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The usual kidnapping style is for armed militants to drive up with their faces covered to the victim’s house, office or shop, or sometimes corner him on the street. The victim is overpowered, and dumped into the boot. The kidnappers then demand ransom, usually making video films of the victim.

BAQUBA, Aug 29 (IPS) - […]

Posted on August 30th, 2008 under Features, Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Baquba, Death Squads, Diyala, Features, IPS, IPS Reports, Kidnappings, Militias. Comments: None

A U.S. army soldier from Fox Troop, Sabre Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, sets a mud hut on fire in a deserted village on the outskirts of Balad Ruz, in Diyala province, some 75 kilometers ( 46.6 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008. Soldiers from Fox Troop burned down a deserted village […]

Posted on August 10th, 2008 under Analysis Briefings Commentary, Iraq, Photos. Tags: "War on terror", American election, American War Crimes, Balad Roz, Death Squads, Diyala, Diyala "surges", Editorials, Orphans, Photos, Refugees, Vietnam, Water, Widows. Comments: 1

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أفادت مصادر عراقية وأمريكية أن ثمانية أشخاص قتلوا بينهم جنديان أمريكيان وأصيب (61) بجروح في أعمال عنف وقعت بمناطق متفرقة من العراق، منذ ظهر (الثلاثاء) وحتى قبيل منتصف الليل. فيما اعتقلت القوات الأمنية (29) شخصا،   لترتفع بذلك حصيلة العنف إلى (16) قتيلا و(71) جريحا و(40) معتقلا، خلال الساعات الماضية في عموم البلاد.

16 people […]

Posted on June 24th, 2008 under Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Amarah, American air attacks on civilian areas, American attacks on civilians, American War Crimes, Assasinations of Sadrist leaders, Assassinations, Attacks on American Invaders, Bab Sinjar, Barzani, Basrah, Civilian casualties, Daily Summary, Dawa Party, Death Squads, Detention without trial, Disputed Areas, Diwaniyah, Diyala, Elections (Governorates), Electricity Crisis (Irak), Hamrin Mountains, Journalists Attacked, Karbala, Kidnappings, Kirkuk, Kut, Kut al-Nasr, Mahdi Army Standdown, Maysan (Governorate), MKO, Monafiqeen-e-Khalq (MKO), Mosul, Ninawa (Governorate), Resistance to America's stealing oil "law", Rusafa, Sadr City, Salah ad Din (Governorate), Solman Bek, Tikrit, Wasit. Comments: None

 
The leaked manual*, which has been verified with military sources, is the official US Special Forces doctrine for Foreign Internal Defense or FID.
FID operations are designed to prop up “friendly” governments facing popular revolution or guerilla insurgency. FID interventions are often covert or quasi-covert due to the unpopular nature of the governments being […]

Posted on June 21st, 2008 under Features, Human Rights, Iraq. Tags: "War on terror", American War Crimes, Death Squads, El Salvador, Human Rights, Iraq. Comments: None

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أفادت مصادر امنية، ان سبعة مدنيين قتلوا، واصيب آخر بجروح، فيما اعتقلت القوات الامنية عشرة اشخاص في اطار اعمال عنف وقعت في مناطق متفرقة من العراق، منذ الساعة الثانية ظهرا وحتى الساعة التاسعة من مساء اليوم الخميس، لترتفع بذلك حصيلة اعمال العنف الى تسعة قتلى وجرح مدني واحد، فضلا عن اعتقال 67 شخصا، خلال […]

Posted on June 19th, 2008 under Children, Early Warning, Health, Human Rights, Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Adnan al-Silawi, Amarah, American War Criminals (Dick Cheney), American War Criminals (G.W. Bush), Assassinations, Babil (Governorate), Death Penalty, Death Squads, drugs, Follow Up, GZG/American targeting of Sadrists, Hilla, JFO, Jordan, Journalists Attacked, Karbala, Kut, Mahdi Army Standdown, Maysan (Governorate), Measles, Mosul, Ninawa (Governorate), Rafea Abdul-Jabbar, Sadrist Bloc, Sadrist leaders - detention campaign by GZG/Badr, Wasit. Comments: None

بعقوبة - ، د ب أ - أفادت مصادر أمنية وطبية وشهود عيان أن سبعة أشخاص قتلوا اليوم وجرح ستة آخرون في سلسلة اعمال عنف متفرقة في عدد من مناطق مدينة بعقوبة (60 كم شمال شرقي بغداد).

Al Quds are reporting security, medical sources, and eyewitnesses as saying that seven people were killed today and six […]

Posted on June 16th, 2008 under Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Attacks on Awakening council fighers, Attacks on medical and humanitarian workers, Awakening Councils, Baquba, Baqubah, Buhriz, Child Killing, Death Squads, Diyala, Diyālā - University, Ethnic Cleansing. Comments: None

I take any job I can. We need the money.  I sometimes start at six in the morning and do not get back home until eight or nine at night. I have worked as a labourer, selling chai, cleaning shoes. We come from Ramadi, and I used to go to school there. I would like […]

Posted on June 16th, 2008 under Children, Human Rights, Iraq, Middle East, Society And Economy, War Crimes, Women and Children. Tags: Al Anbar (Governorate), Amnesty International, Baghdad, Child Exploitation, Child Poverty, Child Prostitution, Damascus, Death Squads, Deportations of refugees, Ethnic Cleansing, EU, Ghazaliyah, Hit, IDPs (Internal Refugees), Iraq, Jihad (District), Jordan, Khadra, Mahdi Army, Prostitution, Ramadi, Red Crescent/Red Cross, Refugees, Sweden, Syria, Women and Children. Comments: 1

Tens of thousands of detained Iraqis have never been found on any U.S. military records. Their families still do not know whether they are dead or alive.

“All Iraqi poetry under occupation is now about death and separation.”

IRAQ: The Love Stories Are Gone By Ali al-Fadhily. by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail. Ahmed Ali, is […]

Posted on June 14th, 2008 under Features, Iraq. Tags: Baghdad, Children, Civilian casualties, Death Squads, Egypt, Fallujah, IPS, IPS Reports, Jordan, Samarra, Widows. Comments: None

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الصدر ينوي تشكيل خلايا لمقاومة القوات الاجنبية
اعلن زعيم التيار الصدري السيد مقتدى الصدر اليوم الجمعة عن نيته بتشكيل خلايا لمقاومة الاحتلال. وقال رئيس المكتب السياسي للتيار الصدري لواء سميسم في تصريح صحفي ان “اعلان السيد مقتدى الصدر بتشكيل خلايا لمقاومة الاحتلال هي تأكيد لمبدأ المقاومة الذي ينتهجه اتباع الخط الصدري وتأكيد […]

Posted on June 13th, 2008 under Iraq, Middle East, Politics and Security, Religion, Society And Economy. Tags: al-Alawi (district), al-Madaiin, al-Muhandisin, al-Sukr, al-Zeraaei, alcohol, alcohol - ban on, Amarah, American attempts to get permanent bases, Arbil (Erbil), Article 140, Attacks on green zone government forces, Babil (Governorate), Baghdad, Barzani, Basrah, Bombings, Car bomb, Civilian casualties, Corpse Findings, Daily Summary, De Mistura, Death Squads, Dhi Qar (Governorate), drugs, Erdogan, Grand Ayatollah Sistani, GZG forces, Hilla, Iraq, Islam, Jaish al-Mahdi, Jaish al-Mahdi temporary ceasefire, KRG, Kurdish language, Mahdi Army, Mahdi Army Standdown, Maysan (Governorate), Mercenaries, Mercenaries - attacks on, Mosul, Mosul "surge", Muqtada al-Sadr, Najaf, Ninawa (Governorate), Sadrist Bloc, Salah al-Obaidi, Sermon Reports, shariah, Sheikh Liwa Sumaysim, Turkey, Turkish Kurds, Wasit. Comments: None