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 Pack your bags for Baghdad? Iraq looks to tourismSomeone had fun tinkering with the airline board at the old, disused terminal at Baghdad International Airport. It advertises a "special flight" on Japan Airlines from Basra to Sydney, Australia, while a flight from Baghdad to Mexico City is "delayed."
Iraq: Car bomb kills 2 Iraqi Kurdish contractors
Two private security contractors died in a car bombing in the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. military in Iraq said Monday. Local officials said the contractors were Iraqi Kurds.  US general: al-Qaida may be easing effort in IraqAfter intense U.S. assaults, al-Qaida may be considering shifting focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where American casualties are running higher than in Iraq, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday.  Analysis: Security transfer stalled in Iraq regionIraq's government hopes to bring the entire country under its security control by year's end. But one critical area stands in the way: the western province of Anbar, where the Sunni insurgency was born and later received its first blows from a civil uprising.  Paring down high unemployment is Iraq's next taskThey fan out across Baghdad in summer's scorching heat - men in blue overalls picking up trash, mowing the sparse grass in parks, and standing on ladders to paint highway underpasses and prune palm trees.  Some US soldiers in Iraq yearn to be in Afghan warSpc. Grover Gebhart has spent nine months at a small post on a Sunni-Shiite fault line in western Baghdad. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in Iraq feels he's missing the real war - in Afghanistan, where his brother is fighting the Taliban.  28 killed in twin suicide attacks in Iraqi cityScattered sandals and overturned bicycles were all that remained hours after suicide bombers struck the Saad military camp.  US pleased, worried, by newfound Iraqi confidenceWajih Hameed is an Iraqi general with an attitude. With a satisfied look, he listened as a subordinate officer explained to the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad how he plans to reposition his troops in the coming weeks.  Iraq handing out cash to people on the streetsIt is a politician's dream: Handing out cold, hard cash to people on the street as they plead for help. Iraq's prime minister has been doing just that in recent weeks, doling out Iraqi dinars as an aide trails behind, keeping a tally.
US military detains 9 suspected militants in Iraq
The U.S. military says it has detained nine people suspected of involvement in the al-Qaida in Iraq group.
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