Iraq is the name that at once makes us think of miseries and sufferings. These names are now tagged with Iraq where the landscape is of violence, corruption, deception, and unprecedented mayhem making survival tough. Incidents one after the other are leading it from bad to worse. Nevertheless, here are the glimpses of Iraq this week
September 23, 2007
The car bomb attacks and the roadside bombs are among the main causes of US troops’ death in Iraq and the occupying forces have failed to stop these even after the six years seize. In a latest attack on the US soldiers, one was killed and another was injured seriously in a sophisticated armored-piercing roadside bomb attack in the Iraqi capital.
September 24, 2007
The recurrent occurrences of violence and suicide attacks have caused havoc on civilians. Attacks one after the other have made the security forces to toil hard against Road side bombings, cars explosions, and the suicide bombs, but of no use.
Attacks and violence still go unabated putting question mark on US strategy and its claims to reduce violence. In such an incident on Monday, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a banquet intended to be a reconciliation feast between provincial officials and former Sunni insurgents in Iraqi town of Baquba, killed 18 people and injured 28 that include the high officials i.e. provincial governor, the regional police chief, and the local military commander.
September 25, 2007
The Iraqi interior ministry has said it has drafted legislation regulating private security companies following a shooting allegedly involving a US firm.The new code would require contractors to be subject to Iraqi law and to be monitored by the Iraqi government.
September 26, 2007
Iraqi PM Nouri-al- Maliki got a sigh of relief when the US president assured him of American support despite increasing US public’s anger at the war and the sluggish pace of Iraqi progress.
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Militants continue to strike with a stepped up campaign of violence across Iraq during the holy month of Ramadan and Wednesday alone witnessed six car bomb attacks wherein at least 30 people were killed and dozens injured.
In a significant development to crackdown the Kurdish militants, Turkey and Iraq have agreed on a deal to allow Turkish forces to cross into Iraq to pursue Kurdish rebels. A security accord in this regard would be signed on Thursday. Turkey and Iraq have altercations on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and former has threatened Iraq last month to take action against Kurdish militants within its borders or get ready to face the Turkish incursion.
Showing the imperialistic aspirations pretty clear US is planning to divide Iraq in three parts. In this regard, senate Showing rare bipartisan consensus over war policy overwhelmingly endorsed a political settlement for dividing Iraq into three semi-autonomous regions.
September 27, 2007
In a revealing from Iraq, a meeting that was held on Feb. 22, 2003 between President Bush and his Spanish counterpar, less than a month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein signaled that he was willing to go into exile as long as he could take with him $1 billion and information on weapons of mass destruction.
September 28, 2007
In a latest development in Iraq, US forces carried out an air strike killing at least 10 people, including women and children, in a building in a mainly Sunni area of Baghdad. The raid targeted a building in the Al-Saha neighbourhood in southwestern Baghdad where families were sleeping. This is another major incident after Blackwater episode wherein 11 civilians had died.
Senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed in a US air strike near Baghdad on Tuesday. Gen Joseph Anderson of US army said the death of Abu Osama al-Tunisi, who had led a group of foreign militants in Iraq, was a major blow to the organization.
September 29, 2007
A Syrian cleric suspected of recruiting foreign militants to fight in Iraq has been shot dead in the Northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Sheikh Mahmoud Abu al-Qaqaa was shot several times by a gunman as he left the Imam Mosque after Friday prayers.
