OTB News (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
BAGHDAD (AP) — In a June 27 story about security walls in Baghdad, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a military spokesman, Maj. Frank Garcia, cited the “significant effect” of a wall in the Baghdad district of Azamiyah. The spokesman for U.S. forces in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Stover, says Garcia was referring to Amariyah, [...]
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
In a June 27 story about security walls in Baghdad, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a military spokesman, Maj. Frank Garcia, cited the "significant effect" of a wall in the Baghdad district of Azamiyah. The spokesman for U.S. forces in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Stover, says Garcia was referring to Amariyah, another mostly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad. Both neighborhoods...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
In a June 27 story about security walls in Baghdad, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a military spokesman, Maj. Frank Garcia, cited the "significant effect" of a wall in the Baghdad district of Azamiyah. The spokesman for U.S. forces in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Stover, says Garcia was referring to Amariyah, another mostly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad. Both neighborhoods...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
In a June 27 story about security walls in Baghdad, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a military spokesman, Maj. Frank Garcia, cited the "significant effect" of a wall in the Baghdad district of Azamiyah. The spokesman for U.S. forces in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Stover, says Garcia was referring to Amariyah, another mostly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad. Both neighborhoods...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
In a June 27 story about security walls in Baghdad, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a military spokesman, Maj. Frank Garcia, cited the "significant effect" of a wall in the Baghdad district of Azamiyah. The spokesman for U.S. forces in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Stover, says Garcia was referring to Amariyah, another mostly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad. Both neighborhoods...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
BAGHDAD -- In a June 27 story about security walls in Baghdad, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a military spokesman, Maj. Frank Garcia, cited the "significant effect" of a wall in the Baghdad district of Azamiyah. The spokesman for U.S. forces in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Stover, says Garcia was referring to Amariyah, another mostly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad. Both neighborhoods...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
... Shiite Muslim slum that supporters of militant cleric Muqtada al-Sadr mostly control.Lt. Col. Steven Stover, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad, said the bomb appeared to target the main candidate for the post and Americans visiting for a regular meeting.Stover said U.S. troops detained three suspects who tested positive for explosives residue. American investigators...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
The bomb was planted outside the office of his deputy and would-be successor, Hassan Shamma, and detonated as American soldiers and civilian advisers entered the room, according to Iraqi police and council members present at the time.Two of the dead civilians were Americans, said U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Mirembe Nantongo. They were identified as Steven Farley, a State Department employee from...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
... trying to flee the scene and tested positive for explosives residue. A military spokesman, Lt-Col Steven Stover, said the target of the attack was believed to have been a high-ranking Iraqi councillor, but it was unclear whether he survived. Shia militants were unhappy that the councillor had been working with US forces, Lt-Col Stover added. Mahmud al-Zamili, a member of Sadr...
IOL (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
... took place as the US soldiers were inside the building.US military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Steven Stover confirmed the explosion but had no other details.On Monday, two American soldiers were killed and three wounded as they were leaving the council office of Madain town. An Iraqi security official said the soldiers were fired on by town councillor Ra'ad Hamud Ajil at the...
Middle East Notebook (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Mahdi Army cell leader behind deadly Baghdad bombing "We believe the attack was not conducted by AQI [al Qaeda in Iraq]," said Lieutenant Colonel Steven Stover, the chief Public Affairs Officer for Multinational Division Baghdad in an e-mail to The Long War Journal . Though vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices are a trademark of AQI, our intelligence, corroborated through multiple...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
... accuse Iran of funding, supplying and training the "special groups," which Iran denies.Lt. Col. Steven Stover, a military spokesman in Baghdad, said the Americans believed the bombing was orchestrated by fighters under the command of Haydar Mehdi Khadum al-Fawadi. They said al-Fawadi's group had seized homes that belong to displaced Sunnis and rented them out to Shiite families. An...
NDTV (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
... That led to speculation Sunni extremists may have been behind the attack.But US spokesman Lt Col Steven Stover said the command did not believe Al-Qaida in Iraq was behind the attack based on the type of vehicle and explosives used.Instead, he said the command believed the attack was carried out by a Shiite special group led by Haydar Mehdi Khadum al-Fawadi, whom Stover described...
The Fourth Rail (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
... by Multinational Forces Iraq. "We believe the attack was not conducted by AQI [al Qaeda in Iraq]," Stover said. "Though vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices are a trademark of AQI, our intelligence, corroborated through multiple sources, is this atrocity was committed by a special groups cell led by Haydar Mahdi Khadum Al Fawadi." Fawadi is behind multiple attacks on US and Iraqi forces....
Fox News (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
... led to speculation Sunni extremists may have been behind the attack.But U.S. spokesman Lt. Col. Steven Stover said the command did not believe Al Qaeda in Iraq was behind the attack based on the type of vehicle and explosives used.Instead, he said the command believed the attack was carried out by a Shiite special group led by Haydar Mehdi Khadum al-Fawadi, whom Stover described...
