Iraq: On Ground Updates
Friday, May 09, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
PajamasMedia.com brings us this report this morning by Omar Fadhil and he starts it off like this... The Iraqi minister of defense pushed the debate with the Iranians over their provision of weapons to Shia militias one more step on Monday. Minister Abdul Qadir Obeidi indirectly confronted the Iranians, without naming them, with new findings that prove their involvement in the arming of Shia militias... On Monday, state-owned al-Sabah published a statement by the minister in which he spoke of the capture of a certain type of rocket that was never found in militia-held caches until now...
Read Omar’s troubling report in full at link below...
Iranian-Made Rocket Discovered Near Basra Alarms Iraqis
* CHRON.com has this report today... Shiite militants launched rockets toward the fortified Green Zone on Friday, taking advantage of a sandstorm that gave cover from attacks by U.S. aircraft. Some rockets fell short, including one that damaged the British Broadcasting Corp. bureau... At least five other rocket explosions were heard. But U.S. authorities did not confirm any strikes inside the Green
Zone, which includes the U.S. Embassy and much of the Iraqi government...
Read the rest at link below...
Rocket hits BBC bureau in Baghdad
* About Photo: Corporal Steven Lowry of RCT-1 Echo Company 2nd Battalion 24th Marines watches an Iraqi boy at a school in Saqlawiyah, Iraq, February 28, 2008. I MEF is deployed with Multi National Force-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in Al Anbar to develop Iraqi security forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction.
Read Omar’s troubling report in full at link below...
Iranian-Made Rocket Discovered Near Basra Alarms Iraqis
* CHRON.com has this report today... Shiite militants launched rockets toward the fortified Green Zone on Friday, taking advantage of a sandstorm that gave cover from attacks by U.S. aircraft. Some rockets fell short, including one that damaged the British Broadcasting Corp. bureau... At least five other rocket explosions were heard. But U.S. authorities did not confirm any strikes inside the Green
Zone, which includes the U.S. Embassy and much of the Iraqi government...Read the rest at link below...
Rocket hits BBC bureau in Baghdad
* About Photo: Corporal Steven Lowry of RCT-1 Echo Company 2nd Battalion 24th Marines watches an Iraqi boy at a school in Saqlawiyah, Iraq, February 28, 2008. I MEF is deployed with Multi National Force-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in Al Anbar to develop Iraqi security forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction.
Marines photo by Lance Cpl. Erin A. Kirk
* PressTV.ir reports... The United States military in Iraq says that a man detained in the northern city of Mosul is not in fact the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq...
'Iraq al-Qaeda leader still at large'
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