Wednesday, April 11, 2007
INM daily summary – 11 April 2007
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- In a report issued today in Geneva, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expresses alarm about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Iraq and calls for urgent action to better protect civilians against the continuing violence.
- A fierce battle in the Sunni-dominated Fadhil and Sheikh Omar neighbourhoods in central Baghdad on Tuesday left four Iraqi soldiers dead, 16 US soldiers wounded and a US helicopter damaged by ground fire.
- Iraqi Cabinet ministers allied to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened Wednesday to quit the government to protest the prime minister's lack of support for a timetable for U.S. withdrawal.
- The Turkish army crossed 20 kilometers into Iraq in an effort to destroy camps located to the east of Zaho.
- The Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani has again warned Turkey not to interfere in northern Iraq, saying Iraqi Kurds would retaliate by interfering in Kurdish areas in Turkey if that happened.
- The adviser of the Minister of Transport in the southern region, Thamir Alftlawi, has pointed out that what he called mafias are smuggling oil and receiving ships loaded with cars not allowed to be imported.
- Iraqi banking industry leaders and international banking experts gathered in Amman, Jordan April 4 to 5 for the first Iraqi Banking and Finance Conference, Banking in Iraq: The 21st Century Challenge.
- MPRI, Alexandria, Va., was awarded on March 27, 2007, a $15,313,655 firm-fixed-price contract for instructors for the Counterinsurgency Center for Excellence.
- Iran may not attend a multilateral conference on Iraq next month that includes the United States if U.S. forces do not release five Iranians it is holding there.
- Iran has been training Iraqi fighters in the assembly of deadly roadside bombs known as EFPs, the U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
- Round-up of violence
