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  • 7
    Nov
    2011
    3:59pm, EST

    Americans remove toilet and door from prison cell used to house Saddam Hussein

    Ali Al-Saadi / AFP - Getty Images

    A U.S. Army soldier stands in the prison cell of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein where he was detained after his capture and prior to his December 30, 2006 hanging, in the US military Camp Victory which incorporates Baghdad's International Airport and former palaces belonging to Saddam Hussein. The US Army will hand over the sprawling military camp to the Iraqi government upon their departure in this coming December.

    Ali Al-Saadi / AFP - Getty Images

    A U.S. Army soldier stands in the walled excercise grounds used by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

    Khalid Mohammed / AP

    The detention facility that once held Saddam Hussein and his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid nicknamed "Chemical Ali" for using mustard gas and nerve agents against Kurds is seen from the air at the Camp Victory Complex that is set to close in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. The U.S. has promised to withdraw from Iraq by the end of the year as required by a 2008 security agreement between Washington and Baghdad. Some 39,000 U.S. troops are scheduled to clear out along with their equipment.

     From the story:

    The U.S. military is vacating Saddam Hussein's ornate palaces at its war headquarters in Baghdad and will turn the property over to Iraq next month, but Saddam's prison toilet is leaving with the Americans.

    The stainless steel commode and a reinforced steel door have been removed from the cell where the dictator spent two years before his 2006 execution and is destined for a military police museum in the United States.

    "We're not taking anything that the Iraqis had. We are only taking stuff that we put in, we utilized, and when we didn't need it any more, we took it home," Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Brooks, a U.S. military historian, said on a tour of the site on Monday.

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    GROSS! Don't bring tat BACK HERE.

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  • 14
    Oct
    2011
    7:53am, EDT

    Kareem Raheem / Reuters

    A boy who lost an arm and a leg in bomb attacks on Thursday lies in hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 14.

    Boy loses limbs in Baghdad bomb blast

    Reuters reports:

    Two bomb blasts killed at least 16 people in the mainly Shi'ite Baghdad district of Sadr City on Thursday, the latest in a series of large attacks to hit Iraq's capital in the past week.

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  • 25
    Jul
    2011
    3:24pm, EDT

    Iraqis deal with electricity shortage with generators, improvised wiring

    By Rich Shulman

    This sight is becoming common in countries with weak power infrastructure.

    Related: Albanians tap into power grid

    Spencer Platt / Getty Images

    People pass a generator store on a street on July 25, 2011 in Baghdad, Iraq. Despite a recent doubling of the megawatts of electricity available to Iraqis, many people still only receive a few hours of electricity a day from the national grid and therefore have to depend on generators and other private sources of electricity. With more homes owning computers, televisions, refrigerators and air conditioners there is an increased demand for electricity, especially in the scorching summers. The lack of dependable electricity has been one of the main sources of demonstrations against the government. As the deadline for the departure of the remaining American forces in Iraq approaches, Iraqi politicians have been increasingly pressured to  give a final decision about extending the mandate for a small U.S. military presence beyond the end of the 2011 deadline.

    Spencer Platt / Getty Images

    Over 100 electric boxes connect homes in a building to a collective generator in a poor neighborhood on July 25, in Baghdad, Iraq.

    Spencer Platt / Getty Images

    A man walks under a tangle of wires connecting homes to a collective generator in a poor neighborhood on July 25 in Baghdad, Iraq.

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  • 5
    Jul
    2011
    5:54am, EDT

    Rocket hits Baghdad's Green Zone, kills 4

    Karim Kadim / AP

    The scene of rocket attack at a residential complex in Baghdad, Iraq, on July 5. Iraqi officials say a late night rocket attack on Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone has killed four Iraqis and wounded 10.

    Karim Kadim / AP

    A man inspects the scene of rocket attack at a residential complex in Baghdad on July 5.

    The AP reports from Baghdad:

    Iraqi officials say a late night rocket attack on Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone has killed four Iraqis and wounded 10.

    A police officer says militants fired a Katyusha rocket late Monday night as Americans were celebrating Fourth of July at the U.S. Embassy, located in the Green Zone. The officer says the rocket hit a residential complex for laborers working at a hotel and sparked a fire.

    A doctor at a nearby hospital confirmed the casualties.

    Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information.

    The sprawling Green Zone houses Iraqi government headquarters and the U.S. and British embassies. It's a favorite target for insurgents' mortar and Katyusha attacks.

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  • 20
    Jun
    2011
    6:01am, EDT

    Ali Al-Saadi / AFP - Getty Images

    Smoke billows from a burning car as people rush to the site of an attack on a French embassy convoy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on June 20.

    French Embassy convoy hit by bomb in Baghdad

    The AP reports:

    A roadside bomb exploded Monday morning next to a French Embassy convoy traveling through downtown Baghdad, wounding seven people, Iraqi officials said.

    A police officer said the bomb which was exploded at about 8:30 a.m. lightly damaged one of the three armored SUVs in the capital's commercial Karrada area.

    Four Iraqi guards working for a private security company employed by the embassy and three civilian bystanders were wounded, the officer said. It was not immediately known whether any French expatriate staff were in the convoy when the bomb exploded.

    Monday's attack was part of a series attacks launched by militants in the capital during the rush hour.

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  • 27
    May
    2011
    7:39am, EDT

    Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP - Getty Images

    Relatives and friends of the head of Iraq's controversial anti-Baath committee Ali al-Lami mourn during his funeral in Baghdad on May 27. Lami, the executive director of the Justice and Accountability, was gunned down while on his way home in the Iraqi capital on May 26.

    Gunmen kill Iraqi tasked with purging Saddamists

    The AP reports from BAGHDAD:

    The head of a committee tasked with rooting out Iraqis with ties to Saddam Hussein's deposed regime and who was once arrested for alleged ties to Shiite militias has been shot to death in Baghdad, officials said.

    Ali al-Lami was a divisive figure in Iraqi politics who had close ties to neighboring Iran's Shiite Muslim government and was known for the vigor with which he tried to root out Saddam-era loyalists from all levels of Iraqi government. Continue reading.

    Uri Friedman of The Atlantic writes that al-Lami's death may be part of an alarming new wave of assassinations in Iraq.

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  • 26
    May
    2011
    5:58am, EDT

    Mahdi Army puts on show of force, calls for US withdrawal from Iraq

    The AP reports from BAGHDAD — Militiamen and followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr led a massive rally on Thursday, marching in Baghdad in a show of force as Iraqi leaders weigh whether to keep U.S. troops in the country beyond the end of the year.

    Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP - Getty Images

    Members of the Iraqi Sadr Movement's Mahdi Army march in Baghdad's predominantly Shiite suburb of Sadr City on May 26, during a parade demanding the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.

    At least tens of thousands waved Iraqi flags and shouted "No, no, America!" as the tight columns of the unarmed but ominous-looking members of the Mahdi Army, as al-Sadr's militia is known, marched through one of Baghdad's poorest neighborhoods. Continue reading.

    Hadi Mizban / AP

    Supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr march while holding a sign that reads, "No, no to Israel," in Arabic, in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq on May 26. Tens of thousands of followers of the Shiite anti-American cleric are rallying in Baghdad, demanding the U.S. military leave Iraq at the end of the year.

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  • 25
    Feb
    2011
    10:34am, EST

    'Day of Rage' anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq turn violent.

    Hadi Mizban / AP

    Iraqi anti-government protesters throw stones and trash at riot police during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. Thousands marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq on Friday, in the largest and most violent anti-government protests here since political unrest began spreading in the Arab world several weeks ago.

    At least six protesters were killed by security forces during clashes across Iraq. TODAYshow.com's Dara Brown reports.

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

     

    More protests are happening in Basra and Mosul as well. Full story.

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  • 23
    Jan
    2011
    10:56am, EST

    Karim Kadim / AP

    An Iraqi teenager is seen through a shattered car windshield after a bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 23. A flurry of morning bombs killed and wounded several across Baghdad on Sunday, police said, in what one Iraqi official called an attempt to undermine security ahead of a much anticipated meeting of Arab heads of state in two months.

    Five deadly car bombs strike Baghdad

    Read more about the bombings here.

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    The boy is smoking, too

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