White House says Iraq bombing an "atrocity"
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The White House called the suicide bombing in Baghdad that killed 135 people an "atrocity" on Saturday and pledged to help the Iraqi government bring security to the capital.
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Families of the 35 children who died in a string of bombings in Baghdad blamed American troops for the tragedy, accusing them of attracting insurgents to a ceremony where the attacks occurred.
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A suicide bomber targeting poor laborers killed 47 people in Baghdad on Tuesday hours before President George W. Bush was to review his unpopular Iraq policy in a video teleconference with U.S. military commanders in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 -- At least 15 Iraqi civilians were killed in a bombing in Baghdad on Wednesday, police said, and the U.S. military announced the deaths of eight American soldiers.
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The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 6  - Democrats on Wednesday slammed the White House Wednesday for leading a months-long search to uncover an Iraqi weapons program that apparently did not exist when the United States invaded the country.
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The United States, acknowledging its own record is in question, criticized Iraq on Tuesday in its annual report on human rights abuses, listing death squads with government links, kidnapping and torture.
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The White House condemned the bombing on Friday in a Beirut suburb that killed at least three people and said it was aimed at undermining Lebanese institutions.
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A string of bombs killed 35 children and wounded scores of others as U.S. troops handed out candy Thursday at a government-sponsored celebration to inaugurate a sewage plant. It was the largest death toll of children in any insurgent attack since the start of the Iraq conflict.
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President Bush on Saturday hit back at critics who have cited an intelligence report as evidence that the Iraq war has worsened the terrorism threat.
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The White House acknowledged on Monday that sectarian violence in Iraq had entered "a new phase" but denied it amounted to civil war.
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The White House on Sunday disagreed with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's claim that the Iraq war was "the worst foreign policy mistake" in U.S. history.
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AAYTHA, Iraq  - A U.S. warplane mistakenly bombed  a house in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing several people in  an attack likely to inflame anti-American anger ahead of  controversial elections due at the end of the month.
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The White House on Wednesday called the New Year's day slaying of a US diplomat and his driver in Sudan "a tragic situation" and that the killer's motives were not yet known.
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Bombers in Baghdad took the war to the very heart of United States power in Iraq yesterday with two blasts inside the supposedly impregnable Green Zone, killing five civilians, including three US nationals, and injuring at least 20.
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Iraq's PM Nouri Maliki says Saturday's bombing in northern Iraq, which killed 130 people, was a "heinous crime".
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Iraq's prime minister sharply criticized a U.S.-Iraqi attack Monday on a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad, breaking with his American partners on security tactics as the United States launches a major operation to secure the capital.