Iraq Watch: October 7, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq - As Iraqi electoral officials began handing out copies of the proposed draft constitution ahead of the nation's planned October 15 national referendum the U.S. military continued multiple military offenses in western Iraq aimed at quelling Sunni-led insurgent violence there ahead of the crucial vote.
Iraqi's immediate reaction to the newly released draft charter - as with so many things in present-day Iraq - was mixed. One western Baghdad shopkeeper commented, "Some people are excited to take it. Others are refusing to touch it."
As the six-day-old 'Operation Iron Fist' winded down on Friday the U.S. military announced the start of two additional separate offenses: 'Operation Mountaineers' and 'Operation Saratoga'.
More than 50 suspected militants have been reported killed in the ongoing military operations.
Meanwhile the U.S. military also announced the deaths of six U.S. Marines on Friday, two of whom were killed by a roadside bomb yesterday near al-Qaim while participating in 'Operation Iron Fist'. The other four Marines died in a separate IED attack yesterday near al-Karmah.
The six deaths announced Friday brings the number of U.S. military personal killed since the beginning of the Iraq war to 1,950 according to an Associated Press count.
Elsewhere Friday, or yaum al-jum`a in Arabic, the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced the discovery of 22 bodies found in the town of Badrah, near the Iranian border. The 22 men, 21 of whom were believed to be Sunni, were abducted from Baghdad in late-August by men wearing Iraqi police uniforms according to the victims relatives.
The bodies were found handcuffed, bound, and shot in the head. Separately, two more unidentified bodies were discovered in Baghdad on Friday.
Also, at least five Iraqi soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing and clashes with militants in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah, 30 miles west of the capital.
In the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, two Iraqi policemen were killed and eight other people wounded in an insurgent car bombing.
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Terrorism expert Evan F. Kohlmann of GlobalTerrorAlert.com recently updated his al-Qaida in Iraq leadership chart (PDF).
The chart is the most comprehensive source of information about the chain of command structure for Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terrorist group, al-Qaida in Iraq, currently available to the general public.
Iraqi's immediate reaction to the newly released draft charter - as with so many things in present-day Iraq - was mixed. One western Baghdad shopkeeper commented, "Some people are excited to take it. Others are refusing to touch it."
As the six-day-old 'Operation Iron Fist' winded down on Friday the U.S. military announced the start of two additional separate offenses: 'Operation Mountaineers' and 'Operation Saratoga'.
More than 50 suspected militants have been reported killed in the ongoing military operations.
Meanwhile the U.S. military also announced the deaths of six U.S. Marines on Friday, two of whom were killed by a roadside bomb yesterday near al-Qaim while participating in 'Operation Iron Fist'. The other four Marines died in a separate IED attack yesterday near al-Karmah.
The six deaths announced Friday brings the number of U.S. military personal killed since the beginning of the Iraq war to 1,950 according to an Associated Press count.
Elsewhere Friday, or yaum al-jum`a in Arabic, the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced the discovery of 22 bodies found in the town of Badrah, near the Iranian border. The 22 men, 21 of whom were believed to be Sunni, were abducted from Baghdad in late-August by men wearing Iraqi police uniforms according to the victims relatives.
The bodies were found handcuffed, bound, and shot in the head. Separately, two more unidentified bodies were discovered in Baghdad on Friday.
Also, at least five Iraqi soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing and clashes with militants in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah, 30 miles west of the capital.
In the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, two Iraqi policemen were killed and eight other people wounded in an insurgent car bombing.
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Terrorism expert Evan F. Kohlmann of GlobalTerrorAlert.com recently updated his al-Qaida in Iraq leadership chart (PDF).
The chart is the most comprehensive source of information about the chain of command structure for Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terrorist group, al-Qaida in Iraq, currently available to the general public.
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