Sectarian killings have surged in parts of Baghdad not yet included in a security offensive, the U.S. military said Thursday, while bombings and other insurgent attacks killed four American soldiers and wounded 25 in the capital region. Police reported finding 20 bodies dumped on streets, many of them victims of reprisal killings in the escalating conflict between Shiite and Sunni Arabs. Six people died when a car bomb exploded at a soccer field in Fallujah, raising the death toll across Iraq to at least 28.One of the few positive developments for the U.S.-led coalition and the national unity government was the reported killing of a senior member of Al Qaeda in Iraq and the capture of another....
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 Poland Sending 900 Troops to Afghanistan; NATO Says This Is Routine and Won't Ease Shortage |
Poland's defense minister said in comments broadcast Thursday that his nation will send at least 900 troops to eastern Afghanistan next year. NATO said the offer did not ease the immediate need for 2,500 additional soldiers in the violence-wracked south. A NATO official said the Polish deployment was routine and had been arranged before the call for additional soldiers. The 900 new troops will join 100 Polish soldiers already in eastern Afghanistan, and NATO spokesman Lt. Col. Goetz Haffke said the Polish troops had been expected as part of a routine rotation of NATO troops. "This is part of a regular reinforcement and rotation that had been planned previously," Haffke said from NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Headquarters in Brunssum, Netherlands. ...
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| Nearly 100 bodies found in two days in Baghdad |
Police found the bodies of 32 more death squad victims scattered around Baghdad on Thursday, bringing the two-day total to nearly 100, and a Sunni leader said the slayings could destroy the political process. In one of the biggest recent attacks on U.S. troops trying to pacify the capital, a suicide car bomber killed two and wounded 25, near Abu Ghraib just to the west of the city.Bodies of victims bound, tortured and shot have been found in Baghdad for months. But the U.S. military acknowledged the last 48 hours had seen a surge in such execution-style sectarian killings despite a push to bring order to the capital."If these barbarian acts do not stop, certainly it will affect the reconciliation plan," Adnan al-Dulaimi, leader of the Iraqi Accordance Front, parliament's biggest Sunni Arab group, said of the death squad murders in a telephone interview....
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| Sectarian Violence, Insurgency Growing in Iraq, Bolton Tells UN |
Sectarian violence and insurgent attacks increased throughout Iraq over the past three months, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said in the most negative report an American envoy has given to the Security Council since the 2003 invasion. ``The insurgency remains potent and viable, although its visibility has been overshadowed by the increase in sectarian violence,'' U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said in the latest quarterly report to the council. ``The average number of weekly attacks increased 15 percent over the previous reporting period, and Iraqi casualties increased by 51 percent.'' At least 15 people were killed in blasts and shootings today in Iraq, a day after more than 60 bodies were found bound and gagged across Baghdad. A total of 1,536 people died in attacks in the city last month, according to the British Broadcasting Corp. Bolton said 81 percent of the violence occurred in four of Iraq's 18 provinces -- ...
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| Lebanese premier vows army will restore control over south, confiscate arms |
Lebanon's prime minister vowed Thur that his army will confiscate any weapons it encounters in southern Lebanon, while the Islamic militant group Hezbollah accused Israel of "flagrant violations" of the month-old cease-fire. Israel denied it was violating the truce. The comments reflected the tensions underneath a truce that has survived longer than many expected. The U N said the cease-fire was holding up well. Hezbollah boasts its fighters remain in towns and villages near the border with Israel, highlighting the challenge faced by the Lebanese army and U.N. Peacekeepers who are to patrol a buffer zone between the militants and Israel. "I intend for the Lebanese army to prove its presence in the area south of the Litani River," Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo. "We want this area to be under the army's and the Lebanese state's control. The army has all the authority to ban any armed appearances and confiscate those weapons,"...
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| Judge Who's Been Accused of Bias in Favor of Saddam Tells Him, 'You Were Not a Dictator' |
The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial said Thursday that he does not believe Saddam was a dictator. Judge Abdullah al-Amiri made the remark in a friendly exchange with the deposed leader, a day after the prosecution said the judge should step down because he is biased toward the defense. Saddam and his co-defendants are being tried on charges of committing atrocities against Kurds in northern Iraq nearly two decades ago. Questioning a Kurdish witness Thursday, Saddam said, "I wonder why this man wanted to meet with me, if I am a dictator?" The judge interrupted: "You were not a dictator. People around you made you (look like) a dictator." "Thank you," Saddam responded, bowing his head in respect. Two hours after the comment about Saddam, al-Amiri abruptly postponed the session until Monday for what he called "technical reasons," without having heard from a third scheduled witness. No further explanation was given....
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