Iraqis told to arm themselves
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BAGHDAD -- Prominent Shi'ite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives, including 60 who died yesterday in a surge of bombings and shootings around Baghdad.
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A mortar round hit a site where Iraqis were handing over their weapons today, shortly before a visit by Ayad Allawi.
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A posting on an Islamist Web site warned Iraqis to stay at home Wednesday in Baghdad and other cities or they would be "putting their lives in danger."
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said that British soldiers must "stay the course" in Iraq until Iraqis themselves establish democracy with their own security forces.
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BAGHDAD - Several insurgent groups in Iraq have set deadlines for killing hostages, from a trio of American and British workers to an entire squad of 18 Iraqi soldiers, unless demands are met.
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TONY EASTLEY: Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister is demanding residents of Fallujah hand over Jordanian terrorist, Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, or face a military assault.
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Iraq's security forces are losing men because of "severe intimidation" by rebels, a US general says.
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Unarmed and headed back to their homes on leave, 49 Iraqi soldiers were ambushed this weekend in eastern Iraq and shot to death, many of them killed execution style
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An Iraqi insurgent group threatened to kill a German woman and her son kidnapped in Iraq unless Germany withdrew its troops from Afghanistan within 10 days, according to a video posted by the group on Saturday.Comment
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 17 - A government plan to disarm Iraq&#39;s biggest Shiite militia here has brought in enough weaponry in its first week that Iraqi officials extended the program on Sunday and said that it might be spread to other cities.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Saturday they will begin handing weapons over to Iraqi police next week in a major step toward ending weeks of fighting with American soldiers in Baghdad's Sadr City district.    Meanwhile, there were reports that British hostage Kenneth Bigley tried to escape before he was beheaded...
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U.S. forces have begun arming nationalist guerrillas and former Saddam Hussein loyalists -- and coordinating tactics -- in a marriage of convenience against al Qaeda radicals in one of Iraq's most violent provinces, senior U.S. commanders tell CNN.
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Some of the Iraqi national police officers who joined U.S. troops on patrols last week advertised their Shiite sympathies or warned residents to hide their weapons.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced plans Monday to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shiite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City to cities nationwide in an attempt to disarm the country. U.S...
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In their latest attempt to bring sectarian violence under control, American commanders are shifting thousands of combat troops into advisory positions with Iraqi Army and police units.
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Insurgents threatened to kill two  Americans and a Briton on Saturday unless Iraqi women prisoners  are freed, and launched a suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi  security forces that killed at least 23 people.
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Three soldiers accused of abusing Iraqis were told to give looters 'a kicking', their court martial is told.