Iraqis Celebrates Olympic Victory with Bullets
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Iraqis, weary of violence and  deprivation, erupted in wild celebration Saturday after their  national soccer team beat Australia 1-0 in the Athens Games.
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A million revelers cheered fireworks in Sydney. Summer Olympics organizers hosted dance and music in Beijing. And rare celebrations resounded in war-torn Baghdad.
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(Baghdad, Iraq-AP) Dec. 5, 2004 - Gunmen in Iraq have killed 17 Iraqis and injured 13 others as they arrived to work at a weapons dump controlled by coalition forces.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece -- Iraq's surprising Olympic soccer run came up short with a 1-0 loss to Italy in a bronze medal game that couldn't escape reminders of violence in the war-torn country.
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Serial numbers on pistols and other weapons in Turkey match those originally given to Iraqi security forces by the American military.
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Israel has celebrated its first Olympic gold medal, saying Gal Fridman&#39;s win gave pride and joy to Jewish people around the world.
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Italy&#39;s Alberto Gilardino scored the game&#39;s only goal in the eighth minute Friday, ending the Iraqis&#39; incredible run in the Olympic tournament and their hopes of winning their nation&#39;s first medal since 1960.
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Kelly Holmes holds up her Olympic medals as Britain&#39;s team parades through London. Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images. Thousands of people lined the streets of central London today to pay tribute to Britain&#39;s
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Offering a simple, "Thank you America," Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi declared Thursday that his country is succeeding in its effort to move past the war that ousted Saddam Hussein.
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Bloodied by weeks of suicide bombings and assassinations, Iraqi security forces emerged Sunday to patrol Samarra after a morale-boosting victory in this Sunni Triangle city, and U.S. commanders praised their performance.
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Italians competing at the Olympic Games will honour a journalist killed in Iraq by wearing black arm bands during Friday&#39;s events, a spokesman for the Italian Olympic team said.
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ATHENS -- Italy ended Iraq&#39;s dreams of winning only a second Olympic medal on Friday when it beat the war-torn country 1-0 in the bronze medal soccer match in Thessaloniki.
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Tuesday's European papers are full of praise for Iraqi voters in the wake of Sunday's national elections.
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Three people were killed and around 50 others wounded in Baghdad on Saturday when soccer- loving Iraqis fired weapons into the air to celebrate their team's quarter-final victory over Vietnam in the Asian Cup.
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Iraq's footballers get a morale-boosting chance for gold at the Asian Games in Friday's final against Qatar.
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The prime minister, Tony Blair, flew into the Iraqi capital today and praised the electoral workers of Iraq for their bravery in risking their lives for democracy.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a key US ally and supporter of the Iraq war, celebrated on Sunday his election win over opposition Labor after voters enjoying the fruits of a strong economy gave him another term.