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Iraq misery and the horrendous incidents one after the other send shudder to the spine. These are mere the glimpses and the scenario in Iraq is grimmer than what it actually seems to be. This was imminent when US has let loose the likes of Blackwater to work whimsically for causing havoc on the innocent civilians. There are many other factors that provokes one to ask some question but who to put answer forth - None. And right now, I remember the lines of Robert Browne who in one of his poems says, ‘God is in his heavens and every thing is fine with the world,’ but in Iraq it’s exactly the opposite of above saying. Meanwhile, here are some excerpts that what Iraq went through last week.
September 16, 2007
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Violence is something that goes on unabated in Iraq and scores of loyal al-Qaeda militants attacked Shiite Muslim villages to the North of Baghdad on Sunday killing more than a dozen people. Govt. officials are not even far from the wrath of these Islamic militants and after killing the province’s governor in a road side bombing last week, now the Shiite Police Col. Karim Abdul Hussein was gunned down near his home in Afak, an area to the East of the southern provincial capital of Diwaniya.
September 17, 2007
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Following the reports of a US based company involving in gunfire resulting in the killing of the elevan civilians, Iraq has cancelled the license of that private security contractor Blackwater, USA. The Iraqi interior ministry confirmed that North Carolina based company has now been banned from operating anywhere in Iraq.
Amid the fears of collapse, Iraq’s main Shiite parliamentary bloc has urged the political movement loyal to anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to reconsider its decision to quit the ruling Shiite Alliance.
September 18, 2007
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After a US based company that was involved in a gunfire resulting in the killing of eight civilians, now the Iraqi government is looking to review the status of all private companies operating in Iraq. Iraqi govt. is willing to determine whether the companies are working in perfect compliance of Iraqi law or not.
Violence is something that Iraq comes across everyday. In a latest incident seven people were killed when a car bomb and a mortar shell blasted in Baghdad’s main morgue where families were searching for the dead bodies of their missing relatives.
September 19, 2007
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In a major upheaval Al-Qaeda militants in Iraq have started making their presence felt openly. This comes to fore when after two days battle with Sunni insurgent group, it seized the control of a village in the restive province of Diyala, making mockery of US claims to quell sectarian violence.
In another success against militants, Iraqi troops killed 14 militants in clashes in the northern city of Mosul, following a failed suicide car bomb attack on an Iraqi army base in the city’s eastern sector.
September 20, 2007
After the repeated US allegations on Iran for helping the terrorists in Iraq against coalition forces, now the argument is heating up on the same issue. US led forces claimed to have arrested an Iranian officer in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya whom they call as the member of the Quds force of the Iranian revolutionary Guards.
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Even if the violence goes unabated in Iraq US yet again appears with the false claims to have attained success in quelling the violence. Lt Gen Ray Odierno, US deputy commander in Iraq, claimed that violence in Baghdad has fallen by 50% in 2007 - a claim that perhaps no body is willing to believe.
September 21, 2007
Amid the frustration on the failure of the Iraq war, US senate failed to pass the legislation for the troop withdrawal from Iraq. Senate remained divided on Gen. David Petraeus’ Report that states that considerable success has been achieved in Iraq.
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In separate incidents in violent Iraq where violence is a recurrent phenomenon two aides of the Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah, have been shot dead in Southern Iraq. One of them, Amjad al-Janabi was killed near a mosque in Basra and the other, Ahmad al-Barqawi, was killed when he was driving back home to the city of Diwaniya increasing the tally of killed Ayatollah aides to five since June.
September 22, 2007
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After the Blackwater firing that resulted in the killing of the eleven civilians, the private security firm gets the nod to carry on with its functioning in Iraq. Well, this was expected to happen because these private security firms has been given the immunity from the US or Iraqi laws. After the horrendous episode, the nod for the company to keep get going has again put question mark on US’s working and its strategies in Iraq. Oh... why one is surprised because the same is happening for the long time in Iraq but alas, a few incidents come to fore showing US cutting sorry figures in Iraq.
