Thursday, May 03, 2007
INM daily summary – 3 May 2007
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- Four Filipino contractors working for the U.S. government were killed in a rocket attack on the heavily fortified Green Zone, the American Embassy said Thursday.
- The survey by the Central Statistical Bureau says that 43 percent of Iraqis suffer from ‘absolute poverty’ and another 11 percent of them live in ‘abject poverty’.
- The Shiite Fadila (Virtue) party presented on Wednesday proposals and suggestions to tackle political and security deterioration in Iraq.
- Kurdistan Region's Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said that his government wants to retain Kirkuk peacefully.
- Kurdish and Sunni Arab officials expressed deep reservations on Wednesday about the draft version of a national oil law and related legislation.
- Soaring sectarian violence and government abuses have caused an alarming deterioration in religious freedom in Iraq, prompting a U.S. advisory panel for the first time to place it on a watch list of countries where worship is under severe threat.
- US and Iraqi forces have killed the most senior insurgent leader in Iraq, Deputy Interior Minister Hussein Ali Kamal said on Thursday.
- At least 85 Iraqis were killed or found dead nationwide, police reported.
- Iraq won a trickle of debt relief pledges at a big international conference in Egypt on Thursday.
- Security round-up.
