Wednesday, May 09, 2007
INM daily summary – 9 May 2007
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- A suicide truck bomb ripped through the Interior Ministry in the relatively peaceful Kurdish city of Irbil on Wednesday morning, killing at least 19 people and wounding 80.
- Iran is willing to help its foe the United States develop an "exit strategy" from Iraq, the country's deputy foreign minister said in an interview published Wednesday.
- A meeting Tuesday between Iraq's Shiite prime minister and the country's top Sunni official appeared to ease tensions over threats that the entire Sunni bloc could pull out of the government.
- The leader of the Kurdish autonomous region in Iraq appealed to Turkey on Tuesday to stop interfering in Iraqi internal affairs.
- The five Iranian officials whose abduction in an a US helicopter raid in January led to a crisis in relations between the US and Iran could be released in June.
- The Islamic State of Iraq issued a video today through al-Furqan Foundation, showing nine captured employees from the Iraqi Interior and Defense Ministries.
- An Iraqi lawmaker has urged foreign firms attending an international reconstruction fair in Jordan to help rebuild his battered country.
- Both Sunni and Shiite political factions are threatening to withdraw from the already weak government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
- Security round-up.
