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US Troops Pull Out of Iraqi Cities

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Car Bomb Kills 30 in Southern Iraq

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About 30 people are dead and dozens more wounded after a car bomb devastates a market in southern Iraq. The blast, the deadliest in months, raises new concerns about a rise in violence as U.S. forces face a deadline by the end of this month to begin to withdraw.
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Stephen Colbert Shaves Head for Troops

Stephen Colbert travels to Baghdad to make a bold declaration: The United States has achieved victory in Iraq. But the commander of multinational forces there says that's premature -- and proceeds to give Colbert a crew cut. What's going on? It's all a part of Colbert's effort to call attention to the war, entertain the troops and tape a few installments of Comedy Central's 'The Colbert Report.'
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Stephen Colbert gets crew cut in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 7, 2009
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Iraq Holds 5 US Citizens in Man's Death

Iraqi authorities detain five Americans in the death of a U.S. contractor found brutally slain in Baghdad's protected Green Zone last month. The people in custody are from the same company as the contractor.
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Pentagon Denies Photos Show Rape

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The Pentagon denies reports that photos depicting American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners include images of rape and sexual abuse. Allegations of sexual abuse and torture surfaced in a British newspaper earlier today as an American general stated that the photographs show "every indecency."
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Vietnam Vet Is Oldest US Casualty in Iraq

A Vietnam War veteran becomes the oldest U.S. soldier to die in Iraq or Afghanistan. The Pentagon says 60-year-old Army Maj. Steven Hutchison died Sunday of wounds from a roadside bomb. Hutchison had retired from the military in 1988 but re-enlisted after his wife died of breast cancer in January 2006. "He had a big heart," his brother says.
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