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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
BAGHDAD Christians in Mosul are fleeing their homes after a spate of killings left 12 dead this past week in one of the largest Christian communities in Iraq. LOAY HAMEED Associated Press Iraqis inspect the site of a car bombing Friday that killed 13 in Baghdad's Abu Dshir district. In Amarah, a U.S. soldier died Saturday when a bomb blew up near his vehicle.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
The U.S. army in Iraq said Friday that a roadside bomb killed an American soldier in Iraq on Thursday. The U.S. army said in a statement that the bomb exploded near his vehicle Thursday south of Amarah, a city 200 miles southeast of Iraqi capital city of Baghdad. The statement also said that the soldier's name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. The death raises the number of American...
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
U.S. forces in Iraq said Wednesday they have captured a prominent alleged weapons smuggler responsible for arming militant factions in the country. The man, described as a key figure in Iraq's Asa'ib Ahl Al-Haq criminal network, was arrested without incident in Amarah, a city in the country's Maysan Province, officials told KUNA, the Kuwait News Agency. A statement issued by the U.S.-led Multi-National...
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Amarah, Iraq - On the plains of the Tigris River lies the shrine of Ezra H’Nuvi, the Jewish prophet, who returned to Jerusalem at the end of the Babylonian exile. According to biblical scholars, Ezra died years later back in the Mesopotamia at age 120 in what is now called Uzair. Locals believe Ezra passed [...]
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Babylon & Beyond blog: A magnitude-5.7 earthquake hit southern Iraq, centered near the Iranian border and strongly felt in the city of Amarah about 40 miles to the west.
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Source: [b]AP[/b] BAGHDAD: The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed in a rocket attack on a military base in southern Iraq. The military says in a statement that the soldier was killed Tuesday in an attack on a U.S. position near the city of Amarah. Amarah is a mainly Shiite...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
On the day one more soldier is reported killed in Afghanistan , another stage was reached in the tortuous path which is hoped will eventually bring the MoD to account for the death of Pte Phillip Hewett in al Amarah, Iraq in July 2005 – now over three years ago. This happened yesterday when Phillip's mother, Sue Smith ... Posted on Defence of the Realm
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Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
by Eric Martin As I have been arguing for months, despite Bush administration spin to the contrary, the recent anti-Sadrist military operations in Iraq (Basra, Sadr City, Amarah) have had more to do with weakening the Sadrist movement politically, than...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Iraqi security forces arrested three locally prominent supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday as part of a crackdown on Shiite militias in the southern city of Amarah, police said.
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The Two Malcontents (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
By Bill Roggio A tip led Iraqi Army soldiers from the 39th Iraqi Army Brigade to a large cache of munitions and weapons that included 217 rocket propelled grenades, 354 blocks of C-4 and more than 40 explosive formed projectiles in the al-Husayn district of Amarah, June 29. (US Army photo). Iraqi forces detained four senior [...]
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Source: [b]AP[/b] BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces arrested two locally prominent supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday as part of their crackdown against Shiite militias in the southern city of Amarah, police and an al-Sadr spokesman said. The spokesman, Sheik Salah a...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Iraqi security forces arrested two locally prominent supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday as part of their crackdown against Shiite militias in the southern city of Amarah, police and an al-Sadr spokesman said.
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Iraqi security forces arrested two locally prominent supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday as part ...
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took a victory lap through the streets of Amarah, the latest city to be retaken from the … Share This
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
AMARAH - As Iraqi forces raided houses in the southern city of Amarah in a manhunt for Shiite militias, families scared of being caught in the cross fire are taking to their heels.
