Kurd General Says His Brigade Is Training Intensively for Urban Combat in Baghdad
January 17, 2007 - The Associated Press
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press Writers
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Kurdish army brigade from northern Iraq is undergoing intensive urban combat training for deployment to Baghdad, where it expects to take on the Mahdi Army Shiite militia, its commander said Saturday.
January 16, 2007
By TONY KARON
As if the Bush Administration didn't have a sufficiently tough challenge in securing Iraq in the face of insurgency and sectarian conflict, it has now added curbing Iran to its to-do list.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
LONDON - The Iraqi government is moving to solidify relations with Iran, even as the United States turns up the rhetorical heat and bolsters its military forces to confront Tehran's influence in Iraq, Times reported.
Najmaldin Karim | Special to the Sentinel
January 15, 2007
President George W. Bush has argued for a new strategy in Iraq that will concentrate on providing security for Baghdad and its diverse religious and ethnic population. Although this change in the American military approach has been long overdue, it alone will not be enough to stop the violence in Iraq -- nor will it bring home U.S. troops any faster.
15 January 2007
Iraqi officials have shown journalists video footage of the hanging of two of Saddam Hussein's aides, during which one of the men was decapitated.
January 8, 2007
Thibauld Malterre
BAGHDAD - The trial of six former Iraqi officials over the mass killing of 182,000 Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s resumes Monday but without their executed co-accused Saddam Hussein.
January 3, 2007 / By Peter W. Galbraith
IN HIS FINAL minutes, one of Saddam Hussein's executioners shouted, "Go to hell, Saddam." The condemned man replied dryly, "You mean the Iraq that is today." After his body dropped through the trap door, the assembled witnesses chanted Shi'ite slogans.
December 30, 2006
Washington Op-Ed Contributor / By NAJMALDIN KARIM
MY personal battle with Saddam Hussein — which began in 1972 when I abandoned my medical career in Mosul, Iraq, and joined the Kurdish armed resistance — is at an end. To execute such a criminal, a man who reveled in his atrocities, is an act of justice.
The Ayatollah's agents come calling
By JOSHUA PRAGER
December 2, 2006; Page A1
Twenty-six years ago, a picture of an execution in Iran won the Pulitzer Prize. But the man who took it remained anonymous. Until now.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - The president of Iraq's Kurdish Autonomous Region issued a strongly worded rebuke of the Iraq Study Group's report on the situation of Iraq and recommendations for US policy, describing it as "unrealistic and inappropriate".
