Saturday, October 22, 2005

Iraqi Policeman killed

A bomb blast has killed a policeman south of Baghdad while mortar fire targeting northern and western areas in the capital injured another. ...

Aljazeera
An Iraqi and U.S. Army Soldier provide security in Samarra. Pic: Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway, U.S. Air Force

Iraq Pictures
Il Romanaccio at 11:00 AM


Hussein co-defendant's lawyer killed

Attorney was abducted from his office

The attorney for one of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's co-defendants was found shot in the head hours after he was abducted by gunmen, police said Friday.

Sadoon Janabi was working in his office in Baghdad when five gunmen stormed in and abducted him, according to police. ...

CNN
Il Romanaccio at 10:57 AM

Friday, October 21, 2005

SSG Chuck Hipple cleans his weapon on a Stryker vehicle prior to providing an over watch while U.S. Army Soldiers and U.S. Marines look for weapons caches and insurgents east of the Syrian border by the Euphrates River.. Hipple is with the 4th Battalion, 14th Cavalry, 2nd Platoon, out of Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Pic: Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway, U.S. Air Force

Iraq Pictures
Il Romanaccio at 4:29 PM


Syria rejects UN report

Syria has rejected a UN investigation into the murder of a former Lebanese premier, calling it politically biased.

"It is a political statement against Syria based on allegations by witnesses known for their hostility to Syria," Mehdi Dakhlallah, Syria's information minister, told Aljazeera in the first official reaction from Damascus to the report. ...

Aljazeera
Il Romanaccio at 4:27 PM

Thursday, October 20, 2005
Iraqi soldiers assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, Forward Operating Base Fallock, interview a local resident of Baqubah. Pic: Senior Airman Ave I. Pele, U.S. Air Force

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Il Romanaccio at 4:22 PM


Iraqis sound off on Saddam's day in court
By Maki Al-Nazzal in Baghdad, Iraq

The televised trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has done little to assuage Iraqis of their chronic insecurity and has left many of them divided as to his fate.

Some Iraqis seemed indifferent about Saddam being brought to court on 19th October to face charges of killing up to 148 Shia Arabs in Dujail in the Salah al-din province, 60km north of Baghdad. ...

Aljazeera
Il Romanaccio at 4:19 PM

Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Saddam Hussein on Trial for '82 massacre

Saddam Hussein is going on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

The former Iraqi leader, along with seven associates, is charged with ordering the killing of 143 Shia men in 1982 in Dujail. ...

BBC

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Aljazeera
Il Romanaccio at 11:55 AM

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Iraq poll panel to audit vote

Iraq's independent electoral commission has said it is verifying the ballot count from the country's constitutional referendum and will have to delay the announcement of a final result.

Figures provided by several governorates required "re-examination, comparison and verification because they are relatively high compared with international averages for elections" of this kind, a statement by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq said on Monday. ...

Aljazeera
Il Romanaccio at 12:29 PM

Monday, October 17, 2005

Three killed in the West Bank

Three Israeli citizens were killed and four others wounded by a fighter in the Jewish settlement of Gush Etzion on Sunday. Meanwhile, an Islamic Jihad leader was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in a gun battle near the town of Jenin, in the northwestern West Bank.

According to Israeli sources, the attack took place at a bus stop situated about 15km south of Jerusalem. Israel Radio said that the attackers could be members of the "al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades".

An eye witness from the settlement, Shaul Goldstein, told Israeli Radio,

"A Palestinian passed by in a car, let off a burst of fire, and struck down people standing at the hitchhiking post. There are wounded and apparently fatalities too."

In a separate shooting incident, another Israeli was wounded. An Israeli task force was sent to the area of Bethlehem in order to find those who carried out the assault.

A similar attack happened in June this year, close to the settlement of Hebron, when another gunman killed two Jewish teenagers.

In the second West Bank attack, another Israeli citizen was reported seriously injured by the local rescue service in the settlement of Eli. The young Islamic Jihad leader in the town of Burkin, Nihad Abu Ghanim, (27) was shot dead near Jenin and according to the Palestinian hospital officials, he was hit in the head, abdomen and chest.

The incidents have broken a period of tacit cease fire decided by the Palestinian factions last year. Aljazeera underlines how the attacks happened shortly after the arrest of hundreds of suspects in and around the West Bank, and as a result, "Armed resistance groups had vowed revenge".

The withdrawal of settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip was completed in September after 38 years of occupation, but the Israeli government is enlarging its settlements in the West Bank while the Palestinian people are counting on that land as part of their future state.

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