World-News

Reuters

05/06/08

Gunmen killed Ayad Hamza, the deputy director of Nahrain University in charge of sciences, and wounded his two sons in a drive-by shooting on Sunday …. Iraqi special forces and U.S. troops killed seven militiamen and detained two others in two battles in Baghdad on Monday and Tuesday …. Iraqi and U.S. forces detained 15 militants in operations against al Qaeda in different parts of the country …. Three people were killed, including a female college student, and nine wounded in clashes between police and militants in Abu Dsheer district …. A roadside bomb killed one policeman and wounded seven others on Monday in Kirkuk …. Two mortar bombs killed three people and wounded 10 others, including four officers from the Facility Protection Services …. A Katyusha missile wounded five people, some of them students, when it landed near the privately owned Al-Mansour University College …

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL0429338120080506


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

In an assault on globally accepted restrictions against attacking civilians, the Pentagon this week launched a bombing campaign against an eight-square-mile area in the middle of Baghdad. After constructing a wall around key portions of Sadr City, home to some 3 million people, the United States widened its bombing of the poorest and most densely populated part of Iraq's largest city.

http://action.fcnl.org/r/11812/11836/


Informant: Gary the Grouch

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Iraqi civilians flee fighting in Baghdad militia stronghold

Miami Herald

05/06/08

A rocket slammed into Baghdad’s city hall and another hit a downtown park Tuesday as more frightened civilians fled a Shiite militia stronghold where U.S.-led forces are locked in fierce street battles. The American push in the Sadr City district - launched after an Iraqi government crackdown on armed Shiite groups began in late March - is trying to weaken the militia grip in a key corner of Baghdad and disrupt rocket and mortar strikes on the U.S.-protected Green Zone...

http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/522711.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadr+City
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shiite+militia
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Green+Zone

In 2003, Lawrence Kaplan, a leading neoconservative, helped deliver arguments that justified the invasion of Iraq. Afterwards, he spent two years in the war zone. It changed his view.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,551828,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons

Kurdish rebels could launch suicide attacks against American interests to punish the U.S. for sharing intelligence with Turkey after Turkey bombed rebel bases, a spokeswoman for a wing of a rebel group warned.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_kurdish_rebels


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Turkey

New weapon penetrates pricey vehicle, kills 2 GIs: The deaths of two U.S. soldiers in western Baghdad last week have sparked concerns that Iraqi insurgents have developed a new weapon capable of striking what the U.S. military considers its most explosive-resistant vehicle.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5756202.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.afsc.org/iraq/refugee-crisis.htm

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Americans 'stole my life from me'

Sitting in his Damascus flat, where he now lives as a refugee, he speaks of humiliation, of casual inhumanity.

http://tinyurl.com/5zgqvg


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+refugees

http://uslaboragainstwar.org/index.php
http://uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?=1&cache=0&id=15684

Greg Rislin reports for The Associated Press: "An Iraqi man sued two U.S. military contractors, claiming he was repeatedly tortured while being held at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison for more than 10 months. Emad al-Janabi's federal lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles, claims that employees of CACI International Inc. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. punched him, slammed him into walls, hung him from a bed frame and kept him naked and handcuffed in his cell beginning in September 2003."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050608C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08126/879189-84.stm


Informant: michael098762001

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