Saturday, April 14, 2007
INM daily summary – 14 April 2007
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- A suicide car bomber killed at least 40 people and wounded 128 at a crowded bus station near a major Shi'ite shrine in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Saturday, and in Baghdad, police said a suicide car bomber detonated his device before a checkpoint at the southern Jadriyah bridge, killing 10 people, wounding 15 .
- The agenda has been announced for the Sharm el-Sheikh May 3-4 international Iraq security conference as Iran ponders participation.
- Iraqi civilian deaths have fallen in Baghdad in the two months since the Feb. 14 start of the U.S.-led offensive, according to an Associated Press tally. Outside the capital, however, civilian deaths are up as Sunni and Shiite extremists shift their operations to avoid the crackdown.
- The Turkish Army is planning to deliver "pinpoint strikes" against PKK bases in northern Iraq.
- The U.S. government has decided not to release five Iranians captured in Iraq.
- In an Internet posting, the Islamic State of Iraq said one of its followers detonated a belt of explosives in the Iraqi parliament's cafeteria.
- Missan has received offers from Iraqi, Arab and foreign investors to launch projects in the oil, industrial, agricultural and service sectors in the province.
- Tribal chiefs and notables in Afak and other districts in Diwaniya staged a march on Friday demanding the departure of U.S. forces from Iraq and the handover of security responsibilities to Iraqi forces.
- A spokesperson at Russia-based LUK-Oil Company said that the company has signed a $4 billion contract with Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to develop oil fields in West Qurna.
- Security round-up.
