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/ 5 February 2007
Mortar bombs killed 15 people in a Sunni neighbourhood in Baghdad on Sunday in fresh violence after a truck bomb killed 135 people in a Shi’ite area in the worst single bombing since the United States-led 2003 invasion. The spiralling sectarian bloodshed threw the spotlight on Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s planned crackdown in Baghdad.
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/ 10 January 2007
Streets were quiet in a Baghdad district where United States and Iraqi forces killed 50 people in a major battle as President George Bush prepared on Wednesday to unveil a plan to send more troops to turn the war around. Iraqi troops sealed off some areas in Haifa Street, a Sunni Arab stronghold, but fighting from a major US and Iraqi operation to rid the area of ”terrorist hideouts” had ended.
United States President George Bush said Saddam Hussein could have been hanged in a ”more dignified way” and one his closest Arab allies said on Friday a video of Shi’ite officials taunting him on the gallows was ”barbaric”. Bush said he expected the Iraqi government to conduct a full investigation, but said the ousted leader was given justice.
Investigators have identified two guards who illicitly filmed Saddam Hussein’s execution, an official said on Thursday, as the Iraqi government sought to dampen growing outrage from Sunni Arabs over the unruly hanging. The mobile-phone video of Shi’ite officials taunting Saddam on the gallows has inflamed sectarian passions in a country on the brink of civil war.
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/ 10 December 2006
Gunmen killed nine members of two Shi’ite families in a mostly Sunni neighbourhood of Baghdad on Sunday and police found the bodies of 60 more apparent victims of sectarian killings gripping the capital. A father and three sons from another family were also killed in the attack in Jihad district, officials and relatives said.
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/ 5 December 2006
Gunmen and bombers killed 30 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, including 14 Shi’ite religious workers after a powerful Iraqi Shi’ite leader urged President George Bush to strike harder at Sunni rebels to avert civil war. Gunmen killed the 14 employees of a Shi’ite religious foundation in the capital, while officials said three car bombs killed 16 people and wounded 25.
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/ 5 December 2006
Gunmen killed 15 employees of a Shi’ite religious foundation on Tuesday, a day after one of Iraq’s most powerful Shi’ite leaders urged President George Bush to strike harder against Sunni rebels to avert a civil war. In a separate attack, three car bombs killed 16 people and wounded 25 near a fuel station in a religiously mixed area in southern Baghdad, officials said.
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/ 12 November 2006
A suicide bomber killed 35 people at an Iraqi police recruiting centre in Baghdad on Sunday, in the latest attack that undermines United States and Iraqi government efforts to bolster the country’s security forces. Interior Ministry sources said 56 people were also wounded in the attack after a bomber wearing an explosive-laden vest walked into the recruiting centre for police commandos.
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/ 24 October 2006
The United States urged Iraqi leaders on Tuesday to work harder to achieve key political and security goals, amid mounting pressure on US President George Bush to change his policy. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told a news conference in Baghdad that success in Iraq was still possible and could be achieved in a ”realistic timetable”.
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/ 14 September 2006
A Kurdish farmer told a judge on Thursday how a furious Saddam Hussein shouted ”shut up and get out” when he pleaded for the life of his wife and seven young children, who were rounded up in their village in 1988. ”He told me to approach him and I begged him for their lives,” said Abdulla Mohammad Hussain.