Friday, April 13, 2007
INM daily summary – 13 April 2007
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- President Jalal Talabani announced on April 11 that negotiations with five armed groups are entering the final stages, and that they will abandon violence and join the political process.
- The Islamic Army in Iraq has highlighted the split in the ranks of the Iraqi insurgency through its spokesman accusing al-Qaida and its umbrella organization of killing its members and pursuing the wrong policies.
- Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani called for a parliamentary session, a rare occurrence on Friday, to "defy terrorism.’’
- Some 10,000 Baghdad residents packed a sports stadium March 31 to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the Iraqi Communist Party.
- Turkey's military, which began staging several "large-scale" attacks on separatist Kurdish rebels in the country's southeast, asked the government Thursday for approval to launch a cross-border incursion into northern Iraq.
- Iraq hopes to raise oil production by nearly 1 million barrels per day (bpd) this year, achieving its long-held target of 3 million bpd by restoring northern exports.
- A joint U.S. and Iraqi force has retaken Bahraz, a major stronghold for al-Qaeda fighters in Iraq.
- Gunmen opened fire on Thursday against the headquarters of the Sunni Islamic Party in al-Iskandariya district, injuring one of its guards.
- Three cafeteria workers in Iraq's parliament have been detained following a suicide bombing in the building which killed one MP, a senior lawmaker said on Friday.
- Secuirty round-up
