Meanwhile Back in Iraq…..
Happy Thanksgiving to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There have been 30 U.S. deaths in Iraq this month.
While Bush keeps beating the wardrum for Iran, it’s reported that Saudi Arabia and Libya were the source of about 60 percent of foreign fighters who entered Iraq in the past year to participate in the insurgency. Why not beat the wardrum against the Saudis? Oh……that’s right. The royal family is close family friends.
In what was believed to be the most significant breach of security in central Ramadi in months, a car bomb killed atleast 6 people in an area that has been considered one of the safest in the country.
The Iraq embassy in Damascus is starting to organize free trips home for Iraqis who fled the conflict and now want to return.
Juan Cole reports on an Arabic article that sates Sa’d Uraibi al-Ubaidi, known as “Abu Abd“, the ‘tribal awakening’ leader who, it claims, now controls most of the Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad
Iraqi forces arrested 43 people who had been traveling in a security convoy, including laborers and security personnel. Among the detainees were two Fijians, 10 Iraqis, 21 Sri Lankans, one Indian and nine Nepalese, the U.S. military said yesterday. Officials took a hard line yesterday on alleged abuses by foreign security contractors, saying criminal charges would be filed in the nonfatal shooting of a woman Monday as a guarded convoy carrying laborers passed by.
The U.S. military is going to recommend criminal charges against an Associated Press reporter in Iraq. The Associated Press said it has not been allowed access to the reporter or the evidence against him, therefore they can’t build a defense.
Security developments in Iraq 11/22/07
