Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Sahwa fighters on Friday arrested al-Qaeda leader who was wearing women's clothes and seized explosive belts and weapons in east of Samarra, a police source said. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Policemen arrested 16 suspected gunmen during crackdown operations around Samarra and Dalouiya, a police source said on Thursday. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
7/17/08 *The arrest of 16 terrorists from Al Qaeda and to find weapons of southern Samarra* Image: http://www.burathanews.com/media/pics/1204361555.jpg A police source said the Iraqi governorate of Salah al-Din, on Thursday that "the police forces and the support of U.S. forces launched...
matthewgood (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
In July of 2006, Iraqi Olympic Chairman Ahmad al-Samarra’ and several others were abducted. They haven’t been seen since. So the Iraqi government appointed replacements, which is technically against the IOC Charter, as all appointees must be free from political influence. The IOC accused the Iraqi government of ‘political interference in its sporting affairs’ in [...]
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Three weapons caches and two buildings believed to be used as instructional centers in terrorist operations were found near Samarra, ...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
U.S.-led military coalition forces in Iraq say they have discovered a large supply of weapons during a recent sweep targeting al-Qaida supporters.Three weapons caches and two buildings believed to be used as instructional centers in terrorist operations were found near Samarra, about 70 miles north of Baghdad on the east bank of the Tigris River, a coalition release said Tuesday. The caches...
Golden Dragons (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Shi’a Pilgrims Make Safe Journey From Najaf to Samarra and Back By Sgt. Michael Moody 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Shi’a pilgrims traveled more than 620 miles round trip, from Najaf to Samarra,...
Department of Defense (Free subscription) | yesterday
... detained an alleged al-Qaida in Iraq financier and one additional suspect during a raid near Samarra, 70 miles north of Baghdad. Elsewhere in Iraq yesterday, Iraqi security forces discovered two munitions caches in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad. An Iraqi citizen in the district’s Bayaa community turned over an 82 mm mortar round to Iraqi National Police. An explosive ordnance disposal...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... 2007 to stop Iraq sliding into sectarian civil war. The bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in the city of Samarra in February 2006 had triggered intense fighting between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs. Al Qaeda militants had also sought to fan tensions, stepping up a campaign of car bombings. Five combat brigades plus supporting troops, or some 30,000 soldiers, were sent to Iraq between...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... five years, Iraq bled huge amounts of blood and now the bleeding should stop," said Mutashar al-Samarrae, a tribal leader in Samarra.Accordance Front leaders said they rejoined the government partly because they viewed al-Maliki's decision to crackdown on Shiite militias in Basra in March as a sign that he was not sectarian. The government also recently passed an amnesty law that...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
On that score, he is certainly right. Gathering dust in the entrance hall of a Baghdad hotel a guidebook from the 1980s displays pictures of Iraq's attractions, among them the golden dome of the al-Askari shrine, one of the holiest buildings of Shia Islam. Of Samarra, where the shrine is, the book says: “The artistic, literary, and scientific splendours of the city have remained a legend in...
