Thursday, March 29, 2007
INM daily summary – 29 March 2007
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- The Islamic Conquest Corps, an offshoot of the 1920 Revolution Brigades, has reportedly announced it will change its name to the Islamic Conquest Brigades.
- U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker was sworn in as the new top U.S. envoy to Iraq on Thursday.
- Local authorities plan a reconciliation meeting between Tal Afar’s Sunni and Shiite leaders while al-Maliki calls for an investigation.
- A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-rigged car on Wednesday morning at the entry to a school used by U.S. forces as a base, near Haditha.
- Teachers in the southern Iraqi province of Wassit threatened, on Wednesday, to suspend working at schools in the province in early April if no salary rise is given.
- An Iraqi monitoring group said Wednesday that detention centers have become severely overcrowded since a security crackdown began six weeks ago in Baghdad and most of the inmates were being held without evidence.
- Iraq's president tried to win Arab support Wednesday, promising Baghdad will give a greater political role to Sunni Muslims but calling on Arab countries to help stop terrorism in Iraq.
- The female sailor's release may be delayed as British troops are accused of firing at the Iranian consulate in Basrah.
- In an Iraq jobs program, the Pentagon has helped reopen three factories shuttered after the 2003 invasion, seeding the ground by buying uniforms and armored vehicles from two of them.
- The authorities in the southern province of Missan say they have received several requests from foreign firms to develop the province’s gigantic oil fields.
- The Interior Ministry asked foreign visitors to Iraq to state their residence in Iraq 10 days after arrival in the country.
- Nearly a million displaced people in Iraq's increasingly volatile southern provinces are in urgent need of food, medicines and municipal services.
- An Independent research institute will begin undertaking census of Iraqis in Jordan.
- Sebastian River Holding's, Inc., today announced that the company has invested in the Iraqi economy by purchasing 100,000,000 Iraqi dinars.
- Mobi-Tel signs three-year exclusive contract.
- Round-up of violence across Iraq.
