Today's reports are from various Arabic sources and some English reports from Aswat Al Iraq and Al Zaman. Oil Law Ratified Sent For Debate The green zone government cabinet has endorsed the oil law and is sending it to parliament. The Oil Ministry said last month that an agreement had ...
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Updated — see "Late Reports" underneath this section. - Khaled
There are several major incidents in Baghdad today. Bai'aa Bus Pickup Point Bombing The rush hour (8:30 am) car bomb explosion in the crowded parking lot in the Bai'aa bus pickup point in south Baghdad is so far known to ...
Summary: There are confirmed outbreaks of rabies in Both Basrah and Wasit governorates. 6 green zone government soldiers were killed, 16 wounded and six armoured transports set in flames in clashes that went on for 5 hours near Khalis — the soldiers were part of a relief column. Three major bombings ...
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Green zone government prime minister Maliki tried to shore up te Diwaniyah peace agreement yesterday.
Aswat Al Iraq's correspondent in Mosul has been murdered.
University lecturers in Karbala University are to be assigned bodyguards and given weapons permits to protect themselve.
7 university students all of the Obeidis were kidnapped near Khalis.
Two bombings ...
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The political war of words between Turkey and the Kurds continued to heat up today.
Iraki Muslim scholars held a conference at which they founded an organisation to promote Muslim and Iraki unity.
Twenty eight bodies were discovered in Baghdad.
76 unidentified and unclaimed bodies were buried brought from a morgue in Baghdad ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz, 33, and soundman Laith Yousuf Saif, 26, were killed by unknown assailants who ambushed there car as they were returning home from work at the ABC News Baghdad bureau yesterday afternoon. The ambush took place in Saydia. Aziz is survived by his wife, two daughters and ...
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Railway workers in Kirkuk Basrah and Samawwah are holding protests and strikes to demand that the green zone gone government honour its pay commitments, reactivate some services, roll back the "self financing" imposed by the American invaders, and provide protection. The strike in the ...
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The electricity ministry is planning to install diesel generators in Baghdad - technical teams and engineers are currently undertaking maintenance work in many of Baghdad's districts to repair electricity lines and supply electricity to all districts, particularly to Al-Karkh. Four weeks ago the ministry conducted a test in Baghdad al-Jadidah's al-Mualimeen district ...
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