September 13, 2006:
1) Police found the bodies of 65 men who had been tortured, shot and dumped, most around Baghdad, while car bombs, mortar attacks and shootings killed at least 30 people around Iraq and injured dozens more. (AP via Yahoo! News)
2) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki concludes a two-day visit to neighboring Iran. He returns home with a pledge from Iran's leaders to crack down on militants who've been crossing into Iraq from Iran. (NPR)
September 14, 2006:
1) At least 13 people have been killed in Iraq, 10 of them civilians who died in a pair of car bomb attacks in Baghdad a day after more than 60 bodies were found scattered across the capital. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
2) Iraq's political process could collapse if sectarian death squads are not reined in, a Sunni political leader said on Thursday, a day after 60 corpses were found in the capital. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
3) A Libyan who was a top aide of Al-Qaeda in Iraq's leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been killed in an operation by Iraqi security forces, an interior ministry spokesman has told AFP. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
4) The US ambassador to Iraq has urged American companies to invest in the northern Kurdish regions, considered relatively safe for business compared with the rest of the war-torn country. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
5) An official vehicle carrying Japan's acting ambassador to Iraq was hit by a bullet on Thursday in Baghdad, but there were no injuries, the Foreign Ministry said. (AP via Yahoo! News)
September 15, 2006:
1) Iraq has said it will dig trenches around Baghdad and seal off dozens of roads with access to the capital as a new security measure to restrict insurgent movements. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
September 18, 2006:
1) French President Jacques Chirac says his country is willing to work alongside the United States to bring an end to conflict in Iraq. (CNN.com)
2) Al-Qaida in Iraq and its allies warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were "doomed" and proclaimed that the holy war would continue until Islam dominates the world. (AP via Yahoo! News)
3) Bombers and gunmen killed eight people in a tense city northeast of Baghdad on Monday as Iraqi security forces prepared to further tighten security ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, when violence traditionally spikes across Iraq. (AP via Yahoo! News)
4) Virginia's U.S. Senate candidates clashed on national television yesterday over the war in Iraq and President Bush's leadership, offering the sharpest contrast yet in a campaign that has become central to the partisan struggle for control of Congress this fall. (Washington Post)
Regards,
angelfalls!!
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