Updates From Iraq

A trio of stories from Iraq. None of them very optimistic.

Iraq: US Prison Riot, 20 Reported Dead  

At least nine prisoners and guards were killed in a gun battle at a Baghdad high-security jail on Wednesday after detained guerrilla suspects, some of them foreign, grabbed weapons and tried [...]

Iraqis Pummeled at the Pumps 

Iraq's government has sharply raised the price of fuel and other petroleum products this month, sparking discontent and protests and worrying international observers who say the increases could hurt millions of poor Iraqis and throw the country [...]

Many Iraqi Soldiers See a Civil War on the Horizon 

Kirkuk lies just a few miles from one of the nation's largest oil fields, worth billions of dollars. Arabs figure that the city's oil wealth should belong to Iraq, while ethnic Kurds see it as part of a [...]

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