Death toll from Iraq Shiite city clashes rises to 17: medic
Wed Mar 12, 4:45 AM ET
KUT, Iraq (AFP) - At least 17 people have been killed, including five children, in fierce clashes between militants and Iraqi and US forces in the Shiite city of Kut, a local medic told AFP Wednesday.
"Seventeen people have been killed, including five children and a female college student. Others are young men," Mamoon Ajil, registrar at Kut's Al-Zahra hospital said.
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 12
12 Mar 2008 22:04:38 GMT
Source: Reuters
March 12 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2200 GMT on Wednesday.
* denotes new or updated item.
* NASSIRIYA - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in an indirect fire attack near Nassiriya, 375 km (235 miles) southeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. Another two soldiers and a civilian were wounded. The term indirect fire is often used to describe rocket or mortar attacks.
* BAGHDAD - Five suspects linked to a suicide bomb attack which killed five U.S. soldiers and an interpreter in central Baghdad on Monday were captured on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.
NEAR KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeting a local council member near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, wounded two of his bodyguards, police said.
BAGHDAD - A mass grave containing 10 bodies, including men, women and children was found on Saturday near Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, the Defence Ministry said. The U.S. military had said that initial reports suggested there were some 100 bodies.
BAGHDAD - Three mortar rounds landed in Baghdad's Green Zone, but details of casualties were not available, police said.
BASRA - Gunmen shot and killed a former official of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
BASRA - A senior figure in Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Basra office, Saed al-Haidery, was shot dead in northern Basra, police and Sadrist officials said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded five people in Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds wounded three people in Shaab district in northern Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded 10 in Ameen district in southeastern Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - The bodies of five people were found in different districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.
NEAR SAMARRA - Three fuel truck drivers were killed when three roadside bombs went off near a convoy of seven fuel trucks on the main road near Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Three trucks were set ablaze.
NEAR DIWANIYA - One U.S. soldier was killed and two wounded by a roadside bomb which hit their patrol near Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.
MOSUL - Six fuel trucks were set ablaze and three drivers were wounded on Tuesday when a bomb attached to one of the vehicles detonated in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Remains of Missing Marine Found in Charlotte County
PUNTA GORDA, FL (AP) -- Authorities say a body found over the weekend in Charlotte County is a missing Iraq War veteran.
A sheriff's spokesman says a medical examiner confirmed that the remains are of former Marine Eric Hall. A cause of death has not been determined.
Dozens of volunteers scoured the area on Florida's west coast, and searchers located a body on Sunday.
The 24-year-old's family has scheduled a memorial service in Florida for Thursday morning. Hall will be buried in Indiana, where he grew up.
He moved to Florida shortly before he went missing in early February. Relatives feared he was hallucinating and believed he was back in Iraq. He had been wounded in a bomb explosion in June 2005 and later granted medical retirement.
Created: 3/12/2008 11:59:39 AM
U.S. Denies U.N. Torture Chief Iraq Access
GENEVA, March 12, 2008
(CBS/AP) The U.N. torture investigator said Tuesday that American officials are refusing him access to U.S.-run detention facilities in Iraq even though he has received credible reports that conditions there have improved.
Manfred Nowak, one of the global body's independent human rights experts, said Iraqi officials had agreed in principle that he can visit the country later this year. British officials have also agreed to let him visit detainees held by their forces, he said.
"The U.K. said yes, the U.S. said no," Nowak told reporters in Geneva, adding that he was still hoping to win approval for a visit to American-run facilities before deciding whether to travel to Iraq.
Iraq refugee crisis 'deepening,' US experts say
Published: 3/12/2008
WASHINGTON - Squalid and dangerous conditions, lack of shelter and scarcity of food are threatening to worsen the living situation for those displaced by the war in Iraq, refugee experts said Tuesday.
Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, experts told a House of Representatives subcommittee hearing that serious problems persist for the 2.5 million people displaced inside Iraq and the two million who have fled to neighboring countries, according to UN figures.
Pentagon cancels release of controversial Iraq report
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Wednesday canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the al Qaida terrorist network.
Rather than posting the report online and making officials available to discuss it, as had been planned, the U.S. Joint Forces Command said it would mail copies of the document to reporters — if they asked for it. The report won't be posted on the Internet.
To quote a great American Journalist, Linda Ellerbee: “and so it goes.” To quote my good friends John and Paul: “Obla di Obla da”
Peace,
Chad (The Left) Shue
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