Wednesday, March 28, 2007
INM daily summary – 28 March 2007
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- Global positioning data shows that 15 British sailors and marines were well inside Iraqi waters when they were captured by Iran last week, Britain's MoD said on Wednesday.
- Gunmen rampaged through a Sunni district in the northwestern town of Tal Afar overnight, killing more than 50 people in apparent reprisal for bombings in a Shi'ite area.
- Harith Dhaher al-Dhari, leader of the 1920 Revolution Brigades, a major Sunni Arab insurgent group, was killed Tuesday west of Baghdad, the group announced in an Internet statement.
- Two Americans, a contractor and a soldier, were killed in a rocket attack on the heavy guarded Green Zone on Tuesday.
- The 19th Arab summit begins Wednesday in Riyadh. During the two-day summit Saudi Arabia in trying to resolve a string of crises in the Middle East, particularly the Lebanon crisis, the bloodshed in Iraq and Sunni Arab fears over the growing power of mainly Shiite Iran.
- Sectarian clashes have intensified once again despite the surge in U.S. troops.
- South Korean U.A Energy Company said on Thursday that it had won the deal to build power stations in Iraq.
- Iraq’s government does not need an order from the Arab summit on how to amend its constitution and boost national reconciliation, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said yesterday.
- Insurgents attacked a local government building in Fallujah with two chlorine truck bombs, on Wednesday injuring Iraqi and U.S. security forces.
- The President of Criticare Systems Inc. announced that the company has was awarded a $2.2 million contract from the Iraqi Ministry of Health.
- Britain said it was freezing talks on all other issues with Iran until it freed 15 Royal Navy crew members seized last week
- Round-up of violence across Iraq
