The Iraq scenario is pushing towards nadir but this week is marked with the special development i.e. now the relations between al-Maliki and US are souring and in counter allegations US senators called for the ouster of Maliki and he blasted them with stringent grin ‘come to the senses people’. Here are some excerpts for what Iraq went through last week (20th To 26th August, 2007).
August 20, 2007
As a result of increasing sectarian violence in Iraq, Mohammed Ali al-Hassani, the governor of Muthanna province in oil rich southern Iraq, was killed in a roadside bomb and he is the second governor to be murdered within ten days. On the other hand, at least a dozen people were killed by bombs in Baghdad. A car bomb in the Sadr City of eastern Baghdad killed five and injured 20, while another car bomb near the entrance to the Justice Ministry killed seven.
August 21, 2007
Now the argument over Maliki’s functioning has started heating up and Democrats now want the leadership change in Iraq which was vociferously rejected by Maliki and said that he’ll find friends elsewhere. However, Maliki is in trouble, as he lost nearly half members of his cabinet to political boycotts and resignations.
August 22, 2007
A U.S. military Black Hawk helicopter crashed in the North of Baghdad, killing all 14 soldiers on board. In northern Iraq, a suicide truck bomber killed at least 20 people; however, a news agency put the death toll from that attack as high as 45.
August 23, 2007
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A Sunni leader in the Iraqi province of Diyala, who encouraged his community to confront al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed and militants also fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at other houses and a Sunni mosque. There are conflicting reports, but police in nearby Baquba said a total of 22 civilians died in the dawn attack.
August 24, 2007
US forces while searching for the weapons cache opened fire from helicopters in an overnight encounter with Shiite militants in western Baghdad killing 18 that include women and children who were sleeping on their rooftops, on the other hand, US military confirmed killing 18 enemy combatants than civilians. In another raid in the town of Tarmiya to the North of Baghdad, US forces claimed to kill seven militants.
Political instability looms over Maliki government as the secularist bloc in the parliament announced that its ministers, who had been boycotting cabinet meetings, would quit the government altogether. And Washington has dispatched an additional 30,000 troops to Iraq.
August 25, 2007
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The deadliest day of the war in August 2005, occurred when a Shiite procession over a bridge in Baghdad turned chaotic after a rumor spread that a suicide bomber was in the crowd. About 1,000 people on their way to the Kadhimiyah shrine died in the resulting stampede
And a car bomb blast on the same day on the outside of a prominent Shiite shrine in Baghdad killed at least five people at the start of a major religious ceremony. Another bomb exploded at noon outside near to same shrine killed nine and injured 27 people.
August 26, 2007
A Kurdish security official alleged that a US helicopter attacked two Kurdish police outposts killing four policemen, wounding eight and two police vehicles also were destroyed.
Fighting broke out between US troops and Shiite militiamen in Kut, southeast to Baghdad wherein eight Iraqis, including two women, were killed and six others were wounded.
Finally, it seems that the war in Iraq will prolong denying Iraqis the moments of respite. How long this violence will continue one hardly knows. The demand for the troop withdrawal is rising but the bitter truth perhaps is it hardly will solve the crises there. Therefore, why to take fatigue in Iraq? Why not to let the Iraqis to face the situation? Why to spend the mammoth amount and sacrifice soldiers and that too to face allegations and criticism. US should think otherwise or plan the troop surge either.
