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Incidents Reports From Irak May 30th 2007 Summarised From Arabic

Two journalists were murdered in Irak one in al-Anbar and one in Maysan. 4 senior customs officials were abducted in a part of Salah Ad Din governorate that has not had any green zone government security presence for five months. The pay of an army unit was stolen in ...

Scenes From An Iraki Childhood May 30th 2007

A boy sits on the rubble of his destroyed home the day after the May 29th truck bombing of the Mosque and Husseiniyah in al-Amil (southwest Baghdad) bodies are still being dug from the collapsed buildings and according to hospital spokesemen the death count from the attack is still rising ...

Reports From Irak May 29th 2007 Summarised From Arabic

Summary: Bombing casualties have soared in Baghdad today. Gunmen in police uniforms have kidnapped a group of Westerners. 10 U.S. soldiers were reported killed. The campaign to isolate vulnerable American outposts has intensified. The Sadrists have rejected the American-Iranian talks as illegitmate and an interference in Iraki affairs. Scenes from An ...

Reports From Irak May 20 2007 Summarised from Arabic

The car bomb left in a parking lot in Bab al-Sharji in central Baghdad killed one civilian and wounded five others. (This bomb is very close to Intrerior Ministry offices and probably was targeting civil servants parking before going to work.) Scenes From An Iraki Childhood - Haifa St Baghdad May ...

Reports From Irak May 19th 2007 Summarised From Arabic - Part 2

This is part 2 - Khalil Baghdad 20 bodies were recovered from various parts of Baghdad during the day. 16 were in al-Karkh, 4 in Al Rassafa. Thamir Mohammed Khalaf employee at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry was attacked and killed today by gunment in the New Baghdad area (south-east Baghdad.) The American army ...

Main Incidents Irak May 13 2007 from Arabic

Casualties from the bombing of the police patrol close to the al-Sulaymaniya Restaurant in Wathba Square near at the entrance al-Sadriyah marketplace are now confirmed at 12 dead and 41 wounded. 9 of the dead are civilians and three are police of the confirmed wounded 37 are civilians and 4 ...

Scenes From An Iraki Childhood May 6th 2007

Isn't this just heart warming? Does it not make you go "awwwwww ....how sweet?" A U.S. soldier greets children during a joint raid by U.S.-gzg forces on several houses in Baghdad's Sadr City May 6, 2007. That picture is what America would like the world to see and to believe is ...

Beleaguered Iraqis now fear their own security forces more than the insurgents

"Be careful," warned a senior Iraqi government official living in the Green Zone in Baghdad, "be very careful and above all do not trust the police or the army." He added that the level of insecurity in the Iraqi capital is as bad now as it was before the US ...

Other Significant Security Incidents Irak Summarised and Translated From Arabic April 28th 2007

This is a very shortened list of other incidents in Irak today:Red Crescent Workers Update: Gunmen in a minibus attacked a minivan this morning on themain Sayida to Bayaa road in al-Bayaa neighbourhood five civilians on board the bus were killed a sixth was wounded. (Gor: location veriified this earlier story ...

Securing The Scene - Update

In "What will we talk about today you and I?" my colleague Mohammed Ibn Laith described the aftermath of the February bombing of Al Sadriya market from the standpoint of one of the rescuers. On April 19, 2007 Um Thalit highlighted a report of American soldiers opening fire yet again on ...