The date, January 30th.
IRAQ: Amnesty calls for human rights protection (click here)
Amnesty International called on the US and UK leaders on 30 January to acknowledge the responsibility of the international community to protect the human rights of the Iraqi people when they meet this week to discuss the possibility of a military attack on Iraq. "The human rights and humanitarian situation in Iraq is extremely fragile as a result of decades of brutal repression by the Iraqi authorities of dissent and uprisings, including widespread torture and executions; the impact of over a decade of sanctions; the possibility of civilian casualties, refugee outflows and reprisal killings in the event of military intervention," it said in a statement.
Why don't we just leave the USA military in Iraq forever, so they can all stand around and analyze the latest bombing, shooting, deaths and maimings. Sound like a plan? Not to me it doesn't.
Six Dead, 22 Wounded in Suicide Bomb Attack in Ramadi (click here)
A police checkpoint was blasted on Wednesday morning by a suicide car bomber in Ramadi, Iraq. Six people were killed in the explosion and other 22 were injured, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official.
Also on Wednesday 40 decomposed bodies were found by the Iraqi security forces north of Ramadi, near Lake Tarthar. Among the bodies there were also women and children, the Associated Press reports.
The victims were shot and had no ID cards with them. The authorities couldn’t say when they were shot.
According to a provincial police official, Col. Jubair Rashid Naief, the bomber in Ramadi attacked on Wednesday morning. The blast killed three policemen and three civilians, and injured 13. On the other hand, U.S. military said that four people were killed, with the bomber included, and 22 were wounded.
Still, attacks decreased in Ramadi since Sunni leaders formed an alliance with the U.S. military in order to fight against al Qaeda in Iraq.
This was the biggest attack in the city since September 13, when a roadside bomb killed Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, leader of the Sunni revolt and two of his bodyguards.
The U.S. military reported also on Wednesday that an U.S. soldier and an Iraqi interpreter were killed in east Baghdad in a bombing on Tuesday. The bomb hit a U.S. military combat patrol and the officials said that the device was manufactured in Iran. Other three Americans were wounded in the blast.
The statement released by the military said: “The patrol was returning to base after conducting an escort mission at the time of the attack," CNN quotes.
According to U.S. military statement the explosion was from an “explosively formed penetrator," a sophisticated and powerful roadside bomb which is believed to be supplied to Shiite militias by Iran.
Since the beginning of the war in Iraq, in 2003, at least 3,874 US military have been killed, according to the Associated Press.
In last August the Iranians promised Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that they will restrain the shipments of weapons to the extremists. A decline of Iranian-origin weapons has been pointed out by US commanders, but it is too soon to say if it is a significant drop.
Lt. Gen. James Dubik, the U.S. commander in charge of training and equipping Iraqi forces said: "I think that we're all thankful for the commitment Iran has made to reduce the flow of its weapons and explosives and training into Iraq.”
Why the USA even has a "World Planning" Headquarters in Conus, Egypt. And what purpose was the invasion into Iraq? WMD? You mean to tell me Bush and his Executive Branch assault force didn't know there was NO WMD in Iraq? Sure, and my name is Santa Claus.
We don't belong in Iraq.
We never did.
What a shame Centcom isn't in Iran, huh? They can't get it right, People.
The base camps are so dense in Iraq the 'labels' to their location have to be overlapped to fit them in one picture.
This is Centcom in Iraq and the USA military could not get a handle on the 'reality' of this country? Give me a break !
Iraq is the size of Texas. This is JUST Baghdad.
