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IRAQ: Attacks on bridges affecting aid deliveries

BAGHDAD, 26 June 2007 (IRIN) - The delivery of humanitarian aid in war-torn Iraq is being hampered as bridges and key transportation arteries come under attack from insurgents, the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said on 26 June. “Our humanitarian work has been hampered since the main bridges and ...

Reports From Irak June 25th 2007 UPDATE 2

Tribal leaders in al-Anbar discussing the bombing of their meeting in the Mansour Hotel in Baghdad yesterday said that the attack betrays either complacency by the security forces charged with protecting the hotel or that the bombing was premeditated and prepared in advance by Iraki political or foreign intelligence bodies. Sheikh Adnan Al-Dulaimi indicated that ...

Main and Central - Baquba ‘Gainst the Wall

So this platoon’s advance was held up for a day while they waited for artillery or an airstrike to clear the houses for them. The next day, finally, an M1 tank appeared and blew the houses with its main gun. The insurgents/Sunnis/Mahdi Army death squads/resistance/ militants/Ba’athist dead enders ...

Reports From Irak June 25th 2007 UPDATE

As mark and Saba predicted in Reports From Irak June 25th 2007 the green zone government launched a raid against the Sadrists in the town of Suq (30 km south of Nasiriyah) Residents heard a very loud at 4 in the morning the "special forces" of the green zone government army, backed ...

Reports From Irak June 25th 2007

Summary: Below the fold we also publish a major feature on attempts to ameliorate the desperate electricity situation in Irak. If the green zone government can't improve this situation citizen discontent already close to boiling point will become overwhelming. Al-Fora TV tracked down the minister responsible to "one of the finest hotels in Kuwait City" ...

13129

13129 malformed children have been born in Iraq in the last five years. Their deformities have been caused by American Depleted Uranium munitions used in the American led 1991 "Desert Storm" war with Irak launched after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. The war saw heavy use of depleted uranium rounds by American ...