Rebels 'Execute' 49 Iraqi Troops, Kill U.S. Diplomat
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Rebels ambushed and killed 49  unarmed Iraqi soldiers and, in a separate attack Sunday, killed  a U.S. diplomat in a mortar strike near Baghdad airport.
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Iraqi and U.S. forces killed a top official of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's organization in a raid on his home north of Baghdad on Sunday, calling him a "rogue leader" of Sadr's Mehdi Army militia.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A group of at least 49 soldiers of the new Iraq Army were ambushed and killed while on their way home after graduating from training, a US military official said.
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Around 50 Iraqi soldiers were killed execution-style after insurgents intercepted minibuses carrying them home on leave, officials said today.
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Iraq's U.S.-backed government said on  Tuesday that "major neglect" by its American-led allies led to  a massacre of 49 army recruits at the weekend.
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U.S. forces killed more than 50 Shi'ite  militiamen on Wednesday in a significant advance into a Baghdad  suburb that is a powerbase for radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr,  the military said.
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Russian troops killed some 50 rebels in a recent operation in Russia&#39;s breakaway republic of Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported Sunday, quoting.
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In their boldest and deadliest ambush yet, insurgents waylaid three minibuses carrying U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers heading home on leave and massacred about 50 of them &#151; forcing many to lie down on the ground and shooting them in the head, officials said Sunday.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi  claimed responsibility on Sunday for the killing of nearly 50  unarmed Iraqi army recruits in one of the bloodiest attacks on  the country's fledgling security forces.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 50 suspected Taliban militants in an airstrike on a rebel stronghold in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the force said Monday. Residents claimed dozens of civilians were killed.
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American forces say they killed 49 militants after coming under heavy fire in Sadr City, but there were conflicting reports from Iraqi witnesses.
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Insurgents pressed their attack on U.S. troops and Iraq's security forces Saturday, killing five Iraqi police officers and wounding 14 American soldiers in a relentless effort to derail next month's elections. A U.S. Marine also was killed in the province containing the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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Rebels attacked the provincial governor&#39;s office in Iraq&#39;s third city of Mosul on Thursday, killing one of his bodyguards and wounding four more, the US military said.
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The U.S. military said it had killed 49 "criminals" in clashes in the Baghdad district of Sadr City on Sunday in a raid to capture a militant suspected of involvement in the kidnapping of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
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Iraq's U.S.-backed government said on  Tuesday that "major neglect" by its American-led military  allies led to a massacre of 49 army recruits at the weekend.
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The U.S. military said its forces killed an estimated 49 militants during a dawn raid to capture an Iranian-linked militia chief in Baghdad's Sadr City enclave, one of the highest tolls for a single operation since President Bush declared an end to active combat in 2003.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. forces launched air strikes  and fought gunbattles after insurgents overran police stations  and other areas in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Monday, killing  about 20 rebels, the U.S. military said.