Meanwhile Back in Iraq……..
Iraqi refugees in Syria are starving themselves trying to survive and feed their children.
The Iraq Oil Ministry has invited international oil companies to submit registration documents to vie for development of its oil fields.
A female suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest struck a checkpoint of neighborhood patrol volunteers in Baquba, killing ten and injuring eight.
Thirty people attending a funeral in Baghdad yesterday were killed by a suicide bomber. The person being buried was the victim of a bomber, also.
The body of a Sunni policeman and four of his family members were found north of Baghdad, shortly after being abducted from their home.
Who says the violence is down 60% in Iraq? Those that get paid.
A draft bill for amnesty for some of Iraq’s prisoners was sent to the Parliament speaker on Tuesday.
The contest between the two main Shiite factions in Iraq, the Sadrists, who are pushing for U.S. troops to withdraw, and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, the Bush administration’s main Shiite ally, is intensifying.
Iraq Body Count has an analysis of the civilian deaths in Iraq in 2007. They note that figures for the most recent months indicate that violence in Iraq has returned to the monthly levels IBC was recording in 2005, a year which was itself (until 2006) the worst since the invasion.
