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DEBKAfile
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April 5, 2007, 1:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
They ambushed the workers' car on their way to work in the northern town of Haija southwest of Kirkuk. Saturday, gunmen shot dead 8 civilian employees of an Iraqi military base.
DEBKAfile
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April 2, 2007, 10:41 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile: The bombing last week recalls al Qaeda's tactic in destroying the Shiites Golden Dome of Samarra in Feb. 2006 as a provocation that triggered Iraq's Sunni-Shiite sectarian war.
US commander Gen. David Petraeus condemned the "barbaric actions" of al Qaeda elements in the northern Iraqi town.
DEBKAfile
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April 1, 2007, 7:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr Saturday blamed the United States for the violence and called for a huge anti-American demonstration on April 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. Iraq's Sunni Justice Minister Hashim Abderrrahman al-Shibli resigned over "insurmountable differences with al-Maliki government."
DEBKAfile
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March 28, 2007, 2:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
It is not clear whether he died in a double car bombing or an RPG attack on his car.
The sheikh heads the al-Zobaie tribe in Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad, a member of which is deputy prime minister Salam al-Zobaie, who was injured in an assassination attempt last week, and ...
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March 27, 2007, 12:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Four died in Diyala province north of the capital, a fifth in northwest Baghdad. The US military reports the rising prevalence of the particularly lethal type of roadside bomb called EFP (explosively formed projectile). Their deaths bring to 75 the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq in March.
DEBKAfile
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March 26, 2007, 9:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Iraqi military also claims the death of six insurgents and 23 arrests, the discovery of large weapons caches and 10 explosive devices defused.
More than 60 Iraqis died in violent attacks Saturday, including at least 20 at a Baghdad police compound struck by a suicide truck bomber. 
DEBKAfile
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March 24, 2007, 1:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Captured in Baghdad Saturday, March 17, were two - some sources say three - Israeli Arabs, who told their American interrogators they came from the northern Israeli village of Majd al Krum near Carmiel, northeast of Haifa. They were taken prisoner fighting in the central Baghdad district of Bab al ...
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March 24, 2007, 1:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
After their talks Maliki reported to the media that his government had been trying to persuade the insurgents to lay down their arms. Mortar explosions interrupted the press conference. Wednesday, Iraq's Sunni vice president Tareq al-Hashemi called for round-table peace talks with all the insurgent groups, though not al Qaeda, ...
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March 18, 2007, 10:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Captured in Baghdad Saturday, March 17, were two - some sources say three - Israeli Arabs, who told their American interrogators they came from the northern Israeli village of Majd al Krum near Carmiel, northeast of Haifa. They were taken prisoner fighting in the central Baghdad district of Bab al ...
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March 18, 2007, 10:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
He was detained Saturday in Baghdad.
The military says a US soldier was shot to death Saturday during fighting in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad. Some 700 extra American troops have been sent to Baqouba to expand the security campaign against sectarian violence in Baghdad. Many Sunni Arab insurgents fled Baghdad ahead ...
DEBKAfile
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March 18, 2007, 6:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
The extra combat aviation brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division, stationed at Fort Stewart, Ga., will leave for Iraq in early May. The Army announced that, with their assault and transport helicopters, they will help with attack and reconnaissance missions, air assaults and raids and medical evacuation, in support of ...
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March 18, 2007, 6:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
The C-130 Hercules returned to the Talil air base airstrip when a burning smell seeped into the cockpit Saturday. The cause is unknown. Howard was rushed off the plane. The Australian PM then proceeded to Baghdad for secret talks with Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki, during which he pledged his country's ...
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March 18, 2007, 11:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Multi-National Force-Iraq Combined Press Center states that from Feb. 14 to March 13, 17 US military personnel were killed, compared with 42 in the previous month-period although larger numbers were deployed in the capital.
DEBKAfile
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March 16, 2007, 1:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Both Iran and Syria said Sunday US forces must withdraw from from Iraq because they are fueling the violence.
The conference decided on a follow-up at foreign ministers' level next month in Istanbul. Over the weekend, debkafile's military sources reveal American air contingents from the United States and Europe ...
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March 12, 2007, 7:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
He was seized with a group of six in an early Friday raid in northern town of Mosul. A US military statement said the Butcher was responsible for many kidnappings, beheadings and suicide operations in the Ramadi area of Anbar and in Mosul. Another eight members of an insurgent courier ...
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March 9, 2007, 12:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
Earlier, another 11 Iraqi Shiite pilgrims died in bombing and shooting attacks, the day after 120 were killed, 190 wounded on their way to Karbala shrine. The bloodiest occurred in Hilla south of Baghdad where two suicide bombers killed more than 100 pilgrims, wounding 147.
DEBKAfile
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March 9, 2007, 12:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, 9 American soldiers died in two incidents north of Baghdad Monday - six by an exploding bomb near their vehicle on a combat mission in Salahuddin province, three by a roadside bomb in Diyala province. All nine were members of Task Force Lightning.
DEBKAfile
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March 7, 2007, 6:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Among them were Arab and foreign jihadist fighters. A large number of gunmen armed with light and medium weapons overwhelmed the guards. A US helicopter was summoned and killed five escapees before taking control of the prison.
DEBKAfile
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March 6, 2007, 10:34 AM (GMT+02:00)
Many of the shops on Mutanabi Street were set on fire by a car bomb. A second explosion hit emergency care personnel.
US and Iraqi forces in the third week of their major crackdown to curb sectarian violence in Baghdad report a reduction in the killing but say car bombs ...
DEBKAfile
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March 5, 2007, 11:41 AM (GMT+02:00)
Fourteen Iraqi police officers kidnapped Friday in Diyala were found dead in Baqouba.
Interior ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Abdul-Kairm Khalaf, who reported finding the 14 bodies with slit throats blamed al Qaeda for the killings. |
