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Afghanistan is filled with poor, jobless people who have seen their families blown up by Americans. And they're itching to get revenge.

AP - As of Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008, at least 4,180 members of the U.S. military have died in the iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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A report from top U.S. intelligence agencies says that the relative calm in Iraq could dissolve at any moment. Madeleine Brand talks to McClatchy Senior Correspondent Warren Strobel about what the report says and how it may change the presidential race.

The U.S. has "met its target" of letting in 12,000 Iraqi refugees in fiscal 2008 -- but there are 90,000 Iraqis seeking resettlement here.

Eight people were killed Friday after a car bomb struck a market in a Shiite enclave in southwestern Baghdad, police said.

A vehicle bomb in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, kills 13 people and injures 27 others, say police.

AP - A federal judge rejected arguments Friday from a former civilian contractor in Iraq who said his sentence for possessing child pornography should be lighter to more closely align with what military personnel would face.

AP - Iraq's prime minister said Friday that the country's most influential Shiite cleric will leave the decision on the future of U.S. troops to the government and parliament ? a step that could remove a major obstacle to a deal.

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