2007 Year In Review June 1st to June 29th
Note to Americans they don’t hate you for your freedoms they hate you for starving, maiming, and murdering their children.
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June 1, 2007
Summary:
- Despite a heavy American presence the curfews that the Americans and greenzone goverernment troops attempted to impose there has been renewed very heavy fighting between armed groups in Amiriyah, Baghdad.
- In a major escalation of the campaign to destroy key bridges throughout Irak bombers destroyed about half of the Sahra bridge over the the al-Adham river near Touz Kourmatu
- British forces will withdraw from their occupation of Irak by the end of this year.
- In the second such incident this week an armed group kidnapped today Saturday, three greenzone government soldiers from the Facilities Protection Service in an armed ambush south west of Kirkuk.
- Green zone government security during the past 48 hours, have seen 11 of their number killed, including one officer, and 15 others wounded, including one officer in combat missions in Baghdad.
Scenes From An Iraki Childhood - Diyala
- Mohammed Mahmoud Azzawi was 11-years-old. He was killed on Saturday, June 2, 2007 by a U.S airstrike this morning on the Al-mafraq district of central Baqubah. He was one of the 3 civilians killed. Five other civilians were wounded the Joint Coordination Center said. The lady mourning over his body is his grandmother.
- A mother kisses her son’s forehead in Baqubah hospital Saturday June 2nd 2007. The boy was one of five civilians wounded by a U.S airstrike this morning on the Al-mafraq district of central Baqubah.
- Two other children Karim Suhail Abedand, and Jassim Khalaf who were cousins were killed the photograph at the link shows there mothers mourning over there blanket wrapped corpses at Baqubah morgue.
June 3, 2007
June 4 2007
“It seems to me sometimes that even the memory of happiness is gone from my life. But today I was going through Firdous Square. I saw the photograph to the right being taken and stood and watched the children play in the waters of the fountain in front of the Mosque.
For a while today while I watched I remembered happiness and was happy.”
- Summary June 4 2007:
- 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 and buried in al-Wadi al-Jadid bringing the total of such funerals in al-Wadi al-Jadid since May 2006 to 2560.
- There is yet another operation being mounted to pacify al-Fadil in central Baghdad.
- 8 green zone government soldiers and 4 green zone government police have been wounded.
- Two civilians killed and the wounding of ten others in a bomb in Zafaraniyah. Two brothers shot dead in Zafaraniyah.
- Abdullah al-Aadhab the local leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq armed group and his deputy killed in a raid in Adhamiya northern Baghdad.
- In Kirkuk the city’s police force detained a gang of three members accused of abduction and murder and freed the gang’s hostages. One of the three gang members is a policeman
- In Basrah the “permanence” of the British “reforms” of the police was clearly demonstated by an announcement from the green zone government interior ministry that they were forming a new police regiment of 250 members to be recruited: “under the [procedural] controls in place at the Ministry of Interior.”
- A suicide truck bomber attacked the home of local police brigadier Brigadier Ali Attallah near Mosul wounded 11 people in the attack including two of the Brigadier’s nephews.
The founding conference for the Union of Muslim Scholars in Iraq, which was held in Baghdad under the title “Muslim scholars unity symbol for Iraqi people unity” and attended by more than 130 religious character, including Sunnis, Shiites and Kurdish leaders, agreed to leave the union membership open for all Iraqi scholars .
The so-called Islamic Army released a video of the two captured American soldiers. A speaker on the video said:
“Fearing the occupying army will continue its searches, harming our Muslim brothers … (the Islamic State in Iraq) decided to settle the matter and announced the news of their killing to cause bitterness to God’s enemies”
The American army of occupation said it is studying the video. I have uploaded three screengrabs from the video which you can see by clicking the links or the thumbnails in the list below. The files are large and may take time to load on a slow connection. They are sufficiently large to be able to clearly read the text in the documents which appear to me to be authentic.
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- Masked fighters standing in front of a chart.
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What appear to be Geneva Convention identification documents for the two captured soldiers. Click here or click the thumbnail to see full size.
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June 5, 2007
This is the nightmare for all of us. Some of the price paid by people who try to help:
I ran to the place happy that the police had found my son. However, when I got there, it wasn’t my son at all, but just the smelling remains of his body, his delicate face mutilated.
continued
“It’s hard to imagine the pain of losing one’s son. I was just a man who was happy to help his Iraqi brothers with food and clothing. And while I have paid the ultimate price, they blame me for being one of the people responsible for the violence taking place in our country, even though I am just trying to help. My son paid with his life for my humanitarian work, and unfortunately I have had to abandon many people desperate for help because I don’t want to lose my daughter now.”
This is why people are so careful about not revealing anything that could identify them. There is still no word of the fate of the kidnapped Red Crescent workers.
Haleema
I despise him root and branch. He exemplifies everything that’s gone disastrously wrong with the U.S.A and her armed services. If you want the perfect example of the callously criminal way in which the U.S government, armed forces, and yes her most of her people regard Irak and her people - oh yes sand niggers are people, didn’t you know? Major General William B. Caldwell IV is it. I talked a bit about him and his appreciaton of art on the old site:
- Iraq: Situation continues to worsen, local governorates overwhelmed - UNHCR | Iraq
- Irak’s Exodus Of Pain
June 5, 2007 Continued:
- The petroleum workers strike in Wasit is escalating.
- 33 unidentified bodies were found in Baghdad today. Thus, the total number unidentified corpses that were found in Baghdad since the start of June until now is 119 was found. Last month the month May 2007 were found a total of 750 unidentified bodies in Baghdad alone.
- The green zone government and parliament both talked tough.
- An American armoured patrol has been bombed in al Amil.
- Also in al Amil the American invaders raided the green zone government police station
- And the American AP news agency finally got around to noticing that the Americans are bombing Iraki civilians from the air again.
June 7, 2007
- Aswat Al Iraq Journalist Murdered In Mosul
- Voices of Iraq (VOI) correspondent Sahar Hussein al-Haydari was killed on Thursday afternoon in al-Hadbaa neighborhood in Mosul by unidentified gunmen.
- Minutes after they left their home, nearby bombings sent shrapnel flying at the family, injuring his three daughters Arsalan, 14, Suzan, 12 and Ban, 9.
Reports from Irak June 7 2007 Summarised From Arabic
Summary:
- 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 in Sadr City killed at least 5 and wounded at least 15.
- Also in Baghdad green zone government guards ran out of ammunition during an attack on their building in Bai’ia - they were rescued by residents who joined in the fighting and chased the attackers away.
- Yacoub Yousef’s body along with those of his 3 sons have been found - he was accountant in the port company in Basrah
- A child was wounded in crossfire between green zone government forces and gunmen who set up a fake checkpoint in Babil governorate. The body of an investigating magistrate has been found.
June 8, 2007
- Al Sadr’s Interview
- Qurnah Market Bombing:
Fatah Basha Mosque Destroyed In Second Bombing Attack
The bombing toll of the double bombing of the mosques and Husseiniyah in Kirkuk has risen to
five dead and 26 wounded45 casualties. 19 people are dead 26 wounded (Earlier reports gave lower casualties.) The bombings both targeted worshippers at Shiite mosques south of Kirkuk.Two police commanders killed a third wounded
Police commander’s family abducted
June 9, 2007
June 10, 2007
June 11, 2007
June 12, 2007
- The “Iraq Without Violence Network” have released their report on Monday on violence against civilians in Irak during the first five months of this year. The report makes for grim reading.
- IRAQ: NGO warns of rising rates of child labour
June 13, 2007
- Reports From Irak June 13 2007 Summarised From Arabic - Askariya Shrine Attack
- The Al-Askariya Shrine in Samarra one of the most sacred sites for Shiite Muslims in the world was bombed again today. The shrine had recently had responsibility for its protection transferred to special troops of the Ministry of The Interior. (Source: link to Arabic language report ) The shrine contains the tombs of the 10th Shi’ite Imam Ali l-Hadi (”the guided”) and his son Hassan al-Askari the 11th Shiite imam. The shrine is connected to the shrine of the 12th Shi’te Imam Mohammed al-Mahdi, known as the “hidden imam,” Many Shi’tes believe al-Mahdi will return as a saviour and for this reason you will often hear him referred to as Muhammad “al Muntazar” (”the awaited”). The shrine is considered by Shia Muslims to be one of the holiest places in the world and many make pilgrimages there. Like many places revered by the Shia it was severely damaged in the 1991 uprising and Saddam’s soldiers were frequently photogaphed posed in front of Mosques and Husseiniyahs exulting in the destruction and the humiliation felt by the populace. This coupled with the massive repression unleashed by Saddam in the south remains a source of lasting bitterness.
- Bridge Bombing Campaign Escalates Further - Updated with 3rd bombing
- Reports From Irak June 13 2007 Summarised From Arabic Part 2 Ztigon Bridge Bombing
- IRAQ: Mahmoud Rafid, Iraq, “I have to keep working despite being sexually abused”
June 14, 2007
June 15, 2007
- Five cities in Anbar still without electricity
- People fleeing violence in Iraq have begun to move into atrocious makeshift camps on the fringes of cities such as Najaf, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.
- Reports From Irak June 15 2007 Summarised From Arabic
There were two major developments in Irak today. We lead first with the sermon in Karbala by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s representative Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalaie. He made it clear that he had reliable information that the authorities new an attack was planned and denounced the complacency. He also raised the sovereignty issue and revealed that Karbala was also threatened. This is important because it follows up on the earlier statements made by the Grand Ayatollahs. It represents a major threat to the legitimacy of the Maliki regime.
There were many sermons on the bombings today including one in Najaf by the SCIRI leader and one in Kufa by Al-Sadr’s representative. We haven’t reported on those as they were entirely predictable in content.
The second major incident was the bombing of the tomb of Talha Ibn Ubaid Ilah, a companion of The Prophet (PBUH) whose tomb and shrine are in al-Zubair, this is a major place of pilgrimage for Sunni Muslims from all over the world. How much of a disaster for the Maliki “government” it is may be judged by following the link to the Aswat Al Iraq Arabic language report - it got more than 1000 hits by early in the day and was still rising a few minutes ago - beyond 1,400 nearly 24 hours after the event.
June 16, 2007
Bodies of Iraq tae kwondo squad found in desert
The bodies of the Iraqi junior tae kwon do team kidnapped May 17th 2006 on the old international highway between Haditha and Ramadi as they traveled for training in Jordan have been found.
A mother clutches a t-shirt of one of 13 members of an Iraqi tae kwon do team kidnapped last year in Anbar province, outside a hospital in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 16, 2007.
Relatives cry while holding pieces of clothing belonging to Iraqi martial arts experts outside a hospital morgue in Baghdad’s Sadr City June 16, 2007. The decomposed bodies of at least 13 martial arts experts have been found more than a year after they were kidnapped in an al Qaeda stronghold west of Baghdad, local officials and family members said on Saturday.
A relative cries while holding a piece of clothing belonging to an Iraqi martial arts expert outside a hospital morgue in Baghdad’s Sadr City June 16, 2007. The decomposed bodies of at least 13 martial arts experts have been found more than a year after they were kidnapped in an al Qaeda stronghold west of Baghdad, local officials and family members said on Saturday.
Iraqi boy cries during the funeral of 13 members of an Iraqi Tae Kwon Do team, kidnapped last year in Anbar province, in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 16, 2007. Members of the Anbar Salvation Council, a group of Sunni tribal leaders who have partnered with U.S. and Iraqi officials to fight al-Qaida influence in Anbar, found the 13 bodies Friday west of Ramadi, near the main highway leading to Jordan
Residents display pictures of Iraqi martial arts experts near their coffins during a funeral in Baghdad’s Sadr City June 16, 2007.
Relatives mourn by the coffin of one of of 13 members of an Iraqi tae kwon do team, kidnapped last year in Anbar province, in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 16, 2007.
From the archives:
“Courage” May 25, 2006
Young Iraqi athletes demonstrate in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, May 25, 2006 demanding the release of the 15-member Iraqi Taekwando team who were abducted a week ago whilst driving on their way to a training camp in Amman. Kidnappings of Iraqi citizens by both criminal gangs and political groups remains a major problem in the country.
Taekwondo Team Still Missing July 17, 2006
I blogged briefly about the demonstration held to protest the abduction of the national junior Taekwondo team back on May 25th. It’s hard to explain to people the tremendous courage showing up for that demonstration took. Look at the photo, these are kids, look at the determination on their faces. That’s courage.
and
January 2nd 2007 Early Evening News From Iraq Translated and Summarised from Arabic
Commentary:
We’ve been following this story. Oh Damn: I’d hoped against all expectation:
Dubhaltach
Report and commentary submitted by: — Dubhaltach
June 17, 2007
June 18, 2007
- IRAQ: Threats, violence in Baghdad threaten new wave of displaced
- I was cooking for him but he was already dead
- BAGHDAD, As Noor Muhammad, 36, was cooking dinner for her family in their Baghdad home two months ago, she heard her son scream from the living room. He had just seen his father dead on TV.
Reports From Irak June 18th 2007 Summarised From Arabic
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 in Fallujah.
- Fighting in Dhi Qar.(There is what WNA The Independent Iraki News Broadcasting Service describes as “lively” fighting in Dhi Qar.)
- Diyala is seeing major engagements.
- There is very heavy fighting in Basrah and Maysan.
- Nouri Al Maliki’s public mental meltdown continued in full cry.
- There are major political rows between the green zone government and the Sadrists in Wasit and with the Governorate council in Karbala.
- Not to be outdone the Saudis continue to have ill-disguised panic attacks about the violence in Irak spilling over and toppling them.
- 33 unidentified bodies have been recovered in Baghdad today 3 of them were women.
- Kirkuk has started to boil over and the Ztigon bridge bombing has drastically reduced the ability of green zone government forces to respond. as a result the bombing campaign against the power grid has been stepped up.
- Several major bombings in Baghdad.
- Reuters Alertnet has no less than 28 news reports out of Irak today.
- And Moldavia has sent 11* soldiers from an engineering unit to Irak help in the American
crusadetoresubjugatetheungratefulIrakisandniggerssurge.
June 19, 2007
Caught In A Whirlwind With Fire Baghdad June 19th 2007
O God! Pardon our living and our dead, the present and the absent, the young and the old, the males and the females.
Dead:
Zeynab Bint Hassan
Hassan Ibn Omar
Wounded:
Ali Ibn Laith
Fatima Bint Laith
Mohammed Ibn Laith
There will be no posting tonight.
Maryam
June 20, 2007
- Caught In A Whirlwind With Fire Baghdad June 20th 2007
- O God! Pardon our living and our dead, the present and the absent, the young and the old, the males and the females.
- There will be no posting today — funerals
- Khalil
June 21, 2007
- The coffin is for his mother who was killed in a bomb attack. He’s waiting for relatives to come back with her body. If you look at the coffin you can see that it’s been used before.
- I wish the officials taste the pains of the poor civilians. I wish they drink from the same glass of pain that we drink from everyday. I wish they live in fear just like we do. I wish them the worst and may God make my wishes true.
- Iraqi Labor Leaders Blame US for the Bloodshed in Iraq and say Get Out!
June 22, 2007
- With their colleagues dying in record numbers, Iraqi journalists face an unenviable choice — stay and risk becoming another statistic of unrelenting violence or leave and endure economic hardship and isolation abroad.
- Chilling stories from the Madhi Army
- Despite some tactical successes, U.S. voters are increasingly convinced that U.S. forces will be unable to restore stability in Iraq. As political disillusionment with the Iraq war gradually forces a troop drawdown, attention is turning to the likely consequences for Iraq and the region of a reduced U.S. military presence after 2009.
- Thanks to U.S. invasion, the Tigris River has turned into a cemetery of floating bodies. The murderous militias and death squads – which the invaders brought with them and nurtured – see the depths of the Tigris as a perfect place to hide their sectarian killings of innocent Iraqis by dumping the bodies of their victims there.
June 23, 2007
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Al Kauther carries a brief report on Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) announcement that their programme in Jordan can now take 100 cases a month.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) left Iraq in November 2004 as targeted attacks on international aid organisations meant it was no longer possible to work directly in Irak, they now supply desperately needed medicines to hospitals in Irak and work with the Jordanian Red Crescent in providing medical care to victims of attacks . There they treat patients such as 8 year old Ahmed:
- Bombing of shrines…early war in Anbar?
- 138
June 25, 2007
- Al Mansour hotel bombed as Sheikhs from Anbar are holding a meeting inside.
- Reports From Irak June 25th 2007
A massive bomb detonated by a suicide bomber in the heavily guarded Al Mansour hotel in Al Kharkh (Western side of the river). Killed 12 people and left scores injured. The hotel is very heavily guarded and has stringent security precautions. The force of the blast was such that rescuers found 5 bodies “caked to their seats” according to Nahrain.com’s report.
Major General Ali Hamid, member of the leadership of joint operations who works in the Office of the Adjutant General of the green zone government armed forces was among the wounded he is described as having been seriously lacerated. The security guards of the hotel, among them members of the police have been arrested.
“The names of (five) tribal chiefs who were killed in the blast are: Sheikh Fesal al-Kaaood, one of al-Bounamr tribe’s sheikhs, Sheikh Tareq al-Essafi of al-Bouasaf tribe, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Fahdawi of al-Bofahd, Sheikh Hussein al-Shaalan al-Khezaai of Khuzaa tribe and Sheikh Aziz al-Yaseri of al-Bouyasser tribe,” a police source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
“A number of tribal chiefs were wounded in the attack, including Sheikh Ali Khaliefa, Sheikh Ryah al-Elwani and Sheikh Daham al-Ubeidi,” the source added. A police source said earlier that the death toll from the suicide bomb attack had risen to 12 dead, including six tribal chiefs.
The official al-Iraqi satellite television also said that Poet Rahim al-Maliki, a program producer and presenter for the TV channel, was among them.
“The bomber was wearing an explosive belt and blew himself up inside a hall where leaders of clans from the Sunni province of Anbar were meeting,” a police source said. A spokesman for the U.S. army said that “preliminary reports assert the killing of six tribal chiefs.”
Sources various including: Aswat Aliraq (English) and the Arabic report here Following the Mansour Hotel bombing armed clashes took place between Sunni militias and tribesmen. Green zone government Ministry of the Interior officials are making contacts with a number of tribal leaders to urge them to take control of the situation to prevent the clashes becoming tribal feuds. In a related story Al Melaf point out that the American initiative of arming tribesmen is unconstitutional.
Sheikh Dulaimi a leader of the powerful tribe in Al-Anbar said in an interview that there are differences between various Sunni forces. Dulaimi said in an interview to journalists after the explosion, that differences occurred recently between Sunni forces and that these had reached the level of fighting, and assassination operations, including the recent operation. Dulaimi refused to divulge the name of these forces. [Readers will recall the recent operation in Baghdad involving fighters allied with the Americans and that their leader said he had infiltrated what he described as “plain clothes agents” to carry out targeted assassinations. Note to American readers — failed attempts at “divide and rule” lead to something called “blowback” the Dulaimi’s are a very large and powerful tribe they also have a well earned reputation for being warlike. Once they find who ordered the actual bombing they are likely to vent their displeasure on the root cause of the feud arising.]
- Well it’s like this. Football supporters, the ones who buy tickets and turn up for matches, in Irak tend to be young and poor, quite a lot of them wear black when they’re not wearing a football shirt and jeans — and they’re expecting trouble. (See remarks about recruiting sergeants.)
- Don’t Ever Do That To Us Again
- 13129
13129 malformed children have been born in Iraq in the last five years. Their deformities have been caused by American Depleted Uranium munitions used in the American led 1991 “Desert Storm” war with Irak launched after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. The war saw heavy use of depleted uranium rounds by American and British forces and was followed by a punitive sanctions regime enforced by the United Nations primarily at America’s behest. The sanctions included preventing Irak from importing drugs for the treatment of cancers and birth defects. The current war on Irak was launched on the pretext that Irak was failing to comply with sanctions and had weapons of mass destruction.
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.
–60 Minutes (5/12/96)
Source: “We Think the Price Is Worth It”
Does “peace” mean that your aunt does not weep as she talks of how the young couples she serves ask her after the X-Ray
Well is it a child or is it a monster?
And how she curses the Americans who littered our land with Uranium munitions and then denied us the cancer drugs. Because we needed to be,
contained.
We sand niggers who had been abandoned to the tyrant you had supported for years needed to be,
contained.
Source: Gorilla’s Guides » Blog Archive » What will we talk about today you and I?
According to the green zone government Ministry of Health the numbers of maimed children born with defects in Irak after the United States used over 940 thousand depleted uranium rounds in the war with Iraq in 1991 in the last 5 years is 13129.
The report from Al Melaf gives the statistics from a Ministry of Health briefing on the number of children born with birth defects since 2001 as 13129 in total.
The number of deformed children born last year was more than 1919.
Ninewa (Nineveh) province, has the highest number of children born maimed as 411.
Baghdad is next with 372 children born distorted.
Basra has seen the birth of 300 distorted children .
Between 30 to 40 children per month are born with defects attributed to their mothers inhalation of radioactive dust from depleted uranium rounds. The American army used depleted uranium during the last war and this was confirmed by a German team who visited Irak recently and were able to obtain a missile which proved after checking that the American forces used depleted uranium.
Editor’s note:
The full text of the report from Al Melaf contains interviews with parents and accounts their children’s deaths. I haven’t had the time to translate them. They can be found here.
Readers will recall that Albright was Secretary of State (Foreign Minister) under President Clinton. They may also recall that current American Senator and presidential candidate Senator Hilary Clinton was a willing participant in the Clinton “two for the price of one.” electioneering which helped bring her husband to the White House.
I have been unable to find any expression of concern by Senator Clinton either for the fate of the children affected by DU or the sanctions regime which denied cancer and other drugs to treat those children or even any expression of concern about the health of American soldiers in that war affected by DU dust. I did however find plenty of coverage of her remarks about how she would not withdraw American troops from Irak.
Senator Clinton’s campaign recently launched an campaign advertisement in which her concern for ex-President Clinton’s health was highlighted.
A video report Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq on this topic can be viewed below the link will open in a new window. The report lasts 1 hr 15 min 4 sec the film was made before America launched the current war on Irak.
Note to Americans they don’t hate you for your freedoms they hate you for starving, maiming, and murdering their children.
markfromireland
June 26, 2007
Reports From Irak June 25th 2007 UPDATE Reports From Irak June 25th 2007 UPDATE 2
You get absolutely no prizes for guessing which “foreign intelligence bodies” Sheikh Dulaimi was talking about. Hint for the hard of comprehension they don’t speak this language or this one. Anger in Anbar following the slaughter of tribal chiefs
June 27, 2007
- Reports From Irak June 27 2007
The campaign of bombings of sites of major religious significance continued with the bombing in Kadhimiya in Baghdad.
The bridge bombing campaign in Baghdad continued with a suicide attack on one of the checkpoints at Jadriya bridge this evening that killed one policeman, wounded three others, and damaged the bridge.
June 28, 2007
June 29, 2007
- Al-Sadr cancels march to Samarra Reports From Irak June 29th 2007
- The public criticism of the Maliki regime’s performance by the religious establishment continued unabated — Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s representative warned during his Friday sermon in Karbala that leaving Irak’s borders open to weapons smuggling would undo any progress in the security situation. During the sermon he also wondered what had happened to all the money allegedly spent on the armed forces saying:
