U.S. soldiers accidentally killed the leader of a U.S.-allied Sunni group after being attacked north of Baghdad. The head of the Awakening Council in Siniyah, Jassim al-Garrout, was shot after he rushed to the site of an ambush against U.S. forces near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
Separately, a U.S. soldier was shot to death in an attack about 15 miles southeast of Baghdad, the military said.
A federal judge has ordered the Army to grant conscientious objector status and an honorable discharge to Pfc. Michael Barnes, an Oregon-born paratrooper who said he experienced a religious awakening in Iraq two years ago that left him opposed to war in any form. The decision by U.S. District Judge John Sedwick supersedes the Army's decision last year to deny Barnes' request.
Iraq resumed exporting cheap oil to Jordan for the first time since 2003. The flow resumed six weeks after Jordan's King Abdullah became the first Arab head of state to visit Iraq since Saddam's ouster.
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