Iraq: On Ground Updates
Iran Is Supporting Sunni Fighters in Iraq Too
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
... Wednesday, May 07, 2008
FOXNews.com brings us this report and it starts off like this... A Sunni fundamentalist from Kuwait who has been linked by the United Nations and the United States to Al Qaeda, said in an interview published Wednesday that Iran is supporting Sunni Arab insurgents fighting American troops in Iraq... The comments by Mubarak al-Bathali came just days after reports surfaced here that three Kuwaitis recently
carried out suicide bombings in Iraq, including a Kuwaiti who was a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner. Kuwaiti authorities have not confirmed those reports...Read the story at link below...
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> BBCNews.com has this report... A former Kuwaiti detainee at the US camp at Guantanamo Bay carried out a recent suicide bombing in northern Iraq, the US military has said...
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> Guardian.co.uk reports it this way... The Pentagon confirmed today that a Kuwaiti released from the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, three years ago carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq last month... The involvement of an ex-Guantanamo detainee will make it harder for civil rights lawyers in the US and Britain who have been fighting for the release of the remaining prisoners at the camp complex... Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi and two other Kuwaitis are reported by their families to have taken part in an attack on Iraqi security forces in Mosul, a northern city that is the scene of intense fighting... Although the families did not specify a date, seven people were killed in a suicide attack in Mosul on April 26...
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> Guardian.co.uk reports it this way... The Pentagon confirmed today that a Kuwaiti released from the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, three years ago carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq last month... The involvement of an ex-Guantanamo detainee will make it harder for civil rights lawyers in the US and Britain who have been fighting for the release of the remaining prisoners at the camp complex... Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi and two other Kuwaitis are reported by their families to have taken part in an attack on Iraqi security forces in Mosul, a northern city that is the scene of intense fighting... Although the families did not specify a date, seven people were killed in a suicide attack in Mosul on April 26...
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Above DoD file photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Sara Wood - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
* More on this story over the next few weeks I’m sure...
... .* CNN.com has this report this morning... A proposed election law could hurt the popular political movement of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr -- whose Mehdi Army militia followers have been battling U.S. and Iraqi troops in Baghdad's Sadr City... The bill, which was given its first reading Tuesday in Iraq's parliament, would ban parties with militias from taking part in provincial elections. The elections are slated to occur by October 1...
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Proposed Iraqi law could blunt anti-U.S. cleric's power
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* Telegraph.co.uk has this report that I for one found myself agreeing with Mr. Bolton on.
It starts off like this... John Bolton, America’s ex-ambassador to the United Nations has called for US air strikes on Iranian camps where insurgents are trained for war in Iraq...
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It starts off like this... John Bolton, America’s ex-ambassador to the United Nations has called for US air strikes on Iranian camps where insurgents are trained for war in Iraq...Read the full report at link below...
* nzherald.co.nz has this report that you will never see in the MSM. It starts like this... Iraq yesterday signed two deals worth US$5 billion ($6.37 billion) to buy 40 planes from Boeing and 10 planes from Canada's Bombardier to upgrade Iraqi Airways' ageing fleet, the finance minister said... The deals were signed by Finance Minister Bayan Jabr in a ceremony attended by Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as well as US, British and Canadian diplomats...
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* MNF-Iraq.com brings us this good news report... The Yusifiyah Wholesale Farmers’ Market had a grand reopening April 29 after closing four years ago... “This was the center of commerce for the city before the war,” said Capt. Steve McGregor, from Longwood, Fla., projects officer for 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). “It shut down because of all the fighting ... It was the main way the farmers in this agrarian society made their money.”... Now, the wholesale market may help turn a profit for local farmers. Regular markets only allow farmers to sell produce or goods a little at a time; at the wholesale market, people come to buy bulk produce by the kilogram...
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