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By Patrick Cockburn A powerful member of the Iraqi parliament that is loyal to the anti-American Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was killed in a carefully planned assassination in Baghdad yesterday. A bomb hidden in a hole in the road exploded as a convoy carrying Salehal-Auqaeili and other lawmakers went past an Iraqi army checkpoint near Sadr City. It is probable that the killing was carried out by the Badr Organisation, the armed wing of the other large Shia party, the Iraqi Supreme Council...
Text of report by Iraqi Media Network weekly newspaper Al-Sabah on 12 August ["The Health Ministry closes two pharmacies in A-Sadr city and seizes their medicines. Dozens of fake pharmacies detected," Al- Sabah headline] The Health Ministry's Department for Private Sector Institutions [DPSI], affiliated with the ministry's inspector general, closed two fake pharmacies in Al-Sadr city and seized large amounts of medicines yesterday [ 11 August]. The step comes in response to the ministry's...
By Patrick Cockburn Barack Obama arrives in Iraq just as the political situation there is turning in his favour. The Iraqi government is for the first time asking for a timetable for a military withdrawal of United States forces. This is in keeping with the Democratic presidential nominee's plan for a pull-out of American combat troops over 16 months and makes the strategy of his Republican rival, John McCain, to retain US troops in Iraq until all America's opponents are vanquished, look...
By From news reports A truck bomb detonated Sunday by remote control north of Baghdad killed six police officers and a member of a local group of Sunni volunteers who have turned against the insurgents, the police said. The truck was parked on a road in Duluiya, 75 kilometers, or 45 miles, north of Baghdad, and exploded as the police began to search it, Mohammed Khalid, said a senior police official. In other violence, the head of the intelligence services in Basra was killed Saturday...
By HANNAH ALLAM By Hannah Allam McClatchy News Service BAGHDAD A bomb hidden in a meeting room killed two U.S. soldiers and two American government employees Tuesday at a local council office in the Baghdad district of Sadr City, according to the U.S. military. U.S. authorities said an Italian working for the Defense Department also was killed in the blast. Iraqi authorities said six Iraqis also died, bringing the total death toll to at least 11. An American soldier and 10 Iraqis were...
By Alissa J. Rubin An explosion apparently caused by a bomb in a district council building in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad killed two American soldiers, at least six Iraqis and two civilians working for the U.S. military on Tuesday, the American command said. Iraqi council members who were at the scene of the attack described the civilians as American. The U.S. military said a suspect in the apparent bombing had been detained. Sadr City is the most populous Shiite district of...
BAGHDAD _ A bomb hidden in a meeting room killed two U.S. soldiers and two American government employees Tuesday at a local council office in the Baghdad district of Sadr City, according to the U.S. military. An Italian working for the Defense Department and six Iraqis also died in the blast, bringing the total death toll to at least 11, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said. An American soldier and 10 Iraqis were wounded, including three Iraqi council members. The blast ripped through the...
U.S. officials said two U.S. soldiers and a pair of embassy employees were among six people killed Tuesday from a bomb blast in Baghdad's Sadr City area. Another coalition soldier and three members of a local district council were injured in the explosion that targeted a municipal building in the Sadr City slum. Officials said a suspect in the blast was apprehended fleeing the scene, CNN reported. Sadr City is a stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr and the scene of some of the...
BAGHDAD _ Iraqi security forces met little resistance Thursday on Day 1 of the government's crackdown in the southern city of Amarah as they sought to disarm gunmen loyal to the militant Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Iraqi defense officials said there were no casualties or gun battles as military and national police units easily spread through northern Amarah, a mostly Shiite oil and agricultural city that borders Iran and for decades has served as a smuggling hub. The Iraqi...
By ROBERT H REID By Robert H. Reid The Associated Press BAGHDAD A car bomb ripped through a busy commercial street in a Shiite area of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 51 people and wounding scores more in the deadliest blast in the capital in more than three months. Many victims were trapped in their apartments by a raging fire that engulfed at least one building, according to police and Interior Ministry officials, who also said about 75 people were wounded. Stunned survivors...
