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Supporters of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr say Iraqi troops have raided an al-Sadr Stronghold, killing one of his guards and arresting another. ...
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Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party Friday in the southern city of Basra, police said. Sheik Salim al-Dirraji was gunned down in the Hayania district, which had been a Stronghold of the Mahdi Army of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr until a s... ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 36 days ago
Michael Phelps may be a star in much of the world, with 8 gold medals from the Beijing Olympics hanging around his neck, but he's got a long ways to go before the swimmers of Baghdad's Sadr City district get familiar with his name. "The Chinese guy!" one youngster said as he waited with scores of other boys and young men to plunge into the turquoise water of a public pool that opened amid much fanfare Saturday. "Iraqis are into soccer," one man said, explaining the crowd's unfamiliarity with the world's most famous swimmer. Swimming pools aren't a luxury most Iraqis can enjoy, especially those living in poor and working-class districts like Sadr City, which until three months ago was a no-go area for just about anyone except U.S. and Iraqi military forces and the Shiite militiamen battling them for turf. Things have been quiet since May. Now, the military says the focus in this area has turned to rebuilding the shattered district, which is the Stronghold of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada Sadr, and that included reopening the al-Mithaq swimming pool. They couldn't have chosen a better day: the temperature was about 110. For the troops in battlegear watching over the event, and for anyone milling about on the concrete tiles surrounding the water, it felt much hotter. The heat didn't affect the ceremony surrounding the pool's inauguration, which Iraqi Army Lt. Col. Yahya Rasoul Abdullah said was neglected for years. Abdullah hopes the pool comp ... Source: www.kentucky.com --- 69 days ago
Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims gathered around a golden-domed shrine in a massive religious assembly in Baghdad on Tuesday, a day after three female suicide bombers struck their procession and killed 32 people. The black-clad pilgrims streamed toward the shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim in the northern neighborhood of Kazimiyah, where police set up checkpoints and searched them. Authorities have imposed a vehicle ban in the city and deployed tens of thousands of policemen in the streets in fear of further violence during Tuesday's pilgrimage. Meanwhile, a major military operation got under way Tuesday in the volatile Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, the Iraqi military said. Gen. Ali Ghaidan said the operation is aimed at clearing al-Qaida in Iraq militants from what's considered the last major insurgent Stronghold near the capital. ... Source: www.myrtlebeachonline.com --- 52 days ago
A woman suicide bomber struck Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and wounding scores of others after the government announced new measures to protect worshippers ahead of a major religious festival. Also Thursday, the U.S. military announced that six Navy guards face trial for allegedly assaulting prisoners and releasing pepper spray into a cellblock following a disturbance at the main U.S. prison in Iraq. The woman bomber detonated her explosives among a group of pilgrims resting by the side of a road in Iskandariyah, a former Sunni insurgent Stronghold 30 miles south of Baghdad. Women were cooking dinner, men were praying and children were playing nearby when the attacker struck, a witness said. ... Source: www.juancole.com --- 91 days ago
Patrick Cockburn reports from Baghdad that Mahmud Osman, a Kurdish MP, maintains that an attack on Iran by Israel or the US would plunge Iraq back into war. Cockburn points to two terrorist groups based in Iraq that the US Pentagon appears to be deploying against Iran. They are the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO) and the PEJAK or Iranian branch of the Kurdish Workers Party. The Iraqi parliament has discussed expelling the MEK. Gunmen on motorcycles shot down Sheikh Salim al-Darraji of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) in the al-Hayaniya slum of Basra on Friday. The district is a Stronghold of the Sadr Movement and had been attacked by the Iraqi Army, helped by the Badr Corps paramilitary of ISCI, in late March. The Mahdi Army militia of the Sadr Movement has gone underground under pressure from conventional forces, but is not so far underground that they will put up with ISCI officials operating openly in their territory. The Iraqi government has decided one of the contentious issues that was holding up the provincial elections law. It has forbidden political campaigns from using photos of non-candidates in their literature and posters. This move will prevent the Sadr Movement from showing pictures of the father of Muqtada al-Sadr, who founded the movement. But it will also prevent ISCI from using pictures of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who is popular and has great moral authority in the Shiite south. Campaigning in ... Source: www.myrtlebeachonline.com --- 57 days ago
The tanks were full of enough clean drinking water for some 200,000 Iraqis at a new distribution station in eastern Baghdad, but local officials struggled Saturday to agree on where it should go. The dilemma was an example of the obstacles facing the Iraqis and their American backers as they try to rebuild the country. The Iraqi government is flush with oil money, but officials often lack the know-how and experience to dole out the cash efficiently. U.S. soldiers and Iraqi officials began working on the water distribution site in the former Shiite militia Stronghold of New Baghdad in April - part of a broader strategy to provide immediate relief in hopes of boosting confidence in the Iraqi government and preventing militants from regaining support. ... Source: www.news-star.com --- 36 days ago
Iraqi police in this provincial backwater got a tip earlier this month that a suicide bomber was on the loose. They were even given his name, age and a description of his car. With all that, they still couldn’t stop him. Four days after the initial warning, 19-year-old Ashraf al-Yas talked his way through a police checkpoint, drove his vehicle into a crowded farmers market and detonated his explosives. He killed 28 people and injured 72. The attack raised questions about whether Iraqi forces are yet capable of protecting civilians from determined extremists as across the country, the Americans hand over primary responsibility for security to Iraqi soldiers and police. The U.S. insists the Iraqi army has made great progress in improving its operational capability. But there are still doubts about efficiency, training and professionalism among police, who must bear primary responsibility for maintaining security in the cities. U.S. forces only conduct occasional patrols in this northern Iraqi city of 220,000, settled mostly by Turkomen, an ethnic minority divided along religious lines here between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. Tal Afar’s Iraqi army units have been shifted to more troublesome Mosul, a nearby Stronghold of Sunni insurgents. After receiving the initial warning about a suicide bomber, Tal Afar police enforced a vehicle ban to try to keep the assailant off the streets. It’s an effective method but can’t be imposed for too long wi ... Source: TheState.com --- 52 days ago
A woman suicide bomber struck Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 18 people and wounding scores of others after the government announced new measures to protect worshippers ahead of a major religious festival. Also Thursday, the U.S. military announced that six Navy guards face trial for allegedly assaulting prisoners and releasing pepper spray into a cellblock following a disturbance at the main U.S. prison in Iraq. The woman bomber detonated her explosives among a group of pilgrims resting by the side of a road in Iskandariyah, a former Sunni insurgent Stronghold 30 miles south of Baghdad. Women were cooking dinner, men were praying and children were playing nearby when the attacker struck, a witness said. "Minutes after I passed the resting spot, I heard a big explosion. I turned my head and saw big flames," said Ahmed al-Saadi, a 34-year-old carpenter from Baghdad's Sadr City district. "We rushed to the scene and saw charred bodies, while wounded people were crying for help. Pots and burned prayer rugs were scattered all over the place." There were conflicting casualty tolls as is common in such attacks where bodies are mangled and idenitication is difficult. ... Source: timesunion.com --- 52 days ago
Female suicide attacker targeted Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad BAGHDAD -- A female suicide bomber struck Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 18 people and wounding scores of others.The bomber detonated her explosives among a group of pilgrims resting by the side of a road in Iskandariyah, a former Sunni insurgent Stronghold 30 miles south of Baghdad. There were conflicting casualty tolls, as is common in such attacks where bodies are mangled and identification is difficult. The U.S. military put the death toll at 18, including one policeman and 17 civilians, and said a lone female bomber was responsible. A senior provincial security officer said 26 people were killed and 75 wounded. The pilgrims were marching to the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, to celebrate the birth of Mohammed al-Mahdi, the 12th Shiite imam, who disappeared in the ninth century. In Karbala, police deployed about 2,000 additional troops in the city. Bikes and motorcycles were also banned from the center of the city around the two major religious shrines. Also Thursday, the U.S. military announced that six Navy guards face trial for allegedly assaulting prisoners and releasing pepper spray into a cellblock following a disturbance at the main U.S. prison in Iraq. The charges against the six Navy guards were in connection with a May 14 incident at Camp Bucca, the biggest American detention facility near the Ku ...
Source: www.hometownannapolis.com --- 93 days ago
Gunmen slay Shiite official in Iraq BAGHDAD - Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party yesterday in the southern city of Basra, police said. Sheik Salim al-Dirraji was gunned down in the Hayania district, which had been a Stronghold of the Mahdi Army of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr until a security crackdown last spring. Sheik al-Dirraji was a local official ... Published on 07/05/08 ... Source: www.wspa.com --- 67 days ago
4th District Rep. Bob Inglis just got back from visiting Iraq and three other nations. He tells News Channel 7, security in the Shiite Stronghold of Sadr City has improved so much. He says when he last visited Iraq in 2007, going to Sadr City was too dangerous. ... Source: www.dailystar.com.lb --- 68 days ago
Iraqi forces backed by US troops launched a major assault Tuesday against rebels in the Al-Qaeda Stronghold of Diyala while thousands of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad continued to flock to the holy shrine in Kadhimiyya under the cloud of Monday's deadly suicide attacks. ... Source: www.mcclatchydc.com --- 66 days ago
BAGHDAD — It seemed like another routine trip as the commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq boarded his helicopter in Amara, where a battalion of U.S. troops is based. Only two months ago, however, the smuggling hub on the Iranian border was a Stronghold of Shiite Muslim militants, a place that no American general without a death wish would visit. ... Source: www.moldova.org --- 1 day ago
An Iraqi soldier died Saturday evening when two U.S. Blackhawk helicopters collided while landing in Baghdad.Lt. Patrick Evans, a spokesman for the U.S. military, said the crash did not appear to be the result of insurgent fire, CNN reported. The UH-60 Blackhawks were landing at Combat Outpost Ford in northern Baghdad.Two U.S. and two Iraqi soldiers were hurt, Evans said. Another U.S. helicopter crashed late Saturday during a gunfight between Iraqi forces and insurgents in a Shiite Stronghold in eastern Baghdad, Interior Ministry officials said. The area had been sealed off whiel the fighting continued, and the number of casualties was unknown. ... Source: www.topix.com --- 97 days ago
A bomb exploded inside Sadr City's district council building Tuesday, killing 10 people, including four Americans working to restore local government and services in the former Shiite militia Stronghold. ... Find more results for Shiite Stronghold on RSSMicro.com |
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AP - Supporters of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr say Iraqi troops have raided an al-Sadr Stronghold, killing one of his guards and arresting another. ...
American money built this swimming pool in the Shiite Stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad. CNN Correspondent Arwa Damon reports that it cost the U.S. half a million dollars to build. The pool opened with great fanfare and children swimming laps for the cameras. Arwa tells us the first to hit the water were kids orphaned by the war. Are there any girls in that pool? ...
Hundreds of women in black abayas crowd outdoor food markets, snapping up groceries and fresh vegetables. Stores are open again. Children play soccer on dirt fields until dusk - or later, when there's electricity. Women shop for fish at a marketplace in the Shiite Stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Thusday, July 3, 2008. This is Sadr City, where black-clad militiamen of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army once enforced discipline across the sprawling slum of 3 million people, half of Baghdad's population. A woman buys a colorful cloth in the Shiite Stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 1, 2008. This is Sadr City, where black-clad militiamen of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army once enforced discipline across the sprawling slum of 3 million people, half of Baghdad's population. People pass stands with fresh fruit at a marketplace in the Shiite Stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 1, 2008. This is Sadr City, where black-clad militiamen of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army once enforced discipline across the sprawling slum of 3 million people, half of Baghdad's population. People protest while holding posters of the anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shiite Stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 4, 2008. This is Sadr City, where black-clad militiamen of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army once enforced discipline across the sprawlin ...
The U.S. military said Saturday it has released more than 10,000 detainees in Iraq so far this year - more than in all of 2007 - as it continues to try phase out its running of Iraqi prisons. People burn a symbolic U.S. flag in Baghdad's Shiite Stronghold of Sadr City, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. An Associated Press tally showed some 10 U.S. troop deaths during July 2008, the lowest figure since the war began more than five years ago. ...