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Archive for October 30th, 2007

Waterboarding is Torture… Period (Updated) (SWJ Blog)

From Small Wars Journal:
I’d like to digress from my usual analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak out on an issue of grave importance to Small Wars Journal readers. We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor.
Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define waterboarding terror suspects […]

Reuters FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq | التطورات الامنية في العراق يوم الثلاثاء | Reuters

BAGHDAD - Four policemen were killed and eight others wounded when a car bomb exploded near their patrol in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed four suspected militants and detained 17 in operations on Monday and Tuesday targeting al Qaeda in central and northern Iraq, the […]

اصوات العراق - ورشة عمل لإنهاء العنف ضد النساء في ذي قار

أقامت منظمة تموز للتنمية الاجتماعية، بالتعاون مع صندوق دعم المرأة العربية unifem، الثلاثاء، ورشة عمل في كلية الآداب بجامعة ذي قار، شارك فيها عدد من طلبة أقسام الجغرافية وعلوم القران.

Indexed under: Dhi Qar (Governorate), Nasiriyah, Women and Children

Iraq cabinet okays law to end foreign firms’ immunity Reuters AlertNet | الحكومة العراقية تقر قانونا ينهي حصانة المتعاقدين الاجانب | Reuters

BAGHDAD, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Iraq’s cabinet approved a draft law on Tuesday that would end the immunity from prosecution of foreign security contractors and scrap a decree that Iraqis have complained is little more than a "licence to kill".
The law, which still needs to be passed by parliament, follows a Sept. 16 shooting […]

Reuters AlertNet - Iraq cholera outbreak slows - health ministry

Foreword:
This report from Reuters is a perfect example of why neither I nor any other practising doctor - the few of us still in Irak, treats with extreme care any data supplied by either the green zone government Health ministry or the Health Directorates in the governorates. 
WHO report 4356 laboratory-confirmed cases of cholera This […]

Cholera Sitrep_29

WHO report 4356 laboratory-confirmed cases of cholera This represents an increase of 585 laboratory confirmed cases of cholera since the last situation report on this cholera outbreak from the WHO (Sitrep 25).

Editor’s Notes: This posting is part of the series of postings on the most current cholera outbreak in Irak. All of these postings are […]

58,000 AKs in a Nottingham basement?

What was a small British company doing importing vast quantities of arms from Bosnia? More importantly, what was it doing telling lies about their destination in order to clear Bosnian customs? What was it doing contracting with Tomislav Damjanovic, possibly Viktor Bout, and disgraced Iraqi minister Ziad Cattan to ship them to Iraq when the […]

Iraq’s biggest dam at risk

The top U.S. military commander in Iraq warned Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in May that the country’s biggest dam, just up the Tigris River from the northern city of Mosul, is at risk of collapse, putting the city’s 1.7 million people in danger of being inundated by a 65-foot flood wave.

Photo Mosul Dam (detail) […]

واع / احتجاجا على استمرار الاعتقالات .الصدر الى تقليص مدة تجميد جيش المهدي

حذرت مصادر مقربة من الزعيم الشيعي مقتدى الصدر من استمرار عمليات الاعتقال العشوائي ضد انصار التيار الصدري في بغداد ومحافظات وسط وجنوب العراق. واكدت ان الصدر قد يقلص مدة تجميد جيش المهدي من ستة شهور الى ثلاثة في حال استمرار الاعتقالات العشوائية ضد التيار. وقال الشيخ كريم البخاتي، […]

Mosul Observer News from Mosul, Monday 29 October 2007

Monday 29 October 2007
11:59 - Via Iraqiyoon News Agency, Mosul A whole family killed in Mosul today 29/10/2007 A family of 4 was killed this morning by gunmen who burst into their house in Naynawa (Nineveh) district, east bank of Mosul. Three of the family members were women. A […]