks against Americans. (article 5)
BAGHDAD A female suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala on Monday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 51, officials said. (article 2)
Gunmen have killed four people and kidnapped four more at a fake checkpoint in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad, Iraqi police say. (article 8)
The blast was the deadliest in a series of attacks that left at least 78 Iraqis dead, including six youths killed when mortar rounds slammed into a soccer field in eastern Baghdad. (article 1)
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- Iraq: Female suicide bomber kills 49 :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (suntimes.com, 04/02/2008, 1064 words)
- Suicide bomber kills 32 in Iraq :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (suntimes.com, 04/02/2008, 780 words)
- Death toll rises to 68 in Baghdad bombings :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (suntimes.com, 04/02/2008, 712 words)
- Five GIs killed by bomber in Iraq :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (suntimes.com, 04/02/2008, 849 words)
- 3 GIs killed in Iraq; 12 dead in 3 days... (suntimes.com, 04/02/2008, 888 words)
- Violence in Iraq spikes after months of relative c... (suntimes.com, 04/02/2008, 505 words)
- Official: U.S. to send more troops to Basra (CNN, 04/03/2008, 25 words)
- 'US allies' killed in Iraq ambush (BBC News, 04/02/2008, 169 words)
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