Saturday, March 31, 2007
INM daily summary – 31 March 2007
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- Car bombs killed dozens in Hilla, Sadr City and Tuz Kharmatu on Saturday.
- The United States has ruled out a deal to exchange the 15 British sailors and Royal Marines captured by Iran for five Iranians held by US forces.
- Turkey's special envoy for countering terrorism said there was strong evidence that some Iraqi Kurdish groups and their leaders were providing assistance to the terrorist organisation the PKK.
- Moqtada al-Sadr has again called for the US to pull out of Iraq as 500 people have been killed in six days.'
- Iraq's justice minister said Saturday that he had offered his resignation, citing unspecified differences with the government and his own political group.
- Iraq's top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's representative in Karbala warned on Friday of possible civil war in Iraq after the recent bombing attacks and the events that ensued in the northern Iraqi city of Talafar.
- Muqtada Al Sadr called for a mass demonstration April 9 to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad’s fall.
- The status of five Iranian officials captured in a U.S. military raid on a liaison office in northern Iraq on Jan. 11 remains a mystery.
- Round-up of Iraq violence.
- Friends and family of six private security contractors kidnapped in Iraq more than four months ago are frustrated over the lack of information from the U.S. government.
