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Day of Joy Day of Grief — Reports From Irak July 26 2007

Suicide bombers attacked crowds of people in Baghdad celebrating Irak's soccer win. The six day American campaign of siege and raids on Husseiniyah (north Baghdad) has ended according to green zone government spokesmen. In Muqdadiya groups of armed men have threatened shopkeeper and traders warning them to stop ...


Incidents In Irak May 15th 2007 Summarised from Arabic

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 ...


This is an extremely offensive operation

There was a major coordinated attack in Baghdad last night. By early morning the toll as reported by the Al-Kandi, Ibn Al-Nafees, and Imam Ali hospitals was 69 killed, 160 injured. Seventeen hours later that toll is still going up. This baby was wounded during Thursday night's rocket attacks on ...


Carrying His Daughter Home

This child was wounded in a bomb explosion today Saturday August 12th 2006 when a bomb targeting a police patrol in Central Baghdad exploded. She was one of three civilians wounded none of the police were hurt. The man carrying her is her father - he's bringing her home from ...


No Room At the Hospital

What do you think of when you see a headline like this? Attacks, bombs kill 24 people across Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two bombs aimed at police patrols exploded Saturday in Baghdad as another spate of insurgent attacks killed at least 24 people countrywide on Saturday, while insurgent groups offered condolences for ...


Abdullah Yaseen Wept Alone

This is Abdullah Yaseen. He's five years old. (his name Abdullah means "Servant of God") he's waiting outside Baghdad's Ibn al-Nafees hospital to receive his father's body. His father, Yaseen Abd, was among the 13 people killed today Sunday, May 21, 2006 when a suicide bomber detonated his payload at ...



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