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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... Andrew Perkins, a 27-year-old sergeant whose father clings to the stories of his son's heroism in Samarra, north of Baghdad. How he grabbed the fire extinguisher. How he rushed into the explosion three times. How the equipment was melting in his hands before a second blast hit."I'd go to Samarra if I could just to stand on the same ground," Walter Perkins said.He has come instead...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Monday, May 19, 2008 5:14 PM EDT BAGHDAD (AP) -- About 50 dead bodies were discovered Tuesday in a mass grave northwest of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said. U.S.-backed Sunni tribesmen found the grave while patrolling the village of Jazeerah, 15 miles west of Samarra near Lake Tharthar, said Col....
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National Review Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
s U.S.-led Coalition forces closed in on an al-Qaeda leader in Samarra on Tuesday, Harry Reid was running a special operation of his own: figuring out how to shoehorn a sop to Planned Parenthood into the bill to fund our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.? ?The all-pork menu of side dishes attached to the supplemental war-funding bill is remarkable even by the defalcatory standards of Congress:...
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THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, May 20, 2008 -- Coalition and Iraqi forces killed one terrorist, captured 26 suspects and nabbed scores of weapons across Iraq over the past three days, military officials said. In Iraq today: Coalition forces killed a senior al-Qaida in Iraq leader and detained four of his suspected associates in an operation east of Samarra, about 65 miles north of Baghdad....
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Department of Defense (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
In Iraq today: -- Coalition forces killed a senior al-Qaida in Iraq leader and detained four of his suspected associates in an operation east of Samarra, about 65 miles north of Baghdad. -- Troops in Baqouba and Tikrit captured a wanted man and five additional suspected terrorists who allegedly operate in the Tigris River valley during coordinated two-day operations that wrapped up today. --...
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Autopia (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
"Dear Collectors, "Our collection of Buildings of Disaster continues with a new monument. "Golden Mosque (or Al-Askari ), one of Shiite Muslim holiest sites, is located in the Iraqi city of Samarra. The original shrine dates back to 944. On...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
... al Qaeda in Iraq for most big bombings in the country, including an attack on a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra in February 2006 that set off a wave of sectarian killings that nearly tipped Iraq into all-out civil war. An influx of additional U.S. troops last year and a decision by Sunni Arab tribes to turn against al Qaeda has enabled U.S. and Iraqi forces to push the militants out of Baghdad...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
... al-Qaida in Iraq for most big bombings in the country, including an attack on a Shiite shrine in Samarra in February 2006 that set off a wave of sectarian killings that nearly tipped Iraq into all-out civil war.An influx of additional U.S. troops last year and a decision by Sunni Arab tribes to turn against al-Qaida has enabled U.S. and Iraqi forces to push the militants out of Baghdad and...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
... al Qaeda in Iraq for most big bombings in the country, including an attack on a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra in February 2006 that set off a wave of sectarian killings that nearly tipped Iraq into all-out civil war. An influx of additional U.S. troops last year and a decision by Sunni Arab tribes to turn against al Qaeda has enabled US and Iraqi forces to push the militants out of Baghdad and...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
144 tribal chieftains from two Sunni-predominated provinces visited the Shiite province of Karbala in a sign of renewed harmony in Iraq after undergoing sharp sectarian conflict following the bombing of the golden domes shrine in Samarra, February... Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com...
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Alarabiya.net (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
U.S. officials blame al-Qaeda in Iraq for most big bombings in the country, including an attack on a Shiite shrine in Samarra in February 2006 that set off a wave of sectarian killings that nearly tipped Iraq into all-out civil war. An influx of additional U.S. troops last year and a decision by Sunni Arab tribes to turn against al-Qaeda has enabled U.S. and Iraqi forces to push the militants...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
... al Qaeda in Iraq for most big bombings in the country, including an attack on a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra in February 2006 that set off a wave of sectarian killings that nearly tipped Iraq into all-out civil war. "This operation ... will achieve its goals: imposing law, preserving order, saving (Mosul) from the evil of terrorist groups and the remnants of the past regime," Maliki said. The...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
... al Qaeda in Iraq for most big bombings in the country, including an attack on a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra in February 2006 that set off a wave of sectarian killings that nearly tipped Iraq into all-out civil war."This operation ... will achieve its goals: imposing law, preserving order, saving (Mosul) from the evil of terrorist groups and the remnants of the past regime," Maliki said.The...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Coalition forces captured a wanted man and five other suspects during two operations targeting al-Qaida in Iraq cells in Mosul. The wanted man is believed to be a cell leader who plans and conducts bombing attacks against coalition forces. West of Samarra, about 65 miles north of Baghdad, coalition forces captured an alleged associate of senior al-Qaida in Iraq leaders in Salahuddin province....
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... were killed and seven wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near the convoy of Abdul-Kareem al- Samarrai, a prominent figure in the Iraqi Islamic Party, one of three Sunni Arab factions forming the Iraqi Accordance Front, police said. Al-Samarrai was not hurt but two of his guards were wounded.BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded in western Baghdad near the headquarters of the Iraqi Islamic...
