Friday, July 29, 2005

IRAQ: 9 INSURGENTS KILLED BY MARINES

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)--9 Insurgents were killed in clashes against US Marines on Thursday.

The battle took place in the town of Cykla, near Haditha. Five Syrians were among the dead. A US military statement said that the fighters "were using buildings as safe houses and firing positions."

A convoy of US and Iraqi security forces were patrolling the area covered by airplanes when the insurgents attacked them using rocket-propelled grenades and small machine-guns. "Three laser-guided bombs and one global positioning system-guided bomb successfully destroyed all three buildings and caused minimal collateral damage to the surrounding community," said the military report.

Other developments

A Human Rights Watch official urged the Irai cabinet to review some of the political issues regarding women in Iraq. The new draft of the Iraqi constitution is expected for August 15, as requested by the US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. At that time the draft is expected to fit the international laws concerning women rights. Janet Walsh, director of Human Rights Watch expressed her point of view in a letter to the president of the parliamentary committee for the constitution, Humam Hamoudi :

"provisions of the constitution currently being drafted may erode some of the rights Iraqi women have worked so hard to establish, and in fact may violate international law on women's human rights."

Menawhile, two people were killed and four wounded when a group of insurgents attacked a train in southern Baghdad on Thursday.

CNN

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