Author: DXO
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First Case Against Hussein, Involving Killings in 1982, Is Sent to a Trial Court
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 18, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 17 – After more than 19 months in American custody, Saddam Hussein was referred for trial on Sunday in the first of more than a dozen cases of crimes against humanity that Iraqi and American investigators have been building against the deposed Iraqi dictator. No…
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10 Sunnis Suffocate in Iraqi Police Custody
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: July 13, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 12 – Iraq’s widely feared police commandos were struggling on Tuesday to explain how at least 10 Sunni Arab men and youths, one only 17, suffocated after a commando unit seized them from a hospital emergency ward and locked them in a police van…
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Seven Iraqi Soldiers Killed After Attacks on Iraqi Army
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: July 11, 2005 Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed after insurgents attacked an Iraqi Army check point north of Baghdad today, during the latest surge in violence in Iraq. The attack occurred about 45 miles north of Baghdad in Khalis, the same town where 26 Iraqi soldiers died June 15 after…
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23 Killed in Bombing at Baghdad Recruiting Center
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: July 11, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 10 – A brief lull in the suicide bombings here ended Sunday when an attacker mingling with a crowd of men outside an Iraqi Army recruiting center detonated an explosive vest, killing at least 23 volunteers and wounding at least 40 others. The attack…
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Iraq Asks Muslim States for Support After Envoy’s Killing
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 9, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 8 – Iraq’s transitional government reached out anxiously on Friday to Arab and other Muslim nations, asking them not to be intimidated by the killing of Egypt’s top diplomat here by an Islamic terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda. The appeal, in a Foreign Ministry…