May 12, 2006:


1)One of the smaller parties in the main Shia alliance in Iraq says it is withdrawing from talks on a new cabinet.


2)U.S. Tank Falls Off a Bridge Into a Canal in Iraq, Killing 4 Marines.


3)Hundreds of Kurds had to flee their homes in the mountain village of Razqa, Iraq, when artillery shells came whistling down from Iran this month, blowing apart their homes and livestock.


4)More than 100 Hawaii Army Reserve soldiers received orders on Friday for deployment to Iraq sometime this summer.


5)The Army Corps of Engineers said that it had canceled the work remaining on a $70 million project to refurbish 20 hospitals in Iraq, deepening a dispute with one of the largest contractors operating in Iraq.


6)President Bush said that militias are the biggest roadblock in Iraq's effort to get a unity government up and running, suggesting that sectarian strife may have become a larger problem than the insurgency fed by Saddam loyalists or foreign terrorists.


7)Gunmen killed the son of Iraq's top judge along with two of his bodyguards and dumped their bodies in Baghdad.


8)Al Qaeda's branch in Iraq is worried that its cells in the Baghdad area are ineffective.( By two documents released by US. Military )

May 13, 2006;


1)Pressure has mounted on Iraq's Shiites to form a new government that will stem the ongoing violence, as US President George W. Bush described militias as one of the main challenges to peace.


2)Thousands of Kurdish refugees of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war want UN recognition of their status and to return to the Iranian town from which they were driven.



Regards,
angelfalls!!

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