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News From Iraq January 24th 2007 Including Main Security Reports Translated And Summarised from Arabic

Security Reports Translated And Summarised from Arabic: These are only the most important ones each of us is taking different sections. This is short but the best we can do tonight is to concentrate only on the big flashpoints. - Saba: Karbala: There have been armed clashes between 8th ...

News From Iraq January 23rd 2007 Reported By Aswat Al Iraq Translated And Summarised From Arabic

Five people were killed and thirteen wounded in three early morning bombings in Baghdad. 4 of  the deaths, of whom one was a seven year old boy, and seven of the wounded were caused when a booby trapped car exploded near the central market in Karadah. A bomb at al-Muaazam petrol station in ...

Security Incidents In Iraq January 22nd 2007 Reported By Aswat Al Iraq Translated And Summarised From Arabic

The series of bombings in Baghdad and Diyala have caused carnage. There has been a very large number of attacks, bombings, bodies found, and rocket/mortar attacks throughout Iraq today. Due to severe time constraints tonight's report concentrates deals only with the main bombings. Only one of many other noteworthy report ...

Security Incidents In Iraq January 20th and 21st 2007 Reported By Aswat Al Iraq Translated And Summarised From Arabic Part 1

Saturday: Saturday was the first day of Muharram according to the green zone government. The competent authorities in Najaf Say it is Sunday. Ashura is held on the tenth day of the month. Mohammed Security Incidents for Saturday The killing and wounding of 19 members of the American invader forces is ...

Interview With Moqtada Al Sadr - Translated by Parvati Roma of DarkMirror

The interview with Muqtada Al Sadr in La Republicca has been translated from Italian by Parvati Roma of Dark Mirror. Found via this comment I live in Rome, I'm a translator - and I've just finished translating the full text of that article on my blog: on Juan ...

Security Incidents In Iraq January 19th 2007 Reported By Aswat Al Iraq Translated And Summarised From Arabic

There's no doubt what today's most alarming development is the detention of Abdul-Hadi al-Darraji. This represents a major escalation. The report in today's Guardian headlined: Sadr fears for life in security crackdown that al-Sadr has sent his family into hiding accords with other reports from Iraq. I have chosen to headline tonight's ...

Security Report From Iraq January 18th 2007 Translated And Summarised From Arabic

A car bomb in east Baghdad targeting a police station has killed 2 people and injured 4. No other details yet. In Mosul a car bomb exploded at noon in a busy market, 1 civilian was killed, 4 green zone government "police" whose patrol was the target were wounded and ...

January 16th-17th 2007 News Round-Up From Iraq

Aswat Al Iraq's English coverage paints a grim picture of the increasingly bloody consequences of the failed American invasion of Iraq. In particular note that the bombing in Sadr city is causing fury. The Jaish have been ordered not to man checkpoints and the Baghdad police still do not have ...

January 15th 2007 News Round-Up

Please note we will not be posting any translations/summaries from Arabic tonight. I am headlining with a piece of good news "Spain orders U.S. soldier arrests for Couso death" - he won't be the last American in Iraq who finds out that he can never leave America again without fear ...

Summary Of The Security Reports From Iraq January 15th 2007 From Arabic

These are the main security incidents in Iraq reported on the independent Iraqi news agency Aswat Al Iraq in Arabic. All of the links in the summary are to Arabic language pages. The reports are in descending sequence latest reports first. Some reports are translated into English by Aswat Al reporters and ...