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Iraqis approach end of US combat role with worry (AP)

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, attend a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Biden made a new appeal to Iraqi leaders Tuesday, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, to end the political deadlock and seat a new government. March 7 parliamentary elections left Iraq without a clear winner, and insurgents have since exploited the uncertainty to hammer Iraqi security forces. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP – As Vice President Joe Biden presides over the formal end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq, few Iraqis are cheering the American exit.


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Fearing the future, few Iraqis cheer US departure (AP)

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, center, walks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, before their meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Biden made a new appeal to Iraqi leaders Tuesday, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, to end the political deadlock and seat a new government. March 7 parliamentary elections left Iraq without a clear winner, and insurgents have since exploited the uncertainty to hammer Iraqi security forces. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP – As Vice President Joe Biden presides over the formal end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq, few Iraqis are cheering the American exit.


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US commander says Iraqis ready to handle security (AP)

A U.S. Army soldier stands at the scene of a blast in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol west of Baghdad Sunday and killed several people, most of them civilians standing in line outside a post office to collect a monthly state stipend for some of the country's poorest, police officials said. Violence across Iraq has spiked in the past month as the U.S. moved ahead with a major drawdown of its troops to be completed by the end of August, when only 50,000 will remain in the country.(AP Photo)AP – Iraq’s military is ready and able to take over security operations as the United States ends it combat role and prepares for a major troop withdrawal, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Sunday.


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July deadliest month for Iraqis since 2008 (AP)

Iraqi security forces carry an Iraqi flag as they patrol in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 31, 2010. Militants. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP – July was Iraq’s deadliest month in more than two years, according to new official figures, suggesting that a resilient insurgency is successfully taking advantage of the months of deadlock in forming a new government.


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Iraqis in military uniforms kill 24 in Sunni area (AP)

Mourner grieve as they ride with coffins of relatives killed in a village outside Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 3, 2010. Gunmen in Iraqi military uniforms raided a village outside Baghdad and killed at least 24 people in an execution style attack, apparently targeting a Sunni group that revolted against al-Qaida and helped turn the tide of the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP – Gunmen trying to pass themselves off as U.S. and Iraqi soldiers raided a Sunni village outside Baghdad and killed at least 24 people in an execution-style attack, apparently targeting a Sunni group that revolted against al-Qaida in Iraq, authorities and witnesses said Saturday.


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Iraqis defy intimidation to vote, attacks kill 36 (AP)

Zahiya Kadim, who is blind, displays her inked finger after casting her vote in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Under a blanket of tight security designed to thwart insurgents attacks, Iraqis went to the polls on foot Sunday in an election testing the ability of the country's still-fragile democracy to move forward at a time of uncertainty over a looming U.S. troop drawdown and still jagged sectarian divisions. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP – Insurgents bombed a polling station and lobbed grenades at voters Sunday, killing 36 people in attacks aimed at intimidating those taking part in an election that will determine whether the country can overcome the sectarian divisions that have plagued it since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.


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Iraqis go to polls amid violence, Qaeda threat

Iraqis voted in huge numbers Sunday even as bombs rained down in many neighborhoods, killing 38 and wounding more than 100 people.

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