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Iraq PM Nouri al-Maliki Calls For Manual Vote Recount
“Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called for a manual recount of the votes cast in the country’s tight parliamentary elections, saying he is asking for it to ‘preserve the integrity of the electoral process.’
Votes from the election are still being tallied and the race is too close to call.” [Link]
Iraqis Vote As Polling Stations Are Bombed
“Insurgents bombed a polling station and lobbed grenades at voters Sunday, killing 26 people in attacks aimed at intimidating Iraqis participating in an election that will determine whether the country can overcome jagged sectarian divisions that have plagued it since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.” [Link]
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Iraq Plans Class Action Lawsuit Vs. Blackwater
“Iraq has begun collecting signatures for a class action lawsuit on behalf of people killed or wounded in incidents involving US security firm Blackwater. It will seek compensation for a number of such cases, the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said.” Link
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“Chemical Ali” Gets Death Sentence
“Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Saddam Hussein’s enforcer ‘Chemical Ali’ was on Sunday sentenced to death for ordering the gassing of Kurds in the Iraqi village of Halabja, state television said.” Link
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Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Caught In Online Sex Sting
“Scott Ritter of Delmar, N.Y., who served as chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98 and who was an outspoken critic of the second Bush administration in the run-up to the war in Iraq, is accused of contacting what turned out to be a Barrett Township police officer posing undercover as a teen girl.” Link
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Army Suicides At Record High
“The findings, released as President Barack Obama inches toward a decision to send up to 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, show the number of active-duty suicides so far in 2009 has already matched last year’s record of 140 deaths.” Link
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