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This video file image broadcast on Feb. 26, 2008 by Arab satellite news network purportedly shows Peter Moore who was taken hostage in May 2007 by militants disguised as Iraqi policemen.
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 The Times 
Briton Peter Moore freed in Iraq after 946-day hostage ordeal
Wed 30 Dec 2009
The British hostage Peter Moore was dramatically set free yesterday after the United States handed over an Iraqi insurgent suspected of planning the deaths of five American servicemen. Mr Moore, an IT... (photo: AP / Al Arabiya, Via AP Television News, File)
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband speaks during a press conference in the Foreign Office in London, Wednesday Dec. 30, 2009, where he announced the release of hostage Peter Moore. Moore, 36, an information technology consultant who was among five Britons abducted outside the Finance Ministry in Baghdad in May 2007 by militants
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 The Star 
British hostage freed in Iraq
Wed 30 Dec 2009
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Briton Peter Moore, taken hostage in Baghdad in 2007, has been released alive, the Iraqi and British governments said on Wednesday. "British hostage Peter Moore has been released... (photo: AP / Katie Collins, pool)
Iraqi security forces are seen at the site of a bombing in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009.  The Star  Wed 30 Dec 2009
Bombs kill more than 30 in Iraq

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Twin suicide bombs killed at least 24 and wounded more than 100 in Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland on Wednesday and a roadside bomb killed seven pilgrims returning from a major... (photo: AP)
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People gather around a marketplace damaged in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 6, 2009.  Seattle Times  Wed 30 Dec 2009
Bombs kill 23 in Iraq's western Anbar province
BAGHDAD - Staggered explosions killed 23 people - 13 of them policemen - and injured the governor of Anbar on Wednesday, Iraqi officials said, the worst violence in months to hit the western province... (photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed)
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A Iraqi solider used Saddam Hussein's picture on his face The Examiner Wed 30 Dec 2009
December 30: U.S. halts bombing of North Vietnam, Saddam Hussein executed
Maine Fast Fact: At the Pine Tree State Arboretum in Augusta, there is Governor’s Grove, a stand of more than 60 eastern white pine trees planted in honor of each... (photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny)
Iraq   Maine   Photos   Politic   Vietnam
An Iraqi boy inspects a damaged car after a car bomb went of in the western city of Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. Al Jazeera Wed 30 Dec 2009
Deadly blasts hit western Iraq city

At least 23 people have been killed in twin suicide bombings in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi. Another 30 people were injured in the blasts on Wednesday in Anbar... (photo: AP)
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President Barack Obama listens as Vice President Joe Biden addresses mayors in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 20, The New York Times Tue 29 Dec 2009
President Obama, Push Back on China

WASHINGTON - Last week, a moderate reformist in China, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Chinese government for the mere act of organizing and... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak)
China   Economy   Foreign Policy   Photos   US
Photo from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq showing Pvt. Lynndie England holding a leash attached to a prisoner collapsed on the floor, known to the guards as "Gus." WorldNews.com Tue 29 Dec 2009
If Only Steven Green, Lynndie England, and Abeer al-Janabi Were George Bush

Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. It was Joseph Stalin who said, "Kill one and you are a murderer, kill thousands and you are a legend." It is a... (photo: File)
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The Iraqi soldiers and checkpoint in the Baghdad and green zone's street in Iraq. Iraq- Baghdad The Star Tue 29 Dec 2009
Gunmen kill Iraqi militia guards at checkpoint

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a checkpoint near Baghdad on Tuesday, killing four members of an Iraqi government-backed militia, a militia leader and officials... (photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny)
Iraq   Photos   Security   Terrorism   US
Fires flare off the gas from crude oil at Iraq's oldest oil processing plant in the northern Iraqi town of Baba Gurgur, outside Kirkuk, Iraq, in this Jan. 24, 2004 file photo. Oil prices briefly rose to a record DLRS 80 a barrel in afternoon trading Wednesday Sept. 12, 2007 after the U.S. government reported a surprisingly large drop in crude oil inventories and declines in gasoline supplies and refinery activit The Wichita Eagle Tue 29 Dec 2009
Iraq inks oil deal with Lukoil

BAGHDAD - A consortium led by Russia's private oil giant Lukoil on Tuesday signed an initial deal with Iraq to develop one of its biggest oil fields, an agreement key to... (photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed)
Baghdad   Iraq   Lukoil   Photos   Russia
 People grieve as smoke billows from a building after a double car bomb attack in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 12, 2007. Thunderous explosions and dense black smoke swirled through the center of Baghdad on Monday when at least one car bomb blew up Khaleej Times Tue 29 Dec 2009
Iraq security adviser warns of Al-Qaeda threat
Al-Qaeda in Iraq is a far smaller force than at its peak three years ago but still poses a threat in the run-up to March elections, national security adviser Safa Hussein... (photo: AP/Khalid Mohammed )
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The funeral of a victim of Sunday's suicide bombing which occurred inside one of several tents set up outside a house in the Abu Ghraib area of Baghdad's western outskirts, takes place at a cemetery in Khan Dhari, near Abu Ghraib, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 25, 2008. A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in the midst of a celebration to welcome home an Iraqi detainee released from U.S. custody, killing at least 25 people, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo) The Star Mon 28 Dec 2009
Iraqi legal system puts new emphasis on forensics
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Vital clues are often lost after deadly bombings in Iraq, where scenes of carnage are quickly hosed down and bodies whisked away for burial, but this... (photo: AP)
Defence   Forensics   Iraq   Justice   Photos
 Iraqi Shiite pilgrims clap their hands near the holy shrine, seen in background, of Imam Abbas, in Karbala 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, during religious celebrations Tuesday Sept. 20, 2005. An estimated 3 million pilgrims jammed the holy ci San Fransisco Chronicle Mon 28 Dec 2009
Shiite pilgrims in Iraq killed in bombings

(12-28) 04:00 PST Baghdad -- A bomb killed five Shiite pilgrims in a procession in northeast Iraq on Sunday and blasts in Baghdad killed two more pilgrims as millions of... (photo: AP Photo )
Iraq   Photos   Pilgrims   Shiite   Violence


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