| 22 killed, 120 hurt in wave of attacks in Iraq | ||
Officials reported more than a dozen explosions and shootings in 12 cities and towns nationwide that also left more than 120 people wounded, and which came a day after attacks killed 13 people. The latest unrest takes the overall death toll from violence this month to 167, according to a tally based on security and medical sources. In the north Baghdad neighbourhood of Husseiniyah, a car bomb killed at least six people and wounded 26, according to an interior ministry official and a medical source. Meanwhile, in the town of Daquq, north of Baghdad in Kirkuk province, a suicide attacker blew himself up at an anti-terrorism department’s compound, according to provincial police Brigadier General Sarhad Qader. In the province’s eponymous capital, meanwhile, at least four car bombs were set off across the city, including two at the offices of the state-owned North Oil Company. “I came to investigate one of the attacks near the company compound,” said police Colonel Abdullah Kadhim, head of Kirkuk city’s sniffer dog unit. “Suddenly, another bomb went off near me, and it damaged lots of cars and company property inside the parking lot.” Kadhim suffered wounds to his leg. Provincial health chief Sadiq Omar Rasul put the toll from the attacks in Daquq and Kirkuk city at eight dead and 56 wounded. Qader said the victims included six police killed in the Daquq attack. The violence in ethnically-mixed Kirkuk city was concentrated in its Kurdish-majority areas, and came on the anniversary of the founding of Iraq’s most powerful Kurdish party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). The KDP’s current leader Massud Barzani was also born on the same day his father founded the party. In the same province, two roadside bombs near the home of a police captain in the town of Dibis killed his brother and wounded four others, including the captain himself, police and a doctor at nearby Kirkuk hospital said. Attacks also struck Al Garma, Al Baaj, Badush, Tuz Khurmatu, Mosul, Taji, Khales and Baquba, leaving seven dead and dozens wounded. In Al Garma, near the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah west of Baghdad, four policemen were killed and three others wounded in a shooting at a checkpoint, according to police Major Enes Mahmud and Omar Dalli at Fallujah hospital. Gunmen shot dead two people driving in Al Baaj, west of Mosul, while two children were wounded by bombs that targeted the under-construction house of a police officer in Badush, also west of the restive north Iraq city, police Second Lieutenant Abed Ghayib and Mohammed Tawfik said. Three roadside bombs exploded in Tuz Khurmatu near the home of a district chief, or mukhtar, killing his wife and leaving him and his three sons wounded, according to police and a local medic.
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mardi 21 août 2012
22 killed, 120 hurt in wave of attacks in Iraq
The violations against the Yezidis human rights continues in Iraq by KRG's terrorist organization
04-06-2012
The violations against the Yezidis human rights are continuing and if the USA, UK, UN, EU, Russia, Canada and all other International Communities do not act now, the non-Muslim minorities sooner or later will be totally annihilated from our historical homelands (Mesopotamia).
Bellow is more incidents happened in the Yezidis regions in Sinjar; your assistance urgently needed!
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 the KRG’s security forces (Asayish) arrested Mr. Saleh Hussein Hanji in the al-Qahataniya village, district of Sinjar; he was transferred to the KRG’s security forces’ detention centre in Sinjar city at the same day (May 29, 2012), his family members and friends have not been able to visit him or talk to him and since then according to the information received by the Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International in Iraq section.
Mr. Hanji is one of the Yezidis independent clan leaders in the Sinjar region. The arrest of Mr. Saleh Hanji came against the background of political issues, not security, because he attending an Iraqi Tribal Leaders Conference, which was held in Baghdad by more than two weeks under the sponsorship of the federal government, which was not accepted by the KRG and its illegal authority in the Yezidis’ areas and especially in Sinjar regions.
There were also two more incidents happened in the Yezidis’ area North side of the Sinjar mountain; (1)- A student boy was kidnapped unknown group from Borek village (Yarmouk) few days ago; (2)- A Yezidi girl whose is family is a care taker of one of the Yezidis temple also was kidnapped by unknown group. We will inform you if we receive any more information regarding these last two incidents.
These are clear signs that the Yezidis in Sinjar regions extremely suffer from the ill-treatments and pressures by the KRG and its dictatorial political regime. Sinjar is a part of the Mosul Governorate and it is not a part of the KRG and junior mullah Barzani should be able to pull his terrorist militias and his bloody dirty hands from our lives, so we can live in peace and freedom.
There are evidences that the KRG’s authority and its terrorist militias are behind all terrorist attacks against the non-Muslim minorities in Iraq. Today, we urgently demand the International Community to act immediately and put pressures on the KRG to stop its “Terrorist Activities against the non-Muslim Iraqi minorities; so we can survive and die peacefully!”
If you have any questions about this or any other issues regarding the Yezidis please do not hesitate to contact: Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International ezidis@gmail.com
Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International
samedi 18 août 2012
Happy and Blessed Eid Mubarek
Mübarek Ramazan Bayramınızı yürekten Kutlar Tüm islam alemine ve Türk Türkmen milletine hayırlı olmasını dileriz
vendredi 17 août 2012
Iraq officials: Over 90 dead in Thursday's attacks
By By ADAM SCHRECK | Associated Press
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Associated Press/Emad Matti - People and security forces inspect
the scene of a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of
Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug 16, 2012. Five separate bombings in …more
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People and security forces inspect …
BAGHDAD (AP) — Police and hospital officials say the death toll from a
blistering string of all-day attacks across Iraq on Thursday has risen to more than 90.
Included among the
casualties disclosed Friday were 21 people killed when a car bomb detonated
shortly before midnight near an ice cream shop in Baghdad's southeastern
Zafaraniyah neighborhood.
Officials spoke on
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the
information to reporters.
Funerals got under
way Friday for those killed in the attacks. In the Baghdad Shiite neighborhood
of Sadr City, dozens of people carried the coffins of relatives through the
streets. Some mourners wept, while others sought solace by chanting "God
is great." A bomb there Thursday evening left 14 dead.
mercredi 15 août 2012
Baghdad denies visa to NHP leader Devlet Bahçeli
Iraq denies visa to Turkish nationalist leader
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The Iraqi government in Baghdad has refused to issue a visa to Nationalist Movement Party (NHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli for a planned visit to the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk to celebrate the Ramadan bayram holiday with local Turkmens, daily Hürriyet reported today.
The nationalist leader refused to go to Kirkuk via Arbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), because the MHP does not recognize the semi-autonomous government there.
Turkey had issued a diplomatic note to Baghdad and Arbil, requesting that their administrations ensure the leader’s safety during his jaunt.
mardi 14 août 2012
NEWWEAPONS COMMITTEE - UNDERSTANDING EFFECTS OF NEW WAR TECHNOLOGIES
Newweapons
Committee is group of academics, researchers and media professionals
focused on promoting risk assessment surveys on the effects upon individuals
and population of the most recent kinds of weapons used in the course of wars.
The group was born in the third quarter of 2006 after Israel-Lebanon conflict.
The group is based on a consulting network of:
- Doctors and Health Associations from Lebanon and Palestine who have produced the information and released it.
- Biologists of the University of Genoa, Dibio and Dimes
- Biologist of the University of Rome, Dept Biology
- Chemists of the University of Ferrara, Dept Chemistry
- Physicists of the Institute of Nuclear Physics and of the University of Turin
- Medical Doctors in Genoa and Rome
- Journalists and Free Lance Information
- NGOs
- With help from Epidemiologist, Anatomic pathologist
please see:
Arshad al-Salihi appreciates Talabani’s support for Turkmen issues
Salihi appreciates Talabani’s support for Turkmen issues
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) -The head of the Iraqi Turkmen Front,
Arshad al-Salihi, expressed his “gratitude for the President, Jalal Talabani,
for his support for the law of the Turkmen rights and demands.”
In a message to Talabani, he said “I am pleased to express my
gratitude for your support for the law that ensures the rights and the demands
of the Turkmen in Iraq during the parliament session of 28th of last
July,” noting that “your support will preserve the brotherly relations among
the Iraqi communities.”
Earlier, the parliament voted during its session of July, 28th on the
report concerning the situation and the demands of the Turkmen community in Iraq.
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