3) Iraq's Interior Ministry has taken its first steps to rein in the Facilities Protection Service, a unit of 4,000 building guards that U.S. officials say has quietly burgeoned into the government's largest paramilitary force, with 145,000 armed men and no central command, oversight or paymaster.


May 14 , 2006:


1) An Iraqi militant group affiliated to al Qaeda posted an Internet video of two men they said were fighters wanted by Saudi Arabia who were killed while attacking U.S.-led forces in Iraq.


2) A series of bombs destroyed two Shiite shrines near the volatile city of Baqouba late Saturday ; the second time this year that sites sacred to Iraq's Shiite majority have been targeted.


3) Bombs wrecked six small Shi'ite Muslim shrines in a rural area about 60 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, in what appeared to be the latest acts of sectarian violence in Iraq.


4) At least two bodyguards working for Iraq's foreign minister were killed and three were wounded when their convoy of vehicles was hit by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad.


5) Suspected insurgents fired about 30 to 40 mortar bombs at a British base in southern Iraq on Monday, wounding four soldiers.


May 15, 2006:


1)In Iraq, Prime Minister-designate Nouri al-Maliki is struggling with sectarian divisions as he attempts to fill out his Cabinet before the constitutional deadline of May 22. The backdrop for Iraq's political troubles continues to be deadly violence, with multiple attacks leaving dozens dead on Sunday. Monday also brings the resumption of Saddam Hussein's trial.

2) Iraqi insurgents shoot down a US helicopter, killing two soldiers.




Regards,
angelfalls!!

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