Meanwhile Back in Iraq
5 U.S. soldiers died yesterday in Iraq, bringing the month’s total to 16. 84 have been wounded this month.
Two children were killed and 17 wounded when a bomb placed in a toy cart on a playground in Northern Iraq exploded.
A legal battle over trade secrets is holding up a shipment of IED detecting robots to our troops in Iraq.
Kurdish rebels (the PKK) announced today that they are moving back into Turkey from the mountains of Northern Iraq and will target Turkish politicians and police.
15 Iraqi women and children were killed in a raid in Lake Thar Thar region targeting al-Qaeda. The military stated that 19 terrorists were also killed. I wonder how much we’ve paid Iraqi civilians for the deaths of innocent people.
Ivana Vuco, the most senior UN human rights officer in Iraq, spoke yesterday about the shootings by private security guards, which have provoked outrage among Iraqis. “For us, it’s a human rights issue,” she said. “We will monitor the allegations of killings by security contractors and look into whether or not crimes against humanity and war crimes have been committed.” Bring those charges on!!!!
Turkey has recalled it’s ambassador to Washington yesterday after a house committee endorsed a resolution condemning the genocide that occured a century ago. This is a sticky situation for the U.S. since Turkey is a key supply route to troops in Iraq. Juan Cole has more on this sticky situation.
NPR’s Jamie Tarabay has a report and interview with an Iraqi man who has rearranged his life so that he and his wife very rarely have to leave the house. A true look at how NOT GOOD things are in Iraq.
Iraq’s national railway system is still down and is not one of the benchmarks the Bush administration would like the Iraqi’s to meet. Damien McElroy from the Telegraph reports.
Security developments in Iraq, 10/11/07
