Iraq Unsettled by Political Power Plays

When change occurs there are problems.  In Iraq there have been big changes in the past year and more changes areoccurring.With luck Iraq will survive."There is talk of a coup to oust the prime minister. The...

Female Iraqi Police Graduate

As more and more women carry out bomb attacks in Iraq by detonating themselves, females have finally been permited to join the police force and the first 21 women obtained their certificates in Diyala last week."Recognizing a need for women to frisk other women, whom male...

Female suicide bomber kills 20, wounds 30

A female suicide bomber has killed 20 and injured 30 more in a Monday evening attack in the town of Balad Ruz, in the Diyala province of Iraq.  "The bomber struck as Iftar -- the meal that ends Ramadan...

Iraq: Girl Suicide Bomber "Aged 13 to 17" Surrenders Still Wearing Bomb Vest

It has been revealed in the last hour that a teenage girl would-be suicide bomber in the capital town of Diyala, in the province of Baquba, has handed herself in still wearing her bomb vest.  US police...

Two suicide bombers kill 35 in Iraq's Diyala

UPDATE: The death toll from today's attack has been updated to 35.Just a few days after the Iraqi government said it would crackdown on terrorism to the North of Baghdad, an attack on a recruiting center there has killed a reported 23 people.Today's attack is deadliest since...

Another Female Suicide Bomber Strikes Iraqi Province, Killing 15 Near Courthouse

Another female suicide bomber has struck in Iraq, this time killing 15 people."The latest in a wave of female suicide bombers killed 15 people and wounded more than 40 others on Sunday near a heavily fortified courthouse and government outpost in central Baquba, Iraqi...

Female suicide bomber strikes soccer fans in Iraq

In yet another female suicide bombing attack in northern Iraq, a woman detonated a bomb in her vest as soccer fans celebrated their win against China in the qualifying round for the 2010 South Africa World Cup."...

Coalition rolls up 100-woman suicide cell in raid of Iraq safe house

" BAGHDAD — Iraq has captured an Al Qaida-aligned cell that recruited and deployed women for suicide operations. On March 1, Iraqi and U.S. troops raided a suspected Al Qaida safe house in Al Makhesa, in northeastern Diyala. Officials said scores of suspected women...

'Torture Complex' Discovered in Iraq

The BBC is reporting that an al-Qaeda "torture complex" has been discovered in Iraq. "US and Iraqi forces have discovered a "torture complex" in an al-Qaeda safe haven near Muqdadiya in central Diyala province,...

Why We're Fighting in Iraq

Steve Schippert from NRO's The Tank wrote this great piece asking some obvious questions and making some obvious points about Iraq. "Yesterday morning, you likely had to look hard to find coverage of LTG Odierno...

Operation Lightning Hammer disrupts al-Qaeda in Diyala

"Operation Lightning Hammer disrupts al-Qaeda in Diyala Print E-mail Sunday, 26 August 2007 Spc. Samuel Melendez of Bravo Troop, 5th Battalion, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, patrols a marsh outside of Qubah, a small...

Women, children taken in fierce Iraq Qaeda battle

"BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda fighters kidnapped 15 Iraqi women and children after attacking two villages north of Baghdad on Thursday and killing a religious leader who had been trying to form an anti-al Qaeda...

US Papers Thu: New Cautious Optimism on Iraq

"distrust of virtually anything the Administration says about Iraq, real military progress is taking place and the U.S. team in Baghdad is actively seeking matching political and economic progress"...."What is critical to understand, however, is that while the surge strategy...

TIME decapitates GWB and military

"In his most recent hit piece aimed at undermining public opinion against the Iraq war effort, TIME journalist columnist [ed] Joe Klein begins his diatribe with a startling piece of photography. President Bush is...

US troops die in new Iraq attack

"Nine US soldiers have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a base north of Baghdad, military officials have said."

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