BAGHDAD, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- A total of three people were killed and some 24 others wounded in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Sunday, while mortar rounds struck Baghdad heavily fortified Green Zone, an Interior Ministry source said. A car bomb parked at a road in the suburb ...
خلاصة الاخبار News Summary أفادت مصادر أمنية أن11 شخصا قتلوا، واصيب 35 آخرون بجروح، فيما اعتقلت القوات الأمنية 109 مسلحا ومشتبه به، في إطار أعمال عنف وقعت في مناطق متفرقة من العراق، منذ مساء امس الثلاثاء حتى عصر اليوم الاربع 11 people have been killed. ...
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The United States has leaked what can only exist in the imagination of science fiction writers. It wants to turn its fortress in Baghdad called the Green Zone into a shiny, tourist village with a ‘dream list’ of attractions. This ‘science fiction’ mentality has been there in the minds of ...
English Summary: The GZG have announced in the green zone parliament that they intend reintroducing conscription. Commentary: This is an excellent idea. What Irak really needs is yet more badly trained, badly led, badly paid, and badly armed men running around the place. Sadly they haven't said when they ...
The lines between Sadr and the Iraqi government are now clearly marked, writes Nermeen Al-Mufti Baghdad marked the fifth anniversary of the onset of occupation with gloom, curfew and mortar fire. Turbulent events in Basra and the south were far from reassuring. Reports spoke of bloody clashes between government ...
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Shifting dynamics leave Sadrists the occupation's chief foe, reports Saad Abdel-Wahab from Baghdad The strife in Iraq has become not only Shia- Sunni, but Shia-Shia and Sunni-Sunni. The Shia parties are fighting for their personal interests, especially in Basra, to gain seats in the provincial elections due to be ...
They've been trying to get rid of him since 2004 why would they stop now? He's an uppity sand nigger and he needs to be introduced to force. Background: Excerpts from three of many postings on the violent relationship between Muqtada al-Sadr and the American invaders still ...
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Division has broken out also within tribes; many have now come to back Sadr, not because they like him, but because they hate the Badr militia of Hakeem's SIIC and Maliki's Dawa party. "Our problem in the southern parts of Iraq and other Shia dominated areas is ...
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This is to the Green Zone,' said Kabi. 'These are gifts to Maliki's government.' He and Abu Moussa al-Sadr both work for Iraq's Ministry of Interior, which runs the police and is viewed as infiltrated by the Mahdi army. They said many police officers had defected and were now ...
حث رئيس الوزراء السابق إبراهيم الجعفري الحكومة على الجلوس إلى طاولة الحوار مع التيار الصدري واحتضان زعيمه مقتدى الصدر الذي وصف تياره بالحريص على إرساء الأمن في البلاد. الجعفري يدعو الحكومة إلى الحوار مع التيار الصدري وإحتضان مقتدى الصدر وأعرب الجعفري خلال مشاركته ببرنامج "في صلب الموضوع" ...
