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Iraq
Iraq police bus attack kills 13
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Bomb Attacks Kill 5 in Baghdad Shops
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Iraq
18 Killed In Iraqi Sectarian Violence
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Iraq
Senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader and facilitator in Ramadi killed, 7 captured
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Iraq
Baghdad: Suicide blast kills holiday shoppers
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Mahdi Army, Iraqi Police Clash in Suwayra
Sadr’s attacks coincide with al Qaeda bombing, media campaigns and ‘marches’ in western Iraq. Shades of the Fall of 2004… The Iraqi Army in Amara. One day after the Mahdi Army attacked police stations in Amara and were beaten back by Iraqi Army and police units, Sadr’s militia struck again in the town of Suwayra, a town about 30 miles south of Baghdad. AFP reports “some 150 Mahdi Army militiamen armed with AK-47 assault rifles attacked a police station in the Tigris town… eight gunmen died and two civilians were wounded.” Sadr’s claims that there are elements of his militia…
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Iraq
Propaganda Week: The “Ministry of Information in the Islamic State of Iraq” issued a press release on the Friday bombings in Baghdad. al Qaeda in Iraq’s shadow government does not control territory. al Qaeda conducted mini-marches in Haditha, Haqlaniyah, Anah and Bani Daher on Friday. According to an intelligence source, the al Qaeda demonstrators took heavy casualties after their march in Ramadi.
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Top US Commander in D.C. for Talks Amid Iraq Concerns
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Iraq
Mecca meeting seeks end to Iraq sectarian violence in Iraq
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Iraq
(Iraq) Me in the new Islamic State!
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Iraqi Army, Sadr’s Mahdi Army Battle in Amara
Sadr’s Mahdi Army must be reined in Sheikh Mazen Saedi, Muqtada al-Sadr’s aide in Baghdad. Photo from AFP. Click image to view. Sadr’s Mahdi Army attacked Iraqi police in Amara “after police arrested a member of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia on suspicion of killing a local intelligence officer in a bomb attack,” reports AFP. The Associate Press claims the city is fully under the control of the Mahdi Army of “800 black-clad militiamen with Kalashnikovs.” This has not been confirmed by the Iraqi government. {Note: the report is updated to state “The Shiite militia run by the…
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Iraq
al Qaeda and the insurgency continue the Ramadan Offensive and strike in multiple cities. Tigerhawk explains how the comparison to the Tet Offensive is apt, but not as the media portrays it.
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Iraq
Iraq: Car bomb kills at least 8 in Kirkuk
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Iraq
Witness in Saddam trial recalls chemical attack on Kurds
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Iraq
Iraqis Said May Take Over Security by ’07
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Iraq
Iraq: 20 killed in attack on police stations in Mosul
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Iraq
Premier of Iraq Seeks Assistance of Shiite Clerics
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Iraq
Troops will be out of Iraq in 16 months, Blair tells Commons
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Iraq
Iraq and the Tet analogy
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Iraq
Dozens of al Qaeda supporters marched through Ramadi to declare support for al Qaeda in Iraq and the Islamic state. Prime Minister Maliki demanded the U.S. release Sadr aide Sheikh Mazen Al Saedi, who was detained by the U.S. yesterday. Balad has been cordoned after a weekend of sectarian violence.
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Sectarian violence in Balad, Iraq
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Iraq
10 US Troops Killed in Roadside Bombings, Fighting as Iraq Violence Grows
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Sadr lieutenant arrested in Baghdad
Another Sadr aide arrested as sectarian violence flares The Mahdi Army. Click image to view. The Coalition has taken another shot at Muqtada al-Sadr’s organizaion. The U.S. military has arrested Sheikh Mazen Al Saedi, the head of Sadr’s offices in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Karkh. Five other Sadr supporters were arrested in raids on Sadr’s offices in the Shula neighborhood. The recent arrest of the senior Sadr lieutenant is the latest in a series of of raids in Baghdad and Diwaniyah designed to erode Sadr’s power base, and force him to either openly confront the government or disband his…
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Iraq
Over 3000 Iraqi police sacked
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Iraq
Iraq rebels say they will only negotiate with US
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Iraq
13 killed and 80 injured in Sunday’s bombings in Kirkuk
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Iraq
Car bombs kill 20 in Baghdad
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The Rump Islamic Emirate of Iraq
The Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq Declares the Establishment of a Sunni Islamic State of Iraq, carved from six provinces, however further divisions within al Qaeda in Iraq are exposed A map of the Sunni Islamic State from an al Qaeda video. Image from MEMRI. Al-Qaeda in Iraq has made good on its promise to conduct an information campaign during Ramadan. The Mujahideen Shura Council, al Qaeda in Iraq’s front group designed to legitimize its actions, has released a video announcing the formation of a Sunni Islamic State of Iraq, which is comprised of “Baghdad, Anbar, Diyala, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din,…
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86 Iraqis die in 2-day violence spree
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Iraqis call for five-man junta to end the anarchy
