BLAD AL_ARAB AUTANI

Summary of News on Thursday, 25 Oct

By: Khaled AL-Gafri on October 28, 2012 / comment : 0

Gunmen attacked a home in the west of Baghdad with silenced weapons, killing one of the family members and severely injuring two more. An explosive device blew up inside a civilian's car in central Baghdad, injuring him.

A motorcycle bomb targeted a passing governmental police patrol in the southwest of Kirkuk, injuring at least four of them. An explosive device went off by as one of the governmental police passed by in the south of Mosul, severely injuring him.

And in central Mosul, another explosive device blew up beneath a passing patrol of the government army, killing and wounding two of them.

The director of the governmental police of Al-Qayyarah in Ninawa province was exposed to an assassination attempt as two explosive devices went off beneath his motorcade on the highway in the south of Mosul.

The house of one of the governmental police in the north of Hillah was targeted by an explosive device that damaged the home without causing casualties. Another one of the governmental police was hit injured after being by a truck (supposedly unintentionally) in the north of Hillah.

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Summary of News on Wednesday, 24 Oct

By: Khaled AL-Gafri on October 28, 2012 / comment : 0

Summary of News on Wednesday, 24 Oct

A member of the Parliament criticized the involvement of the Iranian president in a government “anti-terrorism” conference to be held next month.

Fighters attacked a bus carrying workers for the Ministry of Industry in the north of Baghdad, killing seven of its employees and severely injuring an eighth. A car filled with explosives blew up outside the house of the father of the current Minister of Finance in central Fallujah. Two of his guards were killed and four more were injured.

The government forces raided nearby homes in the neighborhood.

Gunmen, from their car, opened fire with automatic weapons on two civilians in the east of Baquba, killing them on the spot by a farm in the outskirts of the district. An explosive device targeted a governmental police patrol in the east of Tikrit, killing one of them and injuring another, and killing a nearby civilian and injuring two more. The same happened to a patrol in the west of Mosul, injuring two of the governmental police and a civilian. An explosive device went off by passing civilians in the south of Kirkuk, killing an elementary schooler and injuring two others.

Another explosive device blew up on a sidewalk in the west of Baghdad, injuring a nearby civilian. In the north of Baghdad an explosive device went off beneath a civilian car, injuring three civilians.

An explosive device went off beneath a governmental police patrol in the west of Baghdad, wounding three of them with various degrees of injury. A motorcycle bomb exploded by another governmental police patrol in the south of Kirkuk, injuring three of them. Fighters attacked a government army checkpoint in the north of Mosul, entering into clashes, killing one of the government army and injuring another – resistance casualties were left unmentioned, but they escaped.

The government forces imposed a curfew on Fallujah because of the assassination attempt on the Ministry of Finance, carrying out thorough searches and raids in residential neighborhoods in the area. The government forces carried out search and raid operations in the provinces of Diyala, Al-Anbar, Salah Ad-Din, and Babil, detaining forty-one people without valid charges and taking them away. Forces of the government army continued to increase pressure on Baghdad as well, imposing strict measures on Al-Amiriyah district in the west of Baghdad. They closed down streets and shops in the area and set up a number of extra checkpoints around the district. People were prevented from entering and exiting the district. In the midst of this, arbitrary arrests, without charges, took hold of dozens of civilians in the area.

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Summary of News on Tuesday, 23 Oct

By: Khaled AL-Gafri on October 28, 2012 / comment : 0

Summary of News on Tuesday, 23 Oct

One of the governmental police committed suicide, jumping off of a bridge in the south of Samawah. This is the second incident of its kind in nine days, as another of the governmental police shot himself in Al-Qadisiyah province nine days ago. A car collided with a big truck in An-Nasiriyah killing twelve workers. A warning was issued that the outbreak of cholera might be spreading to Wasit province. The province of Diyala demands Iran to cease blockage of the Lalonde river, a river vital to the province.

Eight car bombs exploded in an overcrowded area in the northwest of Baghdad, killing at least fifteen civilians (maybe more, because of the explosion's intensity) and injuring sixteen more. Also in the northwest of Baghdad, close to the same district, a mortar shell fell from an unknown source, killing seven civilians and injuring two more. Another mortar shell fell in the west of Baghdad, injuring two civilians. A third mortar shell fell in the northeast of Baghdad around the same time as the first, but

caused no casualties.

An explosive device went off beneath a patrol of the Peshmerga in the northwest of Kirkuk, injuring two of them, one being an officer (major).

A government army regiment continued searches and raids in the north of Baghdad, from since a week ago, arbitrarily detaining civilians without charges and taking them back to their own headquarters. After having locked down the area, they detained dozens in the area. The current Iraqi government's prisons are known to torture their detainees in trying to extract confessions for crimes not committed. One eyewitness who wished to remain anonymous revealed that this center is no exception in various brutalities, also mentioning specifically the holding of guns against the victims' wives or mothers.

And another report was released about women's prisons in Baghdad and Iraq. Thirty-one have been sentenced to death. They are accused of “terrorism,” the infamous “Article IV Terrorism,” without evidence or valid charges. They are not treated if ill. They are not allowed to bathe or change their clothes. Their young children are held with them and treated as prisoners. They have been exposed by the government forces to torture and electric shock, and forced to confess to crimes they did not commit under this context. They have been abused and raped by these government forces.

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Summary of News on Sunday, 21 Oct

By: Khaled AL-Gafri on October 28, 2012 / comment : 0

Summary of News on Sunday, 21 Oct

A member of a council of Arab tribes was exposed to an assassination attempt in the explosion of a bomb by his home in the south of Kirkuk. It caused material damage to his home but injured no one.

Gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on two civilians in the northeast of Baquba, killing one on the spot and injuring another. A policewoman's dead body (strangled) was found today six days after her disappearance in the west of Dahuk – government forces launched a series of searches and raids, detaining two people they accused of involvement in the incident.

After intervention by Yemen, the government agreed to release seven innocent Yemeni detainees out of twenty-five in question. The presence was confirmed of twenty-one young children, mistreated and held indefinitely, in a women's prison in Baghdad (housing 414 women). Kurdish government forces detained a commander of the old Republican Guard as he was attending a funeral in the east of Mosul.
Government forces, along with striking many others, shot and injured four peaceful protestors, including a child, in a demonstration against the government southwest of Amarah.

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Are American Troops Protecting Afghan Opium?

By: Khaled AL-Gafri on October 28, 2012 / comment : 0

Are American Troops Protecting Afghan Opium?

U.S. Troops Patrolling Poppy Fields In Afghanistan (Photos)

By Washington's Blog

Global Research, October 28, 2012

Preface: As many have noted, the U.S. government has – at least at some times in some parts of the world – protected drug operations. (Big American banks also launder money for drug cartels. See this, this, this and this. Indeed,drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. But that’s beyond the scope of this post.)

The U.S. military has openly said that it is protecting Afghani poppy fields:

As Wikiepedia notes:

Opium production in Afghanistan has been on the rise since U.S. occupation started in 2001.

Public Intelligence has published a series of photographs showing American – and U.S.-trained Afghan – troops patrolling poppy fields in Afghanistan. Public Intelligence informs us that all of the photos are in the public domain, and not subject to copyright, and they assured me that I have every right to reproduce them.

We produce these photos and the accompanying descriptions from Public Intelligence without further comment.