Iraq – Truck bomb destroys key bridge in western Iraq; 4 Iraqi soldiers killed in separate attack (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

Truck bomb destroys key bridge in western Iraq; 4 Iraqi soldiers killed in separate attack (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber blew up a dynamite-laden truck in western Iraq on Saturday, destroying a key bridge on a highway used by the departing U.S. military, while four Iraqi soldiers were killed in a separate attack near Fallujah, police said.

Suicide bomber destroys key bridge in Iraq (New Haven Register)
Associated Press BAGHDAD A suicide bomber driving a dynamite-laden truck destroyed a key bridge Saturday on a highway used by the departing U.S. military, while separate attacks killed nine Iraqis, most of them security force members, police said.

Iraq truck bomb halts traffic to Syria, Jordan (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) – A suicide bomber blew up a truck on a bridge west of the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Saturday, severely damaging the structure and halting traffic to Syria and Jordan, police said.

Homicide Bomber Destroys Key Iraqi Bridge, Highway (Fox News)
The highway links Iraq to neighboring Syria and Jordan, where many Iraqis fled sectarian violence.

Bomb kills four Iraqi soldiers, bridge blown up (Reuters via Yahoo!7 News)
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed at least four Iraqi soldiers near the western town of Falluja on Saturday and a truck bomb in another western city destroyed a main bridge linking Baghdad to Syria and Jordan, police said.

Key bridge in Iraq destroyed (News 24 South Africa)
A suicide bomber driving a dynamite-laden truck destroyed a key bridge on a highway used by the departing US military, police say.

Iraqi honey industry battling to regain its buzz (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Iraq’s once-flourishing honey industry is struggling to revive itself, hit by long-term environmental degradation and six years of unrest that followed the 2003 US-led invasion.

U.S. cancels deployment of 3,500 troops to Iraq (MalaysiaNews.net)
Cancellation reflects improved conditions in Iraq, official said Iraqi elections won’t delay scheduled withdrawals U.S. says, Ambassador Chris Hill “Our plan is to draw down the troops as we’ve s…

Ambassador: Iraq elections won’t affect U.S. withdrawal (CNN)
Although the U.S. government would prefer that the Iraqi elections be held on time, a delay would not affect the schedule of troop withdrawal, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Friday.

Bomb kills four Iraqi soldiers, bridge blown up (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters * Attacks in former insurgent hotbed * Truck bomb cuts Baghdad’s main link with Jordan, Syria FALLUJA, Iraq, Oct 17 (Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed at least four Iraqi soldiers near the …

Four terror suspects arrested in Iraq (UPI)
BAGHDAD, Oct. 17 (UPI) — The Multi-National Force-Iraq said Saturday security operations in northern Iraq resulted in the arrest of four suspected terrorists by Iraqi police.

Pentagon cancels deployment of 3,500 U.S. troops to Iraq (CNN)
More than 3,000 U.S. troops scheduled to deploy to Iraq won’t go after all, as the military tries to draw down troop levels in the war-torn country, a Pentagon spokesman said Saturday.

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