Tuesday, June 05, 2007
INM daily summary – 5 June 2007
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- Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told Al-Arabiyah television that all political parties in Iraq agree that the current political landscape in Iraq must change, the news channel reported on June 1.
- Salah Al Mutlaq, the leader of the National Dialogue Front which has 11 seats in the Parliament, demands the Americans and Al Maliki readjust the entire political process.
- Sheikh Abd al-Sattar Abu Rishah, head of the Al-Anbar Salvation Council, told the London-based "Al-Hayat" that the Islamic State of Iraq may have more weapons than the Iraqi Army.
- Police opened fire Tuesday morning on a black-clad woman as she walked toward police recruits, detonating a suicide bomb she had strapped to her body, the Iraqi Interior Ministry reported.
- According to an Iraqi government employee, who asked to remain anonymous, Muslim terrorist groups are being tipped off about Iraqi and US troop movements.
- While joint forces cordon the Dora area, conflicts between Al Qaida and other killer groups such as the 1920 Revolutionary Battalions and the Islamic Army have increased.
- A general amnesty will be considered ahead of the national reconciliation project set up by the Iraqi government, MP Hassan al-Saneed said on Monday.
- An Iraqi Parliamentarian from the Kurdistan Coalition said on Monday that a number of parliamentarian blocs' objection to the candidates for the vacant portfolios led to a delay in the lawmakers' voting.
- Muslim scholars announced on Monday the establishment of an Islamic union aims at stopping bloodshed and sectarian violence in Iraq.
- Ras Al Khaimah will host the 'Iraq First International Convention for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises' on June 7- 8, 2007.
- A Supreme Reconciliation Committee member, Saad Yousif, has revealed that some Baathist members close to Izzat Al Douri have begun negotiations with the government.
- The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella insurgent group comprised of al-Qaeda in Iraq and others, and its official distributor and producer of multimedia, al-Furqan Foundation for Media Production, produced a 10:41 minute video of the planning and attack of an operation in southern Baghdad where three American soldiers were captured.
- Muqtada Al Sadr refuses to open a direct dialogue with the American forces and accused the US of attempting to assassinate him.
- Security round-up.
