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| Demonstrators storm the streets of al-Rifai to protest al-Kadhimi's reinstatement | |
| 2021-04-19 | |
[SHAFAQ] Dozens of demonstrators stormed the streets of al-Rifai district in Dhi Qar governorate to protest the reinstatement of the dismissed Deputy Commissioner of the district, Kadhem al-Fayad.
Al-Fayad explained in a statement to Shafaq News Agency that he is appointed as an acting governor. Shafaq News Agency correspondent said that the demonstrators condemned the reinstatement of al-Fayad, threatening to block all the main roads if the local government continues to ignore their demands. The district located 80km to the north of Nasiriyah, the capital of Dhi Qar district, has been on hot tin since the dismissal of the former governor, Kadhim al-Fayad, and assigning al-Rikabi in lieu. Al-Rikabi later submitted his resignation from his position only a few days after taking office. Al-Rikabi said in his resignation letter that he stepped back to preserve the security and the stability of the district. Related: Dhi Qar governorate: 2020-01-20 Hundreds of Iraqis have closed major roads in the city of Nasiriyah, Dhi Qar governorate: 2019-12-22 Iraq: protesters burn SpecOps HQs, attempt to storm govt building Dhi Qar governorate: 2019-09-10 Two Iraqi youths busted for praising Saddam Hussein on social media | |
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| Baghdad Suicide Car Bomb Kills at Least 15 | ||
| 2014-10-15 | ||
| [AnNahar] A suicide car kaboom on a checkpoint in Baghdad killed at least 15 people Tuesday, the third deadly bombing to hit the Shiite neighborhood of Kadhimiyah in four days, medical sources said. Several coppers were among the dead and the blast also left at least 23 people maimed, a health ministry official and a hospital source said. On Monday, at least 43 people were killed in three attacks in Baghdad, including one on the edge of Kadhimiyah, which was claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group.
Kadhimiyah was already one of two areas targeted in double bombings that left more than 40 dead on Saturday. The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... said more than 1,110 people were killed in acts of violence across Iraq in September. According to an Agence La Belle France-Presse count, more than 350 have already been killed this month. While the bloodshed has been mainly on the frontlines where federal, Kurdish and allied forces are battling the Islamic State group , blasts and executions in Baghdad continue to take a heavy toll. While most of the major suicide kabooms in Baghdad are ascribed to IS, some of the smaller kabooms and liquidations are carried out by other more marginal Sunni groups and by Shiite militias.
Iraqi officials say a Shiite politician is among 23 people killed when a suicide boom-mobileer rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a northern Baghdad security checkpoint. The officials say Ahmed al-Khafaji was not the target in the attack, and just happened to be driving through the Khazimiyah neighborhood of the Iraqi capital when the attack took place. The officials say the kaboom killed at least 23 people and maimed 52. | ||
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| Iraqi commander backs US on details of raid |
| 2006-03-30 |
| The Iraqi commander during a controversial raid by American and Iraq forces is backing the U.S. version of a battle that left 16 Iraqis dead, CBS News correspondent Lara Logan reports. In an exclusive interview with CBS News, the Iraqi commander says accusations that U.S. forces killed innocent civilians in Sunday's raid on a mosque in Baghdad were "not true." Accounts of the Baghdad raid varied. Aides to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said 18 men were killed in the joint U.S.-Iraqi raid on a mosque. Police said 22 people were killed in the incident at the al-Mustafa mosque. The Americans said Iraqi special forces backed by U.S. troops killed 16 "insurgents" in a raid on a community meeting hall after gunmen opened fire on approaching troops. The commander insisted his Iraqi Special Operations troops had to fight their way into the target building where they killed gunmen guarding a hostage and found various weapons including rocket launchers and heavy machine guns. "We know this, the building, is used for to capture the civilians, the civilian people, by bad guys and they need money," the commander tells Logan. A man who claims he was held hostage in the mosque, says of his captors, "They beat me, they kicked me and they used an electric drill on me. I thought I was going to die." At one point during the emotional interview, he broke down and had to be comforted, Logan notes. When asked about the militia men who were holding him, he said he was too terrified to say anything about them. "If you go to the streets and see all the people who have left their houses and if you go to the morgue and see all the bodies then you will understand," he says. For security reasons, neither the Iraqi commander or alleged hostage would reveal their names or if they were Sunni or Shiite. President George W. Bush said Wednesday that Saddam Hussein, not continued U.S. involvement in Iraq, is responsible for ongoing sectarian violence that is threatening the formation of a democratic government. In his third speech this month to bolster public support for the war, Mr. Bush worked to counter critics who say the U.S. presence in the war-torn nation is fueling the insurgency. Another mass abduction took place Tuesday, when masked gunmen, many in military uniform, stormed into a currency exchange and two electronic stores in broad daylight, seized 24 Iraqis and took tens of thousands of dollars. The kidnappings occurred within a half-hour, and police were investigating whether they were linked. Elsewhere, gunmen killed three staffers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in a drive-by shooting in west Baghdad, Abdul-Razzaq said. A mortar round struck just outside al-Sadr's home in the holy city of Najaf earlier in the week. The firebrand anti-American leader, who holds great sway among poor Shiites in Baghdad, was at home but not hurt in the Sunday attack, according to an aide. Nearly 20 others, including a 6-year-old girl, were wounded in the capital in roadside bombings, mortar attacks, gunfire and an explosion on a minibus, police said. Gunmen also wounded an official from the Iraqi Central Bank, then later chased a car carrying five of the official's guards and wounded them as well, police said. There were several attacks Wednesday in Diyala province north of Baghdad. Gunmen killed two civilians and wounded another in a drive-by shooting in the town of Khalis, 50 miles north of the capital, police said. A roadside bomb in front of an Iraqi soldier's home outside the provincial capital of Baqouba wounded the soldier's 7-year-old son, and another bomb targeted the house of a tribal sheik in Baqouba but caused no casualties, police said. Also Wednesday, gunmen lined up 14 employees of an electronics trading company in Baghdad on Wednesday and shot them all, killing eight and wounding six, police said. Politicians working on forming a national unity government postponed talks scheduled for Wednesday, saying they needed more time to consult their political blocs about what the security powers of the prime minister should be. The motive of the attack at the al-Ibtikar trading company in the upscale Mansour neighborhood was not immediately clear. According to survivors' accounts to police, the assailants first asked for the company's manager, who was not there, before shooting. The survivors said the assailants, some of whom wore police uniforms, identified themselves as intelligence agents from the Interior Ministry. Hundreds of Iraqis have been killed in sectarian violence and by death squads operating inside the Shiite-dominated ministry since the Feb. 22 bombing of an important Shiite shrine in Samarra set off a wave of revenge attacks. Usually, the victims are killed in secret, their bodies discovered hours or days later. The assault Wednesday was the second to target a trading company in Mansour this week. On Monday, gunmen wearing military uniforms and masks kidnapped 16 employees from the headquarters of the Saeed Import and Export Co. Police said the assailants went through papers and computer files before leaving with their captives. In Wednesday's attack, the gunmen arrived at the al-Ibtikar offices in five black BMWs about 8:15 a.m., police Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razzaq said. They burned parts of the facility, but didn't appear to have taken any money, he said. The dead included five men and three women. "All these operations have one aim: to freeze life in Iraq and sabotage the democratic process. They want to take us back to the dictatorship," said Maj. Gen. Ahmed al-Khafaji, a deputy interior minister. He blamed al Qaeda and said, "We will work day and night to arrest them. |
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| Iran releases Iraqi sailors |
| 2006-01-21 |
| Eight Iraqi sailors detained by Iran after a weekend clash in a shared waterway have been released, but the body of a ninth sailor has not yet been repatriated. General Ahmed al-Khafaji, the deputy Iraqi interior minister, said the sailors were released early on Friday through the Shalamcha border police station near the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border and Basra, 550km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad. The body of the ninth sailor who was killed in the clash was to be released on Saturday, al-Khafaji added. Iranian officials were not immediately available for comment. Al-Khafaji said two Iraqi boats detained by Iran during last Saturday's clash were to be handed over on Saturday, but Muhammad al-Waeli, the governor of Basra, said Iran was going to keep the vessels. Iraqi officials had said the sailors were detained on 14 January following a clash between Iraqi and Iranian coast guard ships near the Shatt al-Arab waterway, or Arvand River, in the Arab Gulf. However, the Iranian authorities have denied claims that an Iranian naval vessel fought a skirmish with an Iraqi coast guard ship, instead saying there was a clash between Iranian patrol boats and a merchant ship headed toward Iranian waters. |
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| False Ballots Story From Iran by New York Times: Not Credible |
| 2005-12-14 |
| Also see: Chief of Border Security Denies Event "The head of Iraq's border guards denied police reports on Wednesday that a tanker truck stuffed with thousands of forged ballot papers had been seized crossing into Iraq from Iran before Thursday's elections. "This is all a lie," said Lieutenant General Ahmed al-Khafaji, the chief of the U.S.-trained force which has responsibility for all Iraq's borders. "I heard this yesterday and I checked all the border crossings right away. The borders are all closed anyway," he told Reuters." Another attempt by America's Liberal MSM to slant another Election. SUGGESTION: All Future Elections, shut down all of America's Liberal MSM one week before any elections, American or Iraqi. |
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