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		<title>msnbc.com: Conflict in Iraq</title>
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			<title>Experts: Iraq invasion harmed Babylon</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31842219/ns/world_news-conflict_in_iraq/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/090710_babylon _230am.thumb.jpg" alt="Jeff Daigle, left, Jeffrey Allen, center, and Diane Siebrandt, right, visit Babylon as part of a delegation from the World Monuments Fund and the U.S. State Department on June 24." style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Iraq's U.S.-led invaders seriously damaged Babylon, driving machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops and digging trenches through one of the world's greatest archaeological sites, experts said.</p><br clear="all" /><br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:26:16 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Worst violence since U.S. pullback hits Iraq</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31822064/ns/world_news-conflict_in_iraq/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/090708_iraqviolence_730a.thumb.jpg" alt="Relatives visit an injured man after a roadside bomb attack near a market in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad on Thursday." style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Nearly 60  people die in bombings in Iraq in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas at the end of last month.</p><br clear="all" /><br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:52:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>U.S. releases 5 Iranian officials in Iraq</title>
			<description>U.S. forces on Thursday released five Iranian officials detained in January 2007 in northern Iraq on suspicion of aiding local Shiite militants, Iranian and Iraqi officials said.&lt;br clear=&quot;both&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;/&gt;
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			<pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2009 22:37:51 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Army's new mission: To exit Iraq</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 6 Jul 2009 17:59:09 GMT</pubDate>
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