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'Death to Ahmadinejad,' Iranian crowds cry
TEHRAN, March 19 (UPI) --
Many Iranian youths rallied in streets across the country, shouting "Death to Ahmadinejad," in celebrations marking the end of the Persian calendar year. The last Wednesday of the Persian calendar is celebrated as the Fire Festival in Iran, with bonfires and firecrackers marking the occasion. In the western city of Ahvaz, angry mobs declared "Freedom is our legitimate right" while demonstrators in the western city of Sanandaj shouted "Death to (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad," Ynetnews reported Wednesday. The police in Tehran were out in force and, though they were met with a barrage of firecrackers, the situation didn't escalate beyond what is typical for the Fire Festival, local reports cited in the news report said. Ahmed Raza-Radan, the police chief in Tehran, warned demonstrators against violating the rule of law in a news conference. "The police force has resolved to detain any party-goers who break the law. The secret police will have full control, and will not hesitate to photograph citizens for evidence," he said. Cited from: www.breitbart.com
Hamas ready for talks with rival
The Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, has said it has agreed to hold reconciliation talks with the rival Fatah group of President Mahmoud Abbas.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya suggested it might be willing to relinquish control of Gaza, which it seized from Fatah in June, in a statement on its website. Mr Haniya said his group's control of the coastal territory was "temporary". Mr Abbas has ruled out reconciliation with Hamas until it gives up the Gaza Strip and submits to his authority. After Hamas ejected Fatah from Gaza, Mr Abbas declared Mr Haniya's coalition government void and appointed a new prime minister. "There is a serious movement in the realm of Palestinian dialogue and we have agreed to hold a dialogue with Fatah in one of the Arab capitals," Mr Haniya said in the statement. "Our administration in Gaza is temporary," he added. A Fatah official in Gaza told the Reuters news agency that he could not immediately confirm that the reconciliation talks would take place, but another official said they might happen as early as next week in Cairo. Cited from: news.bbc.co.uk
Turkey-Iraq agree security pact
First published @ http://news.bbc.co.uk
Turkish and Iraqi interior ministers ironed out most of their differences Iraq and Turkey have signed a security agreement aimed at curbing the activities of the Turkish Kurdish separatist group, the PKK. However, the final agreement does not include a key Turkish proposal that its troops be allowed to pursue PKK fighters over the border into Iraq. The proposal had been strongly opposed by the Kurdish officials in Iraq.
Military Officials in Iraq Fault states a GAO Report
Washington Post Staff WritersWednesday, September 5, 2007; Page A01
A bleak portrait of the political and security situation in Iraq released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office sparked sharp protests from the top U.S. military command in Baghdad, whose officials described it as flawed and "factually incorrect." The controversy followed last-minute changes made in the final draft of the report after the Defense Department maintained that its conclusions were too harsh and insisted that some of the information it contained -- such as the extent of a fall in the number of Iraqi army units capable of operating without U.S. assistance -- should not appear in the final, unclassified version.
Warnings of Iraq refugee crisisAid workers have warned of a growing crisis for refugees who have fled Iraq. A humanitarian spokesman told the BBC that neighbouring countries where most Iraqis have fled to are closing their doors "one by one" to Iraqis. About 2m Iraqis live in increasingly difficult conditions in countries like Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon.
Active Duty Soldiers Call for An End to the Occupation of IraqMon, 18 Dec 2006 15:53:32 -0800 @ http://www.guerrillanews.com/ Summary: It is a little reported fact that many in the military ranks are becoming more and more vocal about their disillusionment with the war in Iraq and the "War on Terror" in general. For the first time since Vietnam, many in the rank and file have made public their disconcertment with the status quo in the military. Many have begun to question their orders of deployment and have not gone AWOL, but have stood up to the military and the government. Many face dishonorable discharges and prison time for their actions.
Iraqi death toll hits record high
The Iraqi death toll hit a record high in October, with more than 3,700 people losing their lives in the ongoing violence, according to a UN report.
"Jetzt haben wir unser Abu Ghraib"
Pünktlich zum veröffentlichten Weißbuch lösen die Fotos von Bundeswehr-Soldaten, die eine Leiche schänden, einen Skandal aus.
Die Stimmung bei der Bundeswehr kann nach den schockierenden Bilder aus Afghanistan nicht tiefer sinken. Unterdessen befürchten einige, die Sicherheit der Bundeswehr sei dadurch gefährdet.
Bush berät mit seinen Generälen eine neue TaktikDie amerikanischen Soldaten geraten im Irak immer stärker unter Druck. Allein seit Anfang Oktober kamen 75 Amerikaner ums Leben. Die zunehmende Gewalt zwingt den US-Präsidenten zum Handeln.
Iraq: Life before and after sanctionsBy Sarah al-Ansary Monday 11 August 2003, 18:46 Makka Time, 15:46 GMT @ english.aljazeera.net History may have never recorded a harsher and more inhuman regime of sanctions than those imposed on Iraq in the name of the UN. It obliterated people's lives and crippled their economy.The following figures attest to that heart-breaking reality beyond any doubt.
Iraqi MPs approve federalismWednesday 11 October 2006, 18:45 Makka Time, 15:45 GMT @ english.aljazeera.net Iraqi MPs agreed to delay the implementation for 18 months Iraq's parliament has approved a law that sets out the mechanics of forming federal regions; an issue that Sunni Arab leaders fear might divide the country into tiny helpless entities.
Iran sanctions would badly affect world energy market
Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN -- Damla Arias, a Turkish Weekly correspondent in Britain, argues any U.S. efforts to impose sanctions on Iran will greatly impact the global energy market. In an interview with the Mehr News Agency on October 1, she said any sanctions will increase anti-American, ant-Western and anti-Israeli sentiments in the Middle East. The interview followed the approval of a bill by the U.S. Senate on September 28 to penalize companies doing business with Iran.
Kriegs-Folgen: 650 000 Iraker gestorben
London - Durch die Folgen des Irak-Kriegs sind laut einer Untersuchung fast 655 000 Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Die Studie amerikanischer und irakischer Ärzte wurde vom britischen Medizin-Journal «The Lancet» online veröffentlicht.
bert / Quelle: sda / Mittwoch, 11. Oktober 2006 / 18:50 h - zitiert aus: www.nachrichten.ch
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Sept 13
13 Sep 2006 08:26:09 GMT @ www.alertnet.org/
Sept 13 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq reported on Wednesday, as of 0930 GMT:
BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting police guards at an electricity substation in the Zayouna district of eastern Baghdad killed eight people and wounded 19, police said.
BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb which blasted his vehicle late on Tuesday south of Baghdad, the military said in a statement.
BAGHDAD - A total of 60 unidentified bodies were found with gunshot wounds in the head and most of them showed sings of torture in various parts of Baghdad over the past day, an Interior Ministry source said.
BAGHDAD - A bomb in a parked car in central Baghdad killed 14 people, including two policemen, and wounded 57. It targeted police vehicles near the traffic police headquarters during the morning rush hour, police sources said.
BAGHDAD - Four people were wounded, including a traffic policeman, when two mortar rounds landed in central Baghdad near the Muthana military base, an Interior Ministry source said.
SUWAYRA - Police retrieved the bodies of four people, including a woman, from the Tigris river in the town of Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
ANBAR PROVINCE - A U.S. soldier died on Monday from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Anbar province, the U.S. military said in a statement.
SAMAWA - Four people were wounded when two mortar rounds landed in two different districts in the southern city of Samawa, 270 km (170 miles) south of Baghdad, on Tuesday night, police said.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
BAGHDAD - The trial of Saddam Hussein and six co-accused for the killing of tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds in 1988 resumes on Wednesday with more witnesses giving testimony. TEHRAN - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki continued his two-day visit to Iran.
FACTBOX - Military and civilian deaths in Iraq
Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:23am ET @ reuters.com
(Reuters) - A U.S. soldier died on Monday from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
Following are the latest figures for military deaths in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003:
U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:
United States 2,670 Britain 118 Other nations 115 IRAQIS: Military Between 4,900 and 6,375# Civilians Between 41,860 and 46,537* # = Think-tank estimates for military under Saddam Hussein killed during the 2003 war. No reliable official figures have been issued since new security forces were set up in late 2003. * = From www.iraqbodycount.net, run by academics and peace activists, based on reports from at least two media sources. The IBC says on its Web site the figure underestimates the true number of casualties.
Baghdad death squads kill 60
Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:35am ET
By Alastair Macdonald @ www.today.reuters.com/
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Police recovered 60 bodies over the past day across Baghdad, most bound and tortured, officials said on Wednesday, highlighting how sectarian death squads are still plaguing the Iraqi capital despite a major security drive.
Two car bombs targeting police killed 22 people during the morning and wounded another 76 people. The first killed 14 outside Baghdad's traffic police headquarters, a second targeted police guarding an electricity station in the east of the city.
The death of another U.S. soldier was confirmed in Anbar province, where the commander denied suggestions his force had lost control to al Qaeda and other Sunni insurgents but said stabilizing the western desert region would be a job for Iraqi politicians and their growing, U.S.-trained troops and police.
A U.S. soldier was also killed overnight near Baghdad.
U.S. and Iraqi leaders say that the biggest threat to Iraq no longer comes from the three-year-old revolt among ousted president Saddam Hussein's fellow Sunni Muslims but from conflict between Sunnis and the Shi'ite majority now in power.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was in Iran for a second day of meetings. His fellow Shi'ite Islamist leaders pledged support for Iraq and efforts to avert civil war, drawing a wary response from Washington which accused Tehran of funding militants there.
An Interior Ministry official and sources at Baghdad police headquarters said a total of 60 unidentified bodies were found in various parts of Baghdad over the past day.
The unusually high daily tally, recorded despite a month-old security crackdown by reinforced U.S. and Iraqi troops, comprised 45 in west Baghdad and 15 east of the Tigris river.
Most were bound and shot in the head and many bore signs of torture, the source said -- trademarks of sectarian death squads and kidnap gangs plaguing the Iraqi capital.
DAILY TOLL
The United Nations estimated two months ago that about 100 people a day were being killed in a covert sectarian dirty war. U.S. military commanders have said the increased presence of troops on the street, sweeping through violent neighborhoods to prepare them for Iraqi police control, had reduced the "murder rate" by more than 40 percent in August. That figure included individual shootings but not bigger attacks such as bombings. Last week, the U.N. office in Baghdad said the number of unidentified bodies taken to the city morgue in August fell by about 17 percent from the record month of July to 1,536. Morgue officials, who have stopped giving data to the media, say that about 90 percent of the bodies they see are victims of violence. The Health Ministry has yet to publish its complementary full data for other violent deaths in August. Figures for July put the total at more than 3,000 people, concentrated in Baghdad, where more than one in four Iraqis live. The killings have made tens of thousands flee areas where they are in a minority and hardening a divide along the Tigris between mainly Sunni west Baghdad and the mainly Shi'ite east. Maliki's four-month-old unity government is pursuing a "national reconciliation plan" to avert all-out civil war but major strains are clear between rival factions, notably over how far the oil-rich Shi'ite south can have autonomy from Baghdad. Maliki was due to meet Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Wednesday on his first official visit to Iran, which Saddam's Iraq fought a bloody eight-year war through the 1980s. Saddam's trial for genocide against the Kurds in 1988 continued in Baghdad with the prosecution, in an unusual move, asking the judge to resign for being too lenient in letting the defendants make speeches and intimidating comments to witnesses. The judge refused. (Additional reporting by Mussab Al-Khairalla, Aseel Kami and Ibon Villelabeitia) ((Editing by Ralph Boulton)
Irak-Iraq: "Anfal" - Grausamer Höhepunkt der Kurden-VerfolgungHinter der so genannten Operation Anfal verbirgt sich der grausame Höhepunkt der Verfolgung von Kurden durch das Regime des früheren irakischen Staatschefs Saddam Hussein. Die "Operation Anfal" bestand aus einer Reihe von Militäreinsätzen im Nordirak zwischen 1987 und 1989. Anfang 1987 soll Saddam seinem als "Chemie-Ali" bekannt gewordenen Cousin Ali Hassan al Madschid den Befehl gegeben haben, gegen die Kurden dort vorzugehen, die sich immer mehr seiner Kontrolle unterzogen. "Anfal" bedeutet "Kriegsbeute". Bombardierungen, Gasangriffe, Folter und Hinrichtungen Die irakische Armee soll bei der Bombardierung der "verbotenen Zonen" auch Senf- und Nervengas eingesetzt haben. Der mit chemischen Waffen ausgeführte Angriff auf das Dorf Halabdscha fällt in diese Zeit, wird aber nicht als Teil das "Anfal"-Prozesses gewertet, sondern extra behandelt. Allein bei diesem Angriff wurden 5000 Menschen getötet. Allen sieben Angeklagten werden Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit vorgeworfen. Der Vorwurf des Völkermords richtet sich nur gegen Saddam und al Madschid. Die Anklage stützt sich auf Aussagen von Überlebenden und Beweise, die in Massengräbern gefunden wurden.
Tachles.ch: MONTAG - AM RANDE DES KRIEGES IN NORDISRRAEL07.08.2006 Auf Messers Schneide Nach dem für Israel bisher blutigsten Tag des Hizbollah-Krieges stand am Montag früh der Gang der Dinge auf Messers Schneide. Premierminister Ehud Olmert und Verteidigungsminister Amir Peretz stellten eine harte Antwort in Aussicht und beriefen die Spitzen des Sicherheitsestablishments zu sich, um das weitere Vorgehen zu besprechen.
Tachles.ch: SONNTAG: NOTIZEN AM RANDE DES KRIEGES IN NORDISRAEL
06.08.2006
Alarm ignoriert
Elf Tote und zwölf teils schwer Verletzte – das sind die Folgen des bisher schwerwiegendsten Raketenangriffs der Hizbollah. Er galt am Sonntag Mittag einen Parkplatz beim Kibbutz Kfar Giladi unweit von Kiryat Shmone. Augenzeugen berichteten Medien gegenüber, auf dem Platz seien viele Menschen versammelt gewesen, die grösstenteils das Ertönen der Alarmsirenen ignoriert hätten, obwohl die Sirenen mehrere Minuten zu hören gewesen seien.
Der andere Blick auf den Israel-Hiszbollah-Konflikt
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