Thursday, April 05, 2007
INM daily summary – 5 April 2007
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- Heavy gunfire forced a U.S. military helicopter down in an insurgent stronghold south of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi witnesses said.
- Iran's blame game with Britain over the capture of 15 sailors appears to have been defused after Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinajad announced they were to be released.
- U.S. troops held a recruitment drive for the first time in Adhamiyah in the hope of recruiting more Sunnis for the Iraqi Army.
- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will visit South Korea next week for talks with President Roh Moo-hyun expected to focus on economic cooperation.
- The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry of Culture (MOC) will soon air the first government satellite TV channel, to be named Nawroz (Kurdish New Year celebration).
- The Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions wants Iraq's oil to stay under state control.
- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told U.S. President George W. Bush in a recent videoconference that some Iraqi officials are involved in terrorism, government officials said Wednesday.
- Iraq is negotiating a 500-million-dollar loan from the World Bank to help reconstruct its war-torn economy, the prime minister's office said on Thursday.
- Iraqi security forces to take control of Maysan in April.
- A bomb struck an oil pipeline Thursday, cutting off supplies and causing a huge fire in southern Iraq near the border with Kuwait, an official said.
- Egypt has tightened the procedures for Iraqis entering the country, apparently to stem a flow of people seeking refuge from the violence in Iraq.
