Al-Qaeda in Iraq claims military centre attack
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 7, 2010 Al-Qaeda on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a coordinated attack last week on an Iraqi military centre that killed 12 people, according to a statement posted on a jihadist website. The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) said one of its militants blew himself up at one entrance to the Rusafa military command headquarters on Sunday while four other jihadists, wearing …
Projects for Iraq lost in waste land
KHAN BANI SAAD, Iraq | A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million wastewater treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets. As …
U.S. Says Killings Won t Affect Iraq Mission
The killings of two American soldiers by an Iraqi soldier appear to have stemmed from an argument that escalated into gunfire, Iraqi officials said.
Qaeda members held in Iraq
Iraqi police have arrested 11 suspected leading al-Qaeda members in the north of the country, an area plagued by attacks.
‘Everyone pays’ as Qaeda in Iraq turns to extortion
Mosul, Iraq (AFP) Sept 7, 2010 Al-Qaeda has increasingly turned to extortion and organised crime to fund its activities, with businesses bearing the brunt of intimidation, US and Iraqi commanders in northern Iraq told AFP. While the number of attacks in Mosul and the surrounding province of Nineveh has dropped and the smuggling of weapons across Iraq’s western border with Syria has declined …
Iraq attack on US soldiers shows ongoing vulnerabilities
In what appears to be the first attack on US soldiers after the official end of combat operations, a man thought to be an Iraqi Army soldier killed two American soldiers and wounded nine others.
Iraq police arrest brother of US soldiers’ killer
Police on Wednesday detained the brother of an Iraqi soldier killed after gunning down two American troops and wounding nine others, the first US deaths since combat operations were declared over.
Iraqi journalist, two policemen killed in northern Iraq
An Iraqi journalist and two policemen were killed in two attacks in Iraq’s northern Nineveh and Kirkuk provinces on Wednesday, local police source said.
Iraqi official foresees a U.S. military presence until 2016
Baghdad is buying American military gear and weapons, which have yet to arrive. U.S. forces must stay to train Iraqis on how to use them, Defense Minister Abdul Qader Obeidi says. Some form of U.S. military presence will be needed in Iraq at least until 2016 to provide training, support and maintenance for the vast quantity of military equipment and weaponry that Iraq is buying from America …
Gunmen kill Iraqi TV journalist in Mosul – Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq – Army Times
BAGHDAD Gunmen on Wednesday killed an Iraqi TV journalist, the second to be slain in Iraq in as many days, highlighting the dangers media workers continue to face in the country seven years after the U.S.-led invasion.
