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}); } } </script> <iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133if_/http://www.blogger.com/navbar.g?targetBlogID=28865322&blogName=News+About+Iraq&publishMode=PUBLISH_MODE_BLOGSPOT&navbarType=BLUE&layoutType=CLASSIC&searchRoot=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsaboutiraq.blogspot.com%2Fsearch&blogLocale=en_US&homepageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsaboutiraq.blogspot.com%2F" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" height="30px" width="100%" id="navbar-iframe" allowtransparency="true" title="Blogger Navigation and Search"></iframe> <div></div>  <div id="content">  <div id="header"><div> <h1 id="blog-title"> News About Iraq </h1> This is a blog dedicated to reporting on what is happening in Iraq and related news stories. </div></div>  <div id="main"><div id="main2"><div id="main3"> <h2 class="date-header">Friday, March 30, 2007</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="2136364069629492830"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> This Blog is Moving </h3> <div class="post-body"> Until recently, I posted one day a week on Today in Iraq blog. That blog is closed, and I have decided to post daily posts on a new blog <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/">IRAQ TODAY</a>. I hope this blog is successful and keeps up the tradition of Today In Iraq blog. </div> posted by dancewater @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://newsaboutiraq.blogspot.com/2007/03/this-blog-is-moving.html" title="permanent link">6:25 PM</a>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28865322&postID=2136364069629492830" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28865322&postID=2136364069629492830;">0 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://newsaboutiraq.blogspot.com/2007/03/this-blog-is-moving.html#links">links to this post</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=28865322&postID=2136364069629492830" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28865322&postID=2136364069629492830" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a> </div>     <div class="post"><a name="1900809065882346435"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Video From Hometown Baghdad </h3> <div class="post-body"> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133oe_/http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="400" height="320" align="middle">&l;tx<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"/><param name="movie" value="http://images.salon.com/ent/video_dog/VideoDogPlayer.swf"/><param name="FlashVars" value="video_loc=http://salonmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o1/media/video_dog/symphony.flv&jpg_loc=http://images.salon.com/ent/video_dog/hometown_baghdad/2007/03/29/episode_7/story.jpg&mail_loc=http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/hometown_baghdad/2007/03/29/episode_7/email.html&seeksecs=&ad_loc="/><param name="quality" value="high"/><param name="bgcolor" value="#101040"/><embed src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133oe_/http://images.salon.com/ent/video_dog/VideoDogPlayer.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#101040" width="400" height="320" name="VideoDogPlayer" flashvars="video_loc=http://salonmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o1/media/video_dog/symphony.flv&jpg_loc=http://images.salon.com/ent/video_dog/hometown_baghdad/2007/03/29/episode_7/story.jpg&mail_loc=http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/hometown_baghdad/2007/03/29/episode_7/email.html&seeksecs=&ad_loc=" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/></object> </div> posted by dancewater @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://newsaboutiraq.blogspot.com/2007/03/video-from-hometown-baghdad.html" title="permanent link">12:33 AM</a>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28865322&postID=1900809065882346435" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28865322&postID=1900809065882346435;">0 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://newsaboutiraq.blogspot.com/2007/03/video-from-hometown-baghdad.html#links">links to this post</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=28865322&postID=1900809065882346435" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28865322&postID=1900809065882346435" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Thursday, March 29, 2007</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="252014799874174728"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Security Incidents for 03/29/07 </h3> <div class="post-body"> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-mu6dW4praY/RgyPfzNJ1DI/AAAAAAAAAsA/dqNQGI4666Y/s1600-h/032907+iraq.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-mu6dW4praY/RgyPfzNJ1DI/AAAAAAAAAsA/dqNQGI4666Y/s320/032907+iraq.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047567058859578418" border="0"/></a>PHOTO: A skull is painted on the helmet of an Iraqi army soldier patrolling in the Sunni Muslim stronghold of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>'s <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Haifa street</st1:address></st1:street>. The US Senate tied <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> war funding to a timetable for withdrawing US troops, on Thursday setting the stage for a bitter fight with President George W. Bush.(AFP/Patrick Baz) <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Security Incidents for March 29, 2007 <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40729&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Diala- At least 43 people were killed and 86 more were wounded on Thursday when four car bombs went off in Khalis district, Diala province, 57 km northeast of Baghdad, a police source said. Baghdad- At least 72 people, including women and children, were killed and 100 others wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body at a popular market in eastern <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, a police source said. [Other reports give a much higher death toll. – dancewater]<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40729&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Baghdad- Unknown gunmen attacked a <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> vehicle convoy on Thursday in southwestern <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, setting a vehicle ablaze, an eyewitness said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40729&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0"><st1:city st="on">Baghdad-</st1:city> Eight civilians were killed and 32 others were wounded when three booby-trapped cars went off early Thursday in different parts of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, a police source said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40729&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Baghdad- A Katyusha rocket landed, on Thursday morning, near the joint security center currently under construction in Sadr city in eastern <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, an eyewitness said. <st1:city st="on">Basra-</st1:city> British forces arrested on Thursday two suspected gunmen during a security crackdown north of <st1:city st="on">Basra</st1:city>, 550 km south of <st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city>, the spokeswoman for the Multi-National forces in southern <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40729&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Basra- A British patrol was attacked on Thursday by light arms near the Iranian consulate in <st1:city st="on">Basra</st1:city>, 550 south of <st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city>, the spokeswoman for the Multi-National forces in southern <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40729&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Mosul- A senior figure in the armed group al-Qaeda in <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> was captured by Iraqi army forces in the city of <st1:city st="on">Mosul</st1:city>, 402 km, north of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, a well-informed source in Ninewa province said on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40729&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Mosul- U.S. forces killed a man and three of his sons and arrested two others late Wednesday in eastern Mosul, 402 km north of Baghdad, a source from Ninewa police department said on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40729&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Mosul- A policeman was killed on Thursday by unidentified gunmen east of <st1:city st="on">Mosul</st1:city>, 402 km north of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, a source from Ninewa police department said.</a>  <o:p></o:p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm">Baghdad – A car bomb targets a Police Patrol in Hay Al-Amil, west <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>. The booby-trapped car was left on the side road with a dead body inside it as bait. It exploded as the policemen drew near to inspect it, killing 2 policemen and wounding 6.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm">Baghdad – An IED explodes in the market place in Al-Beyaa’, west Baghdad, Road 20. It is a central market place frequented mostly by women and families. 3 civilians were killed and 20 injured, some of whom were women and children.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm">Baghdad – Al-Jaza’ir Police Station in Al-Qanat Area , east Baghdad is targeted with mortar missiles that fall short, hitting a relatively empty area behind it wounding 4 civilians.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> – A mortar shell landed in Al Zawra park causing injuries to one civilian.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> – A mortar shell landed in Al Harthiya area causing injuries to one civilian.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm"><st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city> – Gunmen abducted Dr. Ridha Al Quraishi the dean assistant of the Management and <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Economy</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place> in Al Talbiya are after he left the college.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> – A road side bomb exploded in Yarmouk neighborhood. No casualties reported.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> – Gunmen killed optician doctor Kareem Najim Al Daini in Mahmoudiya town.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> – Drive by shooting targeted residents of Al Shabab neighborhood. 1 was killed and 3 were injured.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> – Suicide car bomb targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint in Al Jamiaa neighborhood. 3 soldiers were killed and 16 were injured.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm"><st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city> – Police found 25 corpses in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>. The bodies were found in the following neighborhoods: 2 corpses in Ameriya, 2 in Jamiaa, 2 in Ghazaliya, 2 in Hurriya, 1 in Mansour, 2 in Shuala, 2 in Adhamiya, 1 in Etafiya, 1 in Ealam, 7 in Doura, 1 in New Baghdad and 2 in Kadhimiya.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm">Mahmoudiya – A mortar round landed in Mahmoudiya. 5 civilians were injured.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm">Mahmoudiya - A car on the side of the road explodes near Al-Mahmoudiya Hospital, in a crowded market place in Mahmoudiya City, to the south of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>. 4 were killed and 20 wounded, all civilians.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm">Diyala - Around 4:00 p.m. Three car bombs exploded in Al Khalis city (20 Km north of Baqouba). The first suicide car targeted a joint Iraqi plice and army patrol in central the city, few minutes later a parked car exploded in the city’s crowded bus station and the third suicide ambulance car targeted a police patrol. Mortar shells landed in the first attack site and after the three attacks gunmen attacked different sites in the area. Two road side bombs detonated on the road leading to the hospital in the city. The attacks claimed the lives of 47 and injured 91. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm">Tikrit - Gunmen abducted three police officers on the main road between Samara and Al Dour. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16995095.htm">Beiji - Police found a policeman’s dead body in Beiji today. The policeman was kidnapped by gunmen two days ago from the same city.</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm">BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed three people and wounded 16 in Jamiaa in western Baghdad, a police source said, adding that the bomb targeted an army patrol.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><o:p> </o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><st1:city st="on">BAGHDAD</st1:city> - A senior academic at <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>'s Mustansiriya university named Rida Qureishi was kidnapped, a police source said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><o:p> </o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm">BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed four policemen and one civilian and wounded nine more police in Jihad in southwest Baghdad, the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military said. Police were checking a suspicious vehicle when it exploded.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><o:p> </o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm">MAHMUDIYA - Two mortar bombs landed in a residential district of Mahmudiya, killing two people and wounding seven, police said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><o:p> </o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><st1:city st="on">MOSUL</st1:city> - Gunmen killed Nawaf al-Hadidi, imam of a mosque in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Mosul</st1:place></st1:city>, in a drive-by shooting on Wednesday, police said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><o:p> </o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm">BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol wounded three soldiers in the western Ghazaliya district of Baghdad, a Reuters witness said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><o:p> </o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm">BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked the motorcade of the head of traffic police, Jaafar al-Khafaji, in northern <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, killing two traffic policemen and wounding two others, police said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><o:p> </o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><st1:city st="on">BAGHDAD</st1:city> - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed a soldier and wounded three others on Wednesday near al-Shurta tunnel in western <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, police said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><o:p> </o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm">DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed a policeman near his house in the southern city of Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, police said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm"><o:p> </o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm">DIWANIYA - The body of a young man was found shot in Diwaniya, police said. He was kidnapped on Wednesday.</a> <o:p></o:p> </div> posted by dancewater @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://newsaboutiraq.blogspot.com/2007/03/security-incidents-for-032907.html" title="permanent link">11:17 PM</a>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28865322&postID=252014799874174728" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28865322&postID=252014799874174728;">0 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://newsaboutiraq.blogspot.com/2007/03/security-incidents-for-032907.html#links">links to this post</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=28865322&postID=252014799874174728" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28865322&postID=252014799874174728" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a> </div>     <div class="post"><a name="3804210039490625"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> News & Views 03/29/07 </h3> <div class="post-body"> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-mu6dW4praY/RgyQFjNJ1EI/AAAAAAAAAsI/rPHcu-LFs08/s1600-h/032907+irag+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-mu6dW4praY/RgyQFjNJ1EI/AAAAAAAAAsI/rPHcu-LFs08/s320/032907+irag+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047567707399640130" border="0"/></a>PHOTO: A man shouts during a protest of refugees from the town Tal Afar in the northwest of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, in Najaf, Thursday, March 29, 2007. Refugees protested recent sectarian violence in Tal Afar, a day after Shiite militants and police went on a shooting rampage against Sunnis in the city, killing as many as 70 men execution-style. The killings were triggered by twin truck bombings there the previous day that killed 80 people and wounded 185. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p>REPORTS – LIFE IN <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">IRAQ</st1:place></st1:country-region><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"> </st1:place></st1:country-region> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070329/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070329185432;_ylt=AoM_jhAQ5pkjPVColAcHDZJX6GMA">Shi’ite Market Bombings Kill at Least 122</a><o:p></o:p> Five suicide bombers struck Shiite marketplaces in northeast <st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city> and a town north of the capital at nightfall Thursday, killing at least 122 people and wounding more than 150 in one of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s deadliest days in years. At least 178 people were killed or found dead Thursday, which marked the end of the seventh week of the latest U.S.-Iraqi military drive to curtail violence in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> and surrounding regions. The suicide bombers hit markets in the Shiite town of <st1:city st="on">Khalis</st1:city> and the Shaab neighborhood in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> during the busiest time of the day, timing that has become a trademark of what are believed to be Sunni insurgent or al-Qaida suicide attackers. Three suicide vehicle bombs, including an explosives-packed ambulance, detonated in a market in Khalis, 50 miles north of the capital, which was especially crowded because government flour rations had just arrived for the first time in six months, local television stations reported. At least 43 people were killed and 86 wounded, police said. In the north Baghdad bombings, two suicide attackers wearing explosives vests blew themselves up in the Shalal market in the predominantly Shiite Shaab neighborhood. At least 79 people were killed and 81 wounded as they jammed the market to buy provisions on the eve of the Muslim day of rest and prayer.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2989702">Dozens Killed in Revenge Attack in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region></a><o:p></o:p> Shiite militants and police enraged by deadly truck bombings went on a shooting rampage against Sunnis in a northwestern Iraqi city Wednesday, killing as many as 70 men execution-style and prompting fears that sectarian violence was spreading outside the capital. The killings occurred in the mixed Shiite-Sunni city Tal Afar, which had been an insurgent stronghold until an offensive by <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> and Iraqi troops in September 2005, when militants fled into the countryside without a fight. Last March, President Bush cited the operation as an example that gave him "confidence in our strategy." The gunmen roamed Sunni neighborhoods in Tal Afar through the night, shooting at residents and homes, according to police and a local Sunni politician. Witnesses said relatives of the Shiite victims in the truck bombings broke into Sunni homes and killed the men inside or dragged them out and shot them in the streets. Gen. Khourshid al-Douski, the Iraqi army commander in charge of the area, said 70 were shot in the back of the head and 40 people were kidnapped. A senior hospital official in Tal Afar, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns, said 45 men were killed. Outraged Sunni groups blamed Shiite-led security forces for the killings. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office ordered an investigation and the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> command offered to provide assistance. Ali al-Talafari, a Sunni member of the local Turkomen Front Party, said the Iraqi army had arrested 18 policemen accused in the shooting rampage after they were identified by Sunni families. Shiite militiamen also took part, he said. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29385868.htm"><a>Revenge Killings by <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> Police</a> </a><o:p></o:p> <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s Sunni vice president urged the government on Thursday to do more to purge security forces of militias after a group of Shi'ite police shot scores of men in reprisal killings in a northern town this week. Hours after truck bombs killed 85 people on Tuesday in a Shi'ite area of Tal Afar, up to 70 Sunni Arab men were shot dead in a town which only a year ago was held up by U.S. President George W. Bush as an example of progress towards peace. The governor of <st1:city st="on">Nineveh</st1:city> province, which includes the town of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Tal Afar</st1:place></st1:city>, said policemen who took part in the reprisal shootings were arrested but then freed again to prevent unrest. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, has ordered an inquiry into the involvement of police in the killings. Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, the most senior Sunni Arab politician, said militias acting under "official cover" in the reprisal killings should be treated as severely as insurgents. A statement from his office said car bombs against "our Shi'ite brothers" must stop and condemned "the criminal behaviour by some policemen in randomly killing many civilians". "It requires efforts from both sides to put an end to this bloodshed which aims to destroy all of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. But this is not enough if the government does not move quickly to clear the security forces of militias," the statement said. ……Doctor Salih Qadu, head of Tal Afar hospital, said the final toll from the two bombs had risen to 85. He said 60 bodies of men shot in the aftermath had been brought to the hospital. A senior Iraqi army officer put the toll from those attacks at 70.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29385868.htm">In March 2006, Bush called Tal Afar a "free city that gives reason for hope in a free <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>".</a><o:p></o:p> What a fool believes, he sees…….<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070329/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestshootingarrest_070329080041;_ylt=Au7wFABNJQszmfopFPvKyc9X6GMA">Thirteen Police Arrested for <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Iraqi</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Town</st1:placetype></st1:place> Massacre</a><o:p></o:p> Iraqi authorities have arrested 13 policemen for carrying out a massacre of 70 Sunni Arabs in a northern Iraqi town to avenge a devastating bomb attack, officials said on Thursday. On Tuesday, a suicide bomber blew up a truck in a Shiite district of Tal Afar -- a town rated in 2006 by US President Bush as a symbot of a stable <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> – and killed 85 people and wounded 183 others. A few hours after the blast, dozens of armed men, some wearing police uniforms according to witnesss, went on a rampage in a Sunni district, dragged men out of their homes and shot them with bullets to the head. At least 70 people were killed, while 30 were wounded and 40 more remain missing in one of the worst sectarian attacks in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> in recent months. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070329/ts_csm/oiraqkids_1">A Syrian’s Risky Choice To Help Young Iraqis Heal</a><o:p></o:p> Just 8 years old, Noor fell victim to an all-too-common crime in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>. Kidnapped from school, she was held for ransom – beaten, blindfolded, and locked in an empty room – for four days. Her father raced to come up with the money, fearing she would be yet another casualty in the city's plague of abductions. A driver by occupation, he sold the family's car to give his tormenters what they wanted: $8,000 for his daughter's life. Noor and her family fled <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>. But three years later she was still haunted by her memories. They joined some one million Iraqis now living in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Syria</st1:place></st1:country-region> among them an untold number of children struggling to cope with the emotional wounds of war. For Noor, and many other Iraqi children like her, there appeared to be no place to turn until a Syrian psychiatrist, risking his job at a state institution, defied authorities and decided to help. Dr. Naim isn't his real name. The Syrian psychiatrist says he is afraid of his Syrian state employers who refused to allow him to treat Iraqi children, even though he volunteered to do so on his own time. In the same Christian neighborhood where Noor and her family lives is a small center run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. "The nuns would come and visit us and other Iraqi families at home," Noor's mother, Wafaa, says. "They told us about a program for children that was going to be held at the church." It was there that Noor, a Christian, and the doctor, a Muslim, first met. Naim had worked with the Sisters before, helping a handful of troubled Syrians whom the nuns had referred to him. But soon he saw the need for another kind of program. "The nuns were seeing a lot of disturbed Iraqi children," he says, from his sparsely furnished office in central <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Damascus</st1:place></st1:city>. And so, after weeks of intense research on the Internet – and much encouragement from his physician wife – he devised a group-therapy program that incorporated games, puppet shows, and artwork. Every Saturday for seven months, the tiny chapel run by the Sisters was transformed into a clinic for 28 children, ranging in age from 7 to 14. "I doubted myself at first. I was afraid that I couldn't help these kids, that I might open a wound that wouldn't heal," says Naim. "But circumstances can make you do extraordinary things." <o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p> REPORTS – US/UK/OTHERS IN <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">IRAQ</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29506248.htm">Excerpts from Arab <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Summit</st1:place></st1:city> Declaration</a> <o:p></o:p> Following are key excerpts from the final declaration endorsed by Arab leaders at the end of a two-day summit in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Riyadh</st1:place></st1:city> on Thursday. The declaration endorses an Arab peace initiative launched in 2002 but makes no direct mention of key issues such as the fate of Palestinian refugees. - (The summit) "affirms a just and comprehensive peace as a strategic option for the Arab nation and the Arab peace initiative that draws the right path for reaching a peaceful settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict based on the principles and resolutions of international legitimacy and the land for peace formula." - (The summit) "stresses the importance of freeing the region from weapons of mass destruction without double standards, warning against starting a dangerous and destructive nuclear arms race in the region and emphasising the right of all countries to peaceful nuclear power." - (The summit) "decides to spread the culture of moderation, tolerance, dialogue and openness, to reject all forms of terrorism and extremism as well as all exclusionary, racist trends, campaigns of hatred and endeavours to question our humanistic values or defame our religious beliefs and holy places, and to warn against growing sectarianism for political purposes that aims to divide our nation and ignite destructive sedition and civil strife."<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40685&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Iraqi VP Meets Turkish President</a><o:p></o:p> Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, in <st1:city st="on">Ankara</st1:city>, discussed with Turkish President Amhet Necdet Sezar ways of bolstering relations between <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>. "The Iraqi government is determined not to allow its territories to be a source of concern to <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>’s neighbors, particularly <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>," al-Hashemi's office said in a statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). For his part the Turkish president stressed his country's keenness to lend support to the people of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> and to preserve its unity, the statement added. The two sides also exchanged views on the situation in Kirkuk city, a northern Iraqi city with mixed population of Arabs, Turkmans and Kurds, said the statement, noting that they agreed to act to insure that Kirkuk would remain a city where all communities live in peace altogether.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070329/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusdiplomacy_070329154044;_ylt=ArmCUspyJVtxqjqHhoJhqvdX6GMA">New <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> Ambassador To <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> Sworn In</a><o:p></o:p> The new <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> ambassador to <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>, Ryan Crocker, was sworn in at the American embassy in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>'s tightly fortified Green Zone on Thursday. Crocker, who is one <st1:state st="on">Washington</st1:state>'s most experienced career diplomats with extensive knowledge of the <st1:place st="on">Middle East</st1:place>, replaces Zalmay Khalilzad, who left the country earlier this week after a 21-month posting. He was sworn in by embassy official Tina Tran at a ceremony attended by US Lieutenant General David Petraeus, the head of US forces in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and by embassy officials, embassy spokesman Lou Fintor said. "We have a historic challenge ahead of us. Terrorists, insurgents and militias continue to threaten security in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> and around the country. Security is without question the central issue," Crocker told the ceremony. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070329/cm_csm/ycobban29x_1">How Analysts In The Arab World See The <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> War</a><o:p></o:p> Policymakers and strategic analysts in the Arab world have little confidence that current US troop surge in <input name="p" type="hidden"><input name="sourceOrder" value="c1,i,yn,c3" type="hidden"><input name="c1" value="<input name="c3" value="">SEARCH <a href=" type="><input name="sourceURL" type="hidden"><input name="fr" value="yq-news" type="hidden"><input name="context" value="Policymakers and strategic analysts in the Arab world have little confidence that current US troop surge in Iraq will do much more than – at best – postpone a complete political-security breakdown in Iraq, which, they fear, could then spread across the Middle East. 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During my lengthy recent discussions with experts in <st1:country-region st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region st="on">Jordan</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region st="on">Syria</st1:country-region><input name="p" type="hidden"><input name="sourceOrder" value="c1,i,yn,c3" type="hidden"><input name="c1" value="<input name="c3" value="">SEARCH <a href=" type="><input name="sourceURL" type="hidden"><input name="fr" value="yq-news" type="hidden"><input name="context" value="Policymakers and strategic analysts in the Arab world have little confidence that current US troop surge in Iraq will do much more than – at best – postpone a complete political-security breakdown in Iraq, which, they fear, could then spread across the Middle East. During my lengthy recent discussions with experts in Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and with some well-connected Iraqis in Jordan, I heard a lot about how Iraq's collapse has been affecting these Arab societies." type="hidden">, and with some well-connected Iraqis in <st1:country-region st="on">Jordan</st1:country-region>, I heard a lot about how <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s collapse has been affecting these Arab societies. The news from my Iraqi friends – leaders in quasi-governmental and nongovernmental organizations – was grim. These were people who (on human rights grounds) had supported the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> invasion in 2003, and who then worked hard to build an effective, democratic order in their country. Now, I found them downhearted – but thoughtful, as they tried to pinpoint the worst of many <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> mistakes in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. They told piercingly tragic stories about the violence and sectarianism that affects everyone there. I asked one of these friends what he thought would happen if US forces leave <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the near future. He said there's a possibility this would concentrate the minds of his countrymen on the need to find a workable reconciliation. "But if the Americans stay, we can expect the situation to remain bad," he said. This man was visiting <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Jordan</st1:place></st1:country-region> for only a few days. But he was planning, soon, to return for much longer. After four years of trying to build strong public-sector institutions in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, he was giving up the effort and preparing to join the 2-million-plus other Iraqis who have fled their country since the war began. The continuing social and political catastrophe in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> has sent shock waves throughout the other Arab states, too. In <st1:city st="on">Cairo</st1:city>, senior analysts at the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Al-Ahram</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> for Political and Strategic Studies talked about how Arabs had long viewed the Iraqi state as a bulwark against the extension of Iranian power from the east. But, now, with that bulwark largely destroyed, they saw <st1:country-region st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>'s influence extending deep into <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> and directly threatening the stability of many other Arab states, especially in the <st1:place st="on">Persian Gulf</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p> ……….Meanwhile, the broad deployment of US troops in <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> has been transformed from an American asset in the region into a liability that erodes <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> power and standing. Here in <st1:city st="on">London</st1:city>, strategic thinker Hussein Agha told me that, for now, all of <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>'s neighbors prefer that <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> troops stay tied down inside <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, rather than withdraw. For some countries, the status quo lessens the likelihood of US attacks against them. For others, it represents a situation preferable to the regional turmoil they fear might follow <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> withdrawal.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2007/03/fake_maritime_b.html">Fake Maritime Boundaries</a><o:p></o:p> The British Government has published a map showing the coordinates of the incident, well within an Iran/Iraq maritime border. The mainstream media and even the blogosphere has bought this hook, line and sinker. But there are two colossal problems. <o:p></o:p> A) The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> can agree their bilateral boundary, and they never have done this in the Gulf, only inside the Shatt because there it is the land border too. This published boundary is a fake with no legal force.<o:p></o:p> B) Accepting the British coordinates for the position of both HMS Cornwall and the incident, both were closer to Iranian land than Iraqi land. Go on, print out the map and measure it. Which underlines the point that the British produced border is not a reliable one.<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> How to Help<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Very few organizations are working on getting aid to Iraqi refugees, and of those that are, many are too small or too beleaguered to accept individual donations; the <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Iraqi Red Crescent</st1:address></st1:street>, for example, has suffered bombings and mass kidnappings, yet its volunteers continue to deliver aid to displaced families inside <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. One of the larger relief organizations working with the refugees is the Catholic group Caritas, whose caseworkers I shadowed while in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Amman</st1:place></st1:city>. Bucking the image of the Land Rover-driving aid worker, they made their rounds in an aging gray Honda, its roof eaten through by rust. They visited Iraqi doctors, engineers, and executives desperate for food, heat, or blankets to fend off the desert winter; one family told the crew they had just sold their stove to buy food. Caritas helps a few thousand families a year, but "the demand far outstrips the money available to us," says Magy Mahrous, who oversees the project. You can make a contribution at: International Catholic Migration Commission Citibank <st1:country-region st="on">USA</st1:country-region> 153 East 53rd Street, 16th floor <st1:city st="on">New York</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">NY</st1:state> <st1:postalcode st="on">10043</st1:postalcode> Account # 10100491, <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">ABA</st1:place></st1:city> # 21000089, Swift Code CITIUS33 To ensure that the money reaches the Iraqi program, write "Iraq-icmc" on your check.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.warchild.org/">War Child International</a> </div> posted by dancewater @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://newsaboutiraq.blogspot.com/2007/03/news-views-032907.html" title="permanent link">1:20 PM</a>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28865322&postID=3804210039490625" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28865322&postID=3804210039490625;">0 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://newsaboutiraq.blogspot.com/2007/03/news-views-032907.html#links">links to this post</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=28865322&postID=3804210039490625" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28865322&postID=3804210039490625" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Wednesday, March 28, 2007</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="7390944342252429165"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Security Incidents for 03/28/07 </h3> <div class="post-body"> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-mu6dW4praY/RgxotDNJ02I/AAAAAAAAAqY/MPcRCylWYUQ/s1600-h/032807+iraq.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-mu6dW4praY/RgxotDNJ02I/AAAAAAAAAqY/MPcRCylWYUQ/s320/032807+iraq.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047524405539361634" border="0"/></a>PHOTO: Morgue staff stand by the bodies of men discovered in Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city>, <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place>, Wednesday, March 28, 2007. Some 20 bodies were discovered around Baqouba bearing signs of torture, Wednesday. (AP Photo)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Security Incidents for March 28, 2007<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> - A car bomb hit Bayaa junction. Two killed and 10 injured. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city></st1:place> - Mortar shell hit Raghiba Khatoon neighborhood . A civilian injured. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> - Binook neighborhood was hit by a mortar shell. One woman injured. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Baghdad - Early morning, a quarrel between two tribes had led to a fight. Two killed and six injured from both sides. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city> - Roadside bomb killed three civilians in Al-Mahmudiya city (south of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>). <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Baghdad - Suicide car bomber drove a car into the headquarters of the Iraqi army in Hay Al-Jamia'a near Mula Hiwaish mosque killing one soldier and injuring 3. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> - Two mortar shells targeted Al-Sha'ab neighborhood injuring two civilians. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> - The manager of observation and accuracy of the general customs committee was kidnapped near his office as he was leaving. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city></st1:place> - Roadside bomb hit a policeman at <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Al-Saadoun street</st1:address></st1:street>. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city> - Students from Hasawi tribe were prevented from going to their schools this morning in Muqdadiya (north east <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>) by terrorists who threatened them with death. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Baghdad - A roadside bomb exploded near a shopping district in Muqdadiya causing damages to the shops in addition to killing one civilian. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> - A roadside bomb was foiled in a Muqdadiya alley today. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> - Gunmen burned a truck on the highway of Wais–Muqdadiya and the driver's fate is unknown. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> - A squad from the fifth division managed to foil a car bomb in a stalled car near a checkpoint of Jalwla- Sadiya and Khanaqeen road junction. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Baghdad - 13 corpses were found around Baghdad, 4 in Risafa (eastern) and 9 in Karkh (western): 2 in both Ilamm and Doura and one each of the following areas: Mahmoudiya, Kadhemiyah, Zayuna, Al-Qanat street, Jisr Diyala, Hurriyah, Nahda, Amil, Saydiya. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Diyala - 17 families were forced from their homes in Khalis on Tuesday by gunmen belonging to al Qaida. Two Kurdish families and 15 Shiite were told they'd be killed if they didn't leave the area. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Diyala - Gunmen from Al-Qaida abducted the head of Jalawla district communications department on Monday. A security official said today the announcement was delayed for investigation purposes. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Baqouba - After midnight, two soldiers were injured near a check point in eastern Baqouba (north of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>) by terrorists using machine guns. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Kinaan - One civilian was killed and two others injured when mortar shelling hit Kinaan town. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Baqouba - Bodies were found left on the road at Zaghnia to the north of Baqouba. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Diyala - <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Battle</st1:place></st1:city> was ongoing between the towns of Kibaa and Chalabi according to a Multi-National Forces spokesperson. The towns were among the first to declare loyalty to the Islamic State of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Diyala - Two corpses were found inside the house of the former Diyala chief commander. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Balad Ruz - In the afternoon, a civilian was assassinated by gunmen in Baladruz. a policeman from the city said the victim was a former vice officer with no details. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Tikrit - Two policemen were injured as a result of a car bomb near a check point in Shurqat. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Tikrit -A roadside bomb hit a Humvee vehicle that belongs to the Iraqi army (Battalion 3/Brigade 2/Division 4) near Al-Zara bridge on the way between Tuz and Tikrit. Only one soldier was injured in that ambush. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Tikrit - A car bomb exploded near a check point of Al- Shurta Al-ulaa in Shurqat. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Tikrit - An official from the 4th division in Tikrit said that his division had found weapons inside on of the houses in Tikrit and have four suspects in custody inside the division's headquarter. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Biji - An official from the Biji local police said that an American helicopter fired on a restaurant near the highway northern Biji. Two Iraqi patrols went to the scene and reported that one man aged 20 had been killed and delivered to Biji hospital. The <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military said the man who was killed was planting homemade bombs. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Iqedat - Gunmen disguised with police uniforms kidnapped a policeman from his house. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Kirkuk - A policeman was killed and another injured by a car bomb at Riyadh district of Kirkuk province last night ( Tuesday 27/3/2007). Police said that that bomb placed near the electric supply office of Al-Riyadh district targeting a police patrol . <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Kirkuk</st1:place></st1:city> - Gunmen riding a sedan car attacked a policeman from Adala police station who was on his duty in the street. He was injured in that attack and taken at once to hospital. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Kirkuk</st1:place></st1:city> - Experts from Irooba police were able to foil a roadside bomb near a school today. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Basra - Last night, two British soldiers were injured in two separate attacks during their daily patrols in northern Basra according to the spokeswoman Captain Kate Brown of the multi forces said. The patrols had been attacked by machineguns and RPG7's in Al-Najibia (10 kilometers to the north of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Basra</st1:place></st1:city>). <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16989120.htm">Basra - Early this morning, one British soldier was injured by a sniper in downtown <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Basra</st1:place></st1:city>. A British helicopter sent to pick him up was attacked by machinegun fire.</a> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0"><st1:city st="on">Kirkuk-</st1:city> The deputy mayor survived an attempt on his life when an explosive charge went off n near his motorcade while passing a main road in central <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Kirkuk</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Falluja- An Iraqi civilian was wounded when a mortar shell fell on a back road in Falluja.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Samawa- A Samawa provincial council member was wounded on Wednesday as masked gunmen attacked him while driving his private car.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Kirkuk- Unknown gunmen blew up on Wednesday a pipeline that carries crude oil from Kirkuk oil fields to Baiji refinery, said a security source noting it is the second incident during the past 48 hours.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Mosul- A senior Iraqi police officer was wounded on Wednesday as an explosive device detonated near his motorcade in the northern Iraqi city of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Mosul</st1:place></st1:city>, a security source said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Kirkuk- An Iraqi policeman was killed and two others were wounded when an explosive device went off near their patrol vehicle in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a police source said. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Baghdad- Two gunmen were killed and 66 suspected militants were arrested by Iraqi security forces in several areas in Baghdad, during the past 24 hours, under the <st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city> law-imposing plan, the <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> operations command said on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Diala- The forensic medicine department in Diala province received ten unidentified bodies on Wednesday that had been found in different areas near Baaquba city.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Hilla- At least two civilians were killed and 20 others wounded on Wednesday when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged car in a Shiite district northeast of Hilla.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0"><st1:city st="on">Mosul-</st1:city> At least four civilians were wounded on Wednesday when a charge blast went off near a fuel station in the northern Iraqi city of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Mosul</st1:place></st1:city>, a police source said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Anbar- A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-rigged car on Wednesday morning at the entry to a school used by <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> forces as a base, near Haditha, 380 km west of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, an eyewitness said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0"><st1:city st="on">Karbala-</st1:city> Two gunmen shot and killed a former member of the dissolved Baath party in al-Khayrat city, 35 km east of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Karbala</st1:place></st1:city>, an eyewitness said on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Mosul- A total of sixty executed bodies arrived at the Talafar public hospital on Wednesday, director of the hospital said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Baghdad- A child was killed and two other citizens were wounded on Wednesday when an explosive charge went off in al-Resala district in western <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, an eyewitness said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0"><st1:city st="on">Baghdad-</st1:city> Three civilians were killed and ten others were injured when a car bomb went off Wednesday afternoon in southwestern <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, a police source said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Basra- A British soldier was wounded on Wednesday morning by sniper fire in al-Hakamiya region. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Falluja- Two suicide bombers on Wednesday morning detonated an explosive-rigged car and a truck loaded with chlorine at the entry to a <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> base, that also hosts an Iraqi police station, in central Falluja, killing and wounding <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> soldiers and Iraqi policemen, a police source said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0"><st1:city st="on">Falluja-</st1:city> <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> forces imposed a curfew on Wednesday in the city of <st1:city st="on">Falluja</st1:city>, 45 km west of <st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city>, after two suicide bombing attacks near a <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> base, a police source said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Kut- The forensic medicine department in Wassit province received five unidentified bodies on Wednesday that had been found in different areas near al-Suwaira town, 135 km north of Kut, a source from the forensic medicine department said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Basra- Two British soldiers were wounded late Tuesday in two separate incidents in Basra, while two British bases came under indirect fire. <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0"><st1:city st="on">Kirkuk-</st1:city></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40611&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0"> Two unidentified bodies were found on Wednesday in northern <st1:city st="on">Kirkuk</st1:city>, 250 km northeast of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, a police source said.</a><o:p></o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40576&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Haditha - A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-rigged car on Wednesday morning at the entry to a school used by <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> forces as a base, near Haditha. No report of injuries.</a><o:p></o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">TAL AFAR - Shi'ite gunmen stormed a Sunni district in Tal Afar overnight, killing 50 or more men in apparent reprisal for truck bombings on Tuesday, Iraqi officials said. Major-General Khorshid Saleem, the head of the Third Army Division in Tal Afar, said the death toll was 70, with 30 wounded and 40 kidnapped. The prime minister ordered an inquiry into reports the gunmen included policemen, an official in his office said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">TAL AFAR - The toll from Tuesday's twin truck bombings in Shi'ite areas of Tal Afar rose to 55 dead and 185 wounded, police and hospital sources said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">FALLUJA - Two suicide bombers in trucks carrying chlorine attacked a local government building in Falluja, in western Iraq, and 15 Iraqi and U.S. security forces were injured in the bomb blasts, the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military said. A number were treated for symptoms linked to chlorine gas inhalation. A police source said eight Iraqi soldiers were killed in the attack.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">MAHAWEEL - A car bomb in a crowded market killed five people and wounded 25 in Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city></st1:place>, police said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">NEAR BAQUBA - Iraqi and <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> soldiers killed more than 25 insurgents from an al Qaeda-led militant group near the city of <st1:city st="on">Baquba</st1:city>, north of <st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city>, the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military said. 15 suspected militants were detained in the four-day operation.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two civilians and wounded 10 others when it was detonated at a major intersection in southern Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite Bayaa district, police said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm"><st1:city st="on">BAGHDAD</st1:city> - A <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> soldier was killed and another wounded from indirect fire -- a term usually used for mortars or rockets -- in <st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city>'s heavily fortified international Green Zone on Tuesday, the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm"><st1:city st="on">BAGHDAD</st1:city> - A <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> government contractor was killed as a result of a rocket attack on the Green Zone on Tuesday, the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> embassy said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">ANBAR PROVINCE - Insurgents killed a <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> Marine on Tuesday in <st1:placename st="on">Anbar</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Province</st1:placetype>, the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military said.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">ANBAR PROVINCE - U.S. forces captured 19 suspected insurgents believed to have ties to al Qaeda in Iraq, the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military said. 11 were captured in different parts of Anbar and eight were captured in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">RAMADI - A suicide car bomb killed one civilian and wounded seven others north of Ramadi on Tuesday, the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military said. <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> forces also found a truck rigged with explosives carrying chlorine nearby.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">SUWAYRA - Police found the bodies of five people, including one that was decapitated, floating in the Tigris river south of Baghdad in Suwayra, police said. The bodies had signs of torture.<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">BASRA - A British soldier was shot and wounded at police headquarters in the southern city of Basra, a British military spokesman said. "His condition is not graded as very serious," the spokesman said, giving no further details of his injuries. Asked about Iraqi police reports that a sniper was responsible, the spokesman said: "We don't know if he was a sniper or not."<o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA829858.htm">MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol wounded a senior police officer in Mosul, in northern Iraq, police said. Another roadside bomb in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Mosul</st1:place></st1:city> targeting police wounded four more people, police said</a><o:p></o:p> </div> posted by dancewater @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://newsaboutiraq.blogspot.com/2007/03/security-incidents-for-032807.html" title="permanent link">9:31 PM</a>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28865322&postID=7390944342252429165" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28865322&postID=7390944342252429165;">0 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://newsaboutiraq.blogspot.com/2007/03/security-incidents-for-032807.html#links">links to this post</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=28865322&postID=7390944342252429165" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28865322&postID=7390944342252429165" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a> </div>     <div class="post"><a name="3521589161479262904"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> News & Views 03/28/07 </h3> <div class="post-body"> REPORTS – LIFE IN <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">IRAQ</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28547828.htm">Gunmen Kill 50 in Tal Afar</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Gunmen rampaged through a Sunni district of the northwestern Iraqi town of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Tal Afar</st1:city></st1:place> overnight, killing about 50 people in reprisal for bombings in a Shi'ite area, Iraqi officials said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, ordered an inquiry into reports the gunmen included policemen from his Shi'ite- dominated security forces, an official in his office said. The attack was on the Sunni district of al-Wihda in Tal Afar, where tensions have been rising between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim residents, mostly Turkish-speaking ethnic Turkmen. The tit-for-tat violence in a town held up by U.S. President George W. Bush only a year ago as an example of progress towards peace in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, graphically illustrates the challenge facing Maliki in bridging an ever-widening sectarian divide. There has been a sharp upsurge in violence in recent days outside <st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city>, epicentre of the communal bloodshed, where thousands of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> and Iraqi security forces are focusing their efforts to halt a slide to full-scale civil war. [Later reports said 70 were killed. – dancewater]<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/16977033.htm">Victims Describe Chlorine-Gas Attack</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Gunmen in black hoods came to Albuaifan, a town south of Fallujah, four months ago and demanded that the sheiks of the Albu Issa tribe pledge loyalty to the Islamic State of Iraq, the insurgent "nation" that the group al-Qaida in Iraq had proclaimed last October. The tribal leaders said no. Since then, the tribe has been at war. Its men have stopped going to work, and they carry weapons routinely now. They've even issued a password and closely question anyone they encounter who doesn't know it. The battle entered a frightening new stage 10 days ago when insurgents blew up a chlorine tank in the middle of Albuaifan. The heavy, poisonous gas sank near the ground and seeped into the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">garden</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">Irsan Majid Alisawy</st1:placename></st1:place>, where a dozen children were playing. "I couldn't breathe," Alisawy recalled Monday. "I wanted to open my mouth but there was no air." It was even worse for the children, who quickly passed out. "We were terrified," Alisawy said. <o:p></o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/world/middleeast/28iraq.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1175227200&en=a28cefc5ede33ce4&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin"> <o:p></o:p></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/world/middleeast/28iraq.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1175227200&en=a28cefc5ede33ce4&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin">Sweeps in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place> Cram Two Jails with Detainees</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Hundreds of Iraqis detained in the Baghdad security crackdown have been crammed into two detention centers run by the Defense Ministry that were designed to hold only dozens of people, a government monitoring group said Tuesday. The numbers suggested that the security plan’s emphasis on aggressive block-by-block sweeps of troubled neighborhoods in the capital had flooded <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iraq/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" target="_blank" title="More news and information about Iraq.">Iraq</a>’s frail detention system, and appeared to confirm the fears of some human rights advocates who have been predicting that the new plan would aggravate already poor conditions. The disclosure came as violence continued to tear through <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>, including a double suicide-vehicle bombing in Tal Afar that killed at least 55 people, the authorities said, and the murder of two Chaldean Christian nuns in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Kirkuk</st1:place></st1:city>. In one of the detention centers, in the town of <st1:city st="on">Mahmudiya</st1:city>, south of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city>, 705 people were packed into an area built for 75, according to Maan Zeki Khadum, an official with the monitoring group. The other center, on Muthana Air Base, held 272 people in a space designed to hold about 50, he said, and included two women and four boys who were being held in violation of regulations that require juveniles to be separated from adults and males from females. In an interview, Mr. Khadum said a majority of the detainees at the two detention centers had been picked up while the security plan, which began in mid-February, was being put into effect. He said the detention system had been suffering from a problem of “fast detention and very slow release, especially for those who are not guilty.” His group includes 17 lawyers and is working under a government committee run by the Shiite politician <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/ahmad_chalabi/index.html?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank" title="More articles about Ahmad Chalabi.">Ahmad Chalabi</a>.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/world/middleeast/19disappear.html?ex=1175227200&en=4bb802ef14dda60f&ei=5070">For Many Iraqis, Hunt for the Missing Is Never Ending</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> He comes to her in dreams, dressed in the blue police uniform he wore the day he disappeared. “I’m alive,” he tells Intisar Rashid, his wife and the mother of their five children. “I’m alive.” And so she restlessly keeps searching. Ever since the Thursday two months ago when her husband failed to come home, Ms. Rashid has tried to find the man she loves. In the Green Zone last week, where she waited to scour a database of Iraqis detained by American troops, she said she had already visited the Baghdad morgue a dozen times, every hospital in the city and a handful of Iraqi government ministries. “I feel like I’m going to collapse,” she said, carrying her husband’s police identification card in one hand and a crumpled tissue in the other. “It’s taken over my days, my nights.” The past year of dizzying violence here has produced thousands of Iraqis like Ms. Rashid — sad-eyed seekers caught in an endless loop of inquiry and disappointment. Burdened by grief without end or answers, they face a set of horrors as varied and fractured as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iraq/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" target="_blank" title="More news and information about Iraq.">Iraq</a> itself. Has my son or husband or father been killed by a death squad, his body hidden? Or has he been arrested? Is he in a legitimate prison with his name unregistered, or trapped in a secret basement jail with masked torturers? Most importantly: How can he be found? …..Nearly 3,000 Iraqis visited the American-run National Iraqi Assistance Center in the Green Zone last month to look for missing relatives, roughly triple the monthly traffic of last spring, and an increase of 50 percent since December, according to military figures. Capt. Lance Carr, the director of the center, which also manages programs for medical aid, employment and other issues, said the swell in inquiries about missing men tracks with a rise in detentions under the new <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> security plan. Iraqis said that despite the legacy of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, their best-case scenario was still American detention because at least then their loved ones were registered and had a chance to be released if innocent. But American-run prisons hold only a small portion of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s detainees. Because many victims of the violence here are never identified, and because the Iraqi detention system remains corrupt, sectarian and opaque, according to Iraqi and American officials, most Iraqis never find who they are looking for. “There are so many different sides that are fighting now, without names or uniforms,” said Muhammad Haideri, a Shiite cleric and chairman of the human rights committee in the Iraqi Parliament. “There’s terrorism; there are kidnappings, armed militias and gangs. On top of that, when a bomb explodes, people end up deformed, and they are considered missing, too.”<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70944">NGOs Urge More Aid For Displaced Families in South</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Fakhouri said that nearly 90 percent of the 700,000 internally displaced people in the southern provinces lack essential needs. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), of this total, at least 310,000 arrived there after the bombing on 22 February 2006 of a revered <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70294" target="_blank">Shia shrine in the northern city of Samarra</a> caused an escalation of sectarian violence. Fakhouri said that unofficial records suggest there are at least 200,000 more displaced people in the southern provinces, bringing the total to nearly a million. The economically poorer southern cities have few jobs to offer this massive influx of people. As such, the displaced are largely unemployed and depend on assistance from aid organisations. Local NGOs say they simply cannot cope with the large numbers arriving in the south and blame the government for being slow to respond to the growing humanitarian crisis there. Fareed Abbas, a spokesman for Najaf-based NGO the Muslim Organisation for Peace (MOP), said the central government was unwilling to provide sufficient funds to develop sanitation, education and electricity projects in the southern provinces. “We have appealed dozens of times to the central government to help in such critical circumstances but we haven’t got any response yet. Instead, over the past few months, their assistance has decreased considerably, leaving people without support and infrastructure,” Abbas said. “Children are getting sick and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70649" target="_blank">elderly are dying</a> because they cannot get treatment for their chronic diseases. Pregnant women are dying or losing their babies because they cannot reach hospitals on time to get help from specialists,” he added. Abbas stressed the urgent need for international support and better coordination of aid deliveries. “When aid convoys reach our provinces, they come with medicines that aren’t useful, such as tonnes of drugs for headaches, or food stuffs that won’t help to feed families,” he said.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> ……..Dr Aziz Ali Baroud, a physician at <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Najaf</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Main</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Hospital</st1:placetype></st1:place>, said the region’s hospitals cannot cope with the increase in people seeking medical treatment since the beginning of 2007. As a result, there are severe shortages in specialists and in medical essentials such as paediatric needles and heart disease drugs, he said. “At least one person dies in our hospital every day due to lack of assistance or medicines. If you add all the people dying for the same reason in all the hospitals in the southern provinces, the number becomes very serious,” Baroud said, adding that abortions have become common among displaced women unable to cope with their situation.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=71004">Iraqis in Jordan Cause Black Market for Jobs</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The huge influx of Iraqis in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Jordan</st1:country-region></st1:place> over the past year has caused the creation of an illegal employment market that is undercutting the wages of ordinary Jordanians and sometimes robbing them of their jobs, local officials say. In addition, some Jordanians blame incoming Iraqis for property price rises, and increasingly overburdened education and health systems. “Iraqis who are educated can easily get good jobs in the black market but they are not well paid, and are exploited by working longer hours without being compensated,” Mustafa Abdel-Kadder, a spokesman for the Association of Iraqis in Jordan (AIJ), said. “They [Iraqis] accept these conditions to keep their families in the country and avoid deportation,” he added.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/b4da575a5fb3d3600083f6836a01b1cb.htm">“I can’t find medicines for my son’s convulsions”</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Um Mustafa Bakr is a 33-year-old mother-of-three who is desperately looking for treatment for her son, Omar. The two-year-old has been suffering serious bouts of epilepsy-induced convulsions for the past year. "I'm tired of going to public hospitals in search of treatment for my son. He's just a baby and is suffering from a condition that could kill him. Basic medicines can keep him alive. Omar has to take a drug called carbamazepine, which is used for the treatment of anxiety, epilepsy and convulsions. "Each time he has a bout of convulsions, I get scared that it's going to be the last day of his life. Initially, we were getting free treatment in public pharmacies, but for the past six months the situation has changed and we don't get free treatment any more. "My husband's been unemployed for the past two years. We're only able to survive because some relatives are helping us with food and clothes for the children. We don't have money to buy medicines from private pharmacies for Omar, especially after a medicine shortage has made pharmacy owners raise their prices.<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> REPORTS – IRAQI MILITIAS, POLITICIANS, POWER BROKERS<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR841852.htm">Militants Attack Iraqi, US Forces with Chlorine</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Insurgents with two chlorine gas truck bombs attacked a local government building in Falluja, in western <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>, and 15 Iraqi and <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> security forces were injured in the bomb blasts, the <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> military said on Wednesday. "Numerous Iraqi soldiers and policemen are being treated for symptoms such as laboured breathing, nausea, skin irritation and vomiting that are synonymous with chlorine inhalation," a <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> statement said. It said no Iraqi or <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> forces were killed in what it called a "complex attack" using mortars and small arms as well as the truck bombs.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/790409BE-5D7A-4B56-95B7-84D761EBB913.htm"><st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/790409BE-5D7A-4B56-95B7-84D761EBB913.htm"> Militias Feed on Poverty</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> On the ground in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place>, working-class people unable to leave because they are poor and unskilled have been falling prey to militias who enjoy incredible financial power. Ziad, an Iraqi asylum seeker in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Sweden</st1:place></st1:country-region>, who did not want to give his second name fearing that it would affect his asylum application, said: "It was a mass immigration. I, along with dozens of my friends and university colleagues decided to leave, because there is nothing to do in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. "University graduates and professionals cannot be part of the army or police, which are the only jobs you can have easily in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> nowadays." Observers have started to question why reconstruction in oil-rich southern <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, which has been relatively stable, has not yet started in earnest. It would provide work opportunities for thousands of Iraqis and a haven for the middle classes. Muhammad al-Hasan, an Iraqi journalist from the southern city of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Samawa</st1:place></st1:city>, said that high unemployment has contributed to the steady flow of fighters into different militias. ………Ahmed Zayed, a sociology professor at <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Cairo</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, said the shortage of resources may well push many more people to carry arms for money to support their families. "When the existence of a human being and his family is threatened, he tends to do anything to keep his head above the water," he said. "Unfortunately, this case is very common in human history, and it is likely to continue. Warlords know how to play this game. They use their connections to close all doors; meanwhile they keep their doors open." Ali al-Zubi, a sociology professor at <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Kuwait</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, said: "Definitely, unemployment and deprivation develop tension and hostility. Let us take the suicide bombers, nearly all of them belonged to deprived families. I think that unemployment and deprivation produce the human fuel for terrorist groups."<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p><o:p> </o:p> REPORTS – US/UK/OTHERS IN <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">IRAQ</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR854395.htm">Green Zone Sees Spike in Mortars</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Insurgents have stepped up rocket and mortar attacks on <st1:city st="on">Baghdad</st1:city>'s international Green Zone where most Iraqi government offices and the <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> embassy are located, a senior <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> military spokesman said on Wednesday. Rear Admiral Mark Fox said nine people were wounded and two killed in three mortar or rocket strikes in three days from March 25. On Tuesday a <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> contractor and a <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> soldier were killed, and one <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> state department employee was wounded. Insurgents have for years been firing mortar bombs and rockets into the Green Zone, a large area stretching for several miles along the River Tigris surrounded by fortified walls and checkpoints. Usually the attacks do not cause casualties as there are many uninhabited areas within the Green Zone. Fox said that while the total number of indirect fire attacks in March was on a trend to be lower than in recent months, there appeared to be a change in targets.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28681774.htm"> </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28681774.htm">Occupation, Splits Threaten <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place> Civil War</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Saudi King Abdullah told Arab leaders at a summit on Wednesdsay that illegal foreign occupation and sectarian violence in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place> was threatening a civil war. "In beloved <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, blood flows between brothers in the shadow of illegitimate foreign occupation and hateful sectarianism, threatening a civil war," he said in a speech.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> COMMENTARY<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101018055133/http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/49869/">Iraq’s Next Civil War</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Seven bombs detonating in the space of 35 minutes sent up clouds of black smoke over the centre of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Kirkuk</st1:city></st1:place> earlier this week. The explosions in Arab and Turkoman districts killed 12 people and injured 39 but exactly who was behind them is unclear. <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Kirkuk</st1:place></st1:city> is a place where trust is in short supply. "I firmly predict there will be a rumour the Kurds were behind these bombings," sighs Rafat Hamarash, the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Kurdish political party that largely controls the city. He said somebody wanted to stir up ethnic divisions between Kurd, Arab and Turkoman before they vote on the future of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Kirkuk</st1:place></st1:city> in nine months' time. Mr Hamarash is probably right about the motives for the latest attacks. The city is approaching a critical moment in its long history. In December, there is a referendum, its timing agreed under the Iraqi constitution, when 1.8 million people of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Kirkuk</st1:place></st1:city> province will vote on whether or not to join the highly autonomous Kurdish region that is already almost a separate state. Kurds will vote in favour and probably win; Arabs and Turkomans will vote against and lose.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> How to Help<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Very few organizations are working on getting aid to Iraqi refugees, and of those that are, many are too small or too beleaguered to accept individual donations; the <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Iraqi Red Crescent</st1:address></st1:street>, for example, has suffered bombings and mass kidnappings, yet its volunteers continue to deliver aid to displaced families inside <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. One of the larger relief organizations working with the refugees is the Catholic group Caritas, whose caseworkers I shadowed while in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Amman</st1:place></st1:city>. Bucking the image of the Land Rover-driving aid worker, they made their rounds in an aging gray Honda, its roof eaten through by rust. They visited Iraqi doctors, engineers, and executives desperate for food, heat, or blankets to fend off the desert winter; one family told the crew they had just sold their stove to buy food. Caritas helps a few thousand families a year, but "the demand far outstrips the money available to us," says Magy Mahrous, who oversees the project. 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