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/ 14 October 2005
Sunni insurgents launched five attacks against the largest Sunni Arab political party on the eve of Iraq’s crucial referendum on Friday, bombing and burning offices and the home of one of its leaders in retaliation after the group dropped its opposition to the draft Constitution. The reprisals came as Sunni and Shi’ite clerics gave their last advice to their followers in sermons during weekly Friday prayers.
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/ 30 September 2005
Sunni-led insurgents killed at least nine people, including women and children, with a car bomb in a crowded vegetable market on Friday in the second blast against Shi’ite civilians in as many days, police said. The death toll rose to nearly 100 from the previous day’s coordinated string of suicide bombings and mortars in another town.
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/ 27 September 2005
United States and Iraqi forces said they had killed the second most powerful figure in the al-Qaeda in Iraq organisation, but the organisation denied that Abdullah Abu Azzam was their number two leader and said ”it was not confirmed” that he had been killed. Police also found the corpses of 22 Iraqi men who had been shot in the head and dumped in a deserted area of Badrah district northeast of Kut city.
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/ 22 September 2005
British troops in Basra, Iraq, greatly reduced their presence in the streets on Thursday, apparently responding to a call from the provincial governor to severe cooperation until London apologises for storming a police station to free two of its soldiers. In New York, Iraq’s minister of foreign affairs said insurgents are likely to step up attacks.
United States forces hunting down followers of Iraq’s most wanted terrorist pushed into a lawless region north of the Euphrates River near the Syrian border on Tuesday after meeting unexpected resistance from insurgents hidden in remote desert outposts along the waterway’s southern shores.
Insurgents killed at least 20 people in three separate attacks targeting Iraqi security forces in Baghdad on Thursday, including one by a man who set off hidden explosives while waiting in line outside an army recruitment centre, police said.
British government weapons adviser David Kelly was a superb scientist whose work helped uncover Saddam Hussein’s secret germ warfare program, said a witness at a judicial inquiry on Monday into Kelly’s suicide.