Sinan Salaheddin
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/ 5 August 2006

Insurgents held as violence continues in Iraq

Iraqi soldiers arrested 64 suspected insurgents, mostly in northern provinces, as three people were killed in the country’s raging sectarian and political violence, officials said on Saturday. In the latest violence, Hassan Wannas, a former member of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party, was killed in a drive-by shooting on Saturday.

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/ 26 January 2006

Saddam’s lawyers to sue Bush, Blair

Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer said on Thursday that the deposed Iraqi president wants United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair tried on allegations of committing war crimes. Khalil al-Dulaimi said Saddam wants to sue both leaders, along with US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for allegedly authorising the use of weapons such as depleted uranium artillery shells.

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/ 19 January 2006

Bloody day in Baghdad: 23 killed

Two near simultaneous bombings targeted a crowded downtown Baghdad coffee shop and nearby restaurant, killing at least 23 people and wounding 26, according to police and hospital officials. The blasts occurred as the mother of abducted American reporter Jill Carroll appealed for her daughter’s release.