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Tuesday, August 14. 2007, 12:00:00 AM UTC


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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

A suicide bomber attacks the Thiraa Dijla bridge in Taji, Iraq, killing at least 10 people. Meanwhile, a U.S. raid kills four people in Baghdad. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6946028.stm (BBC)
Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.
A Russian far right group calling itself National Socialism/White Power publishes a video on the Internet showing the execution of two men, one from Tajikstan and the other one from Dagestan. Russian authorities investigate the video. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6946810.stm (BBC)
Gunmen kidnap Abdel Jabar al-Wagaa, the deputy Oil Minister of Iraq. //www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/15/2005229.htm (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
2007 Kahtaniya bombings: At least 250 people die in bombings in areas near the town of Kahtaniya in northern Iraq as suicide bombers drive fuel tankers into residential compounds of the Yazidi sect. //www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL1484109720070814?feedType=RSSfeedName=topNews (Reuters)
British authorities investigate two new suspected cases of foot and mouth disease, one in Kent and one in Surrey outside the exclusion zone. //www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070814.wfootmouth0815/BNStory/International/?page=rssid=RTGAM.20070814.wfootmouth0815 (The Globe and Mail)
Five American servicemen die in a CH-47 Chinook helicopter crash near the Al Taqaddum air base in Iraq. //www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/14/wiraq114.xml (The Telegraph)
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