Iraq War News Updates -- July 9, 2009

Bombings In Mosul, Baghdad Kill At Least 41 -- Yahoo News/AP

BAGHDAD – Two suicide bombers on Thursday killed at least 34 people and injured 70 in an attack on the home of an anti-terrorism officer in northern Iraq, while three roadside bombs in Baghdad killed seven others, authorities said.

The attacks came one day after car bombs in two Shiite villages near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed 16 civilians and injured more than two dozen, in a surge of violence in Iraq's troubled north following the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from cities to bases outside urban centers at the end of June.

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U.S. Army soldiers prepare to load up into CH-47 Chinook helicopters as they participate in a joint air assault operation planned and led by Iraqi army and police forces in the countryside east of Baghdad, Iraq, June 26, 2009. The U.S. soldiers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team. The joint search for weapons caches and insurgent activity was one of the largest air assault operations conducted in the Multinational Division Baghdad area since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. James Selesnick

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