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HOLY SHIT, I PROPOSE AN IRONIC PILLOW FIGHT EVERY WEEK UNTIL THIS MADNESS ENDS!U.S. Confirmed Deaths in IraqReported Deaths: 4271Confirmed Deaths: 4265Pending Confirmation: 6 News04/10/09 Reuters: Suicide bomb kills 5 U.S. soldiers, 2 Iraqi policeA suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives outside an Iraqi base in the northern city of Mosul on Friday, killing five U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi policemen, the U.S. military sai04/10/09 Reuters: Truck bomb wounds 70 in Iraq's MosulA suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives outside an Iraqi army and police base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday, killing two people and wounding 70 others, police said.04/10/09 AFP: Three dead in Iraq roadside bomb attacksTwo roadside bomb attacks near Baghdad have killed three people and wounded seven others, according to security officials. In the first attack a woman was killed by an explosion that also wounded her husband and two children in the Diyala province...04/10/09 LATimes: Marine is acquitted in fatal shooting of Iraqi prisonerSgt. Ryan Weemer, 26, was found not guilty on all charges by a military jury. The second acquittal of 3 Marines charged separately in a Fallouja incident means the third case might not proceed.04/09/09 MCT: US soldier wounded by grenade in Salahuddin provinceA round 1:30 p.m. a gunman threw a thermal grenade on a US convoy on the main road of Tikrit-Beiji in Salahuddin province on Thursday. One American soldier was wounded with one vehicle damaged.04/09/09 MCT: Bicycle bomb wounds six people in Balad RuzAround 5:15 p.m. a bicycle bomb detonated among people who were attending a wedding party in downtown Balad Ruz (about 25 miles southeast Baquba). Six people were wounded, two women and four men.04/09/09 MCT: Bomb wounds 9 in southern BaghdadAround 11 a.m. a magnetic bomb attached to a civilian car detonated in Saidiyah neighborhood in southern Baghdad on Thursday. Eight people were wounded.04/09/09 Reuters: Bomb attached to a car kills driver in eastern MosulA bomb attached to a car killed its driver in eastern Mosul on Wednesday, police said.04/09/09 Reuters: Gunmen kill man in western MosulGunmen on foot shot a man dead and fled the scene in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.04/09/09 AP: Obama to Seek $83.4 Billion for Iraq, Afghan WarsPresident Barack Obama is seeking $83.4 billion for U.S. military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pressing for special troop funding that he opposed two years ago when he was senator and George W. Bush was president.04/09/09 Reuters: Huge protest marks Baghdad's fallTens of thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr thronged Baghdad on Thursday to mark the sixth anniversary of the city's fall to U.S. troops, and to demand they leave immediately.04/09/09 NYTimes: Iraq???s Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and MurderThe relative freedom of a newly democratic Iraq and the recent improvement in security have allowed a gay subculture to flourish here. The response has been swift and deadly.