Wednesday, June 06, 2007
INM daily summary – 6 June 2007
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- At least seven people were killed and 25 wounded when bombs in two parked cars exploded in quick succession in a Shi'ite district in northeastern Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
- A suicide car bomber struck a group of tribal chiefs who opposed al-Qaida, killing at least 18 in a market area near Fallujah.
- Iraqi politicians have passed a resolution requiring the government to seek parliamentary permission before asking the UN to extend the mandate for US-led forces in Iraq.
- More than 4 million Iraqis have now been displaced by violence in the country, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday, warning that the figure will continue to rise.
- Three tribal leaders in the northern city of Mosul have been gunned down by unidentified assailants.
- The restive Doura quarter of Baghdad has been under siege for nearly two weeks and residents say they are running out of basic items and amenities.
- Employees of the Public Corporation for Mines in Duhuk went on several days strike on Tuesday, protesting their low salaries, a source from the corporation said.
- Vice-Chairman of the Investment Committee in the Iraqi Parliament demanded the Kuwaiti government cancel Iraq debts resulting from policies of the previous government.
- A local representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the reclusive spiritual leader of Iraq's Shi'ite majority, was gunned down outside his home, Sistani's office and police said on Wednesday.
- After more than a week of the Shiite leader Moqtada Al Sadr's re-emergence, it seems that parts of a Shiite slum in Baghdad are concerned about his return.
- Monty Mobile is pursuing the extension of its coverage, and has just signed an agreement with Korek Telecom, the first operator in Erbil.
- SOC-SMG of Minden, NV has been awarded a $14,611,783.01 contract for Diyala Internal Security Services.
- The British and American military presence in Iraq is worsening security across the region and should be withdrawn quickly, the UK's former ambassador to Washington warned yesterday.
- Strategic Response Initiatives LLC, a small defense contractor at the Watervliet Arsenal, has put together a team of experts who will help train hazardous materials workers in Iraq.
- Turkey said on Wednesday it had no plans at present to send troops into northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels there, but it indicated this remained an option in the future.
