Gorilla’s Guides

The picture below is from today’s attack on airport workers.
The list below the jump gives the main security developments in Iraq reported on Aswat Al Iraq in Arabic earlier on today. If you scroll down a bit I report on the involvement of SCIRI and Pehmerga death squads in the forthcoming surge. I also report a […]

Posted on January 8th, 2007 under Iraq. Tags: Al Anbar (Governorate), Aswat Al Iraq - News, Baghdad, Baqubah, Disputed Areas, Fallujah, Khalis, Kirkuk, Maysan (Governorate), Samarra. Comments: 1

Life has to continue somehow for Iraq’s many displaced. © IOM 2006
Iraq - Masad Ammar,* his wife and children recently fled their home in Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, after they received a threatening letter warning them that if they did not leave within three days, they would be killed. They grabbed what few belongings […]

Posted on January 8th, 2007 under Analysis Briefings Commentary, Children, Features, Human Rights, Iraq, Politics and Security, Women and Children. Tags: Briefings, Children, Refugees, Women and Children. Comments: None

BAGHDAD, 8 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - Displaced families in the capital, Baghdad, have urged the Iraqi Red Crescent Society to continue supporting people who have been displaced as a result of sectarian violence.
“We need urgent help because since the [Red Crescent] volunteers in the capital stopped their work, we have been seriously suffering with […]

Posted on January 8th, 2007 under Children, Features, Human Rights, Women and Children. Tags: Children, IRIN, Red Crescent/Red Cross, Women and Children. Comments: 1

BAGHDAD, 7 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - “You are on the list of the teachers who are going to be killed this month for not obeying our demands to leave Iraq,” said a hand-written letter which was left at Dr Hamida Bakri’s door.
Now the 41-year old professor of gynaecology at the college of medicine at […]

Posted on January 8th, 2007 under Features, Iraq. Tags: IRIN. Comments: None

Hazem Saghieh Al-Hayat - 08/01/07//
Is it mere coincidence that two directions have converged?On the one hand, relations between the West and the radical forces, Arab and Muslim, are on the brink of exploding; and on the other, relations between Sunnis and Shiites are on the same brink.
The question is raised, with this ideological and childish […]

Posted on January 8th, 2007 under Iraq. Comments: None