Saturday, April 07, 2007
INM daily summary – 7 April 2007
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- Iran has said a press conference where the crew described being bound and held alone was "theatrical propaganda" that did not justify their "mistake".
- American forces who captured five Iranians in the northern city of Irbil three months ago were really after commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards who were visiting Kurdish officials, the Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said.
- A British-led raid on a police intelligence headquarters in southern Iraq last month violated Iraq's sovereignty as well as a U.N. Security Council resolution, the government said on Friday.
- The Islamic Army in Iraq, believed to be the largest group of former Baathists and army officers fighting Iraqi and US forces, called on Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, to take more responsibility for al-Qaeda in Iraq.
- A total of 246 families from Talafar, whose houses were destroyed in the March 27 bombing incidents, arrived in the city of Mosul, Iraq's Red Crescent Society said on Friday.
- Earlier on Friday morning, a security source in the Iraqi police said unidentified men bombed an Iraqi oil pipeline in southern Kirkuk, setting the oil installation ablaze.
- The first contracts with major oil firms from Iraq's new government are likely to go not to US companies, but rather to firms from China, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
- Chlorine as a weapon.
- US forces launched an air strike in the central city of Diwaniyah on Saturday as clashes between militiamen and security forces continued for a second straight day, the military said.
- Al-Maliki has declared a delay in the cabinet reshuffle while the Fadela party has said they support Article 140 for Kirkuk to become part of Kurdistan.
- A Turkish company has started the implementation of a conducting line for electric power linking the electricity station in Nasiriyah with the secondary one at Shatrah.
- An Iranian diplomat who arrived in Tehran Tuesday upon release from Iraq was quoted Saturday as saying he had been kidnapped and tortured there by US forces.
- An international conference on Iraq originally planned for April will take place in Egypt on May 3 - 4, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari reported Saturday.
- Security round-up.
