More "wonderful" news from Dumbya's "valley of peace" :
01/11/05 CENTCOM: 1 MEF Soldier Killed In Al Anbar Province
A Marine assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action on Jan.11, while conducting security and stability operations in the Al Anbar Province.
01/11/05 AAP: Only 8,500 Fallujah residents return
About 85,000 Fallujah residents - from a total population of 300,000 - have gone back to inspect their houses and general conditions in the city, but only about 10 per cent of those decided to stay, said Jennifer Pagonis ...
01/11/05 Reuters: Rebels Kill 20 in Pre-Election Attacks in Iraq
Guerrillas killed 20 people in attacks in Iraq Tuesday, and Prime Minister Iyad Allawi acknowledged what he called pockets of the country would be too unsafe for voting in a Jan. 30 election.
01/11/05 Telegraph Group Limited: Eighteen dead in latest Iraq attacks
Eighteen people have been killed in the latest string of attacks to threaten Iraq's Jan 30 elections.
01/11/05 AFP: Bulgarian Trucks Stranded at Border Between Iraq and Syria
Iraq has closed its border with Syria to truck traffic until after January 30 elections, reported AFP citing a foreign ministry official in Lebanon.
01/11/05 KUNA: Iraqi police kills 4 foreign militants, arrests 9 others in Najaf
Iraqi Police Tuesday engaged in a shooting with a militants' group in Najaf, South of the capital Baghdad, and the incident led to the killing of four and arrest of nine foreign militants as well as seizure of four booby-trapped vehicles
01/11/05 Seacoast Online: Wound to soldier less serious than first thought
A gunshot wound suffered by Seabrook police Officer Michael Cawley during fighting in Iraq last week was less serious than initial reports indicated. Cawley, 41, said the reports that he was shot through the right arm and hand were incorrect.
01/11/05 RIA Novosti: Unknown Militant Group Declares War on Extremists in Iraq
An unknown militant group Saraya Iraqna has declared war on extremists acting on the territory of Iraq. The first official message of the group says it aims at “a relentless fight against all kinds of terrorists and Wahabits in the country”.
01/11/05 Reuters: Iraq forced to cut southern oil exports by 10 pct
Iraq will cut its Basra Light crude oil supply contracts by 10 per cent from Feb 1 through to June due to technical problems, a senior Iraqi oil official said on Tuesday.
01/11/05 Gazette: Billings native wounded by Iraq car bomb
Second Lt. Eivind O. Forseth, 31, received injuries to his right arm and eye in the incident on Jan. 4. Forseth, a ranger with the 82nd Airborne, has been hospitalized in Germany but will be flown to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., today.
01/11/05 Penn.Live Area Guard unit fights in Beiji
"I actually have a company in contact with the enemy in Beiji right now." "They've got a tank platoon and a Bradley section that's attached to me. They took a RPG attack downtown in Beiji, and they're maneuvering right now to deal with the threat.
01/11/05 AP: 13 Iraqis Killed in Two Bombing Attacks
At dawn on Tuesday, an explosion tore through a gas pipeline between Kirkuk and a refinery in Beiji. An official with the Northern Oil Company said the pipeline was destroyed and would take five days to repair.
01/11/05 RIA Novosti: UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT DEMANDS PULLOUT FROM IRAQ
The resolution On the Withdrawal of the Ukrainian Peacekeeping Force from the Republic of Iraq, introduced by Pyotr Simonenko, the leader of the Communist Party faction, was supported by 308 MPs, with 226 votes required.
01/11/05 VOA: Car Bomb Blast in Tikrit Kills Six Iraqi Policemen
The U.S. military in Iraq says at least six Iraqi policemen were killed in a car bomb explosion in the northern town of Tikrit Tuesday.
01/11/05 Xinhuanet: Gunmen kill 8, abduct 3 in Iraqi "triangle of death"
Unidentified gunmen attacked a minibus traveling south of Baghdad, killing eight Iraqis and abducting three others, the Iraqi police said on Tuesday.
01/11/05 AP: 13 Iraqis Killed in Two Bombing Attacks
A roadside bomb that missed a passing U.S. military convoy killed seven Iraqis in a minibus on Tuesday, police and hospital sources said, while a suicide car bomb at police headquarters in Tikrit killed six. |
